The Cold War

U.S. III

Cold War Agreements

• Yalta

• Potsdam

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

Marshall Plan

Truman Doctrine

• What?

• Why?– Iron Curtain– Turkey & Greece

NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Early Issues of the Cold War

• Berlin Blockade/Airlift

• Czechoslovakia & Hungary

• China

• Korea

• We Got the Bombs/They Got the Bombs

• Espionage– U2 & Roosenbergs

Berlin

• June 24, 1948- May 11, 1949• Russia closed all roads surrounding berlin.• 30-40 days worth of food and energy• No Negotiations ever agreed upon.• U.S. response……Airlift.

• 10 Months of Airlift to keep 3 million fed.– U.S. Victory

Political Cartoons

Korean War

• North Korea –Communist Government• South Korea – Democratic Government• June 1950 North Korea attacks• U.N. Troops (Majority of Troops being U.S.

retalliate.– Push through N. Korea to China

• Attack into China or Resist?• 54000 Americans Perish and millions of Koreans.

• DMZ still exists

Cold War on the Homefront

• Duck and Cover• HUAC• McCarthyism• Roosenbergs• Civil Defense System• Rocky and Bullwinkle

Elections

• 1948– Harry S. Truman Thomas E. Dewey Strom Thurmond

• 1952– Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson (Nixon)

• 1956– Part Deux

RepublicansDemocrats

Civil Rights Begins to Bubble

• Brown V Board of Education (Topeka)– 1954 Integration of Schools

• Rosa Parks– 1955 (Colvin)– MLK & Bus Boycott

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