1. State Standards 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 9.6, and 9.9

2. Yalta Conference
 Meeting at end of WWII
 Big Three
 Stalin, Roosevelt, and
Churchill
 Discuss Germany’s
defeat and occupation
 US begins to worry
about Communist
Russia
 Start of the Cold War

3. Cold War
 US vs. the Soviet Union
 1945-1991
 “Cold”
 No direct warfare between
US and Soviet Union
 Funded and supported
conflicts between other
countries
 Democracy vs.
Communism
 The US and Soviet Union
were polar opposites!

4. Cold War.
 End of World War II
 Most European
countries in ruin
 Russian Communists
look to expand in these
countries
 US looks to stop
expansion

5. Sides Develop
 NATO
 Created in response to
fear that the Soviet
Union would attack
 12 members join
 US, France, Britain,
 Warsaw Pact
 Created in response to
NATO
 Agreement among
Communist countries

6. Promoting Democracy
 Most EASTERN European
countries fall to the Soviet
Union
 Estonia, Latvia, and
Lithuania annexed by
Soviet Union
 Poland, Romania, Bulgaria
Yugoslavia, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, and
Albania become Soviet
satellites
 US fears further Soviet
expansion and must stop
it

7. Promoting Democracy.
 Iron Curtain
 Churchill warns that an
iron curtain has
extended across the
continent
 Symbolic of the political
division between
Western and Eastern
Europe
 Was referring to the
spread of Communism

8. Promoting Democracy..
 Truman Doctrine
 Policy of
CONTAINMENT
 Contain Communism and
not let it spread any
farther
 Provide anything they
need to countries who are
threatened by
Communism

9. Promoting Democracy…
 Mar$hall Plan
 Plan to provide fund$ to
We$tern European
countrie$
 The$e fund$ were to be
u$ed to buy $upplie$ to
rebuild their economie$
 Throw money at
Communi$m to $top it$
$pread
 Allowed We$tern Europe
to rebuild it$elf and
helped $top the $pread of
Communi$m

10. Arms Race
 Atomic Weapons
 Atomic Bomb leads to a
struggle between the
two world superpowers
 Arms Race
 Who can build the most
atomic bombs
 MAD
 Mutually Assured
Destruction

11. Brinkmanship
 US uses threat of Nuclear war to try and stop the
spread of Communism
 Being on the brink of war was very frightening for most
people
 Led to drills in schools for duck and cover to avoid
nuclear attacks

12. McCarthyism
 Hunting down suspected
Communist in America
 Joseph McCarthy
 Leader of the Crusade
 House Un-American
Activities Committee
(HUAC)
 Accused individuals of
being a Communist
 Politicians and Movie
Stars
 Many Blacklisted

13. Post WWII Germany
 Post World War II
 Germany divided into
four zones by the Allies
 Each of the Allies
controls one zone
 Britain, France, US, Russia
 Berlin
 Was in the Soviet Union’s
zone and was divided also
into four sections

14. Post WWII Germany.
 Berlin Blockade and
Airlift
 Blockade
 Isolation of an area,
often by force
 France, US, and Britain
join their zones together
 Soviet Union views this
as a threat
 Blockades all roads
into Berlin

15. Post WWII Germany..
 Response
 US and Britain supply
Berlin with food and
other supplies by air
 Showed the Soviet Union
that the US would not give
up on Berlin
 US wins this episode of the
Cold War

16. Post WWII Germany…
 Berlin Wall
 People were fleeing
Communist controlled
East Germany
 To stop people leaving the
Communist build a wall to
divide Berlin
 Berlin Wall
 Physical barrier that isolated
West Berlin from the rest of
Germany
 Came to symbolize the
restraints of Communism

18. Berlin Wall 20th Anniversary

19. Korean War
 Mao Zedong
 Leads a Communist take
over in China
 Domino Theory
 If one country becomes
Communist then more
countries will follow
 Two Wars to stop the
dominos
1. Korean War
2. Vietnam War

20. Korean War.
 Korea
 Korea split into two
along the 38th Parallel
 Communist North and
Democratic South
 North invades South
 US backs South Korea
 Soviet Union and China
back North Korea

21. Korean War..
 Mobile Warfare
 Douglas MacArthur
leads the US
 Pushes the Communist
all back to China
 Wants to use the atomic
bomb against China
 Would cause full scale
Nuclear War
 Relieved of his command
by President Truman

22. Korean War…
 Trench Warfare
 China pushes the US
back to the 38th Parallel
 Ends in a stalemate with
neither side gaining
territory
 Peace treaty was never
signed to end the war

23. Cuba
 Fidel Castro
 Overthrows the
government of Cuba in
1959
 Castro turns to
Communism in Cuba
 First Soviet backed
country close to America
 Scares America!

24. Bay of Pigs
 Invasion
 US sponsors an invasion
of Cuba by Cubans
 Failed and was an
embarrassment for
President John F.
Kennedy
 Ticks Castro off!

25. Cuban Missile Crisis
 Soviets try to install
missiles on Cuba
 Missiles in Cuba could
reach the US quicker
 US responds with a naval
blockade of Cuba
 Soviets back down and
don’t bring missiles to
Cuba
 Closest the Cold War
came to actual conflict