Start of Cold War And getting back to life at home
United Nations 1945
Iron Curtain Speech Winston Churchill 1946
Greece and Turkey USSR giving aide in Civil War in both countries to help the socialist cause
Truman Doctrine 1947 Containment Policy
The Marshall Plan 1948 (Containment Policy) US effort to Rebuild Europe
Marshall Plan 1.US picks up cost of rebuilding 2.US will help but Americans will be allowed to open businesses and establish trade once the rebuilding process has begun.
Problem for USSR The USSR leaves the Marshall meetings and refuses to take part in the rebuilding effort of Europe.
Start of the Cold War US vs. USSR
Problems in West Berlin 1948 East Germans and Russia shut off water, electricity and travel of trains into West Berlin
What would be the US response to the Berlin issue? US proposes 1.Bomb Russia and East Germany 2.Bring supplies to East Berlin
Berlin Airlift 1948
N.A.T.O 1949 – US and Western European alliance to stop the spread of communism
Russia Gets Bomb 1949
How did they get the bomb?
Home Front after WWII
Baby Boom
G.I. Bill 1944
Rise of Suburbs William Levitt and Levittown’s
Taft Hartley Acts Unions lose power
China becomes a communist country in 1949 Truman Doctrine does not Work!! America leaves China Cold war Start here
French Indo-China (Vietnam) Vietnamese vs. France Vietnam Wins Colonialism vs. Communism
Ho Chi Minh
Palestinian Question Jews show up by the thousands wanting their homeland. British leaving area controlled by Palestinian Muslims.
Palestine now Israel