1. Yalta Conference, Feb. 1945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcHbOtTQxWE Churchill (UK), FDR (US), Stalin (USSR)

3. On the yellow sheet, Write your name on it. Answer the 5 questions from the edpuzzle cold war video clip as we go through it. https://edpuzzle.com/media/5729ed5749060 a3f4108b7f1 Submit at the end of class!

4. 3. HUAC  find communists  Hollywood 10

5. Today you will be able to: Learn about the first half of the Cold War by taking notes, watching video clips, and beginning to fill in a timeline of events. *Notes are different today! -We’ll work on filling in the timeline of MAJOR EVENTS together -You’ll add your more detailed notes to the back of the timeline paper

6. Next class, Cold War War pt. 1 Quiz! …which means, take good notes & study ‘em! (We’ll also be doing some fun activities with music next time, too.)

7. The United Nations was formed near the end of World War II to create a body for the nations of the world to try to prevent future global wars

8. Following its defeat in World War II, Japan was occupied by American forces. Japan soon adopted a democratic form of government, resumed self-government, and became a strong ally of the United States.

9. At the end of World War II, Europe lay in ruins

10. At the end of World War II, Soviet forces occupied most of Eastern and Central Europe and the eastern portion of Germany

11. Following World War II, Germany was partitioned into East and West Germany

12. West Germany became democratic and resumed self-government after a few years of American, British, and French occupation

13. East Germany remained under the domination of the Soviet Union and did not adopt democratic institutions

14. What was the Cold War? The Cold War was essentially a competition between two very different ways of organizing government, society, and economy. The United States and Soviet Union represented starkly different fundamental values. vs.

15. The Cold War lasted from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union vs.

16. The Cold War lasted from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union vs. The Cold War set the framework for global politics for 45 years after the end of World War II

17. The Cold War also influenced American domestic policies, how foreign affairs were conducted, and the role of the government in the economy after 1945 vs.

18. The Cold War also influenced American domestic policies, how foreign affairs were conducted, and the role of the government in the economy after 1945 vs.

19. The Cold War also influenced American domestic policies, how foreign affairs were conducted, and the role of the government in the economy after 1945 vs.

20. The United States and other western nations believed in:

21. democratic political institutions

22. The United States and other western nations believed in: democratic political institutions a generally free market system

23. The United States and other western nations believed in: democratic political institutions a generally free market system individual freedom

24. The Soviet Union and its allies believed in:

25. a totalitarian government

26. The Soviet Union and its allies believed in: a totalitarian government a communist (socialist) economic system

27. The Truman Doctrine of “containment of communism” was a guiding principle of American foreign policy throughout the Cold War

28. Under containment, the United States would not try to roll back communism, but would keep communism from spreading and resist communist aggression into other countries

29. The Marshall Plan provided massive financial aid to rebuild European economies and prevent the spread of communism

30. 1947 1955

32. http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/hgvn/webroot/files/File/extra/atla nticworld/atlanticworld3EN/tentoon2.html

33. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed as a defensive alliance among the United States and western European countries to prevent a Soviet invasion of Western Europe

34. Soviet allies in Eastern Europe formed the Warsaw Pact

35. For nearly 50 years, both sides (NATO and Warsaw Pact countries) maintained large military forces facing each other in Europe

36. The communist takeover of China shortly after World War II increased American fears of communist domination of most of the world

37. The fear of communism and the threat of nuclear war affected American life throughout the Cold War

38. Alger Hiss was accused of passing secret documents to the Soviets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-6BfCbrvuM

39. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and were executed by the U.S. government

40. The convictions of Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for spying for the Soviet Union, and the construction of nuclear weapons by the Soviets using technical secrets obtained through spying, increased domestic fears of communism

41. Senator Joseph McCarthy played on American fears of communism by recklessly accusing many American governmental officials and citizens of being communists

42. Senator Joseph McCarthy based the charges he made on flimsy or no evidence

43. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s reckless accusations of communism led to the coining of the term “McCarthyism,” or making false accusations based on rumor or guilt by association

44. Korean War 1950-1953

45. After communist North Korea invaded South Korea, American military forces led a United Nations counterattack that led deep into North Korea itself

47. Communist Chinese forces came into the Korean War on the side of North Korea and the war threatened to widen

48. The Korean War ended in a stalemate with South Korea free of communist occupation

49. American involvement in the Korean War in the early 1950s reflected the American policy of containment of communism

50. Under President Eisenhower, America adopted a policy of “massive retaliation” (brinksmanship) to deter any nuclear strike by the Soviets

51. Cuba was also a site of Cold War confrontations

52. Fidel Castro led a communist revolution that took over Cuba in the late 1950s

54. 80-year-old Fidel Castro in October 2006

56. Many Cubans fled to Florida to escape communist rule and later attempted to invade Cuba to overthrow Castro. This Bay of Pigs invasion failed.

57. In 1962, the Soviet Union stationed missiles in Cuba, instigating the Cuban Missile Crisis

59. President Kennedy ordered the Soviets to remove their missiles from Cuba. For several days, the world was on the brink of nuclear war.

60. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtDAQB1sA9k

61. Eventually Soviet leadership “blinked” and removed their missiles from Cuba

62. After the Soviet Union matched the United States in nuclear weaponry in the 1950s…

63. …the threat of a nuclear war that would destroy both countries was ever-present throughout the Cold War

64. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QxVwafUFgY

65. During the 1950s and 1960s, American schools regularly held drills to train children what to do in case of a nuclear attack

66. During the 1950s and 1960s, American citizens were urged by the government to build bomb shelters in their own basements