1. THE COLD WAR IN EUROPE

2. BACKGROUND Yalta 1945 Iron Curtain 1946– Churchill’s speech
Temporarily divide Germany into 4 zones and Stalin promises free elections to occupied territory (doesn’t happen)
Iron Curtain 1946– Churchill’s speech
divides Europe
East and West
Fear of global communism movement

4. CONTAINMENT
1947 Truman Doctrine – US says it will do anything necessary to stop the spread of communism
$400 million to Greece and Turkey
Marshall Plan - $17 Billion in aid to Euros (USSR counters with aid package for Eastern Euros – Molotov Plan)
Military alliances formed:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw pact (1953) (USSR controlled countries

7. Nuclear Weapons
NSC68 - secret U.S.document- increase military spending on atomic capability.
1949 Soviets develop A-bomb
1952 US hydrogen bomb
1953 USSR hydrogen bomb

9. The First Battle Field - Berlin
Partitioning of Germany
Germany
Berlin
The Berlin Blockade 1948
U.S. Reaction - Air Power!!
The Berlin Wall - later 1961