1. Cold War Beginnings

2. No direct confrontation on battlefield
What is a Cold War?
No direct confrontation on battlefield
Battle for dominance economically and ideologically

3. Potsdam
Action: Stalin refuses democratic elections in satellite nations
Communist governments

4. George Kennan proposes containment
Effect: Containment
George Kennan proposes containment
Prevent extension of communist rule

5. Effect: Truman Doctrine
Support countries fighting communism
Marshall Plan provides aid to war torn Europe
Why?

6. End of WW2 Germany divided into four zones
Berlin
End of WW2 Germany divided into four zones
Britain, France, U.S. combine
Stalin has East Berlin; nothing guarantees West access to East
Action: Soviets blockade Berlin

8. Action: Berlin Airlift
Fly food and supplies into West Berlin
Boosts American prestige
Soviets lift blockade

9. Action: NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Defensive military alliance between U.S., Canada, and 10 western European nations
Attack on one is attack on all
First peacetime alliance in U.S. history