2. Why is it called the Cold War
Why is it called the Cold War? Military conflict that between US & USSR that did not have one shot between either side
Time Period- after WWII to 1991? Maybe today
Define Communism- government controls the means of proudction; land labor & capitol. tyranny
Define Capitalism- individual controls the means of prodection; land labor & capitol. freedom
Fun Facts

3. POTUS: Harry Truman
1. Truman Doctrine
2. Berlin Airlift
3. Marshall Plan
4. Korean War

5. Truman Doctrine Focus is on Germany, China, & _
Financial aid to countries who are combating _
NATO
American alliance w/ _
Warsaw Pact
Soviet Union alliance w/ _
An ‘Iron Curtain’ splits Warsaw and NATO
Korea
Communism
NATO countries…(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Western Europe
Warsaw Pact countries…(Warsaw is capital of Poland)
Eastern Europe
Iron Curtain defined…

6. IRON CURTAIN

8. USA gives out $13B in grants & loans to Western Europe
Why?
1. capitalism _
2. Shows the world we are _
Define Marshall plan
is the way
the good guys

9. Berlin Airlift

10. Berlin Airlift
Stalin stops all traffic from the West that was coming into_
USA transports goods through the sky to help _
What did this show our other allies?
Define Berlin Air Lift-
Review Iron Curtain
East Germany
West Berlin
We would do anything/go to the extreme to help out our allies

11. Korea Background
Korea was conquered by Japan post WWI
Communists & Capitalist disputes begin in 1948
China backed the Communists (north) – who is also supported by Russia
American backed the capitalists (South)
Proxy War defined

12. Korean War Why did it start? China b.c.’s _ Douglas MacArthur Outcome?
the 38th parallel
Communist
Nationalist leader in China doesn’t use $ correctly
Leads UN forces to push North Korea back. Truman fires him, for not folliowing orders, South Korea & UN give up territory
How did we push back?

14. POTUS: Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower Doctrine
2. CIA
3. NASA
4. HUAC

15. Eisenhower Doctrine Focused on the _ Policy of Containment
Maintain communism to _
Do not let communism grow outside_
Middle East
Its current borders
Where its all ready at
in response to Soviet influence
US use force to Middle East threatened by communism

16. M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction Prevents countries from using _
Nikita Khruschchew
New head of _
nuclear weapons
Soviet Union- Stalin is dead
The strategy is a form of Nash equilibrium in which neither side, once armed, has any incentive to initiate a conflict or to disarm.

17. C.I.A. Central Intelligence Agency Starts _ carries out _
US gov’t can plausibly deny _
There were spies before
convert operations
1947
any responsibility
The National Security Council Directive on Office of Special Projects, June 18, 1948 further gave the CIA the authority to carry out covert operations "against hostile foreign states or groups or in support of friendly foreign states or groups but which are so planned and conducted that any U.S. government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them.

18. NASA Gov’t agency that is responsible for our nation’s space program
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2 Uses: 1. 2.
Gov’t agency that is responsible for our nation’s space program
Russians are first to reach outer space
We are first on the moon. A lot of people thought it was fake.
Military
Scientific research

19. Red Scare

20. Red Scare

21. HUAC House of Un-American Activities Committee Red Scare
created in 1938
investigate alleged _
on the part of private citizens, public employees, &_
That were suspected of having _
Red Scare
fear of a potential rise of_
disloyalty
organizations
Communist ties
commnism