1. Vocabulary/Identification
United Nations
containment
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
iron curtain
satellite nation

2. Chapter
Origins of the Cold War

3. Chapter 18 – 1 Objectives
Explain the breakdown in relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after World War II.
Explain how the policy of containment was used to slow/stop Soviet influence.
Describe how the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan increased Cold War tensions.
Explain how conflicts over Germany increased the fear of Americans of Soviet aggression.

4. The Potsdam Conference
At the Yalta Conference, Stalin promised FDR that he would allow;
Free elections
Voting by secret ballot
A multiparty system of politics
Stalin refused to honor his promise.
Truman’s goal was free elections in former Nazi held countries.

5. The Potsdam Conference
Truman felt the spread of democracy was essential to the U.S.
Economically – increase trade
Militarily – to insure peace
Soviets extend their power to Eastern Europe.
Installed communists governments to satellite nations that included: Albania, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria

6. The Potsdam Conference
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7. Iron Curtain
Term coined by Churchill to describe the hold that the Soviets had on Eastern Europe.

8. Iron Curtain
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9. Former Allies Clash
The Truman administration established a policy of containment to block future Soviet expansion.
Containment: Taking measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries.

10. Truman Doctrine Declared that the U.S.;
Support any free country that resisted communism.
Provided economic aid to help countries keep and support a democracy.
Provided military support to help countries.

11. Marshall Plan
Provided aid to all European countries that requested help to rebuild.
This move was not against any country, but against hunger, poverty desperation, and chaos.
Provided money, food and building materials.
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12. Berlin Airlift – June 1948
Had no written agreement for free access to Berlin.
Soviets blocked off all roads to and from Berlin in an effort to oust the Americans, French, and English.
American and British began a series of flights to West Berlin to provide supplies.
Airplanes took off and landed every few minutes, around the clock for 321 days.
By May 1949, Soviets lift the blockade.

13. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
U.S. and 10 other Western European nations come together to create a defensive alliance.
This Cold War ended America’s hope of returning to isolationism.
The U.S. becomes a superpower.

14. Class/Home work
Skillbuilder – Analyzing Motives
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