1. Cold War Beginnings
World War I:
Communism versus Capitalism in the 1920’s
1930’s Developments:
Conferences and their Impact:
Atlantic Charter
Teheran
Yalta
The Decision to Drop the Bomb and its Impact:

2. Iron Curtain
-Truman pushes for free elections
-Winston Churchill
Iron Curtain refers to all nations under Soviet control
-satellite nations
-purges
-buffer zone

3. Iron Curtain
-Truman pushes for free elections
-Winston Churchill
Iron Curtain refers to all nations under Soviet control
-satellite nations
-purges
-buffer zone

4. Containment
-theory of trying to stop the spread of communism
George F. Kennan
-what did communism promise
a way to rebuild the war torn area
-go to war???
-Term “Cold War” is applied

5. Truman Doctrine
-Greece and Turkey were in danger of becoming communist, 1947
-Truman decides to give aid to any nation that needs it to prevent communism
-becomes known as the Truman Doctrine

6. Marshall Plan
-Europe was destroyed by the war
-devastation made communism more promising
-George Marshall created a recovery plan for Europe
-offered to all nations
-plan was a great success as Europe recovered

7. Marshall Plan
-Europe was destroyed by the war
-devastation made communism more promising
-George Marshall created a recovery plan for Europe
-offered to all nations
-plan was a great success as Europe recovered

9. Berlin Airlift
-Germany and its capital Berlin were split
-Soviets blockade Berlin in hopes of controlling it
-U.S. decides to airlift supplies for the city by plane rather than back down
-airlift lasted nearly a year and brought over 2 million tons of supplies

10. Berlin Airlift
-Germany and its capital Berlin were split
-Soviets blockade Berlin in hopes of controlling it
-U.S. decides to airlift supplies for the city by plane rather than back down
-airlift lasted nearly a year and brought over 2 million tons of supplies

11. Cold War Security -National Security Act, 1947
-Created Department of Defense
-created the CIA and NSC
-NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
-end of United States isolationism as we partner with Western Europe
-Atomic bomb tested in USSR, 1949
-Warsaw Pact unites communist nations

12. Cold War Security -National Security Act, 1947
-Created Department of Defense
-created the CIA and NSC
-NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
-end of United States isolationism as we partner with Western Europe
-Atomic bomb tested in USSR, 1949
-Warsaw Pact unites communist nations