1. MT5: The Cold War Essential Questions:
LT2-What were the Reasons for the Cold war
LT3-What was the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Lt4-What Treaties/ Agreements happened during the cold war

2. What was the Cold War Not a “real” war
No one actually fought in this war
Stand off of who is bigger and BADDER (Political Rivalry)
USA VS. Soviet Union
Democracy VS. Communism (Totalitarian gov.)
Started right after WW2
Lasted 54 years
USA
Government – Democracy-Free nation
Leader- Truman
Soviet Union
Government –Communist-very little choices
Leader-Joseph Stalin

3. The origins (Start) of the Cold War
Tensions began at the Yalta Conference
When: Feb 1945, in the Soviet Union (Russia)
Who attended: USA, Great Britain, Soviet Union, france
Why: Plan for Germany after WW2
What happened: Divided Germany up into four military zones (temporarily)
USA wants Germany to be rebuilt and become a democratic nation with USA help
Soviet Union wanted to weaken/punish Germany
Big nation (USA) vs. Big nation (Soviet Union)

4. Communism Spreads
Soviet Union wants a buffer zone between its self and Germany
Encouraged other evil people to take over nations in between Russia and Germany
These Communist nations were called the “Iron Curtain”
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Iron Curtain

5. Problem with communism and Soviet Union
Stalin was an evil totalitarian dictator
USA worried he would be like Hitler
The USA felt they needed to stop Stalin and not appease him like England had done to Germany
They did not want a repeat of WW2

6. Domino Theory created
If one nation were to fall to communism then the nations near by/neighbors would also fall to communism
Domino theory created because people worried about spread of communism

7. USA forms plan to “contain” Communism
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
President Truman outlined his plan for contain Communism
Containment = Not to let communism spread past its present area
Truman asked congress , in march 1947, for $400 million to contain communism
Send troops/guns/support
USA gave billions to European nations to recover from war
Only for non-communist nations
Kept western Europe from becoming communist
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8. Communism spreads close to USA
Chile elects Marxist/communist leader
Many Latin American nations followed

9. USA puts “containment” into action
Korea
Almost World War 3
After WW2 Korea is divided into North and South Korea
Soviet Union controlled North = Communist
USA controlled South Korea = Democracy/Free
Korea war:
Soviet union and North Korea want to make South Korea Communist
US sends troops and support to keep south Korea free from communism
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Soviet Union sent nuclear missiles to Cuba (Cuban missile crisis)
Island 57 miles from USA
USA not letting this slide
President Kennedy ordered any Soviet Ship near Cuba to be destroyed
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10. Treaties/Alliances
NATO
Warsaw pact
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949
USA and other European nations
51 nations started
Why: security against the Soviet Union.
The Warsaw Treaty Organization
Soviet Union and others
It was created in response to (NATO)
As protection from the nations united in the NATO Alliance

11. Important events/things that happened during the cold War
NASA is created
First object, man into space and on moon
Space race ( which nation would get a man on the moon)
Soviet Union and USA had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth 10x over
Arms race ( who could build the most/best weapons)
Helicopters created
Guided missiles
Radar (GPS)
“under God” was added to the pledge of allegiance
Countless political leaders were assassinated during the cold war
JFK, Martin Luther King, Malcom X,
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12. Cold war ends
Mikhail Gorbachev took over as the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985
He likes western/democratic ideas
In 1989 Poland elects a non communist leader/government
Gorbachev does nothing
All other nations controlled by Soviet Union with communist dictators began revolting
German people tare down Berlin wall separated Democratic Germany from communist Germany
By 1991 soviet union is no more = just Russia

13. Tree map: Cold War Cold war Cold War Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan
What was it?
Effect?
Korean War
Cuban Missile crisis
Nato
Warsaw Pact
Why did it happen?
What impact/effects it had?