1. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Honors World History Mr. Green

2. The students will explain the development of the Cold War by identifying major actions that led to the Cold War Announcement: There were be a bi-weekly World History Review Session in Mr. Gregg’s Room. The Chapter 19 test will be Friday, April 8 Warm-up: Examine the map on page 665 and answer the following: 1. How could geographic factors have determined whether a country joined NATO or the Warsaw Pact? 2. List all of the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries. As of 1955, which European countries had not joined either alliance?

3. Confrontation of the Superpowers Soviet communism state controls all property and economic activity U.S. Capitalist private citizens controlled almost all property and economic activity U.S. kept A-bomb development a secret U.S. waited to open a 2 nd front Potsdam Conference Stalin agreed to free elections in Poland which never happened

4. Truman did not want to give in to Stalin Stalin wanted to strip Germany of everything U.S. had no damage to the home front Soviets tighten their grip on Eastern Europe Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland become satellite nations of U.S.S.R. U.S. established a policy of containment George F. Kennan wrote a policy of containment to block the Soviets’ attempts to spread communism Churchill proclaimed an “iron curtain has descended across the continent”

5. The Truman Doctrine Truman asked Congress on March 12, 1947 for $400 million dollars to aid Greece and Turkey against a communist takeover U.S. would support free peoples throughout the world who were resisting takeover Marshall Plan U.S. aid to rebuild Europe and prevent communist takeovers Countries that joined had to remove trade barriers and cooperate economically with one another Soviet Union and Eastern bloc states did not join

6. Berlin Airlift Soviets cut off transportation into West Berlin from May 1948-May 1949 U.S. provided food via air drops to West Berliners U.S. won and Germany divided into 2 East and West Germany East Germany-German Democratic Republic West Germany-Federal Republic of Germany

7. List the actions that contributed to the struggle between the West (U.S. and Britain) and the East (U.S.S.R. and their satellites) in chronological order.

8. Read Chapter 19.2 and prepare for a Reading check on Friday.