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1 1945-49 Start of Cold War And getting back to life at home

2 United Nations 1945

3 Iron Curtain Speech Winston Churchill 1946

4 Greece and Turkey USSR giving aide in Civil War in both countries to help the socialist cause

5 Truman Doctrine 1947 Containment Policy

6 The Marshall Plan 1948 (Containment Policy) US effort to Rebuild Europe

7 Marshall Plan 1.US picks up cost of rebuilding 2.US will help but Americans will be allowed to open businesses and establish trade once the rebuilding process has begun.

8 Problem for USSR The USSR leaves the Marshall meetings and refuses to take part in the rebuilding effort of Europe.

9 Start of the Cold War US vs. USSR

10 Problems in West Berlin 1948 East Germans and Russia shut off water, electricity and travel of trains into West Berlin

11 What would be the US response to the Berlin issue? US proposes 1.Bomb Russia and East Germany 2.Bring supplies to East Berlin

12 Berlin Airlift 1948

13 N.A.T.O 1949 – US and Western European alliance to stop the spread of communism

14 Russia Gets Bomb 1949

15 How did they get the bomb?

16 Home Front after WWII

17 Baby Boom

18 G.I. Bill 1944

19 Rise of Suburbs William Levitt and Levittown’s

20 Taft Hartley Acts Unions lose power

21 China becomes a communist country in 1949 Truman Doctrine does not Work!! America leaves China Cold war Start here

22 French Indo-China (Vietnam) Vietnamese vs. France 1945-54 Vietnam Wins Colonialism vs. Communism

23 Ho Chi Minh

24 Palestinian Question Jews show up by the thousands wanting their homeland. British leaving area controlled by Palestinian Muslims.

25 Palestine now Israel


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