Cold War Origins

The Cold War set the framework for _______ _________ for 45 years after the end of WORLD WAR II.

• Revolution

• Global Politics

• Government

• Economy

The Cold War was basically a war between which two ideas?

• Democracy and Communism

• Capitalism and Democracy

• Socialism and Communism

“The COMPETITION that developed after WWII between the UNITED STATES and the SOVIET UNION for power and influence in the world

• The Cold War

• American Revolution

• World War 2

• World War 1

Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill met to work out future of GERMANY and POLAND

• Berlin Conference

• Potsdam Conference

• Warsaw Conference

• Yalta Conference

Germany divided into American, British, French, and Soviet OCCUPATION ZONES

American, British, French zones 🡪 WEST GERMANY

Soviet zone 🡪 EAST GERMANY

Conflict over future of POLAND

• Berlin Conference

• Potsdam Conference

• Warsaw Conference

• Yalta Conference

• Unveiled by Secretary of State George C. Marshall in 1947

• United States supported European ECONOMIC RECOVERY from World War II

• U.S. allocated approx. $13 BILLION to Western Europe

• Truman Doctrine

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Marshall Plan

Soviets BLOCKED Allied access to West Berlin

Blockade caused severe SHORTAGES of FOOD and SUPPLIES for 2.5 million people in WEST BERLIN

British and American AIRCRAFT made more than 200,000 flights to deliver food, fuel, other supplies until May 1949

• Battle of Midway

• D-Day

• Berlin Airlift

• Battle of the Bulge

The Communist takeover in China led by ___ ______ shortly after WWII increased American fears of communist DOMINATION

• Adolf Hitler

• Joseph Stalin

• Mao Zedong

• Deng Xioping

Pres. Harry Truman’s 1947 SPEECH before a joint session of Congress, calling United States to take LEADERSHIP role in the world, and declaring that the UNITED STATES would SUPPORT nations threatened by communism

• Truman Doctrine

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Marshall Plan

American policy that called for the United States to RESIST Soviet attempts to form Communist governments ELSEWHERE

• Open Borders

• Containment

• NATO

• Withdraw