The Cold War

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The Cold War
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Soviet Control of Eastern Russia

• Alliance between US, Great Britain and the Soviet
  Union unraveled
• Soviets occupied most of Eastern Europe
• Rise in Communism
• Hungary, Poland- Satellite Nations
• Stalin ordered purges and relocated whole
  factories

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The Iron Curtain

• Soviet Union crushed all opposition in the
  nations of Eastern Europe after 1945
• A new threat
• Trumans get tough policy

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The Strength of Communism

• Soviet troops were the most powerful in Europe
• Soviets created a buffer zone on its western
  border

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Communisms Promises

• Promised to abolish poverty, privilege, and
  private property
• Guaranteed productive work, shelter, education,
  health care, and a classless society
• Forces of progression and oppression
• Guerilla forces started up in poverty stricken
  countries

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Whats Their Sign?
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Containment

• Trumans policy of containment
• Cold War began, state of war that did not involve
  actual bloodshed

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The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine
• The United States provide military and economic
  aid to Greece and Turkey
• Marshall Plan
• Recovery plan for European nations
• American aid in the form of money, supplies and
  machinery would help end hunger, poverty,
  desperation and chaos.

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The Berlin Airlift

• Germany was divided between the US, GB, and the
  Soviet Union
• The Soviet Union closed of West Germany to Berlin
• Massive airlift of supplies carried food,
  medicine, clothing, raw materials and coal

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Formation of Alliances, April 1949 (US, GB,
  France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Iceland,
  Denmark, Norway, and Portugal Greece, Turkey,
  and West Germany joined later.)
• Collective Security
• Attack on one is considered an attack on all

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The East Side

• Soviets explode their first atomic bomb in
  September of 1949
• A new arms race was on!!!
• The US and Soviet Union along with Great Britain,
  France, and China soon all had nuclear
  capability.

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