The Start of the Cold War

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The Start of the Cold War

• Matthew Lewis
• ED648
• Dr. Helms

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• Unit Cold War
• Grade 10th
• Lesson The Start of the Cold War

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• Materials
• Textbook, paper, writing utensil, computer,
  projector

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Websites

• History Channel
• http//www.coldwar.org/
• http//www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar
  .html
• http//www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
• http//www.fas.harvard.edu/hpcws/

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Activities

• Select a nation mentioned in section and create a
  time line of important events in the nations
  history from WWII to present
• Hypothesizing skill builder using occupation of
  Berlin
• Create a poster comparing Capitalism and
  Communism
• Create a map of Europe showing Western and Soviet
  control
• Write a paper on why Truman did not go to war
  with the Soviet Union

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Objectives

• Students will be able to describe the changes in
  Eastern Europe and the factors that made
  communism strong after WWII
• Students will be able to outline the foreign
  policy goals of the Truman administration
• Students will be able to explain how the United
  States became a world power after WWII

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East West Suspicions

• End of the war, End of the alliance
• Soviet expansion and Communism
• Communism a system of government in which
  society as a whole, represented by the Communist
  party, owns and controls property and the means
  of production.
• Eastern Europe controlled by Soviet Union

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Soviet Control

• Satellite nations
• Nations held under Soviet domination
• Purges
• The forced removal of leaders of satellite
  nations who were deemed disloyal.

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Iron Curtain

• Speech by Churchill
• Phrase used to describe Soviet policy in Europe
  from 1945-1989
• Soviet Union wanted a buffer

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Containment

• Trumans policy
• Preventing the further spread of communism
• The Cold War
• A book written by Walter Lippmann coined the term
• Refers to a state of war without actual bloodshed

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Strength of Communism

• Promised to abolish poverty, privilege, and
  private property
• Guaranteed productive work, shelter, education,
  health care, and a classless society.
• Sometimes guerrilla forces were used to incite
  civil wars

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The Truman Doctrine

• Greece and Turkey
• Proposed that the U.S. would provide military and
  economic aid
• Superseded the Monroe Doctrine

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The Marshall Plan

• Economic aid to Europe-1947
• Secretary of State George Marshall
• Welcomed by Western Europe
• Gave more than 13 billion
• Formed the Organization for European Economic
  Cooperation

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Berlin Airlift

• Joint occupation of Germany
• U.S. Britain, France, Soviet Union
• Berlin closed of to road traffic by Soviet Union
• Massive airlift
• Night and day for more than 10 months
• Until May 1949

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NATO

• U.S., Britain, Canada, Belgium, Italy, France,
  the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Iceland, Denmark,
  Norway, and Portugal
• Later Greece, Turkey, and West Germany
• Collective security
• General Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Warsaw Pact- Soviet Response