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Title: 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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