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Opening Assignment. What happens when people (the US and USSR) stop being polite and start getting real after WWII? Could this same situation happen again between two nations? For those not here yesterday, here is the in-class assignment. Chapter 18 Section 1 Pages 602 – 608

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  1. Opening Assignment • What happens when people (the US and USSR) stop being polite and start getting real after WWII? • Could this same situation happen again between two nations? For those not here yesterday, here is the in-class assignment. Chapter 18 Section 1 Pages 602 – 608 Main Idea Questions A – D SkillBuilder #1-2 Page 604 SkillBuilder #1-2 Page 605 SkillBuilder #1-2 Page 606

  2. Essential Learning Goal: • The Cold War between the Soviet Union and United States helped shape the culture, history, and politics of the United States during the 20th Century. • Learning Targets: • I can identify the participants of the Cold War, their allies, and their treaty organizations. • I can explain the goal of the United Nations and which Cold War nations were members. • I can explain the significance of the US policy of “containment”, the Truman Doctrine, and the phrase “Iron Curtain”. • I can recognize the significance of the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift.

  3. I. Post-WWII outcomes? 1) United Nations- formed near the end of WWII as a body of nations to prevent future global wars. What organization had been formed at the end of WWI to prevent global war? Was this organization successful?

  4. I. Post-WWII outcomes? Nikita Khrushchev Soviet Premier- 1960 The United Nations- Ironically, even though the United Nations was intended to promote peace, it soon became an arena in which the two superpowers competed. Both the United States and Soviet Union used the U.N. as a forum to spread their influence over others. Signing of the U.N. Charter 1945

  5. I. Post-WWII outcomes? 3) Europe: -Lay in ruins and needs rebuilding -Soviet controlled East Europe -Germany divided into East (Communist) and West (Democratic) Divided Berlin

  6. I. Post-WWII outcomes? 4) Origins of Cold War Is this what we mean by the Cold War???

  7. COLD WAR U.S. and West Soviet Union and East -Democracy -Individual Freedom -Market economy -Totalitarianism -Socialism: state centered -Communist II. Cold War: Defined Cold War- 45 year competition about ideologies. Democracy & Capitalism versus Communism. (end of WWII-collapse of Soviet Union in 1991 — 8 presidents) OR

  8. II. Cold War: Defined THE STAKES ARE HIGH (BOTH U.S. and Soviet Union held the capability to destroy each other) 1949 Soviet Union successfully explodes an atomic bomb 1952 1st Hydrogen Bomb tested *Much more powerful than the Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki *Precision Missile Launch

  9. II. Cold War: Defined NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization Defensive alliance between U.S. and Western Europe (1st time U.S. entered into peacetime military alliance)

  10. II. Cold War: Defined Warsaw Pact, 1950- Defensive alliance between Soviet Union and Eastern European Countries.

  11. III. Cold War: Harry Truman --- Foreign Policy CONTAINMENT- do not let Communism spread, resist it! Truman Doctrine- help “free peoples” resist Communism How do you think these two policies will shape the US’s decisions to enter future wars? What nations might the U.S. help to prevent the spread of Communism? Think about what you already know about U.S. history. Harry Truman (1945-1953)

  12. III. Cold War: Harry Truman --- Foreign Policy Marshall Plan- massive financial aid to rebuild Europe. George Marshall

  13. III. Cold War: Harry Truman --- Foreign Policy Berlin Airlift (1948-49)- Soviets block access to west Berlin. Truman orders supplies airlifted. *2.3 million tons of supplies

  14. Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech • From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "Iron Curtain" has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow. The Iron Curtain as described by Churchill at Westminster College Fulton, Missouri.

  15. HOMEWORK Chapter 18 Section 2 Read Pages 609 – 615 Main Idea Questions A – D Skillbuilders: Page 613 #1 – 2

  16. Daily Review • Identify the participants of the Cold War, their allies, and their treaty organizations. • Explain the goal of the United Nations and which Cold War nations were members. • Explain the significance of the US policy of “containment”, the Truman Doctrine, and the phrase “Iron Curtain”. • What is the significance of the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift.

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