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Good Morning !!!!. NVC HOT ROC: 10 th Grade Intro to the Cold War: Rising Tensions Essential Question : What tensions led to the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union?. HOT ROC: 10 th Grade. What do you remember about the Cold War from 10 th grade history?.

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  1. Good Morning!!!! • NVC • HOT ROC: 10th Grade • Intro to the Cold War: Rising Tensions Essential Question: What tensions led to the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union?

  2. HOT ROC: 10th Grade What do you remember about the Cold War from 10th grade history?

  3. Europe Post-WWII • Yalta Conference (Feb 1945): US, USSR, and Britain meet to discuss post-war Europe • Agree to divide Germany • European countries to have free democratic elections • Potsdam Conference (July 1945) • Reaffirm division of Germany • Not sure anymore about democratic elections…

  4. Tensions Rise • Soviet Army remains in Eastern Europe • Refuse to allow democratic elections • Set up Soviet-controlled Communist governments all over Eastern Europe • Iron Curtain: physical and ideological barrier between Eastern and Western Europe • Truman Doctrine(1947): US vows to stop spread of Communism • Known as Containment

  5. Why So Tense? • U.S. and U.S.S.R only remaining superpowers • Different political and economic systems • US = Capitalist and Democratic • USSR = Communist and Totalitarian • US and USSR had very different experiences in WWII

  6. The Cost of War

  7. The Cost of War

  8. A World Divided • Divided Economic Plans • Marshall Plan (1947): provide economic aid to any European country that wants it • Sovietsstop any Eastern Euro nation from joining • Molotov Plan (1949): Soviet response to Marshall Plan, not successful

  9. A World Divided • Divided Alliances • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 1949: U.S., Canada, and Western Europe • Warsaw Pact 1955: Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe

  10. Exit Ticket What tensions led to the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union?

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