Transcript I. Post-WWII outcomes? Cold War

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
• 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.
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?
I. Post-WWII outcomes?
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
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Premier- 1960
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
I. Post-WWII outcomes?
4) Origins of Cold War
Is this what we mean by the Cold War???
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)
COLD WAR
U.S.
and West
-Democracy
-Individual Freedom
-Market economy
OR
Soviet Union
and East
-Totalitarianism
-Socialism: state centered
-Communist
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
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)
II. Cold War: Defined
Warsaw Pact, 1950- Defensive alliance between Soviet
Union and Eastern European Countries.
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?
Harry Truman
(1945-1953)
Think about what you already know
about U.S. history.
III. Cold War: Harry Truman --- Foreign Policy
Marshall Plan- massive financial aid to rebuild Europe.
George Marshall
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
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
The Iron Curtain as described
but to a very high and in some cases
by Churchill at Westminster
increasing measure of control from
College Fulton, Missouri.
HOMEWORK
Chapter 18 Section 2
Read Pages 609 – 615
Main Idea Questions A – D
Skillbuilders:
Page 613 #1 – 2
Daily Review
1. Identify the participants of the Cold War, their allies,
and their treaty organizations.
2. Explain the goal of the United Nations and which Cold
War nations were members.
3. Explain the significance of the US policy of
“containment”, the Truman Doctrine, and the phrase
“Iron Curtain”.
4. What is the significance of the Marshall Plan and the
Berlin Airlift.