Transcript Chapter 21 – Section 2 The Early Cold War Years

Chapter 21 – Section 2
The Early Cold War
Years
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1) Containing Communism:
It was the goal of the United States to stop
communism from spreading.
A) The Long Telegram
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The U.S was having trouble working with the Soviets
after WWII and diplomat George Keenan sent a
message which recommended that the United States
must follow a policy of containment, not war, to defeat
the Soviets (Russians.)
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B) Crisis in Iran
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The first place where Containment was put into place,
was in Iran. The U.S. sent battleships to the
Mediterranean Sea, to force the Soviets to withdraw
from Iran.
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C) The Truman Doctrine
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The Next battle place for influence was Greece. There
was a civil war between Communists and nonCommunists within Greece.
The Soviet Union supported the Communists and the
British tried to help the non-Communists but could not
afford to.
U.S. President Truman got congress to give the nonCommunists in Greece $400 Million.
This strategy became known as the Truman Doctrine
which said that the U.S. would give money to people
who were fighting communism.
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D) The Marshall Plan
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The U.S. also feared that the kind of
economic problems that had led the
Germans to vote for Hitler could also cause
other nations to turn to Communism if those
problems continued.
Secretary of State George C. Marshall
created a plan, known as the Marshall Plan
where the U.S. would give countries in
Europe money to rebuild after WWII.
This plan included billions of dollars pumped
into western Europe.
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2) The Berlin Crisis
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Remember that
all four winning
nations of WWII
had a part of
Berlin, even
though Berlin
was in the
Soviet section
of Germany.
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A) West Germany is founded
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The U.S.,
French and
British joined
their sections
together to
make “West
Germany” in
1948.
The Russians
didn’t like this
and blockaded
West Berlin.
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