cold war (11) day 2

The Cold War

DAY 2

1st contributing

cause

1st - SU takes over Eastern Europe

1st - SU takes over Eastern Europe1- Wanted buffer states AND “satellite” nations

2 - Wanted a warm water

port

Winston Churchill:

“An iron curtain has descended

across the continent”

2nd contributing

cause

2nd - Truman Doctrine signed

2nd - Truman Doctrine signedGave $660 million to help:

1.Turkey retain its ports2.Greece fight off

Communist guerrillas in their country

Also said U.S. would fight communism from spreading anywhere it doesn’t already exist…

… led to U.S. policy of CONTAINMENT

3rd

contributing cause

3rd – Marshall Plan

3rd – Marshall Plan

$12.5 billion to any country who needed helping rebuilding after

WWII

Had to agree to free trade

SU denounced as US trying to

spread democracy

3rd – Marshall Plan

Yes, we were

trying to help

Europe rebuild…

But,

there was a covert point to

the Marshall Plan…

4th contributing

cause

4th – China becomes Communist

4th – China becomes Communist

Two U.S.

views of Chiang Kai-shek

1.Courageous leader - fought Communists

2. Corrupt leader - gave $3 billion of U.S.’s $3.5 billion donation to friends & family…

instead of helping Chinese people

Sun Yat-sen

Chiang Kai-shek

4th – China becomes Communist

1. Kai-shek didn’t give promised reforms (tax & land)

2. Long March – 6,000 mile march northward after defeat in South = thousands died -- inspirational

3. Communists promised redistribution of land

Mao Zedong

The Chinese began to

support the Communists

1st effect

1st – Berlin Blockade and Airlift

1st – Berlin Blockade and Airlift

SU blockaded all ground traffic entering into

Western Berlin (Democratic side) for 327 days

1st – Berlin Blockade and Airlift

Why did this happen?US, Fr, Br unified their sections of Germany = West Germany

1st – Berlin Blockade and Airlift

SU blockaded all ground traffic entering into

Western Berlin (Democratic side) for 327 days

1st – Berlin Blockade and Airlift

US & Br flew 277,000 flights: dropping 2.5 million tons of

supplies

2nd effect

2nd – Formation of Alliances

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2nd – Alliances are Formed

US formed North Atlantic Treaty Organization

with Britain, Belgium, Canada, France, Iceland,

Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway,

Portugal, Greece, Turkey, West Germany

SU formed the Warsaw Pact with

Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania,

Bulgaria, East Germany

3rd effect

“The Forgotten War”

Korean Conflict1950-1953

Fear of nuclear war

Conflicts with SU in 1960s

SU invaded Czechoslovakia and took it

over