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Chapter 29 – The Cold War

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Page 2: Chapter 29 – The Cold War. Origins of the Cold War

Origins of the Cold War

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Thanks!!!We’ll open up a

2nd front within 6 months

Thanks!!!We’ll enter the

Pacific war after tensions chill in

Europe

Diplomacy During the WarTehran Conference (1943)

What about Poland???Soviets wanted a pro-

communist governmentU.S. and Britain wanted to

reinstate the exiled government

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YaltaUN established

Senate ratified charter 80-2

Disagreements at YaltaPolish Government Soviets

were already there and placed a pro-communist

regime in power

What to do with Germany? Divided into 4 occupation

zones Berlin (in Soviet zone) also

divided

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The Collapse of the Peace

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Truman DoctrineAmerica must protect free peoples from subjugation by outside forces (Soviet expansion)

* These ideas are reflective of American diplomat George Kennan

The Containment Doctrine

Atlantic Charter

Truman Doctrine was applied to Turkey & Greece ($400 million) the aid worked and containment

became the new U.S. foreign policy

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The Marshall PlanSecretary of State John Marshall proposed a plan

to help rebuild Western Europe…WHY???

Humanitarian concern

Fear that Europe would remain an economic drain

on America

Establish a strong European market

for American goods

Strengthen pro-American gov’ts in western Europe in

order to resist being taken over by

domestic communist parties

A coup in Czechoslovakia caused

any opposition to disappear

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Mobilization at HomeNational Security Act of 1947

Established Department of

Defense (combined War &

Navy Depts.)

Established National Security Council (operated out of the White

House)

Central Intelligence

Agency (CIA) replaced Office of Strategic Services

(OSS)

Gave the president expanded powers

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The Road to NATOWestern section of Germany and West Berlin

were combined into West Germany (democratic) Stalin responded by blockading West Berlin

West Berlin

Berlin Airlift went on for 10 months

Berlin became a symbol of the West’s

opposition and defiance of Soviet

expansion

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

1955 Warsaw Pact

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Reevaluating Cold War Policy

NSC – 68The U.S. needs to take the lead in opposing the spread of communism and it must mobilize to stop it anywhere in the world regardless of strategic or economic value of the land threatened.