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The End of the War
• Harry Truman
• The Manhattan Project
– Atomic bomb
• The Dawn of the Atomic Age
– August 6, 1945 Hiroshima
– August 9, 1945 Nagasaki
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpZBSXuJ5yc
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Today’s Topics • Cold War
– What are the origins of the war?
– What is McCarthyism? – How did the fight against communism influence the
building of Dodger’ stadium in Los Angeles? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpYCplyBknI
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• End of War II 1945
• Planning the Postwar World
– Potsdam Conference
• Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
– The World Bank
– The International Monetary Fund
• The United Nations
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– World War II produced a radical redistribution of world power.
– Atlantic Charter
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Origins of the Cold War
– The only power that could rival the United States was the Soviet Union.
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• The Cold War • 1st confrontation took place in?
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• The Roots of Containment
– It seemed inevitable that the two major powers to emerge from the war would come into conflict.
• Containment 1946 – influenced by the Heartland Theory 1904
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Heartland Theory 1904
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• The Truman Doctrine
– Truman determined to put the policy of containment into effect.
– Backing for Greece and Turkey
– CIA 1947
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• The Marshall Plan
– A pledged to contribute billions of dollars to finance the economic recovery of Europe.
– One of the most successful foreign aid programs in history.
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Bales of American cotton in a warehouse at the
French port of Le Havre, 1949
• The Marshall Plan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf0axpYS6CA
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• The Reconstruction of Japan
– General Douglas MacArthur, the “supreme commander” in Japan until 1948, Japan adopted a new, democratic constitution.
– http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0720/Mitsubishi-apologizes-for-using-American-WWII-POWs-as-forced-labor
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Map 23.1 Cold War Europe, 1956 15
• Cold War Politics
• 1st world NATO
• 2nd world Warsaw Pact
• 3rd world
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• The Cultural Cold War
– battle for the “hearts and minds” of people throughout the world.
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWbIJC57rk0
• Totalitarianism
– Origin WWII
– Used to describe Germany & Italy
• U.S. in 1954 includes “Under God” to the pledge allegiance.
• 1956 in currency
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McCarthyism
– Campaign to rid the of U.S. of communist infiltrators
– Targeted groups • Union leaders
• College professors
• actors
Chavez Ravine
• 1940s communities of La Loma, Palo Verde, and Bishop
• 300 families evicted