Start of Cold War

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1945-49

• Start of Cold War
• And getting back to life at home

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United Nations1945
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Iron Curtain SpeechWinston Churchill 1946
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Greece and Turkey

• USSR giving aide in Civil War in both countries
  to help the socialist cause

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Truman Doctrine 1947Containment Policy
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The Marshall Plan 1948(Containment Policy)US
effort to Rebuild Europe
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Marshall Plan

1. US picks up cost of rebuilding
2. US will help but Americans will be allowed to
   open businesses and establish trade once the
   rebuilding process has begun.

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Problem for USSR

• The USSR leaves the Marshall meetings and refuses
  to take part in the rebuilding effort of Europe.

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Start of the Cold WarUS vs. USSR
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Problems in West Berlin 1948 East Germans and
Russia shut off water, electricity and travel of
trains into West Berlin
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What would be the US responseto the Berlin issue?

• US proposes
• Bomb Russia and East Germany
• Bring supplies to East Berlin

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Berlin Airlift 1948
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N.A.T.O 1949 US and Western European alliance
to stop the spread of communism
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Russia Gets Bomb 1949
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How did they get the bomb?
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Home Front after WWII
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Baby Boom
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G.I. Bill 1944
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Rise of SuburbsWilliam Levitt and Levittowns
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Taft Hartley ActsUnions lose power
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Chinabecomes a communist country in 1949Truman
Doctrine does not Work!!America leaves China
Cold war Start here
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French Indo-China(Vietnam)Vietnamese vs.
France1945-54Vietnam WinsColonialism vs.
Communism
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Ho Chi Minh
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Palestinian QuestionJews show up by the
thousands wanting their homeland.British leaving
area controlled by Palestinian Muslims.
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Palestine now Israel