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Title: The Beginning of the Cold War


1
The Beginning of the Cold War
2
Soviet-American Tensions
  • Capitalism vs Communism
  • The Yalta Conference
  • The United Nations
  • Occupation of Poland
  • Lublin Poles vs. London Poles
  • Occupation of Germany
  • Atomic bomb

3
The Big Three
4
Containment
  • Chinas fall to communism
  • Chiang vs. Mao Zedong
  • Revival of Japan
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Marshall Plan
  • Sec. of State George C. Marshall
  • Economic Cooperation Administration

5
President Truman
6
Containment (cont)
  • Preparedness
  • Selective Service System
  • Atomic Energy Commission
  • National Security Act
  • Department of Defense
  • National Security Council
  • CIA

7
Division of Germany
  • Federal Republic
  • Democratic Republic
  • NATO
  • Warsaw Pact

8
U.S. Economy
  • Servicemens Readjustment Act
  • Labor unrest
  • Strikes
  • Displaced workers
  • Trumans Fair Deal
  • Social Security benefits
  • Fair Employment Practices Act
  • Conservatism
  • Taft-Hartley Act

9
The Election of 1948
  • Democrats divided
  • Dixiecrat Party
  • Strom Thurmond
  • Americans for Democratic Action
  • Thomas Dewey-Republican
  • Good for nothing Congress

10
Trumans Fair Deal Revised
  • Minimum wage
  • Social Security
  • National Housing Act
  • Civil rights legislation
  • Fair Employment Practices Committee
  • Discrimination and Segregation

11
The Korean War
  • 38th Parallel
  • Communist north
  • Pro-western south
  • A Civil War
  • U.S. defense perimeter
  • UN Assistance
  • General Douglas MacArthur
  • Chinese involvement
  • The Martin Letter
  • Truman fires MacArthur
  • Korean war results

12
General Douglas MacArthur
13
The U.S. During the Korean War
  • Economy
  • Office of Defense Mobilization
  • Labor strikes
  • Anxiety grows regarding communism

14
Subversion in America
  • House Un-American Activities Commission
  • The evils of Hollywood
  • The Hollywood Ten
  • blacklist
  • Federal Loyalty Program
  • Hoover Files
  • McCarran Internal Security Act
  • The Rosenberg Case
  • McCarthyism
  • Joseph McCarthy

15
Senator Joe McCarthy
16
The Rosenbergs
17
Election of 1952
  • Adlai Stevenson
  • Dwight Eisenhower
  • Richard M. Nixon
  • Republican Victory

18
We Like Ike
19
Dwight Eisenhower
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