Post WWII - What Now?
What events contribute
to the start of the Cold
War?
Is there prosperity in the
US?
Important notes regarding end
of WWII…
• Yalta Conference (Feb ‘45) pic map
• Potsdam Conference (Jul ‘45) pic map
• United Nations Meetings (‘44 and ‘46)
pic
• War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg and
Japan (‘45) link
• Creation of State of Israel (‘48) link link
What contributed to the tensions between the
US and Russia? (aka…the “Cold War”)
• Cold War – defined?
• Atomic Bomb
• “Iron Curtain” speech by Winston
Churchill at Fulton, MO. visit?
• Containment Policy – purpose?
• Truman Doctrine – what was this? map
• Marshall Plan – purpose? link
Tensions…continued.
• Berlin Crisis and Blockade..
• Berlin Airlift – purpose? link jfk map
• NATO – what was it? Purpose? Map
• Cold War – Idealogical or Military battle? Or
both? map
What events contributed to new tensions
(Cold War) between the Soviet Union?
• Germany’s Future? US vision vs. Soviet
Union vision?
• Truman Doctrine (‘47)
• Marshall Plan (‘47)
• “Containment” Policy
• Berlin Airlift (‘48)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
(‘49)
• Communism vs. Capitalism - Ideological
Battle or Military Battle?
What was the impact of the Truman Era
and what examples illustrate this?
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GI Bill of ‘44 link
Labor Unrest - 4.5M on 5,000 strikes
United Mine Workers (‘46)
Taft-Hartley Act (‘47) link
Dixiecrats - Southern Democrats (‘48)
link
• Truman’s Fair Deal (‘48) link
How did the Korean War
develop?
• Communist Growth - Long March in
China (‘34) - Mao Zedong link led
100,000 Communists for 6,000 miles later drove Nationalists (Chiang
Kaishek) to Taiwan in ‘’49 (meaning?)
• North Korean Attack over 38th Parallel
(June 25, 1950) map
War in Korea? (Reading Text)
• What event “turned the tide” against the North
Koreans? link
• In what ways was China getting involved in
this war?
• What happened to Gen. MacArthur?
• Who won election in ‘52 because of his AntiCommunist military background?
• What was the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) for?
pic
Cold War Fears..Justified?
• Spying - in high gear. Accused: Alger
Hiss, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg link
• “Blacklisting” in Hollywood - Lauren
Bacall, Paul Robeson, Frank Capra,
Ronald Reagan link
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Text)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers- movie
Chap 16 – The Eisenhower Era –
The Cold War continues..
• Election of 1952 – criticized “handling of
Korean War”
• Brinkmanship
• Massive Retaliation
• CIA formed in 1947 link
• Warsaw Pact – organized by Nikita
Krushchev (followed Stalin)
• Eisenhower Doctrine in Mideast after Suez
Canal Crisis
Cold War Fears & National
Security
• House Un-American Activities
Committee (‘38) link vid McCarthy vid
• Internal Security Act (‘50)
• Senator Joseph McCarthy (quote represents “McCarthyism”)
• Army-McCarthy hearings - exposed as
“bully”
Examples of “Atomic Anxiety”?
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Hydrogen Bomb (1950)
ICBM’s (with rocket propulsion)
Sputnik (1957) launch vidlink
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) (1958) link
• Atomic Bomb Drills by Federal Civil Defense
Administration – “Duck and Cover” - vid
• Eisenhower’s Speech – Military Industrial
Complex - Vid clip from "Why We Fight"
Great cultural and technological
changes of this period?
• “Golden Age” of Television – I Love
Lucy, American Bandstand, etc.
• Rock n Roll (Elvis, Chuck Berry, etc..)
• Rhythm and Blues
• Polio Vaccine (Dr. Jonas Salk)
What factors changed lifestyles and
housing patterns in the US?
• Sun Belt States
• Interstate Highway Act (1956)
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Levittowns link
Baby Boom
Suburban Expansion (Creve Coeur)
Urban Renewal programs (1950’s) –
remember Mill Creek Valley?
Compare and Contrast – Cold
War and “War on Terror”..
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Venn Diagram - compare and contrast the
US Cold War with Communism (’45 to late
50’s) with our current “War on Terror”.
(Include at least 4 examples in each circle –
at least 8 total examples). (complete Venn
Diagrams can be worth up to 10 pts)
Then, use these examples to write an
argumentative essay on this question –
“Was the Cold War more alike or different
from our current “War on Terror”? (essays
of ¾ to 1 full page can be worth 15pts)