Chapter 16
– THE COLD WAR 1945-1960 Chapter 16.1 – THE COLD WAR BEGINS
CLASS NOTES
AMERICAN GOALS
Stop spread of Communism – Containment
United Germany
Independent nations in Eastern Europe
Support free peoples who are resisting subjugation
SOVIET GOALS
Spread Communism beyond Eastern Europe
Weak, divided Germany
Eastern Europe under Soviet control
World domination
As you read, trace events and developments in Europe that contributed to the growth of Cold War tensions.
Yalta and Potsdam: Allies have conflicting goals for Eastern Europe
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Stalin increases his control over Eastern European nations, making some of them Soviet satellites
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Truman Doctrine – aid sent to Greece and Turkey
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Marshall Plan
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Closure of roads into West Berlin – Berlin airlift
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NATO
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Warsaw Pact
Chapter 16.2 – THE KOREAN WAR
As you read, note problems and the steps that President Truman took to solve them. Use a problem-solution table like the one
below.
PROBLEM
Communists threaten takeover of China
Communist North Korea invades South Korea.
South Korean troops and allies retreat to Pusan.
MacArthur moves troops into North Korea (against
Truman’s wishes).
SOLUTION
United States sends aid to Chinese Nationalists fighting
the Communists.
United States and the UN send aid and troops to Korea.
Allies attack at lnchon and push North Koreans back.
Truman fires MacArthur.
Chapter 16.3 – The COLD WAR EXPANDS
Identify the tactics used to wage the Cold War.
Arms
Race
Brinkmanship
COLD WAR
TACTICS
Eisenhower
Doctrine
Massive
Retaliation
Mutually
Assured
Destruction
Hydrogen
Bomb
Chapter 16.4 – THE COLD WAR AT HOME
List efforts taken to protect Americans from communism and how these policies affected rights.
ANTI-COMMUNIST POLICY
EFFECT ON RIGHTS
Federal Employee Loyalty Program
Smith Act
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
McCarthyism
About 3,000 federal employees lose jobs.
Unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the
United States Government.
Investigates possible communists; blacklisting of
entertainment figures suspected of having communist
ties.
Accusations caused people to lose their jobs and
destroyed their reputations.
Alger HISS
▪ Accused of stealing
government
documents.
▪ Tried for perjury
▪ Found guilty and
sentenced to five
years in prison.
Rosenbergs
▪ Spy trials that
illustrated the threat
to the nation posed
by communist
agents
▪ Accused of passing
on atomic secrets.
▪ Found guilty and
sentenced to death