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Name _______________________ Date _________ Per _______ Cold War Introduction Notes

(1) What was the Cold War? 

Cold War: After WW2, the Cold War was a time of extreme paranoia between

 _______________, although _________ was never officially declared.

(2) Why was everyone so paranoid? 

United States 

-  Feared ________________ expansion throughout the world and the

 ______________________, as one country fell to communism it would

inspire others to fall to communism

-  Feared the _________________________________________

-  Americans saw the Soviet Union as a threat to their  _______________ 

-  From the propaganda, how did Americans think that communists would

change their way of life?

 ________________________________________________________

 ________________________________________________________

 ________________________________________________________

USSR

-Feared US power and influence, especially with the development of the atomic

weapons

-Saw American culture as a threat to their way of life

-Started to take over other countries so they could

-Have a _______ from future attacks

-Access to _______________ and chance to modernize- Spread ______________ and what they see as economic equality

-From the propaganda, why did people in the USSR view the US as a threat to their

way of life?

 ______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

 ____________________________________________________________________

(3) How do these tensions immediately start forming after WW2? 

Yalta Conference: _____________, ______________, and _________________ decide how to create aplan for peace after WWII.

But they have very differentpost war goals: 

-  US wants to spread ___________&_______________ to create strong trading partners

-  Russia wants __________ as a reward for winning the war. They felt they had suffered more

in the war - sacrificing 25 million and major cities and had continued fighting against Japan

even when Germany surrendered.

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(4) What were the 2 HUGE IMPACTS of the Yalta Conference? 

(A) Land changes. (a)  Germany- 

(b)  USSR takes possession of ______________, as long as it promises free elections.

(B)  _____________ is f ormed which is  ________ and  ___________. (a) US,USSR joined 48 other founding countries

(b) Each country gets to vote

(c) Security Council is created

- 11 member Security Council has the right to veto any bad decision that received majority vote

-5 permanent members: Britain, China, France, US, Soviet Union

- 10 elected members are chosen every two years

-Allows UN to quickly respond to military aggression and rewards responsible members with prestige

Task: Compare and Contrast the Yalta Conference with the Treaty of Versailles. Consider.

(1)  How is the UN stronger and more effective than the League of Nations?

(2)  How were the goals of both meetings the same? How were they different?

(3)  Who was creating the treaties and when?

(5) After the Yalta Conference, how did the two countries try to prevent the other one f rom gaining too much 

power?

-  Soviets build an __________________ discouraging trading, communication, and the spread of 

democracy between Eastern Europe and Western Europe

-  US forms a policy called _______________________ where attempts were made at blocking Soviet

influence and expansion of communism by forming alliances and helping weak countries resist Soviet

advances.

*BOTH are interfering with the politics of other countries. They are using them as chess pieces to win the war.* 

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Name ________________________ Date __________ Per ____________ Cold War ThermometerHW 

How hot did the Cold War get?Were we close to nuclear war or was it all hype?

(1)  Create a Cold War Thermometer by identifying actions taken by the United States and the USSR to fight

for power and influence. Placing events near the top of the thermometer means nuclear war a very realpossibility; placing events near the bottom means they did not dramatically increase tension.

(2)  Skim through your textbook p. 534-553 to write 2-3 sentences summarizing the following events and

 justifying where you placed them on the NUCLEAR WAR THERMOMETER.

(3)  Identify Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Warsaw Pact, brinkmanship, Korean War, Vietnam War

Cuban Missile Crisis. 

Example:The SpaceRace was when the United States and the USSR

started dramatically investing in science so that they could create new

impressive technology that would escape the Earths atmosphere. By

building the first satellite, being the first man into space, and

eventually the first man to the moon, the US/USSR displayed their

power. This did not bring us close to nuclear as it was essentially a

peaceful way to earn bragging rights.