The Cold War

Soviet Control of Eastern Russia

• Alliance between US, Great Britain and the Soviet Union unraveled

• Soviets occupied most of Eastern Europe

• Rise in Communism

• Hungary, Poland- Satellite Nations

• Stalin ordered purges and relocated whole factories

The Iron Curtain

• Soviet Union crushed all opposition in the nations of Eastern Europe after 1945

• A new threat

• Truman’s “get tough” policy

The Strength of Communism

• Soviet troops were the most powerful in Europe

• Soviets created a buffer zone on its western border

Communism’s Promises

• Promised to abolish poverty, privilege, and private property

• Guaranteed productive work, shelter, education, health care, and a classless society

• Forces of progression and oppression

• Guerilla forces started up in poverty stricken countries

What’s Their Sign?

Containment

• Truman’s policy of containment

• Cold War began, state of war that did not involve actual bloodshed

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine– The United States provide military and

economic aid to Greece and Turkey

• Marshall Plan– Recovery plan for European nations– American aid in the form of money, supplies

and machinery would help end hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.

The Berlin Airlift

• Germany was divided between the US, GB, and the Soviet Union

• The Soviet Union closed of West Germany to Berlin

• Massive airlift of supplies; carried food, medicine, clothing, raw materials and coal

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Formation of Alliances, April 1949 (US, GB, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, and Portugal; Greece, Turkey, and West Germany joined later.)

• Collective Security– Attack on one is considered an attack on all

The East Side

• Soviets explode their first atomic bomb in September of 1949

• A new arms race was on!!!

• The US and Soviet Union along with Great Britain, France, and China soon all had nuclear capability.