United Nations

• Definition

• Soviet Union vs. U.S.

• Security Council

–Big Five

Russia Expanding

• Poland

• Baltic Republics

• “friendly states”

• Churchill

–Fulton Missouri

–Iron Curtain

Beware of Russia

• George F. Kennan

• Dean Acheson

–Containment

European Recovery Program• Marshall, Czech. Revolution, $12 billion

“Had Enough” – 80th Congress• Undo New Deal

• Taft-Hartley Act

• 22nd Amendment

• Pres. Succession Act

Truman vs. Congress• “Fair Deal”

• Committee on Civil Rights 1946

• Desegregation of Armed Forces1948

“Do-Nothing” Congress• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• National Security Act

• National Security Council

–CIA

Potsdam Conference• Stalin, Truman,

and Churchill

• Germany – zones

• Nuremberg Trials

Germany• Western Zone

Single Unit

• Eur. Recovery Act

• Berlin Blockade

NATO

• Creation, April 4, 1949• Article 5• Gen. Eisenhower

–Commander of the NATO forces