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First set of PPT slides for U.S. III
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Cold War Agreements
• Yalta
• Potsdam
• Marshall Plan
• NATO
• Truman Doctrine
• Warsaw Pact
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
• What?
• Why?– Iron Curtain– Turkey & Greece
NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Early Issues of the Cold War
• Berlin Blockade/Airlift
• Czechoslovakia & Hungary
• China
• Korea
• We Got the Bombs/They Got the Bombs
• Espionage– U2 & Roosenbergs
Berlin
• June 24, 1948- May 11, 1949• Russia closed all roads surrounding berlin.• 30-40 days worth of food and energy• No Negotiations ever agreed upon.• U.S. response……Airlift.
• 10 Months of Airlift to keep 3 million fed.– U.S. Victory
Political Cartoons
Korean War
• North Korea –Communist Government• South Korea – Democratic Government• June 1950 North Korea attacks• U.N. Troops (Majority of Troops being U.S.
retalliate.– Push through N. Korea to China
• Attack into China or Resist?• 54000 Americans Perish and millions of Koreans.
• DMZ still exists
Cold War on the Homefront
• Duck and Cover• HUAC• McCarthyism• Roosenbergs• Civil Defense System• Rocky and Bullwinkle
Elections
• 1948– Harry S. Truman Thomas E. Dewey Strom Thurmond
• 1952– Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson (Nixon)
• 1956– Part Deux
RepublicansDemocrats
Civil Rights Begins to Bubble
• Brown V Board of Education (Topeka)– 1954 Integration of Schools
• Rosa Parks– 1955 (Colvin)– MLK & Bus Boycott
Little Rock 9