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Origins of the Cold War Sources of Soviet-American Tension America s Postwar Vision Spheres of Influence Satellite Nations Eastern Europe 2
Origins of the Cold War Wartime Diplomacy Dispute over Poland Casablanca Conference-1943 Unconditional Surrender Yalta Conference-Feb. 1945 Russo-Japanese War-1904-05 Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill on portico of Russian Embassy in Teheran, during conference -Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 1943 (Library of Congress) 3
Origins of the Cold War Yalta United Nations U.S. Membership Disagreements over Germany, Poland and War Reparations Berlin Blockade 1948-1949 4 Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Yalta, Feb. 1945. (CORBIS /
Harry Truman (Library of Congress) The Collapse of the Peace The Failure of Potsdam Truman s Get Tough Policy No Foreign Policy Experience Communist Poland The China Problem Chiang Kai-shek Mao Zedong People s Republic of China-1949 Restoring Japan Taiwan-Chang Kai Shek 5
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The Collapse of the Peace The Containment Doctrine Truman Doctrine-1947 Greece and Turkey $400 Million in Foreign Aid The Marshall Plan-1947 Rebuilding Europe Creating Strong European Markets U.S.S.R. Excluded 7 George F. Kennan
8 Divided Europe After World War II.
The Collapse of the Peace Mobilization at Home National Security Act of 1947 Created CIA, NSC, and DOD The Road to NATO NATO-1949 Unification of W. Germany-1948 Berlin Airlift(1948-49) Warsaw Pact-1955 Reevaluating Cold War Policy NSC-68 USSR Tests A-Bomb Communists Seize China 1949 9
American Society and Politics After the War The Problems of Reconversion GI Bill-1944 Postwar Labor Unrest Women Wanted to Work The Fair Deal Rejected Truman s Fair Deal 1946 Election Republican Victory in Congress Taft-Hartley Act-1947 Weakened Unions 10
American Society and Politics After the War The Election of 1948 Democratic Defections Strom Thurmond-Dixiecrats Truman s Surprising Victory The Fair Deal Revived Truman Stymied 11 Election of 1948
American Society and Politics After the War The Nuclear Age Conflicting Views of Nuclear Power Promise of Cheap Nuclear Power 12 Surviving Nuclear War (Federal Civil Defense Agency)
The Korean War(1950-53) The Divided Peninsula-38th Parallel Pro-Western Govt. of Syngman Rhee Communist Dictator Kim Il Sung Soviets End Occupation of N. Korea-1949 Invasion of S. Korea-June 1950 Liberation of N. Korea Capture of Pyongyang-1950 U.S. infantry troops fire heavy mortar shells at Communist strongholds in North Korea in 1950 13 Winter in Korea, 1950.
The Korean War From Invasion to Stalemate The 38th Parallel DMZ-Armistice Line Truman-MacArthur Controversy MacArthur Proposes Expanding War Use of Atomic Weapons Unleash Chang Kai-Shek-Taiwan Separation of Powers Commander-in-Chief MacArthur Relieved of Command-1951 Douglas MacArthur (CORBIS / Royalty-Free) 14
The Korean War Limited Mobilization Wartime Economic Regulation The Korean War, 1950-1953 15
The Crusade Against Subversion Sources of the Red Scare Loss of China-1949 HUAC and Alger Hiss Alger Hiss Movie Industry 16
The Crusade Against Subversion The Federal Loyalty Program and the Rosenberg Case The McCarran Internal Security Act-1950 Communist Must Register with Govt. Anticommunist Hysteria Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg-1951 McCarthyism- Pinkos McCarthyism s Appeal Attacked State Dept.
The Crusade Against Subversion The Republican Revival Gen. Dwight Eisenhower Richard Nixon-V.P. I Like Ike 1952 Election-End of Dem. Dominance Role of Television 18 Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Where Historians Disagree: Origins of the Cold War Winter in Korea, 1950 (NARA) 19
Where Historians Disagree: McCarthyism 20