Cold War Intro, Map, Docs

Origins of the Cold War• Ideological Differences• Communism vs. Capitalism• Totalitarian vs. Democracy• WWII• 2nd Front – Sov Union felt “owed”• Potsdam – Stalin broke promise• A- Bomb - 1949• Destruction of Europe• Power Vacuum• End of Colonial Empires

Cold War Characteristics

• Indirect warfare of 2 Superpowers• Worldwide Alliance Systems

• Lasts 45 years • 1945-1991

• Tactics• Eco. Pressure• Propaganda• Subversion• Nuclear Intimidation

Winston Churchill

“IRON CURTAIN”

One fundamental US assumption: USSR seeks to expand and therefore poses a threat to the US.

Truman DoctrineAid to Greece &

Turkey / US Global Policeman

Marshall PlanRebuilding GermanyEco. Aid/ Military Presence

Telegram by Kennan “X”Containment

Alliance System

Warsaw Pact (1955)- Military alliance of the Eastern European Soviet Bloc. Organized against

the perceived threat from NATO.

NATO (1949 )- If the Soviet Union attacked any European allies, it would be an attack on the US itself. First US peacetime military alliance

Cold War Origins Recap

Truman Doctrine- 1947 Marshall Plan- 1947NATO Formed- 1949 Warsaw Pact- 1955

Intro Cold War Map Activity

• Directions:• Shade your Map: • NATO countries• Warsaw Pact countries

• Locate Berlin• Answer the questions and

consider the following:• What did the Western

Powers and the USSR do with Germany after the War? Why? • What is the significance of

the position of Berlin?

BERLIN

Berlin Blockade

BerlinDivision of Germany

The Arms Race

How did the Arms Race contribute to the Cold War?

1949

Russians

Explode

A-Bomb