PPT-Unit 8 The Cold War Under Truman 1945-1953 EQ: How

Unit 8 The Cold War Under Truman 19451953 EQ How did the Cold War emerge after the end of WWII and how did it affect the US at home and abroad What was the Cold War USA VS USSR Causes of the cold war Nuclear weapon build up between. Do Nagasaki and Hiroshima constitute a crime against humanity?. Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) prohibits the unlawful killing of civilians during wartime.. Between 150,000-240,000 civilians died as a result of both bombs, another 2,000 died later in Hiroshima from cancers that could be directly traced to the radiation emitted by the blast.. Objective 4.5: . Consider the involvement of the USA in Vietnam from 1950 to . 1973. Warm-Up . : . Class Review—Truman . Doctrine. Read the following excerpt from the Truman Doctrine…. I believe that it must be policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures…I believe that we must assist peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way…The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms. . Harry S Truman. 33. rd. President of the United States. . Birth and Childhood. Born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. Born to John and Martha Truman. Grew up on his grandparents’ farm in Grandview. Chapter 15.1. Two Sides Face Off. Superpowers-US and USSR. NATO/Warsaw Pact. Iron Curtain-Winston Churchill describing the separation of Western and Eastern Europe. Berlin Wall. Eastern Europe resists USSR. Do Nagasaki and Hiroshima constitute a crime against humanity?. Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) prohibits the unlawful killing of civilians during wartime.. Between 150,000-240,000 civilians died as a result of both bombs, another 2,000 died later in Hiroshima from cancers that could be directly traced to the radiation emitted by the blast.. Although Germany and Berlin (the capital) had been divided between the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain and France after WWII, the divisions were not on complete opposite sides. . West Berlin (controlled by the US, Britain and France) was situated within East Germany (controlled by the Soviet Union). . Chapter 26 AMSCO. Themes. Containment. Communism. UN. Nuclear Proliferation. Introduction. WWII. Isolationist to military superpower, world affairs leader. Revitalized American Economy. Cold War. Democratic United States vs. Communist Soviet Union. 1945 - 1952. Truman as President . April 12, 1945. NOT FDR. No $$, no college, failed business. ‘34- Senator. Decisive, blunt, loyal, confident, self-assured. What’s the plan?. New Deal .  - New Dealers . Explain the point of view of the cartoon. Chapter 36: . The Cold War Begins. (the “grim struggle for world power between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. in the post World War II world”). How did the United States and the Soviet Union become Cold War adversaries?. Containment. Mutually Assured Destruction. Korean War, 1950-1953. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Afghanistan, 1979-1989. Mikhail Gorbachev. The Kitchen Debates, 1959. The First Phase, 1947-1953. George Kennan’s “Long Telegram” and the policy of containment. Enduring legacies of 1945. June 26, 1945 Truman speaks at the closing session of the UN Conference--San Francisco. July 2, 1945 Address before the Senate urging ratification July 2, 1945. July 28, 1945 Senate approves U.N. charter and it becomes effective on October 24, 1945. Postwar America. Strong economy. By 1950s, America had the highest standard of living. GI-Bill Opened door to veterans to attend college. Baby Boom: explosion of marriage/birth. By 1960 1/3 of married women worked outside of home. Nonetheless, the transition from wartime allies to enemies was not inevitable and was, in part, the result of the events and decisions of these years. Acting out of their perceived national interest, both the United States and the Soviet Union favoured the creation of two opposing blocs, competing for influence over a devastated European continent. By the end of 1947, the initial hopes that the Allies could continue to cooperate peacefully had been replaced by a vision of two political and social systems fundamentally at odds, and engaged in a struggle for global supremacy.. --US Businessman Bernard Baruch, 1947. The Start of the Cold War. As One War Ends…A New One Begins. By the end of 1945, with the Second World War over, tensions between the Allies (United States and the Soviet Union) were already apparent. The situation only grew more tense the follow year. In 1946, the following occurred:.