a Explain the origin and meaning of the term Iron Curtain b Explain how the United States sought to stop the spread of communism through the Berlin airlift the Korean War and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ID: 710492
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The Cold War1945-1989
SS5H7 The student will discuss the origins and consequences of the Cold War.
a. Explain the origin and meaning of the term “Iron Curtain.”
b. Explain how the United States sought to stop the spread of communism through the Berlin airlift, the Korean War, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
c. Identify Joseph McCarthy and Nikita Khrushchev. Slide2
Iron Curtain
: A symbol of the differences between communist and noncommunist countries.
Soviet Union set up communist governments in much of Eastern Europe.
Western Europe stayed democratic.Slide3
Berlin Airlift
In June 1948, the Soviets blocked off all the roads and railroads that led to West Berlin in hopes that the Allies would leave the city.
To break the blockade US leaders along with the British flew food and supplies into the city.
Berlin Wall
Built
in 1961-Divided communist Eastern Berlin from noncommunist Western BerlinSlide4
Korean War : 1950-1953
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html
South Korea:
Republic supported by the United Nations
North Korea
: Communist supported by the Soviet Union
After 3 years of fighting the two sides agreed to stop fighting. North & South Korea remain divided.Slide5
North American Treaty Organization
Founded: April
4,
1949The original countries included the United States, Canada, France, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg), Portugal, and Iceland. After a few years, Greece, Turkey, and West Germany joined. In 1954, the Soviet Union tried to join. The other members rejected their request.
Today
there are
28 members in
NATO.The intent behind NATO was a military arrangement for mutual protection between various countries, both in Europe and North America. http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-6C27C666-B3538030/natolive/what_is_nato.htmSlide6
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism growing in Eastern Europe and China.
1950 Red Scare
McCarthy made a public accusation that more than two hundred “card-carrying” communists had infiltrated the United States government.
Though
eventually his accusations were proven to be untrue, and he was censured by the Senate for unbecoming
conduct.
One of the most shameful moments in modern U.S. History.
McCarthyism: the paranoid hunt for communist infiltrators based on slander, accusition
, and innuendo.Slide7
Nikita Khrushchev
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1953-1964
Believed communism would triumph over capitalism.
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Ousted from his position in 1964