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Title: The Cold War


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The Cold War
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U.S. Focus After WWII
  • The War Against Communism
  • Policy of Containment
  • 1. Help the smaller countries resist
    Soviet/communist advances.
  • 2. Wanted to stop the spread of communism
  • Ex Sending money, arms, and generals to South
    Vietnam to fight against the Northern communists
    (Ho Chi Minh)

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President Truman
  • After WWII, Truman wanted to make sure a
    communist country never had the chance to cause
    as much damage as fascist Germany did in WWII.
  • He asked congress for economic aid to Turkey and
    Greece (whose governments were fighting communist
    rebels) to support his new Doctrine

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The Truman Doctrine
  • Dedicated to uplifting anticommunist regimes
    around the world.
  • Many US citizens did not want to US to continue
    fighting Communism around the world
  • Others did not want to interfere in other
    countries affairs
  • Congress, however, quickly approved 400 million
    worth of aid

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Communism and Poverty
  • After WWII not only was communism spreading
    throughout the world but poverty as well.
  • In Western Europe many of the cities were in
    shambles. There was a shortage of jobs as well as
    food.
  • Main Question
  • How can the U.S. help?

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The Marshall Plan
  • George Marshall was the U.S. Secretary of State
  • Wanted to help those in Western Europe who are
    living without shelter, jobs, and food.
  • Why?

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The Marshall Plan
  • An assistance program to help rebuild Western
    Europe.
  • Would provide food and machinery
  • 12.5 billion dollar program in 1948
  • Any country left in shambles that was not
    communist received aid from the U.S.

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1948-1955 Countries who received aid from the
Marshall Plan
  • Great Britain
  • France
  • Italy
  • West Germany
  • Holland
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Greece
  • Denmark
  • Norway
  • Turkey
  • Ireland
  • Sweden
  • Portugal
  • Yugoslavia
  • Iceland
  • A Few More

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Case Study of Containment The Korean War
  • Japan ruled Korea until WWII Korea was split
    into occupying zones (north Soviets south
    U.S.) like in Germany
  • North Korea occupied by Soviets, led by
    communist leader Kim Il Sung
  • South Korea occupied by U.S., led by democratic
    leader
  • U.S. and Soviets left in 1949
  • North invaded South in 1950 and U.S. offered
    South support sending military and money to
    fight the North Koreans

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The Korean War
  • U.S. General MacArthur led the attack into North
    Korea, pushing towards China
  • Communist China began aiding North Korea, in fear
    that the U.S. was getting too close
  • MacArthur defied Trumans orders to not get too
    close to the Chinese border and so he was removed
    as the general and the war ended in 1953 in a
    stalemate (no territory changed hands)

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What did we achieve?
  • Korea before the war
  • Korea after the war
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