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The purpose of the

meetings at Yalta and Potsdam

Discuss the fate of post-

WWII Europe

Foreign Policy

Soviet goals at the Potsdam Conference

Establishing friendly

Communist states to

promote Soviet interests

Foreign Policy

What does the “Iron Curtain”

refer to? Growing Soviet domination of

Eastern Europe

Foreign Policy

What did the Marshall Plan do Offered US

economic aid to any country

to spread democracy

Foreign Policy

What was the Warsaw Pact founded in response to

NATO

Foreign Policy

U.S. response to the Berlin Blockade of

1948 Airlift food and supplies into

Berlin

Home Front

This congressional organization

was created to investigate Communist subversives

House Un-American Activities

Committee

Home Front

These two American

citizens were convicted of

giving nuclear secrets to the

Soviets

Ethel and Julius

Rosenberg

Home Front

Effects of the GI Bill of

RightsHelped

millions of veterans

attend college and get job

training

Home Front

Describe the tactic of

“McCarthyism” used by Senator Joseph

McCarthy

Used fear to publically

accuse Americans of Communist activities

without any real evidence

Home Front

The role of women in

society in the 1950s

Pushed back into lower

paying jobs or back into the home to raise

children

Home Front

Similarities between Red Scare after

WWI and Cold War after

WWII

Fear of Communism

leads to repression of civil liberties

Cold War Culture and Poverty

Describe the “baby boom” Great increase

in birth rate that results

from the end of World War II

Cold War Culture and Poverty

What is Levittown

First planned suburban

community

Cold War Culture and Poverty

Attempt by Congress to

limit the power of labor

unions Taft-Hartley Act

Cold War Culture and Poverty

What is Planned

Obsolescence Make goods/technology seem out of date so people buy more stuff

Cold War Culture and Poverty

These people rejected all

forms of convention

(jobs, hygiene, religion) Beatniks, Beat

Movement

Cold War Culture and Poverty

Describe the changes in the U.S. economy

post-WWII

Moves away from

manufacturing/ production, and towards

technology and service

Cold War Turns Hot

The United States got

involved in the Korean War because of

this Cold War strategy Containment

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The outcome of the Korean

WarNorth and

South Korea remained

divided into two countries

Cold War Turns HotStrategy to be prepared to go

to war, even be on the edge

of war, without

actually going to war

Brinkmanship

Cold War Turns HotHow did

Hydrogen Bomb help lead to the

idea of Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD)?

Bigger nuclear weapons

means world will now be destroyed in nuclear war

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CIA-led coup in this country

kicked out this leader to support the United Fruit

Company

Guatemala, Arbenz

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What regions are in the

First, Second, and Third Worlds?

First = U.S and allies

Second – USSR and allies

Third: neutral developing

nations