Chapter 12 - Post War Prosperity (11/06)

The Cold War

The Grand Alliance

• Goals for each country

• Roosevelt (U.S.)

  • Total defeat of the Axis

  • Establishment of world order

• Churchill (Britain)

  • Balance of power in Europe

  • Retain imperial possessions

• Stalin (Soviet Union)

  • Sphere of influence in eastern Europe

  • Permanently weakened Germany

• Partitions

  • Germany/ Korea/ Vietnam

The United Nations

• United Nations (UN)

• Security Council

  • Five permanent members

  • USA, Soviet Union (Russia), China, Britain,

After the War

• Germany

  • Nuremberg Trials

  • De-nazification

  • Partition

  • Berlin

The Cold War

• Containment

  • George F. Kennan

  • “Mr. X” article in Foreign Affairs

• Truman Doctrine

  • Helping countries who need help to stop communism

  • Greece and Turkey

• Marshall Plan - 1947

• OAS formed

• Government Reorganization

  • National Security Act of 1947

    • Creates Dept of Defense (DoD)

  • National Security Council

  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

    • After Pearl Harbor to prevent surprise attacks

  • NSC 68

  • Atomic Energy Commission created

  • Voices of America

• Berlin Blockade

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - Created 1949

  • Warsaw Pact in response

• Soviets detonate atomic bomb - 1949

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