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1945 – 1960A World At War
United States by population 2000 Census
United States by Land Area
How to split Germany
Roosevelt in Charge“I know you will not mind my being brutally
frank when I tell you that I can personally handle Stalin”FDR 1945
“Uncle Joe”
“Germany is finished the real problem is Russia, I can’t get the Americans to see it”Churchill 1945
At the Yalta Conference
Beginning Problems
Length of War 1945-1991
Yalta Conference
Video (We didn’t start the fire)
Beginning Problems
Creation of the United Nations
Truman takes control
Potsdam Conference
Soviet UnionSecurity Concerns
Satellite Nations
Iron Curtain
Countries InvolvedAlbania and Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary and Romania
East Germany
Finland and Yugoslavia
World Response
America Responds
Intensification
Marshall Plan
End Depression
Intensification
Berlin Airlift
Children
Operation Little Vittles
•Uncle Wiggly Wings
Gail Halvorsen
•250,000 miniature parachutes
Intensification
NATO
Collective Security
Warsaw Pact
Intensification
Fall of China
Life at Home
Bomb Shelters
Loyalty Programs
Iraqi Economy
Korea
The Forgotten War
Korea
The 38th Parallel
UN response
Korea
North Korea Advances
United Nations Counter- Attack
Chinese Counter- Attack
Korea
Furthest Advances•Home by Christmas
Korea
Fall of MacArthur
Korea
Effects
Military Industrial Complex
Spies
Hollywood Ten
The House Un-American Activities CommitteeHUAC
Spies
Alger Hiss
Rosenburgs
McCarthyism
List of 205
Secretary of State George Marshall
Fall of McCarthy
Army-McCarthy hearings
Remained in Senate
Cold War in 1950’s
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
Containment continues
Israel
Created state in 1948
Iran
Egypt
Latin America
Rio Pact
Organization of American States
Escalation?
Whole world involved
Arms Race
Deterrence
Brinkmanship
In the skies
ICBM’s
Sputnik
U-2 Incident