1945 – 1960

A World At War

SUBMITTED BY: KEN CHRISTIAN SARCAUGA III- JADE

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

Improve your knowledgeYalta was the the penultimate of the

wartime allied conferences. It dealt mainly with the settlement of post-war Europe.

Allegedly FD Roosevelt was too ill to withstand Stalin’s demands, and his successor, Harry S Truman, took a tougher line. By by the time of the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, the West had the bomb and were anxious to restrict Russia.

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POTSDAM (Germany)POTSDAM (Germany)Date: July 1945Date: July 1945

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Improve your knowledgeThe Russians took very high casualties to

capture Berlin in May 1945. They spent the early occupation trying to take over all zones of the city but were stopped by German democrats such as Willy Brandt and Konrad Adenauer. Reluctantly the Russians had to admit the Americans, French and British to their respective zones.

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communistcommunistlands of East lands of East Europe from Europe from

the the West. West.

Improve your knowledgeThe nuclear bomb gave America a lead

which was expected to last at least 5 years. The rapid Russian development of nuclear technology, helped by the work of the “atom spies” was a shock.

Significantly, Russia hurriedly declared war against Japan at the beginning of August 1945 and rushed to advance into Asia to stake out a position for the post-war settlement. This helped make both the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts more likely.

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Truman had been horrified at the pre-war Allied policy of appeasement and was determined to stand upto any Soviet intimidation.

The Truman Doctrine in March 1947 promised that the USA “would support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures”. Triggered by British inability to hold the line in Greece, it was followed by aid to Greece and Turkey, and also money to secure upcoming elections in Italy and the advance of Communist trade unions in France.

It signalled the end of “isolationst” policies.

Improve your knowledgeThe Marshall Plan reflected the strength of the

US economy and offered huge sums to enable the war shattered economies of Europe to rebuild and, by generating prosperity, to reject the appeal of Communism, Czechoslovakia showed interest in receiving Marshall Aid but was blocked by Russia.

The Soviet system was as much dependent upon creating a self-contained economic bloc as it was in maintaining a repressive political system.

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West Berlin, as an outpost of Western democracy and economic success deep within the Communist zone, was both a nest of spies for both sides and a constant challenge to the Soviets.

The Berlin Blockade was an attempt to starve the city into submission and the Allied airlift signalled the West’s determination to use all resources to defend Berlin.

Thereafter, it was accepted by both sides that Berlin would act as the trigger for general war. Any Russian invasion would be followed by conflict with the considerable Allied forces camped permanently on the plain of West Germany. Both sides finding Europe too dangerous a site for confrontation, looked elsewhere to compete.

Improve your knowledgeThe “Red Scare”, launched by Senator

Joe McCarthy, dominated US politics for several years 1948-53 and helped pressure Truman into the Korean War, a costly and ultimately stalemated conflict. Given the suddeness of the fall of China, the development of the Soviet bomb, and the shocking performance of the Western secret services, the level of panic is understandable.

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Truman restricted his ant-Soviet policy to one of “containment”, resisting the advance of Communism into South Korea. After some hesitation he resisted his Commander, Gen Douglas MacArthur’s attempt to “roll-back” Communism by invading North Korea and China.

MacArthur was dismissed but Truman’s successors continued to be drawn into conflicts of containment for the rest of the cold war. The beginning of the Korean War also highlighted the failings of the United Nations.

Up to 1950, Russia and America had respectively blocked each other’s iniatives by using their veto powers in the Security Council. Because the Russian delegates were boycotting the UN in 1950, Truman was able to condemn the Communist invasion of S Korea and to set up a counter-attack under the banner of the UN. In contrast to the pre-War League of Nations, at least this ensured that the UN would, in future, be able to deploy force in international disputes.

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