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