After the Test Complete p 250 251 MAP

After the Test Complete p. 250 -251 (MAP activity in manual).

Take out HW • Take out p. 250 -251 MAP activity in manual. – Assigned Tuesday • (after our Unit 7 Test)

Important terms to know Unit 8 : The Cold War and Modern Middle East 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Iron Curtain Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Containment Berlin Airlift and Blockade NATO Warsaw Pact Korean War Hydrogen bomb Deterrence Khmer Rouge Arms race Sputnik Bay of Pigs 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Cuban Missile Crisis Non-Aligned Nations Gamal Abdul Nasser Détente Vietnam War Domino Theory Reagan/Gorbachev Glasnost Perestroika 1979 Iranian Revolution OPEC Persian Gulf War Saddam Hussein Taliban Osama bin Laden Al Qaeda

Cold War Begins

Cold War Graphic Organizer • P. 259 – Fill in boxes on p. 259 using the following notes • These are your notes • Write clearly (in bullet points) – View Discovery Education clips on all topics • Shown in class

Berlin & Europe • Germany and Berlin divided into 4 sectors post WWII (see slides) • “Iron curtain”: 1946, Churchill describes the polarization of Cold War and says an iron curtain has fallen • Truman Doctrine (1947) – US promised to give money to any state threatened by communism – President of US: Harry Truman ( 1945 -1952) • Marshall Plan (1947) – US give economic aid to Europe, avoid economic chaos like post WWI • 1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) formed • Berlin Blockade – 1948 -49, no supplies in/out of Berlin • Berlin Air Lift: • US/GB/Fr. Flew in supplies, USSR backed down • Satellite countries – – countries between Germany and USSR • Berlin Wall, 1961 – built to stop people from leaving communist countries through East-West Berlin – many still tried to escape most caught and killed – became symbol of division between US/USSR

Divided Germany, Divided Berlin

Berlin Airlift

Berlin Wall

Iron Curtain

Marshall Plan

US policy towards Communism • Policy of CONTAINMENT – to keep communism within borders already set and not let it spread Domino Theoryif one country falls to communism, it will push all the other countries into communism.

Satellite Countries

The Cold War Continues

Cuba • USSR and US caught in arms race – countries building up army and weapons – 1949, USSR exploded atomic bomb – USSR created COMECON 1949 to combat the Marshall Plan – Stalin leader until ‘ 53

Arms Race

Cuba • US President: Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 -1960 – hardliner, anti-Communist • 1959 - Fidel Castro – led communist uprising in Cuba, overthrew dictator, drew close to USSR and communism

Cuba • Bay of Pigs Invasion – 1960, US trained 1, 500 anti-Communist Cuban forces to retake Cuba and start a rebellion against Castro – Failed mission, humiliation for US • Cuban Missile Crisis – “we were eyeball to eyeball and the other guy just blinked” – Soviets put missiles in Cuba to counter US missiles in Turkey • Missiles within range of hitting Washington, DC. – USSR eventually backed down • Both removed weapons • MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction – US/ USSR acknowledge both have capabilities of destroying their enemy along with their own people – Keeps them from nuclear war – Keeps Cold War “cold”

Cuban Missile Crisis US leader: President John F. Kennedy USSR leader: Premier Nikita Khrushchev

Cold War 1. 9 DBQs – p. 252 -257 2. Write a well planned two paragraph essay answering the question on PART B, p. 257. If you need help with the introductory sentence, start by restating the question. “The Cold War began as a result of”…