World History Chapter 27 The Cold War and Postwar changes

Chapter Overview
Chapter Overview

The Cold War came to define international relations and, at times, domestic politics. Social change produced upheavals in Western societies. Countries in Eastern Europe became Soviet satellite states.

Cold War Crash Course

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Section 1 Development of the Cold War The rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States was the focus of the Cold War. The U.S. Marshall Plan tried to make communism less attractive by providing billions of dollars to help rebuild Western Europe. Germany became divided into two states, with a divided city of Berlin inside East Germany. In 1949 Communists took control in China, and the Soviet detonation of an atomic bomb launched a U.S.-Soviet arms race. Soviet and Western alliance systems spanned the globe. The Cuban missile crisis presented the frightening prospect of nuclear war. American policymakers perceived non-Communist South Vietnam as a domino that must not be permitted to fall to communism. Despite the eventual Communist victory, the domino theory proved to be unfounded.

Section 1: Read and take notes

Key terms to identify: 1. Truman Doctrine (p.901) 2. Marshall Plan (p. 902) 3. satellite states (p.902) 4. policy of containment (p. 901) 5. arms race (p. 903) 6. NATO (p. 904) 7. Warsaw Pact (p. 905) 8. domino theory (p. 907) 9. Cuban Missile Crisis (p. 905) 10. Berlin Wall (p. 905)

People & Places

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Harry Truman Germany Berlin Nikita Khruschev Fidel Castro USSR/Soviet Union

Essential Question:
Section 1: What differences between the Soviet Union and the United States lead to the conflict known as the Cold War?

Section 2 The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe After World War II, Stalins economic policies brought dramatic economic growth, but at a high cost. Most of the growth was in heavy industry. Consumer goods remained hard to find. Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, condemned Stalinist terror, increased the production of consumer goods, and loosened controls on writers, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Khrushchev's rash decisions, such as the plan to place missiles in Cuba, convinced colleagues to remove him from office in 1964. After World War II, Soviet forces had occupied all of Eastern Europe and part of the Balkans. The occupied states now became Soviet satellites. Yugoslavia was the exception and developed into an independent Communist state. In Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, attempts for reform threatened Soviet domination. In each case, the Soviet Union crushed

Section 2: Read and take notes

Key terms to identify: 1. de-stalinization (p. 911)

People and Places

1. Albania 2.Yugoslavia 3. Poland 4. Hungary 5. Czechoslovakia 6. Imre Nagu 7. Alexander Dubcek

Essential Question
How does totalitarian government differ from a democratic system?

Section 3 Western Europe and North America The 1950s and 1960s were periods of dramatic economic growth in Western Europe. France and West Germany both experienced rapid economic recoveries. In Great Britain, dire economic conditions forced Winston Churchill from power. The new Labour government set out to create a modern welfare state and began to dismantle the British Empire. The formation of the European Economic Community created a powerful new trading bloc. Canada emerged as an industrial economy. In the United States, the New Deal had brought a longterm increase in the power of the federal government. Prosperity and Cold War suspicions defined the United States in the 1950s. Civil rights and the expansion of the New Deal were defining issues of the 1960s. Students protested U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Simultaneously, a variety of issues sparked student revolts in Europe. Women began to fight against

Section 3: Read and take notes

Key terms to identify: 1. welfare state (p. 916) 2. bloc (p. 917) 3. civil rights movement (p. 918) 4. consumer society (p. 920) 5. women's liberation movement (p. 921)

People and Places

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. France Charles de Galle West Germany John F. Kennedy Martin Luther King Jr.

Essential Question
Why did World War II leave society open to change?

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