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Origins of the Cold War
| Crew unloads tons of flour during Berlin airlift | |||
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| Crew unloads tons of flour during Berlin airlift.. IRC. 2005. Discovery Education. 8 February 2010. <http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/> |
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| A crew in Berlin unloads 25 tons of flour from one of the first flights bringing food and other necessities to Berlin. Only recently scorned as the hated German enemy, West Berliners became heroes during the Berlin Airlift, symbolizing the stoicism of the freedom-loving peoples of the world that containment and the Truman Doctrine were intended to benefit. |
The Cold War that began in the aftermath of World War II pitted Western democratic nations against the communist Soviet Union in the East. The fragile alliance that held the two opposing groups together during World War II dissolved quickly with Stalin's refusal to hold free elections. Western allies then aligned together against the superpower to stall Soviet advances through a policy of containment. This policy was tested immediately in fragile European nations and then highlighted later through the Berlin Airlift. Eventually the alliance became permanent with the formation of NATO, as did the tension between the East and the West.
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Read all four segments in the presentation below. As you read, answer the questions listed on 11.03 Cold War Begins. Once finished, submit the work to the 11.03 Cold War Begins Dropbox. |
| Map of Germany in 1949 | |||
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| Map of Germany in 1949. Image courtesy of Wikimedia user WikiNight. Creative Commons Atribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. |
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| West Germany (Blue), East Germany (Red), Berlin (green) (Click here for a larger version) |
| The Iron Curtain | |||
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| The Iron Curtain. Image courtesty of Wikimedia user Vernes Seferovic. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic. |
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| Churchill's "iron curtain" speech referred to the stark division between democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe. It was as if an "iron curtain" had dropped between the regions dividing them. The picture reflects the communist countries in red and the democratic countries in blue. (Click here for a larger version) |
| The Marshall Plan | |||
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| The Marshall Plan. Image courtesty of Wikimedia user Al Silonov. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. |
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| Map of Cold-War era Europe showing countries that received Marshall Plan aid. The red columns show the relative amount of total aid per nation. (Click here for a larger version) |
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