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1. NVC

2. HOT ROC: 10th Grade

3. Intro to the Cold War: Rising Tensions

Essential Question: What tensions led to the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union?

HOT ROC: 10th Grade

What do you remember about the Cold War from 10th grade history?

Europe Post-WWII

• Yalta Conference (Feb 1945): US, USSR, and Britain meet to discuss post-war Europe– Agree to divide Germany– European countries to have

free democratic elections

• Potsdam Conference (July 1945)– Reaffirm division of Germany– Not sure anymore about

democratic elections…

Tensions Rise• Soviet Army remains in

Eastern Europe– Refuse to allow democratic

elections

• Set up Soviet-controlled Communist governments all over Eastern Europe– Iron Curtain: physical and

ideological barrier between Eastern and Western Europe

• Truman Doctrine (1947): US vows to stop spread of Communism– Known as Containment

Why So Tense?

• U.S. and U.S.S.R only remaining superpowers

• Different political and economic systems– US = Capitalist and

Democratic– USSR = Communist and

Totalitarian

• US and USSR had very different experiences in WWII

The Cost of WarUSSR USA

Lives lost ~20 million citizens

~290,000 soldiers

Land Damage Nazis destroyed every major city & much of countryside

Pearl Harbor was bombed

Economic Situation

Broke and need to rebuild whole country

Profited from war

The Cost of War

A World Divided

• Divided Economic Plans– Marshall Plan (1947):

provide economic aid to any European country that wants it• Soviets stop any Eastern

Euro nation from joining

– Molotov Plan (1949): Soviet response to Marshall Plan, not successful

A World Divided• Divided Alliances– North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 1949:

U.S., Canada, and Western Europe– Warsaw Pact 1955: Soviet Union, Central and

Eastern Europe

Exit Ticket

What tensions led to the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union?