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The Beginnings of the Cold War

“Big Three” Conferences

Teheran, November-December 1943 Yalta, February 1945Potsdam, July-August 1945

Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri,

March 5, 1946

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.…”

Harry S. Truman

The Truman Doctrine, 1947

“Containment”

China falls to Communism, summer 1949

Mao Zedong Chiang Kai-shek

“People’s Republic” of China

Republic of China

Josef Stalin

Berlin Blockade and Airlift, June 21, 1948-May 11, 1949

The Berlin Airlift

The Hiss-Chambers Case,August 1948-January 1950

Alger Hiss Whitaker Chambers

Richard Nixon

Election of 1948

The Soviets successfully test an atomic bomb, August 29, 1949.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

• Convicted of giving U.S. atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union, March 29, 1951.

• Executed by electrocution, Sing Sing Prison, June 19, 1953.

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy

The Venona Intercepts

So, how many Soviet spies were in the U.S.

government at that time?

At least 349

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The McCarthy Controversy

The Rosenberg Case

The Korean War

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Berlin Blockade

The Korean War

The Korean War

• January 12, 1950—U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson stated that America’s defense perimeter in the Pacific did not include Korea.

The Korean War

Dean Acheson

The Korean War

• January 12, 1950—U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson stated that America’s defense perimeter in the Pacific did not include Korea.

• March-April 1950—North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung visited Moscow.

• June 25, 1950—North Korea attacked South Korea.

The Korean War

The Korean War

Inchon

The Korean War

The Korean War

The Korean War

Communist Atrocities