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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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4The Alger Hiss Case
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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