The Cold War

Causes

• Suspicion/distrust
• Events in Eastern Europe
• Different agendas

Issues

• __4th Place__Atomic Bomb (Alex/Igor, 5)
• Partition of Germany and Korea (Allison/Ellen, 6)

Events

• Containment
  • Truman Doctrine (Katie/Brent, 6)
  • Marshall Plan (Sarah/Kiley, 7)
  • Organization of American States
  • __3rd Place__NSC 68 (Brian/Miles, 7)
  • __1st Place__Berlin Airlift (Joel/Nate, 5)
  • Creation of NATO (Amanda/Amanda, 5)
  • Korean War (Mike/Marshall, 6)
• China becomes Communist (Cie/Karen, 7)
• Hydrogen Bomb (Chris/Morgan, 5)

Domestic Events

• Taft-Hartley Act (Katie/Valerie, 6)
• Anti-Communist Hysteria
  • HUAC
  • Hiss Case
  • Hollywood 10/ Blacklisting (Colin/Jeff, 6)
• __4th Place__McCarthyism (Tyler/Matt, 5)
  • Accusations
  • Senate Hearings
  • Army- McCarthy

People

• Harry Truman (Sam/Blake, 5)
• __2nd Place__Joseph Stalin (Carly/Nicole, 5)
• Winston Churchill (Kenzie/Lauren, 6)
• Dean Acheson
• Bernard Baruch
• Douglas MacArthur (Ava/Gaby, 6)
• George Kennan
• George Marshall (Liz/Christina, 7)
• Mao Zedong (Alex/Landon, 6)
• Jiang Jieshi (Michael/Tony, 5)
• Richard Nixon (Kyle/Meredith, 7)
• Alger Hiss (Krista/Patrick, 6)
• Whitaker Chambers
• Arthur Miller (Emma/Lisa/Taylor, 6)
• J. Robert Oppenheimer (Spencer/Trevor, 5)
• Joseph McCarthy
• Edward Teller
• Andrei Sakharov (Daniel/Brandon, 7)
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (Steffi/Lauren, 5)
• Dwight Eisenhower (Kara/Ryann, 7)

Cold War Links

• IBiblio
• CNN- Cold War
• Wikipedia- Cold War
• The Cold War Museum
• Cold War International History Project
• BBC-History-Cold War
• Spartacus Schoolnet Cold War
• Thinkquest- The Cold War
• Truman and the Cold War

Sources

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