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Good Morning !!!!. NVC HOT ROC: 10 th Grade 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: 10 th Grade. What do you remember about the Cold War from 10 th grade history?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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?