1. Cold War in Europe- US provides aid to help rebuild Europe after WWI and prevent the spread of Communism *US is no longer isolated
I can explain the expanding international role of the United States by identifying several events where the United States took an active role in providing aid in Europe, as well as, defining and explaining the impact of United States involvement.
Focus Topics
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
NATO
United Nations

2. Agenda 4/28/17
Unit 8: Warm up #2
Lecture #2 Origins of the Cold War
Document Analysis
Discussion Questions
Exit Slip #

3. Warm Up # 2: The Iron curtain speech 3:10 https://www. youtube
What was the purpose of the Iron Wall speech?
What did the Iron wall symbolize?
How did political cartoons contribute to the Cold War?
Sentence Starters:
The purpose of the Iron Wall speech was to_____
The Iron wall symbolized
The political cartoons contributed to the Cold War by

4. Lecture # 2 Origins of the Cold War
FLT:
I will be able to analyze the origins of the Cold War in answering the central question: Who started the Cold War?

5. Identify the key ideas between Communism/ Soviet Union/USSR (Russia) and Capitalism/Democracy/ USA
What is the key reason the U.S. supports Capitalism?
Communism
Why does the U.S. not like Communsism?

6. The Iron Curtain
Europe divided: mostly democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe
Iron curtain wasn’t a real wall, but a symbolic wall between democracy and communism

7. Marshall Plan- US aid/$ to help Europe rebuild and prevent spread of Communism into Western Europe
*idea- Europe would spend the money on US products, European countries buying US products will not want to be Communist
?Why would they buy US products? Why not German, Japanese, or Chinese?
Explain how the treatment of Germany after WWII is different than WWI? Evaluate if this new solution is better.
* avoids mistake of WWI making Germany pay reparations and punishing Germany (instead US helps rebuild Germany, our enemy in WWII)

8. Truman Doctrine- stated US will help any country threatened by Communism
Turkey and Greece- Soviets tried to take over but US aid prevented Communist takeover
Predict what problems might arise with continued enforcement of the Truman Doctrine?

9. NATO- military alliance of 12 European countries, Canada, and US
*US pledges to protect Western Europe from Russia
Soviet Response
*Warsaw Pact- Soviet Alliance with Eastern European Countries
Atomic Bomb- Russia explodes their own in 1949
How has the Cold War changed? What would a war b/t US and Russia look like? What should be the US response?
*US develops Hydrogen Bomb (20xs bigger than Atomic Bomb)

10. WWII: The Aftermath video

11. Who started the Cold War?
Who was primarily responsible for the Cold War – US or USSR? Over the past decades, historians have disagreed over this question. Today, we are going to look closely at some Cold War primary documents in order to address the question for ourselves.

12. Central Historical Question
Who started the Cold War?

13. Who started the Cold War?
Read and annotate the CW primary documents to help you complete the guiding questions, as well as answer the central question.
Document A: The Iron Curtain Speech
Document B: The Truman Doctrine
Document C: Soviet Ambassador Telegram
Document D: Henry Wallace letter

14. Class discussion
Who was primarily responsible for the start of the Cold War? What evidence do you have to support your claim?
Which of these documents do you believe is most trustworthy? Why?
Did anyone’s hypothesis change? How and why?
What other evidence would you need to strengthen your claim?

15. Exit Slip #
Directions: write 3-5 sentences answering the following questions:
Who was primarily responsible for the start of the Cold War? What evidence do you have to support your claim?
Sentence starter:
In my opinion, _________ was/were primarily responsible for the start of the Cold War because_________.

16. United Nations Founded after WWII to protect the sovereignty (independence) of countries and human rights
Made up member nations from around the world who each have a voice (General Assembly)
Security Council- 13 members, SC has the power to send troops from member countries to enforce UN decisions
5 permanent members- US, Great Britain, France, Russia, China (each member has veto power meaning one of the permanent members can stop any UN action with their vote)
Analyze some problems that will make the UN ineffective in carrying out it’s goals