1. Bell Ringer
How do you think problems emerge between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War 2?

2. Vocabulary Postwar America
Agenda
Objectives
Trace the reasons why the alliance between the Soviet Union and United States unraveled.
Explain how President Truman responded to Soviet Aggression in Europe.
Vocabulary
Postwar America

3. Postwar America Vocabulary
Satellite States: Territories controlled by the Soviet
Union – Eastern European Countries
Cold War: World wide rivalry between the U.S and Soviet Union.
Iron Curtain: Phrase made my Winston Churchill to describe the
division descending across Europe.
Truman Doctrine President Truman's promise to aid nations struggling against communism.

4. Postwar America Vocabulary
George F. Kennan: A writer who published an article that presented a blueprint for “containment”
Containment Keep communism contained within its existing borders.
Marshall Plan: Plan to help Western Europe Financially.
Berlin Airlift Supply of goods to West Berlin through a massive airlift

5. Postwar America Vocabulary
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Military alliance to counter Soviet Expansion
Warsaw Pact Alliance between the Soviet and it’s satellite states.

6. Communist Party made all economic, political, and military decisions.
Background of the war
United States: Capitalist Democracy
Free elections
Free economics
Religious Freedom
Private Freedom
Respect individual differences
Soviet Union: Communist
Communist Party made all economic, political, and military decisions.
No freedom of Religion
Could not own property

7. Soviet Control Eastern Europe
Satellite States – Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union
- Poland
- Romania
- Czechoslovakia
- Bulgaria
- East Germany
Stalin agreed to allow free elections in Eastern Europe and divide Germany only temporarily
How to split up Europe???
Despite this agreement nearly all of the lands occupied by the Soviet Union remained in their control.
Stalin
Keep Germany weak
Eastern Europe should remain under control of Soviet Union
United States and Great Britain
Make Germany united and stronger
Make countries independent in Europe

8. Wartime Alliance Unravels
Truman : New President after Roosevelt
Believed that the Soviet Union was “planning world conquest”
Their alliance was falling apart
Cold War- 46 year old struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States. The two superpowers never faced each other directly in a “hot” military conflict

9. With a partner ……
How did the goals of the U.S and Soviet Union foreign policy differ after World War 2?

10. Responding to the Soviet Challenge
Fears….
Soviets were attempting to spread communism
Solution….
- U.S and other democratic countries need to stand firm
Responding to the Soviet Challenge
Winston Churchill – leader of Great Britain
* Spoke out forcefully against the Soviet Union
* Speech at Fulton College in Missouri
- “an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent.”

11. Truman faces Aggression
Truman shared Churchill’s beliefs
European Countries – struggling against communism
Greece and Turkey
United States – the only country with resource to help them.
Truman – requests money from Congress
Warns that isolationism would lead to danger
Congress votes- $400 million in aid for Greece and Turkey
Know as the Truman Doctrine – Truman's promise to aid nations struggling against communism

12. The united states contains soviet expansion
Foreign Affairs Magazine
- George Kennan (“X”)
- Article as a blueprint for the
American policy known as
“containment.”

13. The Marshall Plan George Marshall – Secretary of State
Provided food
Fuel to heat houses
Money to jump-start economic growth.
George Marshall – Secretary of State
* Containment Success
- Western Europe people suffering from food shortages & harsh weather
* Marshall Plan- Recovery plan for Europe
* Over the next 4 years, the U.S loans
$13 billion to nations