1. Aim: How did the United States and the international community respond to Soviet expansion after World War II?
Textbook Assignment:
Read pages 822 – 827 in The Americans textbook and complete questions 2, 3, 4, and 5 on a separate sheet of paper and in complete sentences (Question #2 is a chart that should be filled in with details.)

2. The Cold War [1945-1991]: An Ideological Struggle
United States & the Western Democracies
Soviet Union & Eastern Bloc Nations [“Iron Curtain”]
Goal: Containment of communism and the eventual collapse of the Communist world.
Goal: Spread world-wide communism
Methodologies:
1. Espionage [KGB vs. CIA]
2. Arms Race [ Nuclear Escalation]
3. Space Race [Soviets Launch Sputnik - first satellite launched into space ]
4. Ideological Competition for the hearts and minds of Third World Nations
[Communist Government and Command Economy vs. Democratic Governments and Capitalism]
5. The Bi-Polarization of Europe [NATO vs. Warsaw Pact]

3. The Bipolarization of Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada.
Warsaw Pact – a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite nations.

4. Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a United States program, in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II and prevent them from falling under communism.
• : U.S. provided $9.4 Billion to rebuild after WWII
•Stalin refused to allow East to take part

5. Eisenhower Doctrine
The Eisenhower Doctrine was a United States commitment to defend the Middle East against attacks by any Communist nation made in 1957.
•Massive Retaliation - U.S. would rely more heavily on Air Power and Nuclear Weapons
•Brinkmanship was the practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression.
•The Domino Theory was the belief that if one countries falls to communism the surrounding countries may fall as well.

6. Political Cartoon Step on it, Doc!
Questions:
1.What is the bird? What is it carrying?
2.Who is driving the car?
3.Where are the bird and car racing to?
4.What is the cartoonist’s message?