1. Do now: 1.Describe what you can see in the picture. 2.What is the message of the cartoon? What is the cartoonist saying about Stalin’s reaction to the Truman Doctrine? 3.Why has the cartoonist used a pipe to illustrate their point?

2. The Causes of the Berlin Airlift L/O: To investigate the main reasons why Stalin blockaded Berlin in 1948 and America’s reaction Do now: Stick your copy of this map into your book. Describe what the map is showing you and what you can learn about Germany at the end of the Second World War.

3. Germany in 1945. At the Yalta and Potsdam conferences it was decided that after its defeat, Germany would be split into four parts. Each part would be governed by either USA, USSR, Britain for France.

4. What can you see on this map? What has changed? What has stayed the same? Germany in 1947

5. What can you see on this map? What has changed? Germany in 1948

6. Think about the three maps you have seen. 1.Suggest what Stalin might have though about the creation of Bizonia and Trizonia. 2.Is there anything Stalin could do about it? Explain your solutions. 3.Think about the differences between communism and capitalism. How might these changes effect the German people? What would people in the West think? What would people in the East think?

7. Points to Consider: What can you see in the picture? Where do you think this picture might have been taken. Why are these people watching this plane? Think of an attribution to explain what this picture is showing and when it was taken. Source A :