1. origins of the Cold War

2. Today’s objective After today’s lesson, students will be able to…
Explain the origins of the Cold War and discuss how it was heightened.
Essential Skill:
Explicitly assess information and draw conclusions

3. United States objectives
Truman Doctrine
Aid free people against “armed minorities and outside forces”/ Greece & Turkey
Marshall Plan
Economic aid to W. Europe/military presence
Kennan’s X-Article
Containment
NSC-68
Containment/military build-up

4. Perceived Soviet objectives
Destroy Germany (revenge)
Dominate Eastern European border states (satellite countries)
Increase economic and political influence through forced spread of communism

5. Soviet Expansion after WW2

6. Division of Germany

7. Berlin Airlift ( )

8. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): 1949
The core provision of the treaty states:
The parties agree that an unarmed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them…will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking…such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed forces, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area

9. NATO vs. Warsaw Pact NATO Warsaw Pact:
Defense alliance among U.S. and Europe (still exists)
Warsaw Pact:
Defense alliance among Soviet Union and its satellite governments in Eastern Europe

10. Question to consider
Consider the Soviet reaction to this American/European treaty?
Is there reaction justified?
Why or why not?

11. A world Divided: 1959

12. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)
United States
Belgium
Britain
Canada
Denmark
France
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Greece & Turkey (1952)
West Germany (1955)
Spain (1983)

13. Warsaw Pact (1955) U.S.S.R. Albania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Poland
Romania

14. Map Activity Directions
Label the countries of post-WWII Europe
Create a key and color-code your map
One Color = NATO Countries
One Color = Warsaw Pact Countries
One Color = Non-aligned Countries

16. Review When was NATO established? The Warsaw Pact?
Why did the Allied Powers divided Germany after WWII? Was this division permanent?
Would you respond to the Berlin Blockade similarly to Truman? What factors influenced your decision?
What were NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
Looking at the map, why do you think they were organized in this manor?
Why might a country choose not to join?
How do these two agreements help represent the division of the Cold War?