1. Warm Up # 10
Describe the foreign policy precedent that was set by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.

2. Truman and the East

3. Chinese Revolution

4. Background
Immediately following World War II Civil War broke out in China
On October 1, 1949,
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT) which existed since the ’s

5. Truman and the Chinese Revolution
Read “Truman and the Chinese Revolution” and answer the question that follows.

6. The Korean War

7. National Security Council Report
Read the excerpt from a daily briefing delivered to President Truman on March 22,
Answer the 2 questions on the following page.

8. The Three World Orders 1947-1991
1st World (anti-communist)
2nd World (communist)
3rd World (former colonies not yet aligned with either the US or the USSR).
This division and ordering of the world reflects the American perspective during the Cold War.

10. Proxy War
A war instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved.

11. Course of the War: North Korea Attacks

12. Course of the War: UN Troops Push Back

13. Course of the War: China Enters…Stalemate

14. Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
July 27, 1953 – Present Day
Line that separates North and South Korea
Buffer Zones
Roughly follows 38th Parallel

15. Limited War
a war in which the weapons used, the nations or territory involved, or the objectives pursued are restricted in some way

16. Document Analysis
Read the3 documents and answer the questions that follow.

17. Analysis Discuss with a partner the following question.
“How was Truman’s Foreign Policy in the East different from his policies in the West, why do you think those areas were handled differently?”