1. The Cold War and the Americas, 1945 - 1981
Objective 4.2: Examine how the Cold War began and how Truman’s policy of containing Communism developed while investigating the rise of McCarthyism and its impact on US domestic and foreign policy

2. Warm-Up: Primary Source Analysis
Read the Truman Doctrine
Answer the questions below…
What did the Truman administration set as its foreign policy goals? What assumptions are made?
Some critics claim the Truman Doctrine put the United States on a path toward overestimating its ability to control foreign affairs and overcommitting its resources. To what extent do you agree with this assessment?

3. Essay Analysis
Revisionist historian Thomas G. Patterson maintains that the United States used its dominant military and economic power after World War II to reshape the world according to its own views of political democracy and international free trade
Take notes to track his argument
Decide what points are logical and which do not seem fully supported

4. Class Discussion
Was the conflict between the United States and Russia inevitable?

5. Warm-Up: Class Review People’s History (Ch. 16–A People’s War?)
What previous knowledge was confirmed in the text?
What new knowledge was put forth in the text?
What surprised you about the text?
What confused you about the text?

6. Primary Source Analysis
With a partner, read through the pamphlet 100 Things You Should Know About Communism in the United States
Answer the questions below…
What previous knowledge was confirmed in the text?
What new knowledge was put forth in the text?
What surprised you about the text?
What confused you about the text?

7. CNN’s The Cold War: “Reds”(1948- 1953)
While watching consider the given guiding questions (treat them as notes) and the following BIG QUESTION…
What impacts did the Cold War have on American domestic life?

8. Class Review
What impacts did the Cold War have on American domestic life?