1. Warmup Why did America experience a postwar boom?
Describe the Truman Doctrine
3) Explain two different things America did to contain communism in Europe or Asia.
4) Describe one thing that happened during the red scare

2. Evaluating Truman 1.10
Give President Truman a letter grade from F-A. Write one paragraph explaining why you gave Truman that grade. Your paragraph must include both foreign and domestic policy.

3. Eisenhower and the Cold War

4. I. Brinkmanship Prevent the spread of communism by promising to
use all military force, including nuclear weapons,
against any aggressor nation

5. II. Warsaw Pact, 1953
In response to W. Germany joining NATO Soviets form their own military alliance with 7 other E. European nations.

6. III. New Soviet Leadership
Nikita Khrushchev favored a policy of peaceful coexistence in which the two powers would compete economically and scientifically.

7. IV. The Space race
Soviet Union takes an early lead with the launch of Sputnik. (the worlds first artificial satellite.)

8. V. A U-2 is shot down!
Khrushchev calls off peace talks and the 1960s opened with tension between the two superpowers as great as ever.

9. U-2
Sputnik