1. AIM: Who started the Cold War: the United States or Soviet Union?
Do Now: Study for quiz.

2. Stalin’s Election Speech, 1946
communism and capitalism cannot co-exist

3. The Iron Curtain

4. The Iron Curtain
communism in Eastern Europe after WWII

5. The Truman Doctrine, 1947
“It must be the policy of the U.S. to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”

6. The Truman Doctrine, 1947
gave military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey to fight off the threat of communism
$400 million to Greece
$100 million to Turkey

7. Truman’s Foreign Policy: Containment
Contain or limit Soviet expansion

8. Gave $13 billion to Western European nations after WWII
The Marshall Plan, 1948
Gave $13 billion to Western European nations after WWII
help nations rebuild and fight off the threat of communism

9. The Marshall Plan, 1948
Photo shows a delivery of wheat from the U.S. being unloaded in Rotterdam, Netherlands

10. Novikov Telegram, 1946
Truman Doctrine, containment, and Marshall plan are direct threats to SU

11. Henry Wallace, 1946
US should achieve an “atmosphere of mutual trust and confidence” instead of an arms race

12. Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia, February 1948
Was the last democratic country in Eastern Europe until 1948

13. “Step on it, doc”

14. Who started the Cold War: the United States or the Soviet Union?
CHOOSE ONE.

15. Exit Ticket
Main Idea: Was the Cold War inevitable? Why or why not?
Inquiry: How have foreign affairs shaped modern American society?