1. Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan

2. Today’s Agenda – TD Workshop
Team work using your homework reading and video and document analysis to answer key questions
2 videos and one set of original documents
Teams of two
How to answer best answer our questions: 5 Ws and How?
Who
What
When
Where
Why
How

3. Relevant Unit 2.1 Guiding Questions
Why did the USA-USSR alliance begin to break down in 1945?
How did the USSR gain control of Eastern Europe by 1948?
How did the USA react to Soviet expansion?
What were the consequences of the Berlin blockade?
Who was more to blame for starting the Cold War: the USA or the USSR?

4. Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan
After this lesson, you should have a good understanding of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Who and what caused the development of both?
What were their components?
What were their effects?

5. Introduction - Containment

6. #1 Video Questions
What events prompted the beginning of the Truman Doctrine?  What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
How was the Truman Doctrine a change from the traditional foreign policy of the US?
What was the Marshall Plan, and what was its purpose? How successful was it?
How did the USSR react to the Truman Doctrine & the Marshall Plan?

7. #1 GCSE History - the Truman Doctrine & the Marshall Plan

8. #1 Video Questions
What events prompted the beginning of the Truman Doctrine?  What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
How was the Truman Doctrine a change from the traditional foreign policy of the US?
What was the Marshall Plan, and what was its purpose? How successful was it?
How did the USSR react to the Truman Doctrine & the Marshall Plan?

9. Document Analysis
Go to pp. 109 & 111 in the Blue Book.  Read and contrast Source A and Source F.  List three appropriate ways in which the arguments in these documents is different.

10. #2 Video Question
Do you think the Truman Doctrine and/or the Marshall Plan was a good idea? Was this the best way for the US to deal with communism & the USSR at the time or not?  Explain your response.

11. #2 Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan

12. #2 Video Question
Do you think the Truman Doctrine and/or the Marshall Plan was a good idea? Was this the best way for the US to deal with communism & the USSR at the time or not?  Explain your response.

13. Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan
After this lesson, you should have a good understanding of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Who and what caused the development of both?
What were their components?
What were their effects?

14. Relevant Unit 2.1 Guiding Questions
Why did the USA-USSR alliance begin to break down in 1945?
How did the USSR gain control of Eastern Europe by 1948?
How did the USA react to Soviet expansion?
What were the consequences of the Berlin blockade?
Who was more to blame for starting the Cold War: the USA or the USSR?