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To review the key beliefs of communism and capitalism To analyze the different aspects of the Cold War. To analyze primary sources to determine the fears and concerns of the NATO leaders during the Cold War.
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Capitalism United States Communism Soviet Union Success/wealth Freedom Property Distribution of goods, services and wages Analyze the above chart and explain why a person in a capitalist country would fear that their country might turn to communism. Make sure you include a specific example in your response
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1. In a spider diagram record as many things as you can about the cold war in 2 minutes. Cold War
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HjvHZ fCUI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HjvHZ fCUI Record the GIST of the Cold War in 40-50 words
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For the documents on the following slides complete SOAPStone and answer the document based question in your own words, in complete sentences and with evidence from the text.
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“From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in the Soviet sphere and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and increasing measure of control from Moscow....Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case, and so far, except in Czechoslovakia, there is no true democracy.” 1. What is the major concern that Churchill has regarding the countries of central and eastern Europe? Source Digital History: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us37.cfm
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“At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one. One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms.” “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” 2. According to the Truman Doctrine what are the two choices that nations face during the Cold War? 3. According to the Truman Doctrine what will be the role of the United States during the Cold War? Source Digital History: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us37.cfm
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http://people.bu.edu/gorelik/Gorelik_AS_ET_KFuchs_120313.files/Iron_Cu rtain-map.jpg
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Many U.S. leaders felt communism was an evil that most be stopped. U.S. leaders felt if Korea or Vietnam turned into a communist country then the rest of Southeast Asia would follow. U.S. policy Containment - To use military, or economic means to stop communism from spreading to other countries around the world
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