Thursday, February 19th - Period 8 Lesson 1

Audio Response

Identify and explain as much as you can about what you know of the Cold War in the time that is permitted.

Open Audio Recorder

• United Nations

  • International peace-keeping organization

  • aim of preventing future world wars, protecting human rights, supplying international aid, etc.

• Cold War

  • Period of political tension between the USSR and the USA and their allies

  • Struggle over the spread of ideologies/influence around the globe

  • Communism v. Capitalism/Democracy

  • No open fighting but proxy wars

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​The Early Cold War

Multiple Choice

What does the bottle of “ISM” symbolize in the video?

• A medicine that improves society

• A new style of government that brings happiness

• A dangerous political ideology that limits freedom

• A product to increase production in factories

Multiple Choice

According to the video, what must people give up in exchange for ISM?

• Money and work hours

• Their land and crops

• Their freedom and their children's freedom

• Their religion and culture

Multiple Choice

How does the video define freedom in the U.S.?

• Freedom to travel abroad without restrictions

• Freedom to participate in government planning

• Freedom to own property, work, speak, and vote

• Freedom to follow state orders for social good

Multiple Choice

What is the video warning Americans to be careful about?

• Using too much technology

• Listening to outsiders with “perfect” solutions

• Buying foreign products

• Voting for the wrong political party

Multiple Choice

What Cold War fear is reflected in the message of this video?

• Losing elections to communists

• Nuclear war from space weapons

• The spread of communism disguised as help

• Americans leaving the country for better jobs

Multiple Choice

Why does the video show Joe building his idea into a company?

• To show the power of government in helping workers

• To demonstrate the success of individual entrepreneurship

• To illustrate the benefits of collective ownership

• To highlight the role of technology in modern business

Multiple Choice

Why might poor peasants in countries like Vietnam or Greece be attracted to ideas like ISM in the 1940s and 50s?

• Because they already had enough land and wealth

• Because ISM offered free education and better religion

• Because ISM promised to give land and security to the poor

• Because ISM allowed them to keep their private property

Multiple Choice

How does the video use fear to persuade the audience?

• It shows people getting poor under capitalism

• It warns that voting for the wrong person will cause war

• It shows people losing all freedom under a new system

• It says religion will be destroyed by the government

Multiple Choice

What part of U.S. identity does the video try to protect?

• Its military strength

• Its culture of diversity

• Its tradition of individual freedom and hard work

• Its global power

Multiple Choice

How does the video reflect U.S. strategies to fight communism during the Cold War?

• By promoting direct military action against communist countries

• By warning citizens through cultural propaganda about losing freedoms

• By encouraging workers to join international socialist unions

• By teaching other countries how to build a communist government

​Cold War Origins - pg. 204

• Read the 2 perspectives on pg. 204, one from Prime Minister Churchill and the other from Senator Wallace. Based on the 2 perspectives and you knowledge of history, answer the opinion question.

• Iron Curtain

  • Term used by British leader Winston Churchill to describe the metaphorical boundary between democratic W. Europe and communist E. Europe

• Domino Theory

  • Political theory that stated if one country fell to communism that other neighboring countries would also fall

  • Pres. Eisenhower applied to Asia

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​The Early Cold War

• Containment

  • U.S. foreign policy for how to deal with the issue of the Soviet influence and the spread of communism around the globe

  • U.S. would provide, money, food, aid, supplies, weapons, troops to countries to ensure communism would not spread

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​The Early Cold War

• Truman Doctrine

  • President Truman's policy of supplying weapons to countries fighting communist threats

  • T = Tanks

  • Most effective in Turkey and Greece

• Marshall Plan

  • European Recovery Program to provide aid to W. Europe

  • M = Money

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​The Early Cold War

​The Marshall Plan - pg. 205

• Read the secondary source and analyze the bar graph in order to answer the 4 processing questions regarding the significance of the Marshall Plan.

• Berlin Airlift

  • Soviet attempt to take over all of Berlin

  • blockaded all ground traffic in and out of West Berlin for 11 months

  • U.S. & allies supplied the country by air

  • 1 plane every 3 minutes

• NATO

  • Military alliance based on collective security

  • First military alliance since the Treaty of alliance with France in 1793

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​The Early Cold War

The Berlin Airlift - pg. 206

• Read the secondary source and answer the 4 processing questions.