Friday, February 20th - Period 8 Lesson 2

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Describe the United States' policy of containment and explain why this would be the center of the United States' foreign policy for the next 46 year.

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• 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.

• Brinkmanship

  • Policy under the administration of Pres. Eisenhower

  • Willing to push any situation with the Soviet Union to the brink of war

    • Nuclear war

  • Would cause the opposing side to back down and make concessions

  • Instead of pushing for a war that would cause mutually assured destruction

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​The Early Cold War

​Brinkmanship - pg. 210

• Read the secondary source and analyze the graph in order to answer the 4 processing questions.

• Sputnik I

  • The world's 1st satellite launched into space (Soviet)

  • Remained in space for 3 weeks sending radio signals back to Earth

  • Triggered the space race and a new era of scientific developments

• Space race

  • Race to achieve spaceflight superiority

  • Seen as necessary for national security

  • Resulted in the creation of NASA & passage of the National Defense Education Act
    

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​The Early Cold War

• Detente

  • French word meaning 'relaxation'

  • relaxing of tensions between the USA and Soviet Union in the 1970s

  • Began with the presidency of Richard Nixon

  • Major disarmament treaties

  • Helsinki Accords - all in an effort to improve relations between the East and the West

  • Officially ends with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979

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​The Early Cold War

Detente - pg. 272

• Read the primary source excerpt from Richard Nixon's inauguration speech in 1969.

• Answer the 2 questions using the excerpt and the pictures.

• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

  • Crowning achievement of Detente

  • Both sides agreed to limit the number of nuclear weapons in their arsenals for the 1st time

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​The Early Cold War