Tonight’s Homework:
Read “Truman Domestic Policy” stop @ “Policies of Anticommunism”, NSC-68, Novikov Telegram, & Henry Wallace Excerpt
Use both to outline Truman’s Domestic and Foreign Policy-Accomplishments?-Failures?-Are the critics right? Did the Democrats
lose the early Cold War?
Today’s Topics:
1.) We saw Kennan’s suggestions…now how did the Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan follow through?
2.) America’s Containment Policy is challenged
A.) In BerlinB.) In ChinaC.) In Korea
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…Therefore ask the
Congress to provide authority for assistance to Greece and Turkey in the amount of $400,000,000
for the period ending June 30, 1948
THE IRON CURTAIN - 1946
USSR’s Team:
WarsawPact
Communist
Eastern World
USA’s Team:
NATO
Capitalist (Free)
Western World
For this next part you will have to use your book to get the facts about each event. Who came
out victorious? USA or USSR?
3 Early Examples:
A.) In BerlinB.) In ChinaC.) In Korea