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

Limited War

Ask a friend to explain this to you.

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

http://www.history.com/videos/korean-war-homecoming?cmpid=MRSS_Hulu_HIS#korean-war-homecoming