Mr. Pettit
Modern America
Name:
THE BEGINNIGS OF THE COLD WAR
Read pages 846-852 in your textbook. Summarize the overall goals of both
the USA and the Soviet Union in the chart below.
GOALS OF THE U.S.A.
Type of government:
Capitalist Democracy
Handling of Germany:
A stronger, united Germany
Type of economy:
Free enterprise, private property,
and
Economic freedom
Handling of Eastern European
nations:
Grant them independence.
Type of government:
GOALS OF THE U.S.S.R.
Communist Dictatorship
Handling of Germany:
Keep Germany weak and divided
Type of economy:
Command Economy, no private
property or economic freedom
Handling of Eastern European
nations:
Remain under Soviet control.
The Results of differing Soviet and American ideas created a 46 year
struggle/competition known as the COLD WAR. The following developments resulted
from this struggle. Define each, then identify which goal on the front of this sheet
produced each development/event.
 Satellite state:
 Truman Doctrine:
 Containment:
 Marshall Plan:
 Berlin Airlift:
 NATO:
 Warsaw Pact: