AP U.S. History
Fall 2011
Unit 4 Essay
The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945-1961
Essay Prompt: Examine the origins of the Cold War.
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Typed, Double Spaced
4 pages MAXIMUM
Use Essay Writing Guidelines; Thesis must be present in 1st paragraph
Use Grading Rubric Guidelines
Works Cited, MLA format, Internal Citations
Sources:
 Primary Sources: Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech, 1946; The Truman Doctrine, 1947; The
Marshall Plan, 1947; Sources of Soviet Conduct, 1947; National Security Act of 1947; Selective
Secutiry Act of 1948; The North Atlantic Treaty, 1949
 Chapter 5: The Cold War by Joseph Nye Jr.
 The Cold War, 1947 by Lippman
 The Centrality of the Bomb by Alperovitz and Bird
 Truman’s Hard Line Prompted the Cold War by Walter LaFeber
 Stalin’s Hard Line Prompted a Defensive Response in the U.S. and Europe by John Lewis Gaddis
 A People’s War? by Zinn, pp. 159-181
Background Information:
 Chapter 28
 I&S Items
 Study Guide Questions
 DBQ, 2001
 Video: American Experience: Truman and the Cold War Years
Due: __________________________ If absent, email to jparkinson@hvrsd.org by class time.