Warm-Up
• Review group thesis statements from
Thursday –What do you think your
group did well in your thesis
paragraph? What useful strategies or
ideas did you pick up from your group
partners?
Study Guides!!!
• Kaplan
• Barrons
• Cracking the AP US History Exam
(Princeton Review)
• And many more
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Tuesday, April 15th
Focus: How did the Cold War start?
Agenda
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Warm-up
Yalta, 1945
Why did the ‘Iron Curtain’ descend across Europe?
What did the Soviets fear?
Why did the US see the Soviet Union as a threat? How did the US counter
this threat?
Exit: Three perspectives on the causes of the Cold War – formal thesis.
HW: Read: Finish reading ch 37 (if not already done so)
Read Pageant ch 38 - pp887-891 (Eisenhower & Joseph McCarthy)
In what ways did the Cold War
start before WW2 ended?
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Misconception = The Cold War was caused solely by the evil
empire of communist Russians.
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Yalta, 1945: According to the agreement between the
US, Britain, and the USSR, what would the post-war
world look like?
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Self-determination in Poland & Eastern Europe
USSR membership in the United Nations with a veto in its Security
Council
Four-power occupation of Germany
German reparations
USSR to declare war against Japan in exchange for concessions in Asia.
Why did the Iron Curtain fall
across Europe?
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Read the annotated timeline
Complete the Fears of the Soviet Union
chart
What did the Soviets fear?
• Capitalism
• Imperialism
• US/British
military
presence on
their doorstep
• The Bomb
• What else?
Why did the US fear the Soviet
Union?
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Read the excerpts from Kennan’s “long
telegram”
What did the US fear about the USSR?
How did the US counter the
threat?
• Truman doctrine – What
was “Containment”?
• Marshall Plan– A “New
Deal” for Europe?
• June 1948 – May 1949:
Berlin Airlift
• Global alliances –
–UN formed in 1945
–1949 - NATO
–1955 – Soviets formed
Warsaw Bloc in response
Exit Ticket
• Three perspectives:
– Traditional/Liberal –”US was reasonable, but
Soviets were not”
– Revisionist – “USSR was the victim here”
– Conservative – “Weak America = Bad Guys
win”
• Full thesis paragraph (as if this were a real
essay) – 10 POL