The Early
Cold War:
1947-1970
Ms. Susan M. Pojer
and Mrs. Sophia Caramagno
Please do not talk at this time
March 2
HW: Read Chapter 17, Sec. 3 and do ONE of the following:
Complete Cornell notes, questions 1-8 on pg. 547, or the online
handout.
• Get out your vocab word maps and compare
them with your pod.
• Check to make sure that your partners have
the same info you do. Make additions as
necessary.
• Choose the best image/Below the Surface
Graphic for each word from your pod.
• Get a white board pen and put up your
drawing for each Vocab Word under the word
on the board.
• We should have several drawings for each
word in a few moments.
Please do not talk at this time
March 2
Consider the US and the USSR
• Why would these two nations become enemies?
• Why would they decide to divide up the world?
• How is this decision related to economic systems?
Communism Vs. Capitalism
In Communism, all goods are collected from the whole
territory (the larger, the more variety in goods) and
redistributed to the population. There is NOTHING left over to
trade with another country.
In Capitalism, trade is the only way to succeed. You MUST
compete in the market and sell your goods as often as
possible to as many people as possible to be successful.
Any Country that is Communist is Lost to the Americans.
Any Country that is Capitalist is Lost to the Russians.
Cold War Map Assignment:
We will be taking graphic notes on this
illustrated time line
Illustrate the following event on your Cold War
Map. Use Chpt. 17, Sec 1 and our class
discussion on the Cold War Cartoons to help you.
• Iron Curtain
Using the map on pg. 532, Draw a line between Eastern and
Western Europe to show where the Iron Curtain fell. Include
the Line in the Key on the left
Add the Iron Curtain to your Timeline.
Define the Iron Curtain on the back of this paper.
Iron CurtainFrom a speech
by Winston
Churchill
The Iron Curtain was a
symbol to show that
Eastern and Western
Europe were separated
completely. Nothing
could get through that
imaginary barrier.
No People in or out.
No ideas in or out.
No goods in or out.
Russia feared their
best, brightest most
creative people would
leave for a less
structured life in the
west and that
westerners would
corrupt the Russians.
Strategies of the Cold War
The Cold War was not a conventional war. It was a war of
Strategies over direct confrontation.
Nearly everything that happened in the cold war can be divided
into these 6 strategies:
Foreign Aid
Propaganda
Multinational
Alliances
Brinkmanship
Espionage
Surrogate Wars
Examples of Foreign Aid and the
Cold War
Both the USA and the USSR wanted to avoid the kind of
economic desperation that had helped Hitler rise to
power. They knew they couldn't leave the countries of
Europe with all the destruction and poverty left by WWII.
They solved this problem by offering financial aid to the
nations of Europe, and thus boosted their own
economies as well.
•The Marshal Plan
•The Molotov Plan
•The Truman Doctrine
•US economic support of Batista in Cuba
•Russian Economic Aid to Egypt to build the Aswan
Dam
•US economic support of the Contras in Nicaragua
•US economic support of the Shah in Iran
Marshall Plan- 1947
•
“European Recovery
Program.”
•
Imagined by Secretary of
State, George Marshall
•
The U. S. should provide
aid to all European nations
that need it. This move
“is not against any country or
doctrine, but against hunger,
poverty, desperation, and
chaos.”
•
$12.5 billion of US aid to
Western Europe extended to
Eastern Europe & USSR, (but
this was rejected).
Please do not talk at this time
March 3
Finish coloring your map for the Marshal Plan
Cold War Map- •
Marshall Plan •
•
•
•
•
•
Color the following
•
countries one color (your •
choice) on your map.
•
In your map key (on the •
Left), indicate that
•
countries that color are
members of the Marshall •
•
Plan
On the back of this paper •
explain what the Marshall •
•
Plan was
Put the Marshall Plan on •
•
the time line in 1947
•
Great Britain
France
Italy
West Germany
Holland
Austria
Belgium & Luxembourg
Greece
Denmark
Norway
Turkey
Ireland
Sweden
Portugal
Yugoslavia
Iceland
The Molotov Plan- 1947
This economic plan was the USSR's
answer to the Marshall Plan. It was
exactly the same idea. These countries
received money and help to rebuild in the
image of the USSR- the Communist
image.
Cold War Map- Molotov Plan
• Color the following
countries one color (your
choice) on your map.
• In your map key (on the
Left), indicate that
countries that color are
members of the Molotov
Plan
• On the back of this paper
explain what the Molotov
Plan was
• Put the Molotov Plan on
the time line in 1947
•Soviet Union
•Poland
•Czechoslovakia
•East Germany
•Hungary
•Bulgaria
•Romania
Truman Doctrine
1947
•A Civil War broke out in Greece over
limited resources.
•Turkey was under pressure from the
USSR to give up part of the
Dardanelles. (The USSR wanted a
warm water port.)
•Truman felt the U. S. should support
free peoples throughout the world who
were resisting takeovers by armed
minorities or outside pressures (he
meant communists). “We must assist
free peoples to work out their own
destinies in their own way.”
•The U.S. gave Greece & Turkey $400
million in aid.
Cold War Map- Truman
Doctrine
• Come up with a symbol, like a star, diamond,
triangle, fist, etc... (your choice) and draw that
symbol on Turkey and Greece on your map.
• In your map key (on the Left), indicate that
countries with that symbol benefited from the
Truman Doctrine
• On the back of this paper explain what the
Truman Doctrine was.
• Put the Truman Doctrine on the time line in 1947
Multinational Alliances
Alliances were meant to intimidate other countries
into holding an attack. Any country in the
alliance could call on all the others for help,
thus causing an instant world war and no one
wanted that.
• NATO- Democratic, Capitalist Nations of the
West
• Warsaw Pact- Socialist, Communist Nations of
the East
• Association of Non Aligned Nations- a Group of
Independent Nations from South Asia and
Africa who refused to take sides
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization- 1949
 United States  Luxembourg
 Belgium
 Netherlands
 Britain
 Norway
These countries
agree to defend
each other
against potential
Soviet
aggression.
 Canada
 Portugal
 Denmark
 France
 1952: Greece &
Turkey
 Iceland
 1955: West Germany
 Italy
 1983: Spain
Cold War Map- NATO
• Come up with a symbol, like a star, diamond,
triangle, fist, etc... (your choice) and draw that
symbol on the countries listed below on your map.
• In your map key (on the Left), indicate that countries
with that symbol are members of NATO
• On the back of this paper explain what the NATO
was.
• Put the dates for NATO on the time line in 1949,
1952, 1955, 1983 (When Franco dies)
United
States
Belgium
Britain
Canada
Denmark
France
Iceland
Italy
Luxemburg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
1952: Greece &

Turkey
1955: West Germany
1983: Spain
Warsaw Pact- 1955
 U. S. S. R.
 Albania
 Bulgaria
 Czechoslovakia
 East Germany
 Hungary
 Poland
 Romania
These countries
agree to defend each
other against
potential American
aggression.
Cold War Map- Warsaw Pact
• Come up with a symbol, like a star, diamond,
triangle, fist, etc... (your choice) and draw that
symbol on the countries listed below on your map.
• In your map key (on the Left), indicate that countries
with that symbol are members of Warsaw Pact
• On the back of this paper explain what the Warsaw
Pact was.
• Put the dates for the Warsaw Pact on the time line in
1955.
 U. S. S. R.
 East Germany
 Albania
 Hungary
 Bulgaria
 Poland
 Czechoslovakia
 Romania