Do-Now Monday May 11 th Watch the Federal

Do-Now Monday, May 11 th Watch the Federal Civil Defense Agency educational video and write down three impressions l Duck and Cover! Agenda Do now & HW check Guided Notes Go over analogy homework answers Homework Also take out your homework: Cold War Analogy packet, to be checked while you watch the video Read Chapter 26, Section 2 l. Answer questions 1 -6 l. Please thoroughly explain your answers to questions 5 and 6, using complete sentences

I. Recovery? Marshall Plan Program for economic recovery of postwar Europe US involvement because: concerned that Soviets would intervene for communists l believed US aid would create strong democratic countries and open new markets l 17 countries took part; Soviet Union declined l By 1946, most nations had achieved economic stability

Check your understanding… How do the Marshall Plan and the policy of Containment compliment the Truman Doctrine? “Nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one. One way of life is based upon the will of the majority… the second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority… I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation [conquest] by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. ” -Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947 l What former US foreign policy might this contradict?

II. Germany – Reunification? West Germany – capitalist l Formed when US, Britain and France merged occupation zones East Germany – communist People use West Berlin as an escape route to freedom l Stalin closes escape route by attempting to force Western Powers to abandon Berlin (June 1948) Closes access to West Berlin l Berlin Airlift: an effort to avoid war, Truman orders aircraft to deliver food, fuel, and other supplies l c. Stalin ends blockade in May 1949 l

a. III. North Atlantic Treaty Organization Why? 1. Soviets used veto power - prevents the UN Security Council from dealing with postwar problems 2. Western Europe needs protection from Soviet aggression outside of the UN b. How should the world provide such protection? 1. L. St. Laurent Canadian foreign minister, proposed creating an “Association of democratic peace-loving states” 2. April 1949 NATO was formed a. Collective Security: mutual military assistance b. Not without its critics c. How did the Soviets respond? 1. Warsaw Pact

IV. Communist Advances a. Soviets successfully test an atomic bomb 1. Truman’s Response? a. approved development of hydrogen bomb (thermonuclear) b. Federal Civil Defense Agency 1. provided instructions in the event of a nuclear attack DUCK AND COVER! http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=7 RHj 15 w. VXec b. China Falls to Communists 1. Chinese civil war since 1920 s a. Nationalists (Jiang Jieshi) v. Communists (Mao Zedung) 2. 1949 Mao Zedung – People’s Republic of China

V. How did the Cold War affect the homefront? a. Communist party membership rose due to the GD b. Loyalty Program 1. begun by Truman 2. investigated all new federal employees a. accused brought before Loyalty Review Board b. civil rights disregarded – “guilty until proven innocent” c. House Un-American Activities Committee 1. est. 1938 to investigate disloyalty during WWII 2. post-WWII a. investigated possible Communist infiltration b. Hollywood

V. How did the Cold War affect the homefront? (continued) d. Hollywood Ten 1. group of Hollywood writers, directors, actors, & producers a. violated constitutional rights 2. refused to answer questions and cited for contempt of Congress 3. employers compiled a black list to protect themselves e. Mc. Carran –Walter Act 1. reaffirmed quota system established in 1924 for immigration 2. discriminated against potential immigrants from Asia & South/Central Europe 3. President Truman vetoed the bill; Congress passed it anyway f. Threat of Spies 1. Alger Hiss – served jail time 2. Julius & Ethel Rosenberg a. later found they were indeed guilty