Unit5Lesson6TheColdWarBegins Drew Funk
Name: Drew Funk
Date: 1/30/15
Graded Assignment
Containing Communism
Complete and submit this assignment by the due date to receive full credit.
(20 points)
Part 1: Complete the Chart
1. Using your own words, complete the chart below to describe causes and effects of Cold War events and policies. Refer to the information you gathered in the online activity The Cold War Begins to help you complete each column.
Topic
Brief Description
Causes
Effect and/or Outcome
Truman Doctrine
He established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
Declared it to be the foreign policy of the United States to assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism. His initial request was specifically for $400 million to assist both Greece and Turkey, which Congress approved. The Truman Doctrine was followed by the Marshall Plan later that year.
Congress approved Truman`s request, and it was signed into law on May 22, 1947. American support was delivered to both Turkey and Greece. Turkey was able to resist Soviet pressure over the Dardanelles and the Greek government largely eliminated the communist rebellion by October 1949
Marshall Plan
Was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion
The United States and its allies, the victors of World War II, took steps to reverse mass disintegration among the people of Europe, including Turkey. To clear away the damage in those areas as quickly as possible and to begin economic reconstruction, the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948
The European Recovery Programme (nicknamed the ‘Marshall Plan’) was set up because the economic infrastructure of Europe had been destroyed by the Second World War and because this – and the coldest winter on record – had by 1947 reduced the people of Europe to starvation
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World
Date: 1/30/15
Graded Assignment
Containing Communism
Complete and submit this assignment by the due date to receive full credit.
(20 points)
Part 1: Complete the Chart
1. Using your own words, complete the chart below to describe causes and effects of Cold War events and policies. Refer to the information you gathered in the online activity The Cold War Begins to help you complete each column.
Topic
Brief Description
Causes
Effect and/or Outcome
Truman Doctrine
He established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
Declared it to be the foreign policy of the United States to assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism. His initial request was specifically for $400 million to assist both Greece and Turkey, which Congress approved. The Truman Doctrine was followed by the Marshall Plan later that year.
Congress approved Truman`s request, and it was signed into law on May 22, 1947. American support was delivered to both Turkey and Greece. Turkey was able to resist Soviet pressure over the Dardanelles and the Greek government largely eliminated the communist rebellion by October 1949
Marshall Plan
Was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion
The United States and its allies, the victors of World War II, took steps to reverse mass disintegration among the people of Europe, including Turkey. To clear away the damage in those areas as quickly as possible and to begin economic reconstruction, the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948
The European Recovery Programme (nicknamed the ‘Marshall Plan’) was set up because the economic infrastructure of Europe had been destroyed by the Second World War and because this – and the coldest winter on record – had by 1947 reduced the people of Europe to starvation
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World