Let's Play Catch Up!!!

Thursday, January 24, 2008

We talked about the four areas of the US-USSR Relations: The Truman Doctrine (Iran, Greece and Turkey), The Marshall Plan (build - economically - Western Europe), The Berlin Airlift, and the establishment of NATO (if one goes to war, all go to war which is completely opposite how Congress felt with Wilson and the League of Nations). Don't forget that the Soviet's answer to NATO was the Warsaw Pact.

Five Minutes More.....

www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/doctrine.htm#speech and answer the questions from the speech.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Today we analyzed the political cartoon "Step on it Doc" and everyone was very good at analyzing the details in it. Way to Go!!!! We watched a short film on the civil war and revolution in China and it is now a communist country. The US recognized Chiang Kaishek (the overthrown leader) and that he and his followers are now on Taiwan. We then discussed the Korean War: North Korea was communist and had USSR and China helping them while South Korea was democratic and had the UN forces which included the US and General MacArthur. Don't forget that MacArthur was fired by Truman because he wanted to invade China and Truman didn't want to expand the war outside Korea.

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www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/kowar/kowar/htm Click on activities in the US. What was the national attitude toward the Korean War??

Monday, January 28, 2008

DUCK AND COVER!!!

We analyzed primary documents by looking at a fallout shelter picture, duck and cover drills and a graph on US and Soviet Nuclear Warheads. You also read about the 2nd Red Scare. Remember the first one was in the 1920s after WWI.

Five Minutes More...
www.civildefensemuseum.com click on fall out shelter supplies and list 5 items you will find in a fall out shelter then click back and click on warning sirens. Listen to one and then list 2 things the sirens do now.