Download The Truman Doctrine & The Marshall Plan

The Truman Doctrine &
The Marshall Plan
Independent Work
• Get out your notebook, turn to your journal
section, date it today and title it
Containment.
• Make you best guess at what you think
would be a good definition of the word
containment.
• (DO NOT PUT YOUR NOTEBOOK
AWAY!)
Guiding Purpose
• Learning Target: We will discuss how the
United States attempted to stop the
spread of Communism.
• Closing Task: I will explain how the
United States applied the concept of
containment.
• Preassessment Questions Covered: 4,
12, 40
Vocabulary
• 5. Containment - U.S. foreign policy after
World War II in which the United States
would stop the expansion of the
communism.
• 6. Marshall Plan - U.S. plan in 1947 that
offered aid to European nations if those
nations agreed to remove trade barriers
and cooperate economically with one
another.
• (DO NOT PUT YOUR NOTEBOOK
AWAY!)
Interactive Instruction
• Turn to the notes section of your
notebook, date it today and title it War
Against Communism.
U.S. Focus After WWII
• War Against Communism
• Policy of Containment
1. Help the smaller countries resist
soviet/communist advances.
2. Wanted to stop the spread of communism
• Ex: Sending money, arms, and generals to South
Vietnam to fight against the Northern communists (Ho Chi
Minh)
President Truman
• After WWII, Truman wanted to make sure
a communist country never had the
chance to cause as much damage as
Germany did in WWII.
• Asked congress for economic aid to
Turkey and Greece to support his new
Doctrine…
The Truman Doctrine
• Dedicated to uplifting anticommunist regimes
around the world.
• Many US citizens did not want to US to continue
fighting Communism around the world
• Others did not want to interfere in other countries
affairs
• Congress, however, quickly approved $400 million
worth of aid
Communism and Poverty
• After WWII not only were there communism
issues spreading throughout the world but
poverty as well.
• In Western Europe many of the cities were in
shambles. There was a shortage of jobs as
well as food.
• Main Question:
– How can the U.S. help?
The Marshall Plan
• George Marshall was the U.S.
Secretary of State
• Wanted to help those in Western
Europe who are living without
shelter, jobs, and food.
The Marshall Plan
• An assistance program to help rebuild
Western Europe.
– Would provide food and machinery
– 12.5 billion dollar program in 1948
– Any country left in shambles that was not
communist received aid from the U.S.
1948-195: Countries who received
aid from the Marshall Plan
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Great Britain
France
Italy
West Germany
Holland
Austria
Belgium
Greece
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Denmark
Norway
Turkey
Ireland
Sweden
Portugal
Yugoslavia
Iceland
A Few More
Authentic Engagement
• Marshall Aid Reading and Questions:
Guiding Purpose
• Learning Target: We will discuss how the
United States attempted to stop the
spread of Communism.
• Closing Task: I will explain how the
United States applied the concept of
containment.
• Preassessment Questions Covered: 4,
12, 40