December 8, 2008

Group Work:
Read about the Truman Doctrine, NATO, Warsaw Pact, Marshall Plan, United Nations, CIA and fill out the chart that Mr. Spencer shows you.

During the Cold War, the capitalist and communist countries engaged in competition both politically and economically. First, president Truman created the Truman Doctrine, which allowed the United States to spend money in countries that supported our belief system. For example, America spent millions of dollars in countries that were "on the fence" and leaning toward communism, so that they would remain capatalist countries. In addition, we created NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) which was a group of countries unified under the political desire to stay free of communism. The Communist countries created their own political group called the Warsaw Pact. Moreover, America created the Marshall Plan which allowed the U.S. to spend money in Japan and Germany to help guarantee that they would not join the Communist revolution. Finally, the United States created a group called the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) that sent spies to communist countries so that we could fight the Cold War at a political level.

Now that you've read about it, go to your Cold War Website and create a page for political examples of how the Cold War was fought. Also, create a page for the economic ways that the Cold War was fought.