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USHAP. Unit 9 Week 1. Block Day 3/20 & 3/21. Agenda: Fluency Fact Review Quiz What do you know?? US Foreign Policy Reminders Test Review: Lunch 4/15 Test: Tuesday 4/16 Chapters 26,27,28. What do you know?? Pre-test: Identify the following Cold War items.
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USHAP Unit 9 Week 1
Block Day 3/20 & 3/21 • Agenda: • Fluency Fact Review Quiz • What do you know?? • US Foreign Policy • Reminders • Test Review: Lunch 4/15 • Test: Tuesday 4/16 Chapters 26,27,28
What do you know??Pre-test: Identify the following Cold War items 1. What are the names of the two meetings where the leaders of the US, Great Britain and the Soviet Union met and made plans for post-war Europe?
3. What is the main idea of this cartoon?4. What historical event does this cartoon depict?
5. What was the name of the US plan that gave money to European countries after World War II?
Answer #1: Yalta and Potsdam Forming an Uneasy Peace:Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill
Cold War Europe • Answer #3 - Stalin argued that he needed a buffer zone to protect the Soviet Union from Germany • Answer #4 - “Iron Curtain”- growing barrier between East & West • Truman Doctrine- US policy to help countries resist communism
Postwar Germany • U.S. wants economically strong Germany • democratic gov’t & capitalist economy • U.S.S.R. wants weak, powerless Germany • Berlin—in east Germany, but divided among powers
Answer #6 - Stalin blockades Berlin from Allies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GoIL9gVonQ Airlift: 10 ½ months 2,326,406 tons of food and supplies 278,228 total flights to Berlin Became a symbol of communist resistance Berlin Airlift: 1948-1949
Foreign Policy during Truman/Eisenhower • Directions: As a group decide the best course of action for the United States to take in each of the scenarios described. • Imagine you’re in the State Dept. and in charge of deciding our foreign policy. • Decide what you think is the best course of action to take based on the policies listed on the sheet. • Explain the policy that you’ve chosen and why you think it will work.
Foreign Policy during Truman/Eisenhower • Use these policies to help make your decisions and be sure to mention them in your scenario decision. • Truman Doctrine- (1947) • Containment Policy- (1947) • Domino Theory- The belief that U.S. foreign policy should always assume that if one country “fell” to Communism that the countries near it would fall to Communism- that is, that regions and not just countries need to be protected.(1954) • Brinkmanship- The United States should be willing to go to the verge of war and use this as a threat to achieve what we want overseas. • Eisenhower Doctrine- The policy of the U.S. will be to safeguard the independence of any country or group of countries in the Middle East requesting aid against [Communist-inspired] aggression. (1957) • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)- (1949) • Warsaw Pact- (1955)
Scenario One: In 1947, rebel groups in Greece begin a civil war against the current government. Russia provides the rebels with weapons, while Great Britain arms the existing government, a dictatorship. Great Britain, feeling overwhelmed, asks the United States to help out. • Pick one of the following five actions to take and write a summary of the scenario and your decision in your notebook; • Refuse to get involved • Help by sending money to Great Britain and/or Greece. • Help by sending weapons • Help by sending air and/or ground troops to fight Make your own solution • For each Decision, answer the following: • Why did you make this decision? • Which of the policies or agreements are you employing in your decision? • How do you expect the Soviet Union to respond to your actions and/or what message are you sending to the Soviet Union? • What possible problems might come up and how will you handle them?
Scenario One: In 1947, rebel groups in Greece begin a civil war against the current government. Russia provides the rebels with weapons, while Great Britain arms the existing government, a dictatorship. Great Britain, feeling overwhelmed, asks the United States to help out. • Pick one of the following five actions to take and write a summary of the scenario and your decision in your notebook; • Refuse to get involved • Help by sending money to Great Britain and/or Greece. • This was the basis for the Truman Doctrine. • Help by sending weapons • Help by sending air and/or ground troops to fight Make your own solution
Scenario Two: In 1956, Hungarians rebelled against Russia’s control of their country. They are protesting in the streets that they want more freedom. The Soviet Union reacts by sending tanks into Hungary to stop the rebellion. The Hungarians are not nearly as strong as the Russians and their only hope for more freedom is if an outside country gets involved. • Do you: • Refuse to get involved • Help by sending money to Hungary • Help by sending arms to Hungary • Help by sending air and/or ground troops to fight • Make up your own solution • For each decision answer the following: • Why did you make this decision? • Which of the policies or agreements are you employing in your decision? • How do you expect the Soviet Union to respond to your actions and/or what message are you sending to the Soviet Union? • What possible problems might come up and how will you handle them?
Scenario Two: In 1956, Hungarians rebelled against Russia’s control of their country. They are protesting in the streets that they want more freedom. The Soviet Union reacts by sending tanks into Hungary to stop the rebellion. The Hungarians are not nearly as strong as the Russians and their only hope for more freedom is if an outside country gets involved. • Do you: • Refuse to get involved • Hungary was part of the Warsaw Pact and we thought it would provoke the Russians to war if we got involved. • Help by sending money to Hungary • Help by sending arms to Hungary • Help by sending air and/or ground troops to fight • Make up your own solution
Scenario One: After World War II, Korea was liberated from Japanese control and divided into 2 countries: North and South Korea. North Korea was controlled by Russia, and South Korea was controlled by a right-wing dictatorship. In 1950, North Korea attempted to reunite the country by invading South Korea. • Do you: • Refuse to get involved • Send money to help • Send air and/or ground troops • None of these suggestions works, I would rather do: • For each decision, answer the following: • Why did you make this decision? • Which of the policies or agreements are you employing in your decision? • How do you expect the Soviet Union to respond to your actions and/or what message are you sending to the Soviet Union? • What possible problems might come up and how will you handle them?
Scenario One: After World War II, Korea was liberated from Japanese control and divided into 2 countries: North and South Korea. North Korea was controlled by Russia, and South Korea was controlled by a right-wing dictatorship. In 1950, North Korea attempted to reunite the country by invading South Korea. • Do you: • Refuse to get involved • Send money to help • Send air and/or ground troops • Working together with other countries through the United Nations, we fought a war in Korea for 3 years that ended with North and South Korea remaining 2 separate countries with the exact same border as at the beginning of the war. • None of these suggestions works, I would rather do:
Scenario Two: After World War II, A Vietnamese leader named Ho Chi Minh writes to President Truman and asks for the US to help him and his people fight against France for their freedom. Truman does not respond. Later, President Eisenhower sends money to help Frances in its fight against Ho Chi Minh. In 1954 the Vietnamese finally succeed in driving the French out of their country after a stunning victory at Diem Bien Phu. At the peace treaty it is agreed that Vietnam will be divided into the North (communist) and the South (democratic). The North believes that this division is temporary and that they will reunite with the South, but France and the US assume that this division is permanent. • Do you: • Leave Vietnam to its own future • Leave US soldiers in Vietnam to help the South get started as a government • Help the South build up a military so it can take over the North. • None of these suggestions works, I would rather do: • For each division, answer the following: • Why did you make this decision? • Which of the policies or agreements are you employing in your decision? • How do you expect the Soviet Union to respond to your actions and/or what message are you sending to the Soviet Union? • What possible problems might come up and how will you handle them?
Scenario Two: After World War II, A Vietnamese leader named Ho Chi Minh writes to President Truman and asks for the US to help him and his people fight against France for their freedom. Truman does not respond. Later, President Eisenhower sends money to help Frances in its fight against Ho Chi Minh. In 1954 the Vietnamese finally succeed in driving the French out of their country after a stunning victory at Diem Bien Phu. At the peace treaty it is agreed that Vietnam will be divided into the North (communist) and the South (democratic). The North believes that this division is temporary and that they will reunite with the South, but France and the US assume that this division is permanent. • Do you: • Leave Vietnam to its own future • Leave US soldiers in Vietnam to help the South get started as a government • Help the South build up a military so it can take over the North. • This becomes the Vietnam War. More on that later. • None of these suggestions works, I would rather do:
Scenario One: In Cuba, a local guerilla righter, Fidel Castro, was fighting to create a government that represented the needs of the working people. The current dictator, Batista, was unpopular with everyone and had connections to organized crime in America. In 1958, Castro succeeds and Batista flees the country. Castro seizes American property in Cuba and begins accepting financial and military aid from the Soviet Union. • Do you: • Refuse to get involved • Cut off diplomatic ties with the country. • Send money and weapons to armed rebels who will try and overthrow Castro. • Use American troops to invade Cuba. • None of these suggestions works, I would rather do: • For each decision, answer the following: • Why did you make this decision? • Which of the policies or agreements are you employing in your decision? • How do you expect the Soviet Union to respond to your actions and/or what message are you sending to the Soviet Union? • What possible problems might come up and how will you handle them?
Scenario One: In Cuba, a local guerilla righter, Fidel Castro, was fighting to create a government that represented the needs of the working people. The current dictator, Batista, was unpopular with everyone and had connections to organized crime in America. In 1958, Castro succeeds and Batista flees the country. Castro seizes American property in Cuba and begins accepting financial and military aid from the Soviet Union. • Do you: • Refuse to get involved • Cut off diplomatic ties with the country. • US starts an embargo that prevents buying, selling or traveling to Cuba. • Send money and weapons to armed rebels who will try and overthrow Castro. • Use American troops to invade Cuba. • None of these suggestions works, I would rather do:
Scenario Two: American companies have been located in Latin America for over a hundred years. During the 1920s, the US had stopped a revolution by the people in Nicaragua and Honduras that would have thrown out the dictators who helped out American businesses. High rates of poverty are leading to new groups of people in these countries suggesting that they try communism. • Do you: • Refuse to get involved in the internal affairs of a country. • Send money and weapons to the people who oppose the communists. • Form an alliance with the existing governments that says you will all work together to resist takeover • None of these suggestion works, I would rather do: • For each decision, answer the following: • Why did you make this decision? • Which of the policies or agreements are you employing in your decision? • How do you expect the Soviet Union to respond to your actions and/or what message are you sending to the Soviet Union? • What possible problems might come up and how will you handle them?
Scenario Two: American companies have been located in Latin America for over a hundred years. During the 1920s, the US had stopped a revolution by the people in Nicaragua and Honduras that would have thrown out the dictators who helped out American businesses. High rates of poverty are leading to new groups of people in these countries suggesting that they try communism. • Do you: • Refuse to get involved in the internal affairs of a country. • Send money and weapons to the people who oppose the communists. • We secretly train and arm one side of this conflict and thereby draw out the civil war. • Form an alliance with the existing governments that says you will all work together to resist takeover • None of these suggestion works, I would rather do:
Scenario One: In 1948, Jewish people create the new nation of Israel, a democracy. Neighboring Arab nations and Arabs native to Israel, known as Palestinians immediately oppose the formation of the country and declare war. The U.S. decides to back Israel in this war but then worries that the Arab nations will seek support from the Soviet Union. • Do you: • Continue to support Israel whenever it fights the Arabs • Try to also form alliances with the Arabs without losing the alliance with Israel • Pull out of your alliance with Israel in order to keep the Cold War from spreading to the Middle East. • Try to get a peace agreement between the countries so as to keep the Russians out of Middle East. • None of these suggestions works, I would rather do: • For each decision, answer the following: • Why did you make this decision? • Which of the policies or agreements are you employing in your decision? • How do you expect the Soviet Union to respond to your actions and/or what message are you sending to the Soviet Union? • What possible problems might come up and how will you handle them?
Scenario One: In 1948, Jewish people create the new nation of Israel, a democracy. Neighboring Arab nations and Arabs native to Israel, known as Palestinians immediately oppose the formation of the country and declare war. The U.S. decides to back Israel in this war but then worries that the Arab nations will seek support from the Soviet Union. • Do you: • Continue to support Israel whenever it fights the Arabs • Try to also form alliances with the Arabs without losing the alliance with Israel • Pull out of your alliance with Israel in order to keep the Cold War from spreading to the Middle East. • Try to get a peace agreement between the countries so as to keep the Russians out of Middle East. • None of these suggestions works, I would rather do:
Scenario Two: In 1956, the Egyptian leader, Nasser, seizes control of the Suez Canal, which is located in Egypt but owned by Great Britain. The Suez Canal is of amazing strategic value since it allows ships to go from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean, thereby sailing from Europe to Asia without having to go around Africa. Great Britain and France declare war and fight Egypt. Nasser gets support from the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union threatens “dangerous consequences”(nukes??) if the war continues. • Do you: • Continue to stay uninvolved in the war and let Great Britain, Egypt and the Soviet Union solve it. • Convince Great Britain and France to surrender to Egypt and give up the Suez Canal. • Get involved, risk going to the brink of nuclear war in order to get the Russians to back down. • None of these suggestions works, I would rather do: • For each decision, answer the following: • Why did you make this decision? • Which of the policies or agreements are you employing in your decision? • How do you expect the Soviet Union to respond to your actions and/or what message are you sending to the Soviet Union? • What possible problems might come up and how will you handle them?
Scenario Two: In 1956, the Egyptian leader, Nasser, seizes control of the Suez Canal, which is located in Egypt but owned by Great Britain. The Suez Canal is of amazing strategic value since it allows ships to go from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean, thereby sailing from Europe to Asia without having to go around Africa. Great Britain and France declare war and fight Egypt. Nasser gets support from the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union threatens “dangerous consequences”(nukes??) if the war continues. • Do you: • Continue to stay uninvolved in the war and let Great Britain, Egypt and the Soviet Union solve it. • Convince Great Britain and France to surrender to Egypt and give up the Suez Canal. • Get involved, risk going to the brink of nuclear war in order to get the Russians to back down. • None of these suggestions works, I would rather do:
Friday 3/22 • Agenda: • Cold War Liberalism • Game • Game Analysis • Reminders: • I will be out in the afternoon on Monday 3/25, all day Tuesday 3/26, and possibly Wednesday 3/27 • Test Review: Lunch 4/15 • Test: Tuesday 4/16 Chapters 26,27,28
Cold War Liberalism • Reading question from page 939 • Compare the presidencies of FDR and Harry Truman, both Democrats. • What were some of the challenges of demobilization? • What happened in the 1948 Election? • What happened to Truman following his reelection?
The Dot Game • Object of the Game: • To begin the game, you will receive a slip of paper. Secretly check to see whether the paper is blank or has a red dot. Then hide it in your pocket and do not show it to anyone during the game. • Nondots win the game by forming the largest group of students who are all nondots. • Dots win the game by being the only dot in a group. • Procedure: • You can ask others whether they are dots or nondots, but players may not reveal their slips of paper during the game. • You do not have to join a group, but you cannot win the game unless you are in a group of at least two people. • You can be a part of a group only if that group agrees that you are a member. • If you suspect that someone is a dot, report your suspicion to the teacher. He or she will deal with the accusation appropriately.
The Dot Game Analysis: Make historical connections to the dot game from pages 943-948
