Teacher Lesson Plans

Group activity. Students in class use primary sources like Truman Doctrine speech, Marshall plan, and Iron Curtain speech to discuss foreign policy from US/USSR perspectives at the time of the Cold War.

Through small group work and an individual assignment, students will use a background description, various maps and the Truman Doctrine speech to analyze European postwar events and reactions by the Soviet Union and the United States which led to heightened Cold War tension.

Students will be discovering their own knowledge of why the United States was compelled to join the war in Korea and the attitudes toward it.

Cooperative learning/using primary sources/critical thinking

I want to find a way for students to objectively analyze Presidential decisions for war in a way that will allow them to move away from political arguments and personal leanings.

Investigate other sources to determine Cause(s) and Effect(s) of various early Cold War events.

Students will study Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan as it relates to the early Cold War and U.S. policy of containment.