The story so far?

Romania Bulgaria

Grand Alliance

Roosevelt Great powers Balance of Power

Ideology

Collective security
Great powers
Warsaw
Pact
The IMF
Poland
NATO
Yalta
Stalin

Iron Curtain

Atomic Monopoly

PotsdamCzechoslovakia

Soviet Expansionism

Churchill

Weltpolitik

The origins of USAs globalism: the Long

Telegram and the Truman Doctrine
LO:
1. What were the advantages and drawbacks of the
different forms of foreign policy the US could have
followed after 1945?
2. What do Kennans Long Telegram and Novikovs
Telegram indicate about relations and the US view of
Soviet actions?
3. What was the Truman Doctrine and what were
Trumans motivations?

Benefits of isolationism?
Isolationism

Global Power

Benefits

Drawback
s

TASK:
Create the table above then read pp.24-25 in the AQA
textbook, use the information to complete your table.

Study the two

documents in front of
you

What do they tell you about US policy at this time?

What does Novikovs view of the British economic
relationship to the USA reveal about Soviet priorities?
How does Kennan view the actions of the Soviet
Union?
Many historians such as John Gaddis regard the
Long Telegram as seminal in shaping US policy
towards the Soviet Union and ultimately
determining the USAs role as a global power.
Based on this what are the 5 key priorities for US
foreign policy?

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Sort the following facts into these categories:
Who/When/Where:

What:

Why:

Containment, the Truman Doctrine

and the Marshall Plan
POSSIBLE MOTIVATIONS
Blunt piece of diplomacy designed to keep the Soviet Union from
aiding Greek communist movement.
Designed primarily to protect democracy and freedom.
Truman needed to demonise the USSR in the minds of the
American public.
Designed to make the USSR feel threatened.
The Doctrine formed an important element of the USAs aim of
developing its global economic power.

TASK: Use the additional reading pp.72-80 of Crockatt and the AQA
textbook pp.27-31 to prepare a presentation in groups arguing the
case for one of possible motivations.

HOMEWORK DUE FOR TUESDAY

Complete presentations on the motivations for the
Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.
Create a profile on the Marshall Plan like the one you
have on the Truman Doctrine.

HOMEWORK DUE FOR

THURSDAY
Read the example of an orthodox response
As: Complete the essay for the Revisionist
perspective
Bs: Complete the essay for the Post-revisionist
perspective
Sharing is caring:
Make sure you get a photocopy of your
partners essay so that you have a copy of