Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd:
Part 1:
2 Topic - Postwar Conferences, The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Learning Objectives: Be able to explain how relations between the Soviet Union and the West worsened as things progressed in the Cold War. Be able to explain the US foreign policy concepts such as containment, sphere of influence and initiatives such as the the Truman Doctrine and The Marshall Plan.

1. We will be discussing the wartime and post-war allied leader conferences with this discussion handout and these slides2.
& "The Start of the Cold War"
- slides
- organizer
2. Assignment: a critical thinking activity regarding these Cold War Documents
3. Homework: Read: De Marco read p. 156 - 159
1 By the end of 1948, what countries in Eastern Europe had communist governments?
2 Why could Tito of Yugoslavia have a communist state independent of the USSR? Why didn't Stalin invade Yugoslavia?

p. 156 EX 3 do b, d & e.

4. Video Resource: The Bomb (Made it about 20 mins)