w. 39 + 40

w. 39 
We had only one lesson. We discussed the Marshall Plan in groups. You read:

1 - part of the speech given by Secretary of State (utrikes minister) George C. Marshall where he laid out the arguments for a program of economic aid that became the Marshall Plan

2 - A Soviet reaction to the proposed Marshall Plan

and you worked with specific questions to attempt to understand these documents

w. 40 
We finished up the MP questions in groups. Then we discussed NATO and the Warsaw Pact. See below for links to films that we looked at. Also, there are some slides on Vklass.

We also did a quiz. For those of you who are having difficulty getting a firm grasp of the material we have worked with, here is a list of steps to work with:

1. Read chapter 33, section 1 in your book: "Cold War: Superpowers Face Off." 

2. Using the book and the blog, explain the following

• the differences between communism and capitalism (see w. 36 in the blog)
• the differences between communism and liberal democracy
• a market economy
• a planned or command economy (two names for the same thing)
• containment -- in connection with the Truman Doctrine
• Iron Curtain
• the establishment of communist governments behind the Iron Curtain
• Marshall Plan
• examples of free institutions
• The Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Airlift
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• 1956 Hungarian Revolution

3. Fill in a blank map of Cold War Europe

4. Create a timeline of post-1945 events that we've discussed. For which of these events is it possible to present different perspectives? Specifically, are you able to explain how the West (led by the United States) and the East (led by the Soviet Union) had different views? Are you able to connect those views to differences in the economic and political ideologies of the West and the East?
 

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Here is the film about NATO:

Here is the film about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution:

Here's a trailer for the motion picture "Children of Glory" about the Hungarian Revolution and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Australia, which took place in Nov. and Dec. of 1956, right after the use of Warsaw Pact troops were used to quash the Hungarian Revolution:

Here is a film about the 1968 Prague Spring: