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2. Today’s Objectives
● Question of the Day: In what ways did the Cold War shift United States
international policies?
● Harry Potter and the Evil Lord Voldemort!
● Vocabulary
o Red Scare, Cold War, Gulags, Free Enterprise, Superpowers,
Containment, Truman Doctrine
● Timeline - post-WWII to the end of the Cold War
● Graphic organizer activity/assignment
● Exit Slip
3. Harry Potter vs Lord Voldemort
● What obstacles did Harry
have to overcome to
convince people they
needed to stand up
against Lord Voldemort?
4. The Red Scare
● Red Scare - the promotion of fear of a
potential rise of communism or radical leftism
o First Red Scare was about worker (socialist)
revolution and political radicalism
o The Second Red Scare was focused on national and
foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the
federal government, or both
● The United States used the fear of a
Communist take-over to fuel the fight against
the U.S.S.R. in what would be called the Cold
War
o Harry Potter gathered a loyal team of wizards to fight
against the tyrannical take-over of Voldemort, even
though most did not believe the problem existed (until
the end of the fifth movie!)
5. Cold War
• The superpowers, the U.S.
and Soviet Union were the big
rivals after WWII
• Called the “Cold” war because
both sides had nuclear
weapons but never confronted
each other directly in open
warfare
6. The Roots
● Competing ideological systems
(democracy/free enterprise vs. communism)
● The U.S. wanted to spread democracy and
free enterprise
● The Soviets wanted to spread Communism.
○ Stalin was supposed to be creating a
classless society that helped all workers,
but actually established a brutal
dictatorship under his absolute control.
○ Suspected critics and opponents were
arrested and sent to gulags (forced labor
camps) in Siberia
7. Why did the United States and Soviet
Union enter into the Cold War?
● Consider the following to answer the question:
o What were the competing ideological systems
U.S. wanted to spread..
Soviets wanted to spread..
8. The Soviet Union’s Ideology
● One political party – Communism
● All labor groups and associations are run by the
Communist Party
● Industries and farms are owned by the state,
central planners determine economic needs for
the nation, private property was limited,
education and health care provided by the state
● Religion was discouraged
● Secret police arrested opponents, censorship
was common, people could not exercise beliefs
freely
9. American Ideology
● A multi-party democracy
● Unions and other organizations negotiated
openly with employers
● Free enterprise, private ownership of
property, supply and demand determined
prices, people met their own needs with
some limited government involvement
● Freedom of religion
● Freedom of the press and expression
Video:
Crash Course - Cold War Ideologies
10. The Cold War Begins
• After the war, the Soviets saw a growing threat from
capitalist governments
• Stalin distrusted the West
• He created a wall of satellite countries as a buffer
against future invasions
• Refused to allow free elections in Poland and other
countries it occupied in Eastern Europe
• Cut off trade between Eastern and Western Europe
(closed the East to the West)
• The U.S. refused to share the secrets behind the
atom bomb
11. U.S. Containment Policy
• American leaders responded to the
Soviet domination of Eastern Europe
by developing a policy of containment.
• Under this policy, they did not attempt
to overturn Communism where it
already existed, but resolved to
prevent it from spreading further
12. The Truman Doctrine
• When Communist rebels
threatened Greece and Stalin
pressured Turkey, Truman
offered them military aid
• He believed that economic and
financial aid should be used first
• Did not want to make the mistake
of “appeasement” that had failed
against Hitler
Question of the Day: In what ways
did the Cold War shift United States
international policies?