Tasks:
- Review important words from previous class: Cold War, Hot War, Decolonization.
- Define: Containment
- Read Truman's Doctrine (document A) from class worksheet
- Interact with the text by identifying the perspective, context, audience, and author's purpose (POV-CAP)
- Watch video clip to add more detail to POV-CAP answers.
- Truman Doctrine outlines America's foreign policy: containment. Truman permanently ends America's isolationism.
- Introduce foreign policy project:
- How did the United States, as a world leader, work to stem the growth of communism?
- Working in small groups, you will create a presentation in response to the question.
