Be thorough and critical. Respond to each others answers and reasoning.
Primary Sources:
Stalin's response to the "Iron Curtain Speech":
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946stalin.html
George Marshall Speech on the Marshall Plan:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947marshallplan1.html
- What is the impression of U.S.-Soviet relations conveyed in these documents? Why?
- What actions/responses taken by both the U.S. & U.S.S.R. led to the onset of the Cold War
- Is one country more to blame than the other? Why or Why not?
- How did each country secure their sides? How did they literally create their spheres of influence?
- Were their actions entirely selfish or selfless?
- What connection was made between economic dislocation & communism?
- Why containment?
- How "successful" was the Marshal Plan?
- Was the Cold War inevitable? Why or Why not?
