Cold War Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan Narrative Account

Question 1

P1
What did the USA become increasingly concerned about in 1947?

Answer 1

Spread of communism in Europe.

Question 2

P1
What did Truman announce in 1947?

Answer 2

Truman Doctrine.

Question 3

P1
When was the Truman Doctrine announced?

Answer 3

March 1947.

Question 4

P1
What did this mark a shift in?

Answer 4

Shift in American foreign policy.

Question 5

P1
What was the US committed to?

Answer 5

Providing economic and military aid to countries threatened by communist takeover

Question 6

P1
What countries was the USA particularly focusing on?

Answer 6

Greece and Turkey.

Question 7

P1
What threatened Greek and Turkish stability?

Answer 7

Communist insurgencies and Soviet pressure.

Question 8

P1
What did this doctrine mark the end of?

Answer 8

US isolationism.

Question 9

P1
What did this doctrine mark the start of?

Answer 9

Start of a policy aimed at containing Soviet influence worldwide.

Question 10

P2
What did the USA introduce shortly after 1948?

Answer 10

Marshall Plan.

Question 11

P2
What was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 11

An ambitious economic recovery programme offering $13 billion in aid to rebuild Western European economies devastated by WW2.

Question 12

P2
What was the goal of the Marshall Plan?

Answer 12

To create strong, stable nations less vulnerable to communist ideas.

Question 13

P2
What are some Western European countries that accept the aid?

Answer 13

Britain, France, and West Germany

Question 14

P2
What did the countries that accepted the aid experience?

Answer 14

Significant economic recovery.

Question 15

P2
What did the Soviet Union see the plan as?

Answer 15

A threat to its control.

Question 16

P2
What did the Soviet Union do to the Eastern bloc for the Marshall Plan?

Answer 16

Forbade them from participating.

Question 17

P2
What did the Marshall Plan do for the Cold War and division in Europe?

Answer 17

Deepened division.
Increased tensions.

Question 18

P3
What did the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine formalise?

Answer 18

Growing rivalry between USA and USSR.

Question 19

P3
What the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine demonstrate?

Answer 19

America’s determination to stop communism’s expansion by strengthening allies and drawing clear ideological boundaries.

Question 20

P3
What did these policies do for tensions between the two superpowers?

Answer 20

Increased.

Question 21

P3
What did this do for the division in Europe?

Answer 21

Firmly divided Europe into Western and Soviet spheres of influence.

Question 22

P3
What were these pivotal for?

Answer 22

The development of the Cold War.