Assignment:
Part 1: Write an Outline
You are a professor who is teaching a class on the policy of containment during the Cold War. To prepare for your class, outline your lecture using the chapter and the information you gathered in the online activity The Cold War Begins. Your outline should contain explanations on how each topic or event (such as the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, and Korean War) reflected or did not reflect the U.S. policy of containment. You will use your outline as the basis for an article .
Part 2: Write an Article
Choose one topic in your outline-the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, or the Korean War-and decide whether or not the events related to that topic reflected or did not reflect the U.S. policy of containment.
Write an article explaining how the topic did or did not reflect the U.S. policy of containment. The first sentence of the first paragraph will be your thesis statement and should identify the topic and state whether or not the events related to it reflected or did not reflect the U.S. policy of containment. For example: The U.S. response to the devastation of Western Europe in the Marshall Plan can/cannot t considered part of the U.S. policy of containment.
Use your completed outline from Part 1 of this Graded Assignment as a resource for your essay. Your article should:
• Paraphrase your thesis statement.
• Provide some background information about the topic you chose.
• Describe the policy of containing communism adopted by the United States after World War II.
• Describe the reasons for the policy and explain how the United States intended to enforce this policy.
• Explain why events related to your topic could be considered, or not considered, part of the U.S. policy of containment.