Based on sources follow the questions. Make conclusion.
a. Look at the photo. Who was the person in the picture?
b. Read the quote. Explain why it is considered to be the beginning of the Cold War. Name the economic implications of the Iron Curtain.
c. Read a fragment of the Truman Doctrine. Explain why the programme is a manifestation of the Cold War?
d. Watch the film and answer the question below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra6FeVwAQeo
Why did the USSR begin the Berlin Blockade?
How did the West react to the Blockade.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Discuss the impact of the Berlin Crisis on political situation.
Source 1
Source 2 Quote – „The Sinews of Peace” („Iron Curtain Speech).
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. Police rules come from Moscow […]”
Source 3 Thruman doctrine (fragment)
Today nearly every nation must choose between two options.One way of life is based on the will of the majority, with […] free elections, […] freedom of speech and belief, and freedom from political oppression. The other option is based […] terror and oppression,[…] the lack of free elections, and limited personal freedom. […] U.S. policy must help the free nations that oppose the oppression of armed minorities or aggression from outside.
(https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp)
Source 4 The Berlin Blockade and Airlift