Post WWIII America

Reading: http://goo.gl/DNtTQ

Essential Questions:
1)Why were Americans afraid of the Soviet Union?
-Americans were afraid of the Soviet Union because they had very different ambitions for the future which would threaten the American way of life.
2)What did the Russians want int Europe?
-The Russians wanted to enforce communism.
3)What did the Americans want in Europe?
-The Americans wanted to create a new world order in which all nations had the right to self-determination.

Communism. (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCBI0I3z2u2IhnnlKwGTfDSV8kUrbgMqgyI73DzXudOjM0d2wkc-pDa2wgmkGwj-QZHUnFQtpGpueyg4Fio6eR2T8SbksCWLgH5VeDJ7LW9GwXUEdGvnX40ru8Mb-xp23lN6n32zeefQLs/s1600/communism___full_game_board_by_spiffyofcrud.jpeg)

33rd President, Harry S. Truman (1945-1953). (http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/first-family/masthead_image/33ht_header_sm.jpg?1250884801)