Marshall Plan

This activity incorporates the study of primary sources and cooperative learning.

After addressing a central question, students will analyze primary source documents to formulate their own opinion on the Point IV program.

Students will participate in a group analysis and comparison of political cartoons from the post World War II debate over the Marshall Plan as well as the current American conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This lesson plan requires the classroom to be divided into proponents and opponents to the Marshall Plan.

Individual assignments using primary sources.

Students will analyze oral histories related to the Marshall Plan.

For homework, each student will be given a transcript of the speech given by George Marshall at Harvard University on June 5, 1947, and a list of 11 questions (added to the bottom of this form) to answer concerning the speech.

This activity will involve analyzing various propaganda techniques in the address delivered by President Harry S. Truman at the Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 30, 1948, during his reelection campaign.

Investigate other sources to determine Cause(s) and Effect(s) of various early Cold War events.

Students will examine the Marshall Plan through political cartoons of the era.