Cold War Blocs: Formalizing the Superpower Divide

Section role: supports the 'Synthesis of the Two Worlds' section while the teacher formalizes student discoveries from the superpower strategy simulation into historical frameworks. Slides: (1) Title — 'Formalizing the Two Worlds'; (2) The Iron Curtain — Churchill's speech, visual map of Europe's division; (3) Economic Instruments — Marshall Plan versus COMECON, rebuilding Europe and the Eastern bloc; (4) Military Alliances — NATO formation in 1949 and the Warsaw Pact in 1955; (5) Doctrines of Division — Truman Doctrine and the foundational logic of Containment; (6) Debunking the Purely Military Myth — highlighting economic and ideological dependencies; (7) Closing slide — 'Which dependency, economic or military, proved harder for smaller nations to break?' — sets up the individual mastery check.

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