AIM Use historical reading skills to analyze a primary document Writing Warm Up February 11 Why is the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States breaking down How would you try to solve the conflict ID: 510425
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The Kennan Telegram
AIM: Use historical reading skills to analyze a primary document.Slide2
Writing Warm Up
February 11
Why is the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States breaking down? How would you try to solve the conflict.
Consider how you have handled bad relationships in the past.Slide3
Vocabulary
Containment = prevent growth
Deteriorated = became worse.
Imperiled = threatened
Kremlin = Soviet government
Neurotic = unusually anxious or nervousArchaic = ancient, oldInsoluble = not fixable
Apparatus = System
Cohesion = Sticking together
Malignant = dangerous or harmful
Truculent = cruel, brutal
Altruism =
unselfishness,
selfless
Marxism = CommunismSlide4
Team Reading
Highlight important ideas.
Write a short summary for each important idea in the margins.
Circle any words that you don’t know.
Place the number of the focus question in the margin near text that you think will help answer it.
Answer the focus questions.There are two ways to read this text. The U.S. government made a mistake. See if you can find what Kennan recommends.
DUE
FRIDAY