Unit 11: The Cold War and Beyond

Learning Targets:

1. Compare and contrast the Communist Eastern Bloc and the Democratic West.
2. Identify where various nations fit into Cold War.
3. Illustrate the impact of the "Red Scare" on America.
4. Examine the causes for Communism's fall.
5. Point out the changes to the world since Communism's fall.

Essential Questions:

• How did the Cold War shape the world?
• How has the fall of Communism changed our world?

Resources and Assignments:

• Cold War Identifications
• Cold War Packet
• PPT: The Cold War
• PPT: The Cold War Timeline
• The Cold War (Stanford History Education Group)
  • Readings: Documents A-D
  • Guiding Questions
• The Korean War
  • PPT: The Korean War
  • Reading: Textbook Excerpts
• Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline
  • Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline
    • Use this timeline to fill out the Cuban Missile Crisis Chart (which is in your packet).
    • In the timeline toward the bottom of the page, find the year 1959 and click on the bubble that says "Cuban Revolution; Batista flees." This is where you will begin clicking through the timeline, filling in the chart as you go.
    • Not all events on the timeline will apply to your chart, so don't bother writing everything that you see.
    • Not all events on your chart will appear in the timeline. Use other sources as well.
      • Cuba's Agrarian Reform Law and Urban Reform Law Passed (not on the timeline... use another source.)
      • US Embargo of Cuba = US Ends All Exports to Cuba
      • Khruschev begins plans to supply Cuba with missiles = 1962, Khrushchev visits Bulgaria
    • You will have to summarize to fit everything in your chart! Do not copy word-for-word.
• The Vietnam War
  • Why Fight the Vietnam War?
    • Ho Chi Minh: Vietnamese Declaration of Independence
    • John Foster Dulles: Opposition to the Spread of Communism Speech
    • Dwight D. Eisenhower: Interview with Copley Press
    • Ngo Dinh Diem: Letter to President Kennedy
  • Lesson credit: http://chssp.ucdavis.edu/programs/historyblueprint/
• The Role of Gorbachev in Economic and Political Changes in the Soviet Union
  • 1.1: Gorbachev and Change (Excerpt from Perestroika)
  • 1.2: Brian Whitmore, "Gorbachev's Legacy Examined, 25 Years After his Rise to Power"
  • 1.3: Leon Aron, "Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union is Wrong"
• Geographic and Political Underpinnings of the Former Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia
  • Directions
  • Maps
• The Case of Germany: Peaceful Revolution
  • Beyond the Brandenburg Gate (ABC News, 11/9/1989)