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The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) emerged as the two strongest powers in international affairs. Ideologically opposed, they challenged one another in a series of confrontations known as the Cold War. The costs of this prolonged contest weakened the USSR so that it collapsed due to internal upheavals as well as American pressure. The Cold War had social and political implications in the United States.
Learning Targets:
- Summarize how atomic weapons have changed the nature of war, altered the balance of power and started the nuclear age.
- Analyze the policy of containment the United States followed during the Cold War in response to the spread of communism.
- Explain how the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism reflected Cold War fears in American society.
- Analyze how the Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam influenced domestic and international politics between the end of World War II and 1991.
- Explain how the collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the USSR brought an end to the Cold War era.
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