9-12 Benchmark 1-B.
United States: analyze and evaluate the impact of major eras, events and individuals in United States history since the civil war and reconstruction:
#7 Standards and Specifications:
Analyze the impact of World War II and the cold war on United States’ foreign and domestic policy, to include:
a. origins, dynamics and consequences of the cold war tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union;
b. new role of the United States as a world leader (e.g., Marshall plan, NATO);
d. implementation of the foreign policy of containment, including the Truman doctrine;
e. Red Scare (e.g., McCarthyism, House Un-American Activities Committee, nuclear weapons, arms race);
f. external confrontations with communism (e.g., the Berlin blockade, Berlin wall, Bay of Pigs, Cuban missile crisis, Korea, and Vietnam war)
g. Sputnik and the space race; i. political protests of Vietnam war
Sample Question: History.I.1-B.7b
What was the original purpose for creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
A. to establish the World Bank
B. to provide a mutual defense*
C. to spread democracy
D. to promote free trade
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The Century: America's Time - 1971-1975: Approaching the Apocalypse
The Cold War: Crash Course US History #37
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The Formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact | History
Here's How the Truman Doctrine Established the Cold War | History
What Were the Pentagon Papers? | History
Sound Smart: Joseph McCarthy | History
What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen? - Ellen Schrecker
Sound Smart: The House Un-American Activities Committee | History
The Manhattan Project
The Doomsday Clock is Ticking! - THE COLD WAR Arms Race
Weapons of Mass Destruction I THE COLD WAR
The Berlin Wall (1961 - 1989)
The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall - Konrad H. Jarausch
JFK: The legacy of America's 35th president
America the Story of Us: JFK | History
'This Week': JFK Fifty Years Later
The JFK assassination | 72 Hours that changed America
Bay of Pigs | Killing Kennedy
The Cuban Missile Crisis | Killing Kennedy
The Korean War - THE COLD WAR Turns Hot!
North And South Korea Agree To Formally End The Korean War | TODAY
Turning Point of the Vietnam War - The Tet Offensive I THE COLD WAR
The Moment Sputnik Terrified & Thrilled Americans
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Don't Sit Around Waiting for a Sputnik Moment
The Space Race (1955-1975)