B#7 Cold War

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