WH Ch 33 & 34-4
The Cold War
Standards:
Analyze and evaluate international developments following World War II, the cold war and post-cold war, to include:
b. creation of the state of Israel and resulting conflicts in the middle east;
c. rebuilding of western Europe (e.g., Marshall Plan, NATO);
d. Soviet control of eastern Europe (e.g., Warsaw pact, Hungarian revolt);
e. creation and role of the united nations;
f. Mao Zedong and the Chinese revolution (e.g., long march, Taiwan, cultural revolution);
g. national security in the changing world order;
h. technology’s role in ending the cold war;
i. fluidity of political alliances;
j. new threats to peace;
k. reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war;
10. Evaluate the ideologies and outcomes of independence movements in the emerging third world to include:
a. French Indochina and the Vietnam war (e.g., the role of Ho Chi Minh);
b. Mohandas Gandhi’s non-violence movement for India’s independence;
c. apartheid in South Africa and evolution from white minority government (e.g., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu);
d. middle east conflicts (Israel, Palestine, Egypt);
Previewing Main Ideas
Economics
Two conflicting economic systems, capitalism and communism, competed for influence and power after World War II. The superpowers in the struggle were the United States and the Soviet Union.
Revolution
In Asia, the Americas, and Eastern Europe, people revolted against repressive governments or rule by foreign powers. These revolutions often became the areas of conflict between the two superpowers.
Empire Building
United States and the Soviet Union used military, economic, and humanitarian aid to expand their control over other countries. Each also try to prevent the other superpowers from gaining influence.
Revolution
Independence Movement swept through Africa and Asia as World War II ended. Through both nonviolent and violent means, revolutionaries overthrew existing political systems create their own nations.
Power and Authority
Systems of government shifted for 1 billion people when colonies in Africa and Asia gain their freedom. New nation struggle to unify their diverse populations. In many cases, authoritarian rule and military dictatorships emerged.
Economics
The emergence of new nations from European and U.S. ruled colonies brought a change in ownership of vital resources. In many cases, however new nation struggle to create thriving economies.
Chapter Objective
WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading
Analyze the conflicts between competing economic systems and the restructuring of alliances from 1945 to the present.
SECTION 1 Cold War: Superpowers Face Off
Analyze the global competition between the United States and the Soviet Union.
SECTION 2 Communists Take Power in China
Explain how the Communists took control of China.
SECTION 3 Wars in Korea and Vietnam
Describe the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
SECTION 4 The Cold War Divides the World
Describe how the Cold War affected nations.
SECTION 5 The Cold War Thaws
Trace the development of the Cold War.
Ch 34-SECTION 4 Conflicts in the Middle East
Describe the formation of Israel and the conflicts in the Middle East.
Essential Questions
Vocabulary:
Alliance
Union of people, groups, or nations to achieve common goals
Berlin airlift
Flying of food and supplies into West Berlin by Britain and the United States to break a Soviet blockade
Blockade
Act of cutting off one place from all others
Brink
Edge
Cease-Fire
End to fighting
Clashed
Disagreed strongly
Collective Farms
Large farms worked by many families
Counterattack
To make a return attack
Fragile
Delicate; easily broken
Guerrilla War
Warfare carried out by small, independent groups, often acting secretly in and around their own towns and villages
Islam
Religion with a belief in one god that developed in Arabia
Latitude
A line that measures distance north or south from the earth's equator
Neutral
Not choosing sides between any particular nations or groups
Political Unrest
State of conflict over the government, its leaders, or its laws
Revive
To bring back to life; to give new strength
Across
- 3.Communist rebels in Cambodia (2 wrds)
- 4.Line dividing Western and Eastern Europe (2 wrds)
- 6.Diplomatic hostility between U.S. and USSR (2 wrds)
- 9.Successor to Joseph Stalin
- 11.Organization for world peace (2 wrds)
- 13.Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (abbr)
- 14.Policy directed at blocking Soviet influence
- 15.Militia units formed by young Chinese Communists (2 wrds)
Down
- 1.Term for developing nations (2 wrds)
- 2.Policy of lessened Cold War tensions
- 5.Muslim leader of Iran
- 7.Communist leader of Vietnam (3 wrds)
- 8.Doctrine U.S. support for nations that rejected communism (2 wrds)
- 10.Anti-missile program (2 wrds)
- 12.Military alliance of democratic nations (abbr)
Chapter Quiz:
Diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II was known as
(A)the Truman Doctrine
(B)the Warsaw Pact
(C)the Cold War
(D)the Marshall Plan
The goal of the Cultural Revolution was
(A)to achieve complete social equality
(B)to enact women’s rights
(C)to collectivize agriculture
(D)to transform industrial production
After World War II, the major foreign policy goal of the United States was
(A)the division of Asia
(B)the containment of communism
(C)to promote world peace
(D)to promote Third World independence
The nations of the developing world were known as the
(A)First World
(B)Second World
(C)Third World
(D)nonaligned nations
In the 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union moved towards a policy of
(A)brinksmanship
(B)realpolitik
(C)disarmament
(D)detente
On the Final:
cold war
Ho Chi Minh
Hungarian revolt
Marshall Plan
NATO
United Nations
Vietnam war
war crime trials
Warsaw pact
conflicts in the middle east
Israel
Middle East Conflicts
apartheid
Mandela, Nelson
Soviet Union, collapse of the
Tutu, Desmond