Ch 33-4

The Cold War Divides the World

33.4-The Cold War Divides the World.pdf

Group Discussions

Standards:

I-C.9 Analyze and evaluate international developments following World War II, the cold war and post-cold war.

I-C.10 Evaluate the ideologies and outcomes of independence movements in the emerging third world.

Objective:

Explain how the Cold War affected developing nations.

Describe superpower confrontations in Latin America after World War 2.

Identify Cold War conflicts in the Middle East.

WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading

EQ: Think about Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Iran as examples of places where conflicts occurred during the Cold War. What can you generalize about such conflicts? For example, what was the government of such a nation typically like? What were typically the goals of those who opposed that government? Why did the United States typically support one side over the other?

Fighting for the Third World

Cold war Strategies

Association of Nonaligned Nations

Which countries stayed neutral during the cold war?

Confrontations in Latin America

Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution

Nuclear Face off: the Cuban Missile Crisis

Civil War in Nicaragua

Fidel Castro

The history of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

A brief history of America and Cuba

Confrontations in the Middle East

Religious and Secular Values clash in Iran

The US supports Secular Rule

Khomeini's Anti-US policies

The Superpowers face off in Afganistan

Interview with Ayatollah Khomeini

Soviet-Afghan War

Vocabulary:

Third World

Developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Nonaligned Nations

Countries that did not take sides with either the United States or the Soviet Union

Fidel Castro

Communist leader of Cuba

Anastasio Somoza

Nicaraguan dictator

Daniel Ortega

Leader of Communist rebels in Nicaragua

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Muslim leader who overthrew the Shah of Iran

Nikita Khrushchev

Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin

Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet leader after Khrushchev

John F. Kennedy

President of the United States from 1961-1963

Lyndon Johnson

President of the United States from 1963-1969

DĂ©tente

Policy to decrease tensions between the superpowers

Richard M. Nixon

President of the United States from 1969-1974

SALT

Talks to limit nuclear arms in the United States and the Soviet Union

Ronald Reagan

President of the United States from 1981-1989