Ch 33-4
The Cold War Divides the World
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