#9 Performance Standards & Specifications:
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; (i.e., Israel v. Palestine)
The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history
Conflict in Israel and Palestine: Crash Course World History 223
d. Soviet control of eastern Europe (e.g., Warsaw pact, Hungarian revolt);
The Formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact | History
Hungarian Uprising, Budapest (1956)
e. creation and role of the united nations; Germany and Korea
The United Nations: History and Functions
f. Mao Zedong and the Chinese revolution (e.g., long march, Taiwan, cultural revolution);
Mao Zedong Biography
What Was China's Cultural Revolution and Why Was It So Violent?
Sound Smart: China's Cultural Revolution | History
1934: The Long March: Mao
Why China And Taiwan Hate Each Other
k. reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war; Glasnost, Gorbachev, Perestroika
The Century: America's Time - 1971-1975: Approaching the Apocalypse
USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War: Crash Course World History #39
1. Why is it fair to call the Cold War a, “Clash of Civilizations?”
2. What was “the Iron Curtain?”
3. Why did America have the immediate advantage in the Cold War?
4. What was the United States’ response of containment about?
5. How many times did the US and USSR come to engaging in nuclear war?
6. Why was Vietnam’s movement toward communism a threat to the United States?
7. The Cold war involved almost every part of the globe and all countries were divided into three “worlds.” Describe each of the three worlds.
8. Who is the individual probably most responsible for the end of the Cold War?
Glasnost and Perestroika
The Fall Of The Soviet Union