#9 Cold War

#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)

d. Soviet control of eastern Europe (e.g., Warsaw pact, Hungarian revolt);

e. creation and role of the united nations; Germany and Korea

f. Mao Zedong and the Chinese revolution (e.g., long march, Taiwan, cultural revolution);

k. reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war; Glasnost, Gorbachev, Perestroika

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?