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Objectives 12/10/2009

Objective 1 Students will examine the conditions that fostered and the major events of the Cold War. Objectives 12/10/2009. The Early Cold War: 1947-1970. Jim Dzialo Jacobs High School Home of your golden eagles!. The Ideological Struggle. Soviet & Eastern Bloc Nations [“Iron Curtain”].

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Objectives 12/10/2009

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  1. Objective 1 Students will examine the conditions that fostered and the major events of the Cold War. Objectives 12/10/2009

  2. The EarlyCold War:1947-1970 Jim DzialoJacobs High School Home of your golden eagles!

  3. The Ideological Struggle Soviet & Eastern Bloc Nations[“Iron Curtain”] US & the Western Democracies GOAL spread world-wide Communism GOAL “Containment” of Communism & the eventual collapse of the Communist world.[George Kennan] • METHODOLOGIES: • Espionage [KGB vs. CIA] • Arms Race [nuclear escalation] • Ideological Competition for Third World peoples [Communist govt. & command economy vs. democratic govt. & capitalist economy] • Bi-Polarization of Europe [NATO vs. Warsaw Pact]

  4. The “Iron Curtain” From Stettin in the Balkans, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lies the ancient capitals of Central and Eastern Europe.-- Sir Winston Churchill, 1946

  5. Truman Doctrine [1947] • Civil War in Greece. • Turkey under pressure from the USSR for concessions in the Dardanelles. • The U.S. gave Greece & Turkey $400 million in aid.

  6. Marshall Plan [1948] • “European Recovery Program.” • Secretary of State, George Marshall • $12.5 billion of US aid to Western Europe extended to Eastern Europe & USSR.

  7. Post-War Germany

  8. Berlin Blockade & Airlift (1948-49)

  9. The Arms Race:A “Missile Gap?” • The Soviet Union exploded its first A-bomb in 1949. • Now there were two nuclear superpowers!

  10. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949) • United States • Belgium • Britain • Canada • Denmark • France • Iceland • Italy • Luxemburg • Netherlands • Norway • Portugal • 1952: Greece & Turkey • 1955: West Germany • 1983: Spain

  11. Warsaw Pact (1955) • U. S. S. R. • Albania • Bulgaria • Czechoslovakia • East Germany • Hungary • Poland • Rumania

  12. Premier Nikita Khrushchev About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist.If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don'tinvite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you. -- 1956 De-Stalinization Program

  13. An Historic Irony: Sergei Khrushchev, American Citizen Who buried who?

  14. Mao’s Revolution:

  15. The Korean War: A “Police Action” (1950-1953) Kim Il-Sung Syngman Rhee “Domino Theory”- who can exp?

  16. The Suez Crisis: 1956-1957

  17. Sputnik I (1957) The Russians have beaten America in space—they have the technological edge!

  18. Nixon-Khrushchev“Kitchen Debate”(1959) Cold War ---> Tensions <--- Technology & Affluence

  19. U-2 Spy Incident (1960) Ask to see the Video!!!!! Col. Francis Gary Powers’ plane was shot down over Soviet airspace.

  20. Paris, 196161 Khrushchev & JFK meet to discuss Berlin and nuclear proliferation. Khrushchev thinks that JFK is young, inexperienced, and can be rolled.

  21. The Berlin Wall Goes Up (1961)) CheckpointCharlie

  22. Ich bin ein Berliner!(1963) President Kennedy tells Berliners that the West is with them!

  23. Khruschev Embraces Castro,1961

  24. Bay of Pigs Debacle (1961))

  25. Cuban Missile Crisis (1962))

  26. Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Forming a Hypothesis #2 World History 2401 Clash of Civilizations. Coach Dzialo What is a hypothesis? Something not proved but assumed to be true for purposes of argument or investigation> Also, a theory derived from inference. You will be graded on the following criteria Soundness of your argument (5 points) use of the past to prove your theory (5 points) knowledge of history and its infusion within your essay (5 points) quality of your writing (5 points) creativity, are your insights inventive and interesting. (5 points) please consider the history partitions (GSPRITEC too) Geographical Social Political Religious Intellectual Technology Economic Cultural Cuban Missle Crisis 1962 World History 2401 Clash of Civilizations. Coach Dzialo What is a hypothesis? Something not proved but assumed to be true for purposes of argument or investigation> Also, a theory derived from inference. You will be graded on the following criteria Soundness of your argument (5 points) use of the past to prove your theory (5 points) knowledge of history and its infusion within your essay (5 points) quality of your writing (5 points) creativity, are your insights inventive and interesting. (5 points) please consider the history partitions (GSPRITEC too) Geographical Social Political Religious Intellectual Technology Economic Cultural SCENARIO: ) We went eyeball-to-eyeball with the Russians, and the other man blinked!

  27. Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)962)

  28. 973Vietnam War 1956-1972

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