Download Essential Content #9: Cold War

World History
#9 The Cold War
Essential Content: World History 10.9
Textbook: Chapter 17 and 19.3-5
Two conflicting economic systems, capitalism and communism, competed for influence and power after WWII. The Cold War began to thaw as the superpowers entered an era of
uneasy diplomacy.
Learning Targets: Basic, essential information
9.1. The struggles between the US and the USSR were called the Cold
War. After WWII, US and USSR goals differed. Many countries
supported one superpower or the other. (17:1)
9.2. Nationalist and Communists fought for power in China. During
WWII, both parties fought against the Japanese. After WWII, a
civil war was fought over political and economic power. (17:2)
9.3. The Cold War developed into heated wars as the two superpowers
struggled to control spheres of influence, including Korea and
Vietnam. (17:3)
9.4. After WWII, the world’s nations were grouped into three different
groups: First, Second, and Third World nations. (17:4)
9.5. The Soviet Union continued to dominate Eastern Europe; however
there were active protests, a split with Communist China, a softening
of Cold War tensions, and then a retreat from détente. (17:5)
9.6. Under the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union began a
policy of glasnost. Many European Communist nations reformed.
(19:3)
9.7. While revolution was sweeping Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union,
Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia had serious troubles. (19:4)
9.8. China began to experiment with capitalism, but refused to allow
attempts to allow democratic practices. (19:5)
Additional Basic DPETS*
Yalta Conference
United Nations
Superpower
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Mao Zedong
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kaishek)
Great Leap Forward
38th parallel
17th parallel
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Non-aligned nations
Fidel Castro
Daniel Ortega
Shah of Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini
Khrushchev
Brezhnev
JFK (Kennedy)
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Lech Walesa
Boris Yeltsin
Open Door Policy
Tiananmen Square
Proficient DPETS*
Policy of Containment
Brinkmanship
NATO vs Warsaw Pact
Berlin Crisis
Advanced DPETS*
Iron Curtain
Satellite nations
Space race
U-2 incident
Arms race
Commune
Cultural Revolution
Domino Theory
Communist Vietnamese:
Vietminh and Viet Cong
Khmer Rouge
First World/free nations
Second World/communist
nations
Third World/developing
nations
Destalinization
Detente
Vietnamization
embargo
Politburo
Glasnost
Perestroika
August Coup
Hardliners
Ethnic cleansing
Four Modernizations
Solidarity
German re-unification
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Contras/contrarevolucionarios
SALT Treaties
SDI/Star Wars
“Shock therapy”
Hong Kong
DPETS: Dates, People, Events, Terms, and Statistics that must be in Cornell Notes. Basic, Proficient, and Advanced DPETS make EXEMPLARY Cornell Notes! Exemplary: excellent and used as an example to follow.
Skill set:
Review skills and activities (cumulative)
Skimming and Scanning
Key terms and concepts
Note cards
Enrichment:
movie
literature
art
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