PDF-Congressional Travel to the USSR:Cold-War Antidote

130 StoneEvery r3P 089. IN THE 1960s, THE 1970s, . AND THE 1980s. Essential Questions. :. What were the important . Cold War events . of the 1960s and 1970s?. . How did the . Cold War end . in the 1980s?. Joseph Stalin . led the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953. 1979-1991. Illustration adapted from Ben Walsh, ‘Modern World History’. An NDM Production. Why did the Cold War return in the early 1980s. ?. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 re-opened the Cold War.. Chapter 15.1. Two Sides Face Off. Superpowers-US and USSR. NATO/Warsaw Pact. Iron Curtain-Winston Churchill describing the separation of Western and Eastern Europe. Berlin Wall. Eastern Europe resists USSR. Chapter 8 . Students . will . examine how ideological conflict shaped international relations after. . the Second World War . (expansionism. , containment, deterrence, brinkmanship, détente, liberation movements). L/O – To identify the key features and turning points of the Cold War and understand the nature of the conflict. What was the Cold War?. Cold War. . = . a period of extreme tension between states stopping just short of war.. L/O: To revise the causes of the Cold War in order to write a balanced essay.. THE USA. THE USSR. BOTH SIDES. NO ONE IT WAS INEVITABLE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpYCplyBknI. . EVENT. WHAT HAPPENED?. Objectives:. Identify Nixon’s key decisions and their consequences. explain the approach taken by Nixon to the cold war. . evaluate Nixon’s success’ and failures. Who was Richard Nixon?. Richard Nixon’s best known contributions to the Cold War were his roles in détente and ending the Vietnam conflict. However, he was an unlikely architect for both.. 1960 Election. Economy was slumping, blamed on Republicans. Kennedy v. (Vice President) Nixon. Youth v. experience. Kennedy charmed audiences in first-ever TV debates. Critics suspect Kennedy won (barely) with the help of Mafia connections & “vote-stuffing”. Containment. Mutually Assured Destruction. Korean War, 1950-1953. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Afghanistan, 1979-1989. Mikhail Gorbachev. The Kitchen Debates, 1959. The First Phase, 1947-1953. George Kennan’s “Long Telegram” and the policy of containment. Both sides knew that a real “WW3”, a nuclear war, would be unwinnable.. However the Cold War had many characteristics of an actual war:. Arms race . (when countries compete to have the most effective armed forces). Homework. Chapter 17 Section 3: Questions 1-3. Start preparing for Final. Learning objectives. Engage in visual learning regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis. Analyze Cold War imagery and writing. Prepare for District Assessment. Objective:. To analyse the reasons why the USSR became a superpower after WWII. Consider the origins of the Cold War. Task 1:. What can you learn?. Core. : Describe: What . can you . see?. Stretch. : Explain: What learn . Warm Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =-QopdZ7G8ww Who was to blame for the breakdown of the Grand Alliance? L/O – To discuss and evaluate the role played by various factors in the outbreak of the Cold War THE COLD WAR Please get out the “Restructuring the Postwar World” handout you were assigned to read for homework as well as your responses to the five questions as the end of the reading. READING QUIZ