Chapter 21 The Cold War

Chill-up Option 1 On blank paper. Add your name, date and the Title “Cold War” Your mission: Collaborate with your group and use phones as needed to BRAINSTORM and # and list as many COLD WAR Related topics as possible. (at least 10) Include things like Terms, events, people(leaders ect.), places, products made during it, and sides in the Cold War as you can in TEN minutes. Good luck!

VLA Cold War INtro t3mA t3mA Add to your list 5 more things! (can be spoken details or visual details or people mentioned ect.)

W up option 2: Imagine living in a fully stocked and furnished cold war bunker. What are 5 things you’d want to save from destruction or enjoy as the world above burned. ALSO decide on any three people to have with you for 1 month underground and tell why you picked those you did!

Details die roll and Create an attention getting Headline! Mine: “I will break you”

How many details can You find? What specific fears are being Reflected by the Illustrator?

VLA warmup: 5 plus details can you add to your lists? Quick overview: 6Rc4 6Rc4 t3mA t3mA

Cold War Beginnings: After World War II, although an international organization (the United Nations) was formed to ensure global peace and prosperity, that did not always happen. Germany would remain divided between a Soviet-influenced East Germany and a western-influenced West Germany. Europe itself would be divided into the Eastern bloc, dominated by the Soviet Union, and the Western bloc, tied to the United States.

Cold War Explained &2 hot spots The Cold war was a period of hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union without any direct military conflict. This war of competing ideas would last for decades. 2 Proxy wars: (wars where neither country ever came in direct contact with the other.) : the U.S. and Soviet Union were both involved in supporting Capitalism or communism 1. in the Korean War of the Vietnam War of

The Western bloc and the United States created NATO in NATO: military alliance primarily for discouraging the Soviet Union from aggression in Europe. The USSR used their military force twice/stopped uprisings in Hungary (1952) & Czechoslovakia (1968)those countries were revolting for democracy)

Different strokes: During the Cold War there were differences with the Soviets and the United States both politically & economically, US followed: Capitalism; USSR: Communism. To maintain control of Eastern Europe, or the Eastern bloc, the Soviets in 1955 created the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance that tied Russia with other soviet nations. the USSR also brought nations under its control in eastern Europe and made them into satellite nations. The main purpose of them was to create a buffer to protect themselves against invasion from the west.

Aid PLans The United States, as the leader of the non- Communist world, developed the Truman Doctrine to aid countries threatened by Communist takeover. In addition, just after WW2, the United States also created the Marshall Plan to help Western Europe’s democratic nations rebuild their economies. (USA spent $14 billion rebuilding Western Europe’s economy).

Anti-comm measures: The cold war affected American politics during the 1950s, : concerns arose about Communist influences in American government and society. we held: McCarthy Hearings accusing people without evidence: Hollywood Ten group of writers who were accused but refused to testify in front of HUAC). We also held Duck n Cover drills in schools!

Home protests and Nam 1960s in USA: women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans began to make advances in civil rights largely through mass protests and demonstrations. 1960s: the U.S. enters the Vietnam War to stop a communist takeover from North Vietnam.

Key Events of the Cold War : Korean War between Communist North Korea and democratic UN Forces and South Korea. End in Tie. 2. Berlin Wall constructed Aug 13 th 1961, Communist East Germany tries to prevent East Berliners from fleeing into free West Berlin. Wall falls in 1989.

REVIEW your Notes on COLD War 5 minutes till launch codes are entered….

VLA Webbing On blank paper you shall make 2 webs. On one side Label Center of Web “Korean War” Then quickly research/brainstorm any 5 facts to know about it. (leave space to add many more facts) On opposite side of paper label a Web “Berlin Wall” and Then quickly research/brainstorm any 5 facts to know about it. (leave space to add many more facts)

Key events Continued 3. Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 (USSR under Kruschev tries to sneak nuclear missiles into Cuba, US under JFK stops them with a Naval Blockade and threat of Nuclear war. 4. Vietnam War US and South Vietnam fight (and lose) against the VC/NVA and Ho Chi Minh and Communist North Vietnam.

s: Reagan and Gorbachev hold a series of meetings (summits) under new USSR policy of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (free enterprise).USSR begins to break up. Effectively ending the Cold War

VLAs: Cold War: Quick overview: t3mA t3mA Crash Course: UI UI

Wrap Up Create a Chilly web off at least 20 connected cold War facts and THEN draw a small picture, cartoon Or image Represents A KEY FACT related to the Cold War. Must have a minimum of 4 connected chains…