1. Cold War Era What defined/characterized the Cold War?
How did events in the era reflect cold war tensions?

2. Cold War
Cold War
Defined
Scope (timeframe, involvement, etc.)
How did the atomic bomb, industrialization and United Nations impact the postwar years?
What happened in the Yalta/Potsdam Conferences and how did this contribute to the Cold War?
What was the policy of containment, Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine?
What happened to Germany in the years following the war?
Why did Nato develop?
How did developments in Asia related to Japan, Korea, and China impact the global balance of power and Cold War?

3. Interpreting the Origins
Soviet/U.S. Views
Read documents (Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan & Ponomaryov) pages and answer the following questions:
What were the Soviet and American perspectives during the Cold War?
How did those perceptions shape their policies and actions?
Read Gormly’s interpretation (page 260) and answer the following questions:
Who/What was responsible for the Cold War?
Was the Cold War inevitable?

4. Cold War Newspaper
Newspaper should have title, pictures, content related to event and perspective shown.
Create a two-sided newspaper that portrays that event: 1 side from American view; 1 side from Soviet view
For event research the event and its impact on the time period, how it reflected Cold War tensions, how the Soviets and Americans would have viewed the events
Working with a partner choose 1 event from the early Cold War: (events/developments)

5. European developments
What were trends in Western Europe during the Cold War Era?
What were developments in France, GB, West Germany, and Italy?
Continuity/Change
Periodization

6. What was Russia like under Stalin in the years following WW2?
Eastern Europe
What was Russia like under Stalin in the years following WW2?
How did Khrushchev alter the course of the “revolution” in Russia (what were his policies?)
What was the relationship between the Soviet Union and the Eastern States? Did it follow a pattern?
What were the developments in Eastern Europe following the war (1950’s-1970’s)

7. Toward the European Union
What was GATT?
What was/were the IMF and World Bank?
What did the Benelux countries do in the 1940’s?
What was the ECSC?
What was the Common Market and subsequent European Community?
How did Britain respond to the economic policies of their European counterparts?
How did the Common Market evolve in the 1980’s and 1990’s?

8. Collapse of Communism
Step 1: Identify the problems facing Soviet Union and Eastern Satellite states by 1980s
Step 2: Identify the developments related to the fall of the soviet system in Eastern Europe in the 1980’s:
East Germany
Poland
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Step 3: Identify the results of these developments for
Europe
Soviet Union