1. Do Now: - copy Cold War Vocabulary into your notebooks

2. United Nations – international group formed in 1945 to provide a place to discuss world problems & develop solutions Cold War – continuing state of tension & hostility between the United States & the Soviet Union after 1945 because of differences in political & economic philosophies Superpowers – name for both the United States & the Soviet Union, the two nations that dominated global politics for more than 4 decades Iron curtain – the imaginary line through Europe that divided the democracies of the West from the communist countries in the East

3. Underline or highlight the important information from the reading Use the information to answer DBQs 1 - 6

4. If you lived during the Cold War, which side of the iron curtain would you choose to live in?