Week of April 6-10

Monday: No School. 

Tuesday: Talked about forum posts, and semester test questions on the cold war.

  •  Democracy-
    • Government---
      • US- vote for leaders-
        • For and by the people 
  • Communism-  
    • Practice- 
      • China
      • North Korea 
      • Laos 
      • Vietnam
      • Cuba
  • Socialism-
    • Everyone is equal government controlled means of production and businesses 
  • Capitalism-
    • Private ownership of goods and services 
  • Causes of the Cold war-
    • Different Political systems 
      • US- democracy capitalism and freedom
      • USSR- dictatorship communism and control
    • The red scare 1919

CIA-

Define-Book, Student

2 Pictures or video

Political Cartoon 

Wednesday:

Went over the vocab 

Thursday: Continued the vocab presentations. 

Friday: Continued the vocab presentations. 

Vocab--

Policy of Containment- A US policy created to stop the spread of communism. 1947

Truman Doctrine- America will help any country that is threatened by communism; mainly Greece and Turkey 1947

Iron Curtain Speech - The “Iron Curtain Speech” was a speech given by Winston Churchill discussing the Soviet’s occupation of Eastern Europe and their desire to expand.

Brinkmanship- Letting a situation to become extremely dangerous in order to get results.

Marshall Plan- the U.S paying to bring up the European economy.

Massive Retaliation- A strategy of military counter attack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty- the United States and the Soviet Union signed the ABM Treaty as part of an effort to control their arms race in nuclear weapons

CIA- An agency that investigates and gathers security information through human intelligence

Strategic Arms Limitation- Talks 1972-SALT I and SALT II- where agreements that they're signed by U.S. and the Soviet Union. They intended to restrain the arms race in strategic and ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons.

Missile Defense System- A type of missile defense intended to shield a country against incoming missiles, such as intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMS) or other ballistic missiles. -Naval weaponry providing a defense system (weaponry for warships)  

Mutual Deterrence- Stops the use of the nuclear weapons because neither side wants to use them.

Domino theory- one communist win means many communist wins

Mutual Assured Destruction- Everyone knows they are going to be destroyed, so it stops the use of nuclear weapons. #USA

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - Our alliance with most of Western Europe against the Soviet Union. UK, France, West Germany, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Luxembourg.

 Destalinization- Disregarding or ignoring the influence, image and leadership of Joseph Stalin from World War 2.

KGB- the former Soviet Union police founded in 1954-committee for State security

Peacefully coexisting-Living together in peace rather than in constant hostility-1953-on

Détente- The easement of tension between two sides in either a negotiation or agreement. –US and Soviet Union

Warsaw Pact- A military treaty and association of European countries formed in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. In answer to NATO. Included Bulgaria, Czech, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.

Perestroika- restructuring the Soviet Communist Government during the 1980’s (1986)

Glasnost- A policy for opening and discussion of economic and political 

E-mail me when people leave their comments –

You need to be a member of History 360 to add comments!

Join History 360

eXTReMe Tracker