Learning Target:
I can discuss the origins of the Cold War, & I can evaluate the methods used by the United States to contain communism. Critical Vocabulary: Potsdam Conference, Big Three, “Iron Curtain,” Truman Doctrine, George F. Kennan, “Long Telegram,” Containment Policy, Marshall Plan, “Berlin Airlift,” North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Chiang Kai-Shek, Mao Zedong, 38th Parallel, NSC-68, General Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Demilitarized Zone, John Foster Dulles, Strategic Air Command, Arms Race, Red Scare, Executive Order 9835, Federal Loyalty Program, Congressman Martin Dies, House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), Hollywood Ten, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Army-McCarthy Hearings, Nikita Khrushchev, Sputnik, “Kitchen Debate,” Francis Gary Powers, John Kennedy, New Frontier, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Fidel Castro, Alliance for Progress, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis Learning Targets:
Critical Vocabulary: "War Guilt" Article, World War Foreign Debt Commission, Dawes Plan, Washington Conference, Four Power Treaty of 1921, London Naval Conference of 1930, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Pan-American Conference, "Good Neighbor Policy," Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Third Reich, Emperor Hirohito, "Stimson Doctrine," Nye Committee, Neutrality Acts, "Cash-and-Carry,” General Francisco, Berlin-Rome Axis, Anti-Comintern Pact, "Rape of Nanking," USS Panay, "Ludlow Amendment," "Quarantine Speech,” Munich Conference, Non-Aggression Pact, "Phony War," "Battle of Britain," Tripartite Pact, “Destroyer-Bases Deal,” "Arsenal of Democracy,” "Lend-Lease" Bill, White Committee , American First Committee, Atlantic Charter, General Hideki Tojo, Pearl Harbor, General Douglas MacArthur, Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, "Island-Hopping," Iwo Jima, Okinawa, General Dwight David Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, General George S. Patton, Battle of Stalingrad, D-Day, “Battle of the Bulge,” War Resources Board, National War Labor Board, War Labor Disputes Act, Office of Price Administration, Office of Scientific Research and Development, “Manhattan Project,” Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, WAVEs, "Tuskegee Airmen," "Codetalkers,” "Rosie the Riveter,” "Double-V," "Zoot Suit Riots," Office of War Information, Why We Fight, Executive Order 9066, Korematsu v. United States, "Grand Alliance," Casablanca Conference, Cairo Declaration, Tehran Conference, United Nations, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, Hiroshima, Nagasaki |
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
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