HISTORY 12

JUNE 7 – 11

*Assignment 3 – Ethical Dimensions: WWII now Due (Week of June 7 – TEAMS)

*Assignment 3.1 – Trinity: was its use justified?  Pros & Cons list due by June 8 – TEAMS

*Assignment 4 – The Cold War: How the Cold War Was Fought due week of June 14

• Proxy Wars
• Diplomacy
• Economics
• Propaganda Wars
• Espionage
• Technology
• Brinkmanship

The Cold War

• Overview
  • The end of WWII and new lines drawn (Ideologies, the Iron Curtain)
  • Containment – Berlin Blockade, NATO, Warsaw Pact
  • Korean War
  • McCarthyism
  • Confrontation or Co-existence
  • The Krushchev era
  • Kennedy and Crises
  • Third World Wars
  • Detente
  • Reagan and the Evil Empire
  • The Wall Falls

Homework/Readings:

• Global Forces Chapter 10, 11, 15, 16
• Optional – view MOODLE resources