Unit 4 – The Cold war – USSR vs USA, Tension in the Middle East
1. Assess critical developments of the Cold War, including
– division of Germany
– American policy of containment
– Soviet sphere of influence
– Korean War
– Cuban Missile Crisis
define Cold War and Iron Curtain
 identify on a map of Europe countries on either side of the Iron Curtain
 identify and describe various forms of superpower competition (e.g., nuclear arms race, space
race, spheres of influence)
 explain the impact of the following developments:
– division of Germany (e.g., Berlin Blockade, Berlin Wall)
– American policy of containment (e.g., NATO, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, domino theory,
McCarthyism)
– Soviet sphere of influence (e.g., Warsaw Pact, Comecon, Poland and Hungary, Yugoslavia)
– Korean War
– U2 incident
- Cuban Missile Crisis (e.g., Bay of Pigs, brinkmanship, quarantine, hot line, partial Test-Ban
Treaty)
2 explain the significance of conflicts in Vietnam
 explain the role of nationalism in the post-1945 decolonization of Indochina
explain the significance of Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Agreement
explain the importance of key events and people associated with the Vietnam War, including
– Gulf of Tonkin and escalation (Johnson)
– Tet Offensive, Viet Cong, and guerrilla warfare (Ho Chi Minh)
– Vietnamization (Nixon)
– counter culture and protest movement
– My Lai
3 analyse the late stages of the Cold War with reference to
– the US/USSR relationship
– the decline of communism in Eastern Europe
– the dissolution of the Soviet Union
 describe the relationship between the US and the USSR in terms of
– détente (1970s)
– Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
– SALT I
– Helsinki Accords
– SALT II
– renewed arms race and Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
 create a timeline of events associated with the decline of communism in Eastern Europe, including
– Prague Spring and the Brezhnev Doctrine
– Solidarity and Lech Walesa
– fall of communism in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania
– dismantling of the Berlin Wall
– dissolution of Yugoslavia
 analyse the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with reference to
– economic conditions in the USSR and the US
– role of mass media
– ethnic nationalism
– leadership (Reagan, Gorbachev)
– glasnost and perestroika
4a describe the relationship between colonial rule and emerging nationalism in Palestine
 define colonial rule
 describe responses to colonialism in Palestine including Zionism
4b describe relations between Israel and the Arab world, with reference to
– territorial changes
– Arab nationalism
– Suez Crisis
 describe territorial changes in the Middle East associated with
– the establishment of Israel in 1948
– the first Arab-Israeli War
 describe the development of Arab nationalism (e.g., the Arab League, Nasser)
 summarize the Suez Crisis with reference to international involvement (e.g., role of Britain, France,
USA, USSR, Canada)
 explain the importance of key events and people associated with conflicts in the Middle East,
including
– Six-Day War
– Yom Kippur War and the OPEC oil embargo
– PLO (Arafat)
– Camp David (Carter, Begin, Sadat)
– Iranian Revolution
– First Gulf War, 1990-91
 compare Soviet involvement in Afghanistan to US involvement in Vietnam
Cold War – Korea, Vietnam, Cuba
Truman Doctrine
Cominform
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Brinkmanship
38th parallel
Attlee
Marshall Plan
Jan Masaryk
SEATO
Norad
Trizonia
Deutshmark
Ho Chi-Minh
17th Parallel
Bipolar World
West Germany
Occupation zones of Germany
Mao
Lester Pearson
Khrushchev
Peaceful co-existence
U2 incident
Castro
Bay of Pigs
Yalu River
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Airlift
Domino theory
Comecon
Massive retaliation
Pusan
Ichon
Tito
Macarthyism
Soviet Atomic Bomb
CENTO
Bizonia
Containment policy
Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Agreements
Konrad Adenhauer
East Germany
The OEEC
Communist China
Suez Crisis
Sputnik
20th Party Congress
Berlin Wall
Francis Gary Powers
Batista
Cuban Missile Crisis
John Foster Dulles
Iron Curtain
Oder-Meisse Line
Middle East 1919 – 1991
McMahon Letters
Sykes-Picot Agreement
Mandates of the Middle East
British white paper 1939
UN and the Creation of Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Henry Kissinger
Balfour Declaration
The Peel Commission 1937
Exodus
War for independence
Palestinian Refugees
Suez Crisis
Aswan Dam
Suez Crisis
Nasser
Zionism
Terrorism by PLO and Israelis
Six Day War
Jimmy Carter
Iran Hostages
Munich Olympics
Yom Kippur War 1973
OPEC
Oil Prices 1974
Anwar Sadat
Begin
Camp David Accords
Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty 1979
Arab reaction to Treaty
Invasion of Lebanon 1978
Saddam Hussein
Ayatollah Khomeini (Iran)
American hostage-taking 1979-iran
Iran-Iraq War
Shatt-al-Arab
Invasion of Kuwait
UN resolutions against Iraq
UN Peacekeeping 1956-67
Eisenhower Doctrine
The PLO
Arafat
Gaza Strip
Sinai Peninsula
West Bank
Golan Heights
Resolution 242
Camp David Accords
UNESCO
Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm
Environmental Damage
US objectives in the Middle East
Soviet Objections in the Middle East
Arab League
Iran-Iraq war -1980-88
Kuwait
George Bush Sr
Gulf War Syndrome