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TEXT READINGS:

McKay, Hill and Buckler. A History of Western Society. Chapter 30 (pp. 992-1029) (glossary) and Chapter 31 (pp. 1030-1064) (glossary). (This is the publisher's site with on-line 

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Sherman. Western Civilization: Images and Interpretations, Selected readings.
Hammond Historical Atlas of the World. (For an on line equivalent, try (For an on line equivalent, try UCLA or Hyperhistory.)
Class handouts as distributed.

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ON-LINE SUPPORT: (Access to published handouts, and Powerpoints):

The Diplomatic Conferences of World War II (Summary reading)
The Grand Alliance in the Post-War World (reading)
Cold War Chronology (Interactive)
"Three Interpretations of Cold War Responsibility" (PowerPoint)
George Kennan and the Cold War (reading)
The World After World War II (reading)
The European Union (history and background reading)

CONSULT YOUR SYLLABUS FOR THE CALENDAR OF DAILY ASSIGNMENTS.

Unit X Journals: These are the journal topics as given in Mr. Roswell's class. They may not always agree with those given by Mr. Leary. Topics will be posted as they are given in class.

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Cold War Alliances

The Dissolution of the Soviet Bloc, 1989-1991

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CALIFORNIA STATE STANDARDS: The following State of California content standards for Grade 10: World History, Culture and Geography, will be dealt with, in part:

10.9 Students analyze the international developments in the post-World War II world.

1.      Compare the economic and military power shifts caused by the war, including the Yalta Pact, the development of nuclear weapons, Soviet control over Eastern European nations, and the economic recoveries of Germany and Japan.

2.      Analyze the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and Soviet client states on the other, including competition for influence in such places as Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, and Chile.

3.      Understand the importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which established the pattern for America's postwar policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as Southeast Asia (i.e., the Korean War, Vietnam War), Cuba, and Africa.

4.      Analyze the Chinese Civil War, the rise of Mao Tse-tung, and the subsequent political and economic upheavals in China (e.g., the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square uprising).

5.      Describe the uprisings in Poland (1952), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968) and those countries' resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet control.

6.      Understand how the forces of nationalism developed in the Middle East, how the Holocaust affected world opinion regarding the need for a Jewish state, and the significance and effects of the location and establishment of Israel on world affairs.

7.      Analyze the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the weakness of the command economy, burdens of military commitments, and growing resistance to Soviet rule by dissidents in satellite states and the non-Russian Soviet republics.

8.      Discuss the establishment and work of the United Nations and the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American States.

10.10 Students analyze instances of nation-building in the contemporary world in at least two of the following regions or countries: the Middle East, Africa, Mexico and other parts of Latin America, and China.

1.      Understand the challenges in the regions, including their geopolitical, cultural, military, and economic significance and the international relationships in which they are involved.

2.      Describe the recent history of the regions, including political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues, natural features, resources, and population patterns.

3.      Discuss the important trends in the regions today and whether they appear to serve the cause of individual freedom and democracy.

10.11 Students analyze the integration of countries into the world economy and the information, technological, and communications revolutions (e.g., television, satellites, computers).

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 UNIT OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of the reading and study of this unit, the student should be able:

• List the Causes of the Cold War.
• Describe the process and reasons for the recovery of western Europe from Nazism and World War II.
• Describe the effects of World War II on the United States.
• Describe the extent and process of recovery from World War II in eastern Europe.
• Describe the political crises of the 1960’s that struck many countries.
• Describe the changing lives of women in the post-World War II period.
• Describe the impact of decolonization upon the old imperial nations and the impact of the new nations upon world relations.
• List the reasons for the failure of reform in the communist nations.
• Describe the fall of communism in eastern Europe and its impact bringing the end of the Cold War.
• Describe the ways that European nations met the challenges of reconstruction, resurgent nationalism, and economic union.
• Discuss the challenges and prospects for European nations in the 21^st century.

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

1. Discuss the origins in the Cold War that emerged from the diplomacy and conflicting goals of the superpowers in World War II. (Make sure you include information from the handout "The Diplomatic Conferences of World War II".)
2. Describe the major incidents in the growing conflict between the West (the United States and its allies) and the East (the Soviet Union and its allies), 1946-1950.
3. Describe the economic recovery in post-war Western Europe.
4. Discuss the economic integration of Western Europe in the Common Market.
5. Describe the development and effects of the decolonization movement upon Europe and the world.
6. Discuss the goals and achievements of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States under Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson.
7. Describe the developments in the satellite states of Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe in the years between World War II and Stalin’s death in 1953.
8. Describe the reform of the process of de-Stalinization under Nikita Khrushchev, 1953-1964.
9. Discuss the end of reform policies in Eastern Europe and the adoption of the hard line policies of the Brezhnev Doctrine.
10. Discuss the career and influence of Josip Broz Tito in the establishment of the non-aligned communist state of Yugoslavia. (Why do you think that the breakdown of Yugoslavia into its present ethnic strife began with the death of Tito?)
11. Discuss the coming of "Big Science" and its effect upon science and technology in postwar Europe and the United States.
12. Describe postwar economic changes and their effects on the class structure of Europe.
13. Discuss the new causes and consequences of the counterculture rising among young people in the postwar world leading to the student revolts of the late 1960’s.
14. Discuss the causes and effects of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
15. Discuss the successes and failures in the policy of détente with between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
16. Describe the causes and circumstances of the economic crises of the 1970’s.
17. Discuss the social effects of the economic crises of the 1970’s and early 1980’s and major developments of the period.
18. Describe the changes in the lives of women regarding motherhood and work outside the home and the impact of these changes.
19. Discuss the growth of the Women’s Movement in the 1970’s and its impact.
20. Discuss the analysis of marriage by Simone de Beauvoir describing the advantages and disadvantages for women.
21. Discuss the developments in the Soviet Union under the direction of Leonid Brezhnev leading to the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev that began in 1985.
22. Describe the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland confronting the hardline regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski.
23. Discuss the reform policies of Mikhail Gorbachev and their effects upon the Soviet Union.
24. Describe the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe in the Revolutions of 1989.
25. Describe the fall of Communist Party rule and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the Revolution of 1991.
26. Describe the reasons for the opposition to communist rule by Václav Havel and the differences between his goals and the earlier reforms of Alexander Dubcek.
27. Describe the end of the Cold War coming with German reunification and the resulting decline of the Soviet Union as a superpower.
28. Discuss the general economic, social, and political trends in Europe in the post Cold War era of the 1990’s.
29. Describe the reform polices and changes in the new Russia of the 1990’s.
30. Discuss the progress of reform policies transforming the Eastern Europe.
31. Describe the disintegration of the federation of Yugoslavia and the resulting wars among the ethnic groups.
32. Describe the policies of Western European governments in the 1990’s and progress toward integration and unity.
33. Discuss the prospects for the future of Europe in the new millenium.
34. Analyze the historical and practical arguments of Adam Michnik and explain his logic and reasoning for nonviolent actions to bring about political reform in Poland.

Wartime Conferences set the stage for the post-war world but the "Big Three" had changed by War's end. (Click on thumbnails to enlarge images.)
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin at Yalta	Clement Atlee, Harry S Truman and Josef Stalin at Potsdam

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IDENTIFICATIONS:

1)Cold War; 2)Teheran Conference; 3)Yalta Conference; 4)Potsdam Conference; 5)Nuremberg Trials; 6)Harry S Truman; 7)"Iron Curtain"; 8)Truman Doctrine; 9)Marshall Plan; 10)Berlin Blockade / Berlin Airlift; 11)NATO; 12)Korean War; 13)Warsaw Pact (Warsaw Treaty Organization); 14)Christian Democrats; 15)Alcide De Gasperi; 16)Charles de Gaulle (de Gaulle for French speakers); 17)French Fourth Republic; 18)Konrad Adenauer (Adenauer for German speakers); 19)Keynesian economics; 20)European Coal and Steel Community; 21)Treaty of Rome; 22)"Common Market" (European Economic Community, EEC); 23)French Fifth Republic; 24)decolonization; 25)British Commonwealth of Nations; 26)neocolonialism; 27)Dwight D. Eisenhower; 28)John F. Kennedy; 29)NAACP; 30)Brown v. Board of Education; 31)Martin Luther King, jr.; 32)Lyndon Johnson; 33)Civil Rights Act of 1964; 34)Voting Rights Act of 1965; 35)Nikita Khrushchev; 36)de-Stalinization; 37)Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago; 38)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; (The Gulag Archipelago);  39)Hungarian Revolt; 40)Leonid Brezhnev; 41)Berlin Wall; 42)Fidel Castro; 43)Cuban Missile Crisis; 44)Alexander Dubcek; 45)invasion of Czechoslovakia; 46)Brezhnev Doctrine; 47)Josip Broz Tito; 48)Manhattan Project; 49)Big Science; 50)Apollo Program; 51)counterculture; 52)Vietnam War; 53)Geneva Accords; 54)Richard Nixon; 55)Henry Kissinger; 56)Watergate scandal; 57)détente; 58)Willy Brandt; 59)Final Act of the Helsinki Conference (Helsinki Accords); 60)Jimmy Carter; 61)Ronald Reagan; 62)Margaret Thatcher; 63)OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries); 64)François Mitterand; 65)Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique; 66)NOW (National Organization for Women); 67)Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex. 68)Karol Wojtyla / Pope John Paul II; 69)Lech Walesa; 70)Solidarity; 71)Wojciech Jaruzelski; 72)Mikhail Gorbachev; 73)Yuri Andropov; 74)perestroika; 75)glasnost; 76)Chernobyl; 77)János Kádár; 78)Nicolae Ceausescu; 79)Boris Yeltsin; 80)Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS); 81)Václav Havel; 82)Helmut Kohl; 83)Alliance for Germany; 84)Paris Accord of 1990 (Charter of Paris for a New Europe); 85)START; 86)George H. W. Bush; 87)Saddam Hussein; 88)Gulf War; 89)contemporary history; 90)European Union (EU); 91)Chechnya; 92)Slobodan Milosevic; 93)Dayton Accord; 94)Single European Act of 1986; 95)Maastricht Treaty (Treaty on European Union); 96)Jacques Chirac.

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Children at the end of the runway watch as a plane takes off during the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949	President Kennedy calls for a U.S. commitment to reach the moon by the end of the '60s

Photo Gallery
Winston Churchill: Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1940-45 and 1951-1955	Harry S Truman, President of U.S., 1945-1953	George C. Marshall: World War II Army Chief of Staff and Secretary of State and Defense under Truman	Simone de Beauvoir: Author of The Second Sex, the founding work of the Feminist Movement
Konrad Adenauer: Chancellor of West Germany from 1949-1963.	Dwight D. Eisenhower: Allied Commander in Europe in World War II, first NATO Commander, and President of the U.S., 1953-1961	Nikita Khrushchev: Soviet Communist Leader, 1956-64	Charles de Gaulle: World War II hero and President of France, 1959-1969
John F. Kennedy: President of the United States, 1961-63	Willy Brandt: Mayor of West Berlin, 1957-1966 and Chancellor of West Germany, 1969-1974	Leonid Brezhnev: Soviet Communist Leader, 1964-1982	Mikhail Gorbachev: Last Communist head of the Soviet Union, 1985-91
Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister of Britain, 1979-1990, the longest term in the modern era	Lech Walesa: Leader of the Solidarity Movement that brought the downfall of communism in Poland and President of Poland, 1990-95	Boris Yeltsin: He became the first democratically elected head of Russia in 1991; President of Russia, 1990-2000	Pope John Paul II: Reigning from 1978 until his death in 2005, he was the most-traveled Pope in history and played a major part in the end of the Cold War

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Links to sites of further interest:

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Primary source documents and links to other document sites.
The Cold War: CNN's site that accompanies the excellent video series with information and links to other sites.
Cold War Hot Links: Many links to Cold War sites.
The History of the European Union: The EU's own site with a year-by-year chronology of what happened.
The Cold War Museum: Several exhibits, writings and links to other information.

The Fall of Communism: US State Department site with a good short summary.
Russia via the WWW: This site from St. Lawrence University in Canada teaches Russian history using the internet. Weeks 11-14 have several sites useful to this period of Russian history and the Cold War.

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Advanced Placement European History Title Page.

Unit 11: AP Exam Review
Mr. Roswell's Home Page.
Mr. Roswell's IB/AP Stress Relief Page.

E-mail to Mr. Roswell

E-mail to Mr. Leary

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A note on the selection of music for this page: All other pages in the syllabus collection have music contemporary to the period being covered. The selection of Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" from the Fourth Movement of his Ninth Symphony written in the early 19th century might seem curiously out of place. However, in 1972, the European Union adopted this piece of music as its official anthem.

Information ©2001, subject to change without notice
This site is maintained by George Roswell.

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