Cold+War



- overthrew the Czar and government - leaders of the new government eventually turned the Soviet Union into a communist nation - America since it was a capitalist nation disagreed with their ways

__**Dr. Seuss The Butter Battle Book Answers **__ **a**. **Why do you think the Zooks and Yooks did not get along?** - they had different ways of spreading their butter on their bread (Yooks=butter upside right) (Zooks= butter upside down) **b.** **What do you think caused this conflict to get worse?** - the use of their weapons to keep eachother away then the creation of more advanced weapons and the threats being made with the weapons. Also the trying to outdo eachother's weapons. **c**. **How do you think this happens with your friends or siblings?** - we disagree on the way things should be done and have different mindsets about life which causes seperation and then evenutally you aren't friends with eachother anymore **d**. **What do you think the Zooks and Yooks could have done differently to prevent this conflict?** - agreed to disagree and that be the end of it. **e**. **In the story, each side uses propaganda to make their side seem like the right side. Give some examples from themovie/book.** - The Yooks had posters/flags with slogans and their bread song (national anthem kind of) - The two sides were fighting because they did things differently so they created new different modern kind of weapons to try to scare the other side to giving into their way but it wasn't working because they created nucleaur bombs and were waiting to see who was going to drop it first trying to scare eachother once again. **g**. **What would be your ending to the story?** -neither side would drop the bomb and just come to an agreement because the suspense and fighting is unnessecary and solves nothing. 
 * f ****.** **What does the story tell you about the Cold War?**






 * Linking Activity:**
 * 1. __NATO/Warsaw Pact:__** The __NATO__ was designed by Western nations to counter Soviet Power in Europe. And in response to this, the Soviet-dominated countries created the __Warsaw Pact__.


 * 2.** __**Soviet Union/Communism/Capitalism**:__ The __Soviet Union__ was a socialist state on the Eurasian continent which consisted of 15 separate republics. They were __communists__, and created propaganda against capitalists because they believed __capitalism__ was all about the money and no equality for the people.


 * 3. __East Germany/West Germany/Iron Curtain/Winston Churchill:__** __East Germany__ was separated from __West Germany__ because the east had a capitalist economy while the west had a communist economy. __Winston Churchill__ described this imaginary line as the __Iron Curtan__, which he saw as a serious threat to peace.


 * 4. __Politburo/Josef Stalin/Nikita Khrushchev__:** A __Politburo__ is the executive committee for a number of communist political parties. __Josef Stalin__ broke down the Politburo by the establishment of several sub-institutions which were directly responsible by Stalin himself. __Nikita Khrushchev__, who became the Soviet leader after Stalin undertook an effort to "de-Stalinize" the Soviet Union.


 * 5. __United Nations General Assembly/Cold War:__** The __Cold War__ was an era of high tension between the US and the USSR following WWII. Because of the Cold War, the United Nations was created to achieve long-lasting world peace. Within the UN is the __United Nations General Assebly__, which is a part of the UN where all member nations have equal representation.


 * 6. __Marshall Plan/Truman Doctrine/Harry Truman:__** The __Marshall Plan__ and the __Truman Doctrine__ were both created in 1947 to help aid other countries in need. The Marshall Plan helped reconstruct Europe after WWII, and the Truman Doctrine was President __Harry Truman__'s pledge to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by Communism.


 * 7.__Containment Policy/Domino Theory/Détente:__** The __Containment Policy__ was created to stop the spread of communism because the US feared that the fall of one non-communist country fell to Communism, this would cause the neighboring non-communist countries to fall also, which is known as the __Domino Theory__. Because of this fear, President Nixon created __Détente__ to try to lower the Cold War tensions so this does not happen.


 * 8. __Arms Race/Space Race:__** These were two of the competitions that occurred during the Cold War between the US and the USSR. The __Arms Race__ was a competition to gain an advantage in weapons, this eventually led to the creation of nuclear weapons. The __Space Race__ was a competition for supremacy in space exploration, which led to many technological advanced and the US putting men on the moon.


 * 9. __East/West/Berlin Airlift:__** The __east__ was taken over by Capitalism, and the __west__ was taken over by Communism. Because of this division, the __Berlin Airlift__ was created which is a program in which the US and Britain shipped supplies by air to West Berlin.


 * 10.** __**Cuban** **Missile Crisis/Fidel Castro/John F. Kennedy:**__ __Fidel Castro__ was the dictator of Cuba who created a Communist government. He allowed the Soviets to set up missiles in Cuba to threaten the US, known as the __Cuban Missile Crisis__, and this brought the world closer to a nuclear war. __John F. Kennedy__, who was President at this time, demanded that the Soviets remove the missiles and considered military options, which he knew would start a nuclear war.


 * 11. __Korean War/Vietnam War:__** These wars are known as proxy wars during the Cold War for the US and the USSR to fight indirectly. The __Korean War__ was between South Korea which was supported by the UN, and North Korea who was supported by the Soviet Union. The __Vietnam War__ was between North Vietnam who was supported by communist allies, and South Vietnam who was supported by the US and other anti-communist countries.


 * 12. __Ronald Reagan/Mikhail Gorbachev:__** Both __Ronald Reagan__ and __Mikhail Gorbachev__ wanted to reduce the Cold War tensions between each other. Together they ratified the INF Treaty which called for elimination of certain types of missiles.

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media type="custom" key="24180642" - Iron Curtain- Imaginary diding line dividing Communist countries in the Soviet bloc from countries in Western Europe.
 * **Two Column Notes (//Primary Source Document)//** ||  ||   ||
 * **Comments, Connections, Questions, Predictions, Inferences**

- Condemned- to express an unfavorable judgment on.

- Acted as the mark of the start of the Cold War. ||  || **A**uthor: Winston Churchill

Place: Fulton, Missouri; March 5th, 1946

Prior Knowledge: -Churchill was the British Prime Minister, and had Soviet concerns

Audience: The whole world, mainly those in the US and USSR who are involved in this War.

Reason: To alert everyone about the Soviet threat of the “iron curtain”

The Main Point: Churchill’s concern of the Soviet behavior was increasing, so he gave a speech to inform everyone what the iron curtain is doing and that something needs to change.

Significance: This speech condemned the USSR’s policies and announced the “beginning of the Cold War. He alerted the world about his concerns of the division, or the iron curtain. ||

Through Winston Churchill’s speech, he proposed what he saw as a threat to the world. He was concerned with the Soviet’s and how they were dividing Europe in half, which is what he calls the “iron curtain”. He believes that this division is a threat to world peace, and that his concerns with it are increasing, stating how this needs to change. ||
 * < **Analysis:**

__**Berlin Wall Web Quest (goggle doc link below)**__ [|https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qrNkuRyviXipGyp3JbhzKdbEzIF47de2F-DEIEfYS_Y/edit]


 * __Korean__ **__** War **__

** How did the Korean War turn into a Cold War Conflict? ** ** Why did the Korean War not lead to world war? ** ** How does the Korean War shed light on the broad themes of the Co **** ld War? ** []
 * Content Questions **:
 * //Guide Topics for Movie Link (below)//**

__** Opener: Based on Korean War Video **__
 * **Do you Believe the Korean War was a Civil War or a Proxy War ( war that results when opposing powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly.)?**
 * -** The Korean war was a proxy war because they actually never fought face to face. "Proxy" means in the place of. The US fought the North Koreans which were armed and trained by the Soviet Union. The support the Soviets gave essentially is an indirect conflict between NATO and the USSR . They used North Korea as a third party substitute in place of the Soviets.They all had nuclear weapons so face to face combat was going to try to be avoided.



//**Korean War Summary Mark Up Link (Below)**// []

//**Questions on Summary of Korean War Mark Up (Below)**// []

//**Ranked Important Points from Korean War Public Poll:**// 1. the poll if the American people believed that the Korean War was worth fighting for or not. In October, November, January, and April, more than half the people in each poll voted not worth fighting. This also shows the strong discourage of the American people that they did not want to be involved in this war and it was not worth fighting in. This should have been enough to stop this war, since more than half of the citizens do not want to be a part of it.

2.The United States taking strong steps to try and end the Korean War. 62% of the people voted yes for this poll. This shows how the people never favored being involved in this war, and that they encouraged the U.S. to end this war because they don't want to be in it.

3. Signing the armistice is important because according to the poll, 69% of people approved in the government signing an armistice. This is an American strategy used in trying to end the Korean War. Almost 70% of the people wanted this to happen, showing how badly they wanted to end this war and our involvement in it.



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 * //Questions on You be The Judge activity (below)//**

__Cuban__ **__Missile Crisis__**


(Cuban Missile Crisis notes link below) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eGiuvhehLgLrvoANAtmb__0aC_K5H2B8hrr-VomCbqw/edit?usp=sharing

(Cuban Movie Notes link below) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1umn_N5X9QzQ2FCHa_3cNZ_GikdFqatJ94sAfEF8KK4Y/edit?usp=sharing (World at Brink Notes- 13 Days)  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UE5ArfO52FOmfBIThJqWfeJqbhArQQVYULWYEp1vvTw/edit?usp=sharing **AAaAjsnfsbghsfgbjs** **__ Mai Lai Massacre __** https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gSOuXM0y6Vh_2Ocbti9i1CWVoJ5lWb91UKrua3xSQKY/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xaZptTCCI5fUCDZZwkUqkr7d8iUGtcgS2kFotSoQw6Q/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CYwQtfvJH1kt-pX_4IgkQ_LVISMiixgJqHhFPkOzo9k/edit?usp=sharing
 * What would you do? :**
 * Geneva Convention Notes :**
 * Was Mai Lai a war crime? :**

**__ Afghanistan War __** ** 5 Observations :**
 * Kabui is the main place where the Soviets came to/from to invade.
 * The plane coming from the Soviet Union went into Kabui.
 * All of the Soviets invasion routes were on their own controlled territory.
 * The bordering countries of Afghanistan are Iraq, the Soviet Union, and Pakistan.
 * All of the Soviet Invasion routes are connected to eachother.

**__CEPA(Bulgaria)__**
1) we were once regarded as the Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe because of our huge computer technology exports to communist countries. 2) In 2002, the country ranked 8th in terms of number of IT experts in the world. 3) we are one of the countries in the world suffering from negative population growth. From having 9 million inhabitants in 1988, Bulgaria has just around 4 million people today. 5) the Communist Party gave up control of the state and free elections (the firsts since 1931) took place in June of the same year. In 1991, a new constitution was approved, allowing for both an elected president and a prime minister. 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">has become a pride destination for expatriation for all ages whether it's work, education  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">7) southeastern Europe, bordered by Romania, Greece, Macedonia, and the Black Sea <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">8) organized crime is a big issue in the larger cities <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">9) their government is a republic, which means it's held by people and their elected representatives, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;"> 10) a member of NATO as of July 2007