The+Cold+War

The Cold War:



The Cold War was "fought" between mostly the United States and the Soviet Union along with the allies of each side. The war was not an actual war fought physically through guns and steel. It was more of a clash between differing ideologies of the two sides as well as an intense rivalry of the two sides militarily, economically, and politically. Some of the ways that were used to fight in the "war" is a proxy war such as the Korean and Vietnam War, espionage and sabotage, the arms race of who could gain the most nuclear weaponry in the shortest amount of time, and the space race of who could accomplish the most achievements in space before the opposition. The ideologies each side represents is democracy and capitalism for the U.S. and communism for the Soviet Union. The allies of the U.S. were in the NATO alliance and the allies of the Soviet Union were in the Warsaw Pact.

Answers to Dr. Seuss Cold War Video: a. Why do you think the Zooks and Yooks did not get along? The Zooks and Yooks did not get along because they have different views on how to smear butter on which side of the bread. They also live separately on different sides of the wall. b. What do you think caused this conflict to get worse? The conflict escalated because the Yooks was trying to patrol around the border to keep the Zooks in line. Unfortunately, the Zooks had enough and fought back with a slingshot which caused a negative opinion on the Zooks on the Yooks side and spurred on the desire for more modern weapons. c. How do you think this happens with your friends or siblings? This happens with your friends or siblings through a disagreement or because of emotions such as jealousy. Both sides can be experiencing these factors but in the case that one side starts a disagreement, this often drags the other side into the disagreement and turn it into a full on argument. The resultant chasm in relations to each other means both persons would probably not talk to each other. Sometimes the friends or siblings might spread bad rumors about the other and also argue why he/she is right, similar to propaganda in the Cold War. d. What do you think the Zooks and Yooks could have done differently to prevent this conflict? The Zooks and Yooks could have just not bothered to patrol the wall and not promote aggression like the Yooks did with the grandfather. Or they could have just set aside their differences of which way to spread butter on the bread as it really was a small thing anyways. e. In the story, each side uses propaganda to make their side seem like the right side. Give some examples from the movie/book.


 * Yooks have a poster saying which way to put on butter is right.
 * Teacher teaches children which way is right by making them swear an oath.
 * Parade and choir promoting which way to spread butter is right. Justifies cause for fighting.
 * Song justifying why it is right to spread butter right side up.

f. What does the story tell you about the Cold War? The story tells me about the Cold War is that the arms race was started because of one side wanting to threaten the other or at least watch over them in case something bad might happen. This caused the other side to be scared and thought up their own weapons to counter and check the other side. This caused fear in the civilian population who, supported by the propaganda, became fearful and grew to hate the opposing side and thus, supports the new weapons and attempts to defeat the other side.

g. What would be your ending to the story? My ending to the story would be that both of the guys chickens out and decides to not drop the bomb on the other side and both perhaps are able to settle their differences. This would be similar to what happens for the actual Cold War as there were negotiations to deescalate arms on both sides which were followed by further negotiations and treaties to improve relations so I would assume this might be the most logical solution if the two representatives of each side has a brain and a conscience.

10/16/13 Opener:

Political Cartoon: 1.) I thought the message of the cartoon was to highlight the contradictory nature of those in power in a capitalist society as well as to show the unfair treatment received by the workers in such a society. The contradictory nature is that while those in power might own the workplace and the equipment there, it is the workers who do the work in sustaining the workplace and keeping it going. As such, the power is really in the hands of the workers who are mistreated and shown to receive unfair treatment by the owner and boss.

2.) This can be used by Communist countries by using the cartoon to highlight the unfairness in division of labor with the owner who just goes around yelling at people getting the majority of the cash while the workers gets less than 50% of the profit in selling the products that they made. This contrasts a communist society's moral and altruistic beliefs and makes capitalism seems like a society of inequity where the rich and strong are tyrants and the poor and weak are oppressed.

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Cold War Terms: 10/17/13

Linking Activity: 1.) __NATO/Warsaw Pact/West/East/Communism/Capitalism/Soviet Union/Iron Curtain__ Essentially, the __NATO__ alliance represented the __West__ while the __East__ was represented by the __Warsaw Pact.__ The NATO alliance consisted of the likes of the U.S., U.K., and France which are western states while the Warsaw Pact consists of the SOviet Union and other communist states. The East, which consists of the __Soviet Union__ and its allied or satellite states, are seperated from the Western European nations through the __Iron Curtain__ where there is a noticeable line of seperation between the two sides. The Iron Curtain is not an actual line in reality but is a fictional boundary marking the beginning of communism past West Germany.

2.) __East Germany/West Germany/Berlin Airlift__ __East Germany__ and __West Germany__ are divided between the former Allied nations of World War II. Berlin, all the way in deep East Germany, was also split but Stalin moved in to starve out West Berlin to reunite the capital. However, the U.S. started the __Berlin Airlift__ that dropped in supplies for West Berlin when the Soviets blockaded West Berlin. The success of the airlift later has the Soviet Union remove the ineffective blockade, a victory for the U.S.

3.) __Marshall Plan/Truman Doctrine/Containment Policy/Harry Truman__ President of the United States __Harry Truman__ was a fervent anticommnist and is show in some of the policies and the direction he took. The __Marshall Plan__ was established not only to help out the ruined nations of Europe but also to spread out the influence of capitalism and Western beliefs to counter communist expansion. The __Truman Doctrine__ was declared to back up the Marshall Plan by offering aid to those who are dealing with Communist expansion and agression. Ultimately, the policies culminated to the __Containment Policy__ where the U.S. took a stance against communist expansion and to prevent it from spreading.

4.) __United Nations General Assembly/Politburo__ The __United Nations General Assembly__ can be compared to the __Politburo__ of the Communist faction as the U.N. assembly controls the external affairs of the world but the U.N. usually supported the U.S. and it's allies decisions while the Politburo was a communist body focused on internal affairs but is still influential based on the size of the Soviet Union

5.) __Domino Theory/Vietnam War/Korean War__ The __Domino Theory__ was a bout the possiblity of other Asian countries falling to communism should one goes under communist control. As such, it definitely helped spur the U.S. into taking action in the __Vietnam and Korean Wars__ to prevent the spread of the Communism. Thr Vietnam War is signified the fears of the U.S. in that a nation was indeed lost to communism however it also proved the theory wrong as no other country really fell to communism after that. The Korean War on the other hand led to a split in the nation of Korea, with one part being communist and the other democratic.

6.) __Arms Race/Space Race/Communism/Capitalism__ The __Arms and Space Race__ were two prime examples of the struggles between the Soviet Union and the United States without actual fighting taking place. Both of these races had invested in them millions of dollars worth of weaponry or space technology and as such, both share the tag of being cash sucking machines that eventually ruins the economy of the Soviet Union. As such, both of these races end up being a fight between the __communist__ and __capitalist__ economies to see which one can handle the most stress and spending.

7.) __Cuban Missile Crisis/Fidel Castro/John F. Kennedy/Nikita Khrushchev__ The __Cuban Missile Crisis__ resulted __Fidel Castro__ of Cuba allowing the Soviets to construct missile sites in Cuba. When __John F. Kennedy__ of the United States initiated a blockade on Cuba to prevent the missiles from reaching the silos, __Nikita Khrushchev__ sent ships to have a face off with the American ships. What could have resulted in a 'hot" war and probably nuclear war diffused to a proposal by Khrushchev to dismantle the missiles which was readily agreed to by Kennedy. This began a period of relaxing tensions between the two superpowers.

8.) __D étente/Ronald Reagan/Mikita Gorbachev __ After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War enters into a relaxing of tension, known as __ D ____ étente. __ Both the US and the USSR proceeded to mend relations with each other with __Reagan__ on the US side and __Gorbachev__ on the other. Both worked to decrease tensions with Gorbachev completely dismantling the Soviet Union in 1991 which ends the Cold War.

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Berlin Wall Webquest Notes: Two Sides of a Story Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall Notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Wqkwrv7LxQ6JGJvVcCfsiohdYCqqwbwYMgDwAwYaGA/edit?usp=sharing

__The Korean War:__


** Content Questions **:


 * 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 Cold War? **

Questions on Korean War Video Clip:

10/31/13
 * Opener: Based on Korean War Video: **

I believe the Korean War was a Proxy War because of the major involvement and influence of foreign powers in the war such as the Chinese for North Korea and the Americans for the South, the implementation of leaders that had good relations for the foreign powers to maintain a good relationship with the foreign powers such as Syngman Reed being nice with the Americans, and the initial occupation of the Korean peninsula by the Communists in the North and the Capitalists in the South that helped split the peninsula in two and set the stage for the war.
 * **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.)?**
 * **Provide three pieces of evidence from the video to support your claim**
 * **Pair/share responses and make revisions in red**
 * Different powers were involved.
 * Capitalism vs. Communism, US vs. China
 * Both sides had support from other countries.

__Picture Detective: Korean War Political Cartoon-__

__Markup: Summary of Korean War-__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yPcaYsxgJhh4Imp5dvrDgfOXUFgEHhTSXv-AFUiLrFQ/edit?usp=sharing

__Questions on summary of the Korean War:__

__Korean War Activity: You Be The Judge- Public Opinion Poll Rankings:__

I put my number one as the top choice because General MacArthur had pushed to go for an invasion of China in order to prevent China from providing aid to the North Koreans. President Truman then dismissed MacArthur for overstepping his boundaries as a general and for him suggesting nuking China. This gave Truman considerable backlash from the people who held MacArthur as a war hero and the majority in the poll would reflect his MacArthur's popularity and the subsequent decrease in respect and popularity of Truman.
 * 1) Popular majorities in supporting an invasion of China as well as supporting Chinese nationalist rebels.
 * 2) Popular majority in supporting signing of armistice in Korean War.
 * 3) Popular majority in believing that the US had succeeded in their role in the Korean War.

__Questions on textbook excerpts:__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/17BE-jv81rF_vC2Z4SxgsiEEKH3nkQ3nkKHWC3KI9vNw/edit?usp=sharing

__The Cuban Missile Crisis:__

__Cuban Missile Crisis Notes:__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/16ZqA4DNctRAOHIXeMVSwXW3uf4dfRs2lmy9A0H_N6P0/edit?usp=sharing

I would have chosen to go with the blockade until the missiles were to be removed because it is the option that Kennedy eventually chose and clearly it worked in the real life scenario of the case. And according to the Special Intelligence Estimate, the Soviet Union would not risk a general war with the United States due to them being unable to win locally within the Western Hemisphere and would be much safer than the other options. Going with an airstrike would most likely equal a war no matter how one would attempt to prove it otherwise and a war could turn into a nuclear one. Doing nothing risks the Soviets actually firing the missiles and internal chaos inside the country from people freaking out or rival politicians using the "no-action" strategy as weakness of JFK. Although blockades are often declarations of war, they definitely cause less permanent damage than an airstrike and just preventing the missiles from entering Cuba is enough to put the stance that US is not weak as hinted in the articles.

__Questions on President Kennedy's Address to the American People:__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/15AbWWtj4R_yUAI6I3mecd9fcr_vBIxZRxfuzh-v5s8k/edit?usp=sharing

__Cuban Missile Crisis Documentary Notes on "The World at the Brink":__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bfCPgvLkmDOR_-BxRk4SxRzllDXNUVHGpI_B2RIQAkM/edit?usp=sharing

__Thirteen Days of Cuban Missile Crisis Notes:__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dNQz8Kk6OQIm5sZoWM8vvzUZmtnzCohqiuPYiGlxKFo/edit?usp=sharing

__Vietnam:__
__Picture Detective of Vietnam War:__

__What Would You Do?:__

__Geneva Convention Notes:__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MUADYwTvQlpNba0r4b4SoQvz7fai-x-qCKt_ZCzzqNU/edit?usp=sharing

__My Lai Massacre Notes:__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XVPk3r2JgK4NZKJ6qogr5pE0M2_xFt8XR31m-94RasA/edit?usp=sharing

__Was the My Lai Massacre a War Crime?__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a_dC3FBxQyJf7dCiWGB6Xo9dqf9Sv82-OS5XDrdv0Ro/edit?usp=sharing

__Afghanistan: The Soviet Union's Vietnam__ __Observations:__
 * Three different routes of attack by the Soviets: One through aerial paratrooper insertion at Kabul,one from entering through Kushka and ending at Kandahar, one from Temez and ending at both Kandahar and Jalalabad and Faisabad.
 * Soviets seem to not be taking Afghanistan by chunks but by strips connecting to different cities.
 * Paratrooper operation is used to attack what seems to be the capital of Afghanistan.
 * Each of the ending points of the invasion would seem to be the HQ of something or a point of interest.
 * Much of the center of Afghanistan is still controlled by the Afghanistan forces.

__Afghanistan War Newstory:__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d1yL9tlke8Stes7Bs9SK8HIv36j1W_CN6R9qs9bReQ0/edit?usp=sharing

__Hungary:__
 * Lack of natural resources
 * Suffering economy
 * Recently suffered from an environmental disaster (a flood of red sludge)
 * Everyone in country is mostly Hungarian (90%) with the second biggest ethnicity being Roma
 * Helped lead the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in the Revolution of 1989
 * USSR influenced Hungary in the Cold War period.
 * Best resource is agriculture (arable land)
 * Landlocked country
 * Recently also had acts of violence breaking out in protests such as the demand of a prime minister to resign after finding out he had lied during his campaign.
 * Borders with 6 different countries (Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Austria). Eastern Europe)
 * Major trade partner with Germany, Russia,
 * GNP: 205.9 billion
 * Negative population growth
 * Population ratio= women > men
 * Low amount of food during the Cold War as the Russians took most of it.
 * Very high literacy rate
 * Hungarian Revolution of 1956
 * Gov't: Parliamentary Republic
 * Was in an autonomous agreement with Austria (Austro-Hungarian Empire)
 * 99% literacy rate.

__CEPA:__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QsnW-yO6yn7GXgFJUjLeKdp5QqMAOt2PrbjenWav4Is/edit?usp=sharing

__Reflection on the Cold War and the CEPA:__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VOsMf-f2uCjDiNNCSLkKzB5aFbJ3kYvZYZGfIVscbyI/edit?usp=sharing