Social Studies Standard III, World History
Lesson 360, Europe after World War II
Understanding the nations of Europe by the types of governments they started as a result of the war
Understanding how the European nations became divided after the war
Understanding how Germany and Berlin were divided
Understanding the Communist attempt to take over Greece and Turkey
Understanding the purpose of the Truman Doctrine
Understanding the struggle for peace and stability in the world after World War II
Understanding the Marshall Plan
Understanding the creation of NATO
Knowing some of the contributions of Mikhail Gorbachev to the decline of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union
Understanding the tension and unrest that led people to resist Communist rule
Knowing some of the major events in the fall of the Communist governments in Soviet-controlled nations
Understanding the Iron Curtain
Understanding how decolonization of European colonies occurred
Understanding the purpose of the European Union
Understanding what the euro is and why it was created
Understanding what was done to stop Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia
Knowing about the following: Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, Warsaw Pact, glasnost and perestroika were, Solidarity, Lech Walesa, Milosevic, decolonization, the common market