Social Studies Standard IV, United States History
Lesson 480, The Cold War
Understanding what the Cold War was
Understanding what the United Nations’ role was during the Cold War
Understanding the Korean Conflict
Understanding the U.S.’s containment policy
Understanding the Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift
Knowing what NATO is
Understanding the United Nations (UN)
Understanding the Truman Doctrine
Understanding the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Airlift
Understanding how nuclear technology affected the Cold War
Understanding how nuclear weapons are used
Knowing about the following: Nikita Khrushchev, Lyndon B. Johnson, the SCLC, Brown Vs. Board of Education, the Equal Rights Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald W. Reagan, the Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Cuban Missle Crisis, the Warsaw Pact, Harry S. Truman, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan
Understanding the Vietnam War
Understanding the Civil Rights Movement
Understanding the women’s movement
Understanding what the National Organization for Women (NOW) is
Understanding the Iran hostage crisis
Understanding how the Soviet Union broke apart
Knowing how the Cold War ended