6. Cold War America

Learning Targets:
  • Summarize how atomic weapons have changed the nature of war, altered the balance of power and started the nuclear age.
  • Analyze the policy of containment the United States followed during the Cold War in response to the spread of communism.
  • Explain how the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism reflected Cold War fears in American society. 
  • Analyze how the Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam influenced domestic and international politics between the end of World War II and 1991. 
  • Explain how the collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the USSR brought an end to the Cold War era.
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