Locate Academic Alignments For - AMERICA'S FIRST WARNING

Identify the point of view of the author as found in a primary source document.

Assess the value of posed and candid photographs as primary sources.

Define “cold war” and identify significant events of the Cold War, including: the Berlin Airlift, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the arms race, the Vietnam War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Identify areas of U.S. foreign policy involvement since the end of the Cold War era.

Define “cold war;” explain the basic differences in the beliefs of the United States and the Soviet Union that led to the Cold War, and identify basic strategies used by each to counter the influence of the other.

Define and identify the significance of the following terms to the Cold War: “peaceful coexistence,” détente, containment, iron curtain, and satellite states.

Identify significant individuals associated with the Cold War and their role during that era, including: U.S. presidents (e.g., Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan) and Communist leaders (e.g., Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Marshall Tito, and Mikhail Gorbachev).

Understand the factors that influenced U.S. expansionism after the Civil War (e.g., the debate between pro- and anti-imperialists over the Philippines; U.S. involvement in the Philippines, Guam, Cuba, and the Panama Canal; arguments to justify expansion and opposition to expansion; rationale for American imperialism and the resulting territorial expansion, including Social Darwinism, expanding capitalism, and global balances of power).

Understand the origins and foreign policy of the Cold War (e.g., origins of Cold War and advent of nuclear politics including nuclear weapons and the arms race; elements of communist containment policy; the impact of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan in the post-World War II period; the expanding role and superpower status of the U.S. in world affairs after World War II; military conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East; evaluate Cold War foreign policy decisions, including the Berlin Blockade, the Bay of Pigs, and Cuban Missile Crisis; the development of alliances including NATO and SEATO; the concept of the Iron Curtain and the Domino Theory; how the policies of the Cold War changed over time).

Understand the origins and geopolitical consequences of the Cold War and containment policies, including: Era of McCarthyism and instances of domestic communism in the U.S., Truman Doctrine, Berlin Blockade, Korean War, Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic testing in the U.S.

Analyze significant works of American letters for their historical, literary and political import, including: the Declaration of Independence, Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, U.S. Constitution, Federalist Papers, Washington’s Farewell Address, Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address, de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms,” Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech, Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream,” and Ronald Reagan’s speech at Moscow State University.

Understand events in the development of the Cold War (e.g., causes of the Cold War with the free world on one side and Soviet client states on the other, including competition in such places as Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, and Chile; uprisings in Poland [1952], Hungary [1968], and Czechoslovakia [1968]; the establishment of the Soviet bloc and Soviet control of Eastern Europe; the significance of Cold War events and conflicts, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Blockade and Airlift, the Berlin Wall, the Korean War, and Vietnam; the emergence of superpowers; the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] and the Warsaw Pact; the threat of nuclear annihilation).