8.1

Identify, analyze, and explain the causes, conditions, and impact of the Cold War Era on the United States.
 * Cold War and the United States: **

=8.1.1 Origins and Beginnings of Cold War= Analyze the factors that contributed to the Cold War including
 * differences in the civic, ideological and political values, and the economic and governmental institutions of the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
 * diplomatic decisions made at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences (1945)
 * actions by both countries in the last years of and years following World War II (e.g., the use of the atomic bomb, the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, North American Treaty Alliance (NATO), and Warsaw Pact)

=8.1.2 Foreign Policy during the Cold War= Evaluate the origins, setbacks, and successes of the American policy of “containing” the Soviet Union, including
 * the development of a U.S. national security establishment, composed of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the intelligence community
 * the armed struggle with Communism, including the Korean conﬂict
 * direct conﬂicts within speciﬁc world regions including Germany and Cuba
 * U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and the foreign and domestic consequences of the war (e.g., relationship/conﬂicts with U.S.S.R. and China, U.S. military policy and practices, responses of citizens and mass media)
 * indirect (or proxy) confrontations within speciﬁc world regions (e.g., Chile, Angola, Iran, Guatemala)
 * the arms race

=8.1.3 End of the Cold War= Evaluate the factors that led to the end of the cold war including détente, policies of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. and their leaders (President Reagan and Premier Gorbachev), the political breakup of the Soviet Union, and the Warsaw Pact.