Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- How the role the U.S. played in the Cold War influenced domestic and foreign policy.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Appraise the value of technological advances during the Cold War.
- Cite specific textual evidence to analyze the influence of the super powers on cultural, technological, and political changes during the Cold War.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- The United States played an important role in the Cold War and this influenced U.S. domestic and foreign policy.
Vocabulary
- Cold War
- domestic
- international
- Iron Curtain
- communism
- democracy
- embargo
- blockade
- diplomacy
- strategic diplomatic initiative
- proxy war
- destruction
- invasion
- crisis
- weapons of mass destruction
- Strategic Defense Initiative
