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"Essential" State
Standards:
10.9 Students analyze the
international developments in the post-World World War II world.
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Compare the economic
and military power shifts caused by the war, including the Yalta Pact,
the development of nuclear weapons, Soviet control over Eastern
European nations, and the economic recoveries of Germany and Japan.
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Analyze the causes of
the Cold War, with the free world on one side and Soviet client states
on the other, including competition for influence in such places as
Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, and Chile.
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Understand the
importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which
established the pattern for America's postwar policy of supplying
economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the
resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as
Southeast Asia (i.e., the Korean War, Vietnam War), Cuba, and Africa.
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Analyze the Chinese
Civil War, the rise of Mao Tse-tung, and the subsequent political and
economic upheavals in China (e.g., the Great Leap Forward, the
Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square uprising).
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Describe the uprisings in Poland (1952), Hungary (1956), and
Czechoslovakia (1968) and those countries' resurgence in the 1970s and
1980s as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet
control.
7. Analyze
the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the weakness
of the command economy, burdens of military commitments, and growing
resistance to Soviet rule by dissidents in satellite states and the
non-Russian Soviet republics.
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