History.com Cold War Reading Guide

Here is the link to the site: https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cold-war-history

This webpage has a series of videos embedded in it, you may watch them before or after you read each section of text.

Page Intro:

This gives you a background of events that led to the Cold War, we have previously discussed these in class. Make sure you understand them.

The Cold War: Containment

Understand why we followed the policy of Containment.

The Cold War: The Atomic Age

How did Atomic Weapons affect US Foreign Policy and American life at home?

The Cold War Extends to Space

Be able to summarize these events and understand what the Space Race caused in American Society.

The Cold War: The Red Scare

This second “Red Scare” had a traumatic effect of America, be able to summarize this event.

The Cold War Abroad

Understand the conflicts that arose due to the Cold War. We will discuss them in detail later, just have a basic overview of each in this section.

The Close of the Cold War

How and when did the Cold War end? We will get into this in more detail later.

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