UNIDAD EDUCATIVA MONTE TABOR - NAZARET
I QM-II QM
2015– 2016
III Baccaulearete Supplemental Study Guide
History
Topics
Unit 1.- What was the Cold War?
Material and resources
 Significance of Stalinism.
 Textbook.
 Why did the USSR and the USA emerge as
 Documentaries.
superpowers after 1945?
 Videos.
Unit 2.- Steps to the political, economic and military
 Cartoons.
division of Europe.
 Key terms.
 Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam Conferences.
 Worksheets.
 Key developments (1946-1947)
 Evaluations.
 Churchill Iron Curtain Speech.
 The Cold War
Unit 3.- Steps to the political, economic and military
International
division of Europe.
History Project
 Truman doctrine and Marshall Plan.
website.
 USSR reaction to the Marshall Plan.
 The Cold War CNN.
 Dollar imperialism.
 Spartacus
 Cominform and the "Two Camps" doctrine.
Educational.
 Red Army occupation of Eastern Europe.
 BBC History
 Czechoslovakian Coup.
website.
 Berlin Crisis.
 Avalon Project
 Berlin blockade
website.
 Essay writing procedure.
 The History
Unit 4.- Who was responsible of the Cold War?
Department of the
 Cold War historiography.
University of San
 European and USSR perspectives.
Diego.
 Balance of power.
 Unit 5.- The Cold War goes global.
 US Foreign policy 1949-1950.
 China falls to the Communists.
 The Red Scare.
 NSC 68.
 Korean War: Nature, course and effects.
 North Korea's attack of South Korea.
 Role of Stalin, Mao and the USA in the Korean
War.
Unit 6.- USA and Containment in Asia.
 Korea, Japan, Taiwan.
 Vietnam War: Nature, course, and effects.
 USA foreign policy in Vietnam: Kennedy, Johnson,
Nixon.
 Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinnh Diem, Ngo Dinh Nhu.
 Great Society.
 Tet Offensive.
 Peace with Honour.
 Paris Peace Talks.
 Historian views on USA failure of containment in
Vietnam.
Unit 7.- New leaders, new ideas.
 Eisenhower and Dulles.
 Brinkmanship.
 Nikita Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence.
 East-West relations in the 1950s.
 Technology race.
 U-2 incident.
Unit 8.- Why was Germany a source of tension?
 Economic differences.
 Berlin Crisis.
 Kennedy's flexible response.
 The meaning and symbolism of the Berlin Wall for
Stalin, Berliners, Ulbricht and the USA.
Unit 9.- The Cuban Missile Crisis.
 Background.
 Bay of Pigs invasion.
 The Cuban Missile Crisis.
 Historiographers views on the Crisis.
 The results of the Crisis for the USSR, USA, China,
Cuba and wider international situation.
Unit 10.- The Impact of the arms race on the Cold War. How did the nuclear arms race develop during the
Cold War.
 What strategies were developed for using nuclear
weapons?
 Eisenhower and “Massive Retaliation.
 McNamara and “Counterforce”.
 The impact of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Mutually
Assured Destruction (MAD).
 The impact of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail
Gorbachev.
 The role of conventional weapons.
 Cartoon analysis.
Skills: Historiography, Source Analysis, Cartoon Analysis
Unit 13.- Why did Detente end in a Second Cold War?
 Reasons for the USSR-USA Rapprochement.
 PRC-USA Rapprochement.
 Improved reasons for East-West relations in
Europe.
 Successes and failures of Detente.
 Detente between USSR and USA under pressure.
 The collapse of Detente.
 Detente historiography.
 The Second Cold War.
Unit 16.- Challenges to USSR control.- 1945-1980
 Challenge of Yugoslavia and East Germany.
 Challenges to USSR control under Nikita
Khrushchev.
 Leonido Brezhnev and the challenge of
Czechoslovakia.
 Soviet leaderes following Stalin's structural legacy.
 USSR intervention in Afghanistan.
 USA response to the USSR invasion of Afghanistan.
Unit 17.- The collapse of the USSR and the end of the
Cold War.
 The impact of Mikhail Gorbachev.
 The role of Ronald Reagan.
 Long term factors in the ending of the Cold War.
 The role of Nationalism and people in power in
ending the Cold War.
 The end of the USSR.
 The impact of the fall of the USSR and the end of
the Cold War.
HISTORIA DEL ECUADOR
La Gran Colombia y el origen de la Republica.
 Juan Jose Flores.
 Folletos.
 Vicente Rocafuerte.
 Presentaciones en
 Dr. Vicente Ramon Roca.
 El liberalismo del Gral. Jose Maria Urbina.
power point.
 Historia del
 Gral. Francisco Robles.
Ecuador: Lexus
 El regimen de Gabriel Garcia Moreno.
Editores.
 El progresismo.
 Historia del
 El caudillismo.
Ecuador por
 Eloy Alfaro y la Revolucion Alfarista.
Enrique Ayala
 La Revolucion Juliana.
Mora.