Havo 3 tto: Cold War - lesson 2

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Havo 3 tto: Cold War

Lesson 2

Start of the lesson

Sit in your spot

Phone (off/silent) in phonebag

Books + laptop on table

Menu of the day

Introduction

Introduction

Who is Vasily Arkhipov and how did he save the world?

Which event is the most recent?

1. The death of Napoleon
2. The death of king Willem I

The foreign policy of the USA to help free nations against communism

1. Marshall Plan
2. NATO
3. Truman Doctrine
4. Warsaw Pact

What was the cause of the Blockade of Berlin?

1. Marshall Plan
2. West-Germany joining NATO
3. The merging of Western Germany
4. The introduction of the German mark

Wirtschaftswunder & command economy

Let's read together on page 83 'Wirtschaftswunder & command economy'

Arms race

Both the USA and the SU wanted to be the best

• The space race

Arms race

Both the USA and the SU wanted to be the strongest

• The Soviets build an atom bomb in 1949
  
• The Americans build a hydrogen bomb in 1952
• The Soviets build one in 1955

Arms race

This changes war: MAD

• Mutually Assured Destruction

Arms race

Cuban Missile Crisis: grab your notebook and write down what happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Exercise

Exercise 5 on p. 69

Break

War in Vietnam

Let's read on page 85

Exercises

Exercises 9 on page 70 WB

The end of the Cold War

Remember these times during corona?

The end of the Cold War

Those were regular days in the Soviet Union

The end of the Cold War

Command economy wasn’t working: huge economic problems 

• Corruption
• Low production
• They couldn't compete with USA in arms race
  

The end of the Cold War

Command economy wasn’t working: huge economic problems 

• Corruption
• Low production
• They couldn't compete with USA in arms race --> in 1989 end of the Cold War
  
• Many citizens were unhappy

The end of the Cold War

In 1991 the Soviet Union disbanded --> the USA are now the only world power

Rest of the lesson

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