Rockridge Social Studies
the history place
Cold War Review
Superpowers
CIA versus KGB
Communism vs. Democracy
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM)
Truman Doctrine
European Recovery Plan (Marshall Plan)
Berlin Airlift
East/West Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Multilateralism versus Unilateralism
Igor Gouzenko
United Nations
Security Council and Veto
Korean War
Yakov Malik
Panmunjom
Pusan
Inchon
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Canadian University Overseas (CUSO)
1972 Summit Series
Canadarm
Candu Reactors
Gorbechev
Perestroika
Glasnost
G7 / G8 Nations
Nuclear War Shelters
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Red Menace
de-Stalinization
Nikita Khrushchev
Suez Canal Crisis
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Lester B. Pearson
United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF)
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)
Hungary
Imre Nagy
North American Air Defense (NORAD)
Strategic Air Command
Distant Early Warning Line (DEW)
Avro Arrow
Diefenbaker
Bomarc missile
U2 Incident
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy
Brinkmanship
Fidel Castro
Detente
Vietnam War
Recent World Conflicts
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Somalia
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Sudan
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Rwanda
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Helsinki Accords
Concepts to Understand
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How did the world end up with two superpowers at the end of World War Two?
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How did each superpower view the other (i.e. communism versus democracy)
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How and why did America go to great lengths at trying to stop the "domino effect" of communism?
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How has the United Nations become a more influential world body since World War Two? How effective has it been?
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What role did Canada play during the Cold War and in what ways did Canada ease the tensions between communist and democratic nations?