The Cold War In a Nutshell; Berlin Wall, Iron Curtain, Space Race, Brinksmanship

The Cold War in a Nutshell: From the creation of the USSR to Boris Yeltsin, this 5-page student packet clearly defines each facet of the rivalry between East and West.

Topics included:

• Lenin and Stalin
• the 15 Soviet Republics
• definitions of communism and capitalism
• the nuclear arms race
• China
• the Iron Curtain
• NATO
• the Warsaw Pact
• the Brezhnev Doctrine
• the Berlin Wall
• the Korean War
• the Vietnam War
• the Space Race
• the Hungarian Revolution
• the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Gorbachev
• Perestroika and Glasnost
• the collapse of the Soviet Union

Photos and maps embedded in the worksheet, and 40-slide PowerPoint presentation is included that walks you through the events in chronological order.

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Cold War in a Nutshell by Amy Surdacki is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.