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    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
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Cold War Tensions

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KEY EVENTS
  • Iron Curtain descends
  • Marshall Act
  • House Un-American Actives Committee
  • Crisis in Berlin
  • Chinese Civil War
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BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union engage in a conflict reminiscent of war as they battle it out for influence and control of the post-war world.
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KEY EVENTS
  • Korean War
  • Senator McCarthy's trials
  • Federal Highway Act
  • Launch of Sputnik
  • Missile Race begins
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LIVING ON THE EDGE

A war in Korea and growing fears of Communism in America heat up the Cold War as both the United States and the Soviet Union race to outdo one another from weapons to technology.
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KEY EVENTS
  • ​British Invasion
  • Election of 1960
  • creation of the Berlin Wall
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Assassination of Kennedy
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KENNEDY AND CUBA

JFK's vision and youthful image invigorates America and challenges the United States to reach for the stars, while the world comes to the brink of nuclear war as the Cold War conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union heats up on
the island of Cuba.
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  • American History
    • American History I >
      • Unit 1 - Worlds Collide
      • Unit 2 - Adolescent Colonies
      • Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion
      • Unit 4 - Revolutionary America
      • Unit 5 - The New Nation
      • Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform
      • Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
      • Unit 8 - The Great West
    • American History II >
      • Unit 9 - The Gilded Age
      • Unit 10 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 11 - The American Empire
      • Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
      • Unit 13 - World War II
      • Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
      • Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
      • Unit 16 - Modern America
  • World History
    • Early History >
      • Unit I - Origins
      • Unit II - Ancient Greece
      • Unit III - Rise and Fall of Rome
      • Unit IV - The Age of Faith
      • Unit V - Late Medieval World
      • Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery
    • Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Crisis of Faith
      • Unit VIII - Revolutionary World
      • Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism
      • Unit X - The Great War
      • Unit XI - World War II
      • Unit XII - Cold War & Globalization
  • AP European History
    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
    • Late Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Current Events