I.B.9-12.7

Analyze the impact of World War II and the cold war on United States' foreign and domestic policy, to include:<ol type="a"><li>origins, dynamics and consequences of the cold war tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union</li><li>new role of the United States as a world leader (e.g., Marshall plan, NATO)</li><li>need for, establishment and support of the united nations</li><li>implementation of the foreign policy of containment, including the Truman doctrine</li><li>Red Scare (e.g., McCarthyism, House Un-American Activities Committee, nuclear weapons, arms race)</li><li>external confrontations with communism (e.g., the Berlin blockade, Berlin wall, Bay of Pigs, Cuban missile crisis, Korea, Vietnam war)</li><li>Sputnik and the space race</li><li>image of 1950s affluent society</li><li>political protests of Vietnam war)</li><li>counterculture in the 1960s</li></ol>