Havo 3 tto: Cold War - lesson 2 oud

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Havo 3 tto: Cold War

Lesson 2

Start of the lesson

Sit in your spot

Phone in locker

Books + laptop on table

Menu of the day

Introduction

Wirtschaftswunder & command economy

Arms race

Introduction

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

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'

Exercises

Exercises 4, 5, 6, 7 op pages 69-70 

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

Do exercise 8

Finished? --> answer main- and subquestions on page 82