HIS 112
Unit 12:  Cold War
 
 
Livadia Palace

Livadia Palace on the Crimean coast where the Yalta Conference took place in February 1945.  Many scholars have cited the decisions reached at the conference as marking the start of the Cold War.  Photo courtesy Thomas T. Hammond.

 
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What you must do in this unit What you can do in this unit Some videos that you can watch for this unit
  • See the videos dealing with the Cold War in the HIS 242 course.
  • For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a relevant video for this unit of the course. Send the title of the video, the url and a brief explanation of why you find the video interesting and applicable to the material that is being studied in this unit.
Extra Credit Options
  • Take the short 5-point quiz for chapter 34. Log into Blackboard and look under "Chapter Quizzes." You have five minutes to complete each quiz (multiple-choice questions).
  • Read George Kennan's "The Sources of Soviet Conduct".  In a one-page paper, given the benefit of hindsight, assess the accuracy of Kennan's remarks almost fifty years later for a maximum of 50 points extra credit.
  • Watch the movie Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, directed by Stanley Kubrick), released at the very hight of the Cold War.  For a maximum of 25 points, in a long paragraph explain why or why not a similar-type of movie poking fun at the current international situation could be released in 2006.
  • For 25 points maximum extra credit, compare and contrast the NATO and Warsaw pact treaties in a short paragraph.
  • For a maximum of 25 points extra credit, read The Helsinki Final Act (1975) and write a short paragraph explaining the purpose of the Accords.
  • For a maximum of 50 points extra credit, read Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (1946) and then Joseph Stalin's Reply to Churchill (1946) and write a one-page paper comparing the rhetoric on both sides.
  • For a maximum of 25 points extra credit, read the U.S. and USSR Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall (1961) and write a paragraph on the politics involved in the creation of the Berlin Wall.
  • For a maximum of 50 points extra credit, read the The Tonkin Bay Resolution (1964), and then write a one-page paper, How did the Gulf of Tonkin Incident provide an excuse for United States military involvement in Vietnam?
  • For a maximum of 10 points extra credit, read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and then answer the study sheet questions.
  • For extra credit, please suggest a relevant website for this unit of the course.  Send the title of the site, the url and a brief explanation why you find the information interesting and applicable to the material being studied this unit.
 
 

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