Grade 8 Spring — The 20th-Century World, the Long Civil Rights Movement as Multi-Movement Struggle, and a Civics Deep-Dive (US + Global 1898–Present, K-8 History Capstone)

Analyze Cold War 1945-91: Soviet-US conflict + nuclear arms race + Korean War + Cuban Missile Crisis + Berlin Wall + fall of USSR

Trace Iron Curtain Churchill March 5 1946 Fulton MO; Truman Doctrine March 12 1947; Marshall Plan April 3 1948; Berlin Airlift June 24 1948 – May 12 1949; NATO April 4 1949; Soviet atomic bomb Aug 29 1949; PRC Oct 1 1949 Mao Zedong; Korean War June 25 1950 – armistice July 27 1953 ~3M Korean civilian deaths per Cumings + ~37,000 US dead; McCarthyism + HUAC + Red Scare; Hungarian Uprising Oct 23 – Nov 10 1956; Sputnik Oct 4 1957; U-2 May 1 1960; Bay of Pigs April 17-19 1961; Berlin Wall Aug 13 1961 – fall Nov 9 1989; Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 16-28 1962 (Kennedy + Khrushchev + Castro 13 days); Tet Offensive Jan 30 1968; Apollo 11 July 20 1969; détente 1972 SALT I; Helsinki Accords Aug 1 1975; Soviet-Afghan War Dec 24 1979 – Feb 15 1989; Solidarity Poland 1980 Lech Walesa; Reagan-Gorbachev Reykjavik Oct 11-12 1986 + INF Treaty Dec 8 1987; fall of Berlin Wall Nov 9 1989; USSR dissolution Dec 25-26 1991; nuclear-arms-race + MAD doctrine; 9 nuclear-weapon states ~12,500 warheads today per FAS 2024.

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