Social STUDIES

First class

Ideas when i hear the words cold war

Communism

Capitalism

United States

USSR

Technology

Propaganda

Democracy

Totalitarianism

Nuclear Crisis

Control Movements

Imperialism

Movie:

Machuca

a. Did you find a clear impersonation of good and evil?

Yes i found a clear impersonation of good and evil

b. Who represented which one?

The capitalism represnet the evil

The communist are the good people

c. What were the characteristics of each group?

The capitalist were rich people who studied on expensive schools, wear fancy clothes, they
thought they were superior than communists.

The communist were poor people in which they were lucky to have a expensive school, they have
poor quality clothes, however they deserve respect and not be mistreated.

d. Who did you feel identified with?

I were identified by the communists

e. Why do you think this is?

Because we both think that people have to be equal, have same chances.
 f. What were the goals each actor pursued?

The goals were not clearly identified.

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USA: expand markets democracy

First: USA and its bloc

Second USSR and Satellites

Third: non Aligned

It is cold because the confrontation between both superpowers was not direct.

Mutually assured destruction: apocalypse

Why did the USA and USSR vecome rivals in 1945-1949

Historians hace disagreed over the answer to this question to answerHowever the answers
can be in 4 groups

1. The traditionalists
The soviets were to blame for the col war
The cold war was the direct result of stalin’s aggressive soviet expansionism
This view is the traditional view of the americans and british historians particularly
before 1960
2. The revisionists
The uSA were to blame
The cold war was caused by the US trying to keep countries capitalists for trade
purpose
The USA intimidated the soviets by dropping an atomic bomb
3. The post revisionists
Nobody Had the fault of the cold war, it was just a mutual misunderstanding of each
other motives
It could be an evitable result
4. The post 1991 school
 It was inspired by secret documents uncovered after the communism in Russia
Collapsed
It was a ckash between capitalism and communism that was the result of the cold war

Quote 1 Revisionists

Quote 2 Post revisionists

Quote 3 Post 1991 school

Quote 4 Traditionalists