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COLD WAR INTERNET LAB

The Berlin Wall divides a neighborhood between the communist East and democratic West.

 

Go to CNN’s Cold War web site and answer the following questions:

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/

  1. Episode by Episode: Episode 18: Backyard: 1950-1990 at http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/
  2. (Interactive map- Guatemala) How was Jacobo Arbenz Guzman’s government overthrown?

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  3. What was Guatemala’s connection to the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba?

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  4. How long was Guatemala’s civil war and approximately how many people were killed?

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  5. (Interactive map- Nicaragua) Why did the US suspend aid to the Sandinistas in 1981?

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  6. How did the US plan to overthrow the Nicaraguan government?

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  7. (Interactive map- Chile) What were some of the policies of Allende that caused the US to support the overthrow of his government?

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  8. (Interactive map- Argentina) How many people lost their lives in the dirty war of Argentina?

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  9. What caused the Argentine military junta to lose power?

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  10. (Interactive map-Peru) What two communist Guerrilla groups have terrorized Peru over the last 30 years?

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  11. (5 points) Choose two South American countries and compare their recent history. What do they have in common?

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  12. EPISODE 23:THE WALL COMES DOWN 1989 at http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/23/
  13. (Cold War Timeline) 1961- The Berlin Wall What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

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  14. (Cold War Timeline) 1968- Prague Spring What did Prague Spring Refer to? How was it crushed?

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  15. (Cold War Timeline) 1980- Solidarity Who was Lech Walesa and what did he do in 1980?

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  16. (Cold War Timeline) 1989- Berlin Wall Falls Which country was the first to open its borders with the West? What happened in Germany one month later?

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  17. (Cold War Timeline) 1991- Soviet Union Collapses What events triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union?

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  18. (Iron Curtain Unravels- Leipzig) What methods did the protesters use in Leipzig? Why were they so effective?

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  19. (Iron Curtain Unravels- Berlin) How did people escape from East Berlin to West Berlin along Bernauer Strasse (street)? How did the East German government stop people from escaping?

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  20. (Iron Curtain Unravels- Prague) Briefly describe what occurred at the West German embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

 

 

Extra Credit: Choose one or two people from the knowledge bank and describe their role in the end of the Cold War.