The USA And The Wider World, 1929-2000

RESOURCES and Revision

Key Questions and Topics:-

1. How and why did US foreign policy change between 1929 and 1945?

• Out of isolation (the policy of isolationism examples of increasing involvement in world affairs in the 1930s)

• America's and World War II (Japan, Pearl Harbour and entry into war; America's role in Europe and in the Pacific, the dropping of the Atomic Bomb)

2. How and why was the USA involved in the Cold War?

• The origins of the Cold War (e.g: containment, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Aid, domino theory)

• The USA and the Cold War in Europe (the Berlin blockade and airlift, entering NATO)

• The USA and the Cold War in the wider world (the causes and importance of the Cuban crisis and the war in Vietnam)

3. What role has the USA played in the search for world peace since 1970?

• Early attempts to improve relations (reasons for détente, SALT 1, Helsinki agreements, Nixon and China, Afghanistan)

• Later efforts to establish stability (Reagan and Gorbachev, reasons for the end of the Cold War, involvement in areas such as Iran, the Gulf War and Iraq)

Short videos and powerpoints on immigration and racial issues in America.

1. US Isolationism

2. Pearl Harbour

3. Pearl Harbour Movie

4. Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

5. Atomic Bomb

6. The Cold War

7. The Berlin Blockade 1947

8. The Korean War

9. Building the Berlin Wall 1963[1]

10. The Berlin Wall [2]

11. Cuban Missile Crisis [1]

12. Cuban Missile Crisis [2]

13. Kennedy and Cuba

14. Domino Theory

15. The Vietnam War

16. Gorbechev Glasnost

17. Reagan 'Tear Down This Wall'