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TEKS 113.41 8 a-d

 The student understands the impact of significant national and international decisions and conflicts in the Cold War on the United States. The student is expected to:

(A) describe U.S. responses to Soviet aggression after World War II, including the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and John F. Kennedy's role in the Cuban Missile Crisis;

(B) describe how Cold War tensions were intensified by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), McCarthyism, the arms race, and the space race;

(C) explain reasons and outcomes for U.S. involvement in the Korean War and its relationship to the containment policy;

(D) explain reasons and outcomes for U.S. involvement in foreign countries and their relationship to the Domino Theory, including the Vietnam War;

HOT SPOTS - COLD WAR - PROXY CONFLICTS

The Korean War

A brutal ideological testing ground between 1950 and 1953, where the capitalist West and the communist East fought for control over the peninsula, cementing the global divide of the era.

Vietnam Conflict

A protracted struggle for national unification and ideological supremacy that defined a generation. It challenged American global hegemony and reshaped the geopolitical landscape forever.

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