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Get out your Vocab assignment. Look at the political cartoon on page 4- what does it mean to you?

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Agenda Vocab Check Political Cartoon analysis 3 Worlds following World War II Superpowers after the War

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Superpower Country that has the power to influence & control large portions of the world. The U.S. and the Soviet Union SUPERPOWERS

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Where was WWII fought?

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England

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France Where was WWII fought?

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Poland Where was WWII fought?

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Germany Where was WWII fought?

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Italy Where was WWII fought?

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Japan Where was WWII fought?

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United States? Where was WWII fought?

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Europe and Asia! The United States did not suffer the same amount of destruction as other warring nations. Where was WWII fought?

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These Superpowers wanted to create large areas of control

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1 st World

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2 nd World

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3 rd World

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COLD WAR Why might we call it the Cold War? - United States and Soviet Union never actually fought but Who can tell me some things about the Cold War?

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Berlin Wall

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Berlin Airlift

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Korean War

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Space Race

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Cuban Revolution

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Vietnam War

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Chilean Coup

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Soviet war in Afghanistan

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Iranian Revolution

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Nicaraguan Revolution

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- United States and Soviet Union never actually fought COLD WAR - Struggle for global power between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The interests of the two countries were fought out in MANY other places over a 50 year span COLD WAR Why might we call it the Cold War? but

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