Content Specification - SS.10.6.a.1:
Students will compare and contrast how peace was conceived at Yalta and Potsdam with what happened in Europe in the four years after World War II (i.e., Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, Truman Doctrine, Berlin blockade, NATO).

Content Specification - SS.10.6.b.1:
Students will investigate the efforts to expand and contain communism in Cuba, Vietnam, and Afghanistan from multiple perspectives.

Content Specification - SS.10.6.b.2:
Students will examine the new military alliances, nuclear proliferation, and the rise of the military‐industrial complex.

Content Specification - SS.10.6.b.3:
Students will examine the reasons countries such as Egypt and India chose nonalignment.

Content Specification - SS.10.6.b.4:
Students will explore the era of détente from both American and Soviet perspectives.

Content Specification - SS.10.6.c.1:
Students will investigate the political reforms of glasnost and economic reforms of perestroika.

Content Specification - SS.10.6.c.2:
Students will examine the impact of those reforms within the Soviet Union, on the Soviet communist bloc, and in the world.