Content Specification - SS.11.9.a.1:
Students will trace key decisions made at wartime conferences as they applied to Poland, Eastern Europe, and postwar Germany, and note how continuing disagreements over these decisions helped bring about the start of the Cold War.

Content Specification - SS.11.9.a.2:
Students will trace United States containment policies including the Truman Doctrine (1947), the Marshall Plan (1948), and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949), and actions taken during the Berlin blockade, and consider how they represent a shift in American foreign policy.

Content Specification - SS.11.9.a.3:
Students will examine domestic concerns about the spread of communism and the rise of McCarthyism.

Content Specification - SS.11.9.a.4:
Students will examine the impact of Truman’s decision to fight a limited war in defense of South Korea.

Content Specification - SS.11.9.a.5:
Students will trace the United States involvement in Vietnam, including President Johnson’s decision to escalate the fighting in Vietnam.

Content Specification - SS.11.9.a.6:
Students will examine reasons for declining public confidence in government, including America’s involvement in Vietnam, student protests, the growing antiwar movement, and the Watergate affair.

Content Specification - SS.11.9.a.7:
Students will examine the congressional effort to limit presidential power through the War Powers Act.

Content Specification - SS.11.9.b.1:
Students will trace the acceleration of the nuclear arms race from the detonation of an atomic bomb by the Soviet Union in 1949 through 1969, including the effect of Sputnik and the Space Race.

Content Specification - SS.11.9.b.2:
Students will examine Soviet motives for placing missiles in Cuba and the impact of the Cuban missile crisis on Soviet‐American relations leading to the adoption of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Content Specification - SS.11.9.b.3:
Students will examine the policy of détente and its effect on the nuclear arms race.

Content Specification - SS.11.9.c.1:
Students will examine United States foreign policy toward the Middle East, including the recognition of and support for the State of Israel, the Camp David Accords, and the interaction with radical groups in the region.

Content Specification - SS.11.9.d.1:
Students will trace factors leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, including American policies, Soviet economic problems, Soviet efforts at reform, and the loss of Soviet control over Eastern Europe.