The organizational approach outlined below will serve as the basis for your investigation into the facts surrounding the Cold War. You and your partners should also review the THEMATIC and CHRONOLOGICAL approaches and decide which organizational approach you will choose to base your museum's exhibits upon. The exhibits presented in your museum plan should closely follow the organizational approach that your design team has selected.
It is important to understand that the Cold War not only spanned several decades and several generations, it is also important to note that it involved all the earth's continents.
This assignment is designed to allow you to explore the major events of the Cold War -with respect to the geographic region in which they occurred.
The study of geopolitics allows you, the student, to understand the importance and influence geography has on world history.
Below is a list of the important geographic areas of the world over which the Cold War was "fought".
Eastern and Southern Europe
A. The division of Germany and Berlin into eastern and western zone.
1. The establishment of Soviet Satellite states
2. The 'Iron Curtain'
3. NATO
4. Warsaw Pact
5. The Truman Doctrine
6. The Marshall Plan
Central and South America
A. Castro in Cuba
B. The Bay of Pigs
C. The Cuban Missile Crisis
D. The Nixon Doctrine1. Chile
E. The Reagan Doctrine
1. Granada
2. El Salvador
3. NicaraguaSandanista Contra Iran Contra Scandal Oliver North
Southeast Asia
A. Korean War (northern Asia)
B. S.E.A.T.O.
C. ANZUS
D. Korean War
E. Vietnam War
F. Cambodia (Kampuchea) and Laos
The Middle East
A. The Eisenhower Doctrine
The Indian Sub-continent
A. The Chinese takeover of Tibet
B. The Chinese invasion of India
C. The 'Bamboo Curtain'
D. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Africa
A. The communist takeover of Angola
Outer-space
- A. Sputnik
- B. "The Space Race"