NY State Curriculum Notes     

Cold War balance of power

  1. Human and physical geography

  2. The world in 1945: physical setting

  3. United States occupation of Germany and Japan

    a. The adoption of democratic systems of government

    b. Economic rebuilding of Germany and Japan

  4. Emergence of the superpowers

  5. Political climate of the Cold War

    a. Marshall Plan

    b. Truman Doctrine

    c. Berlin airlift and a divided Germany

    d. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)/Warsaw Pact—expanding membership and role of NATO

    e. Hungarian Revolt

    f. Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

    g. Nuclear weapons and space

h. Surrogate superpower rivalries 

i. Role of nonaligned nations 

  1. Korean War

      a. United States role in the division of Korea 

            b. Comparison of Korea and Germany

            c. Conduct of the war