GHG Online - Economic issues in the Cold War and Post-Cold War era

NYSED Global History and Geography Online Resource Guide

Unit 7

Core Curriculum

Essential Questions

Focus Questions

Vocabulary

Scholarship

Helpful Hints

Resources for Teachers
(Books/Articles,
Visuals/Music)

Visuals

Learning Experience(s)

Assessments

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C. Economic issues in the Cold War and Post-Cold War era

Human and physical geography

A comparison of market versus command economies (Western Europe versus Soviet Union)

Economic recovery in Europe and Japan

a.	Western Germany becomes a major economic power
b.	European economic community/Common Market/ European Union—steps toward European integration
c.	Japan becomes an economic superpower

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC): oil crisis in the 1970s

Pacific Rim economies/economic crisis

North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 1997

Essential Questions

•	How do physical and human geography affect people, places and regions?
•	Are conflicts between nations and/or people inevitable?
•	How are economic systems structured to meet the needs and wants of different societies?
•	What assumptions do different groups hold about power, authority, governance, and law?
•	What impact do regional and global trade networks have on world cultures?

Focus Questions

•	What role did science and technology play in Cold War conflicts?
•	Why did the United States play such a vital role in the economic recovery of Europe and Japan?
•	How did Japan become an economic superpower? What impact will the growing economics of China and India have on the global economy of the 21st century?
	Why did the command economics of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe collapse?
•	What roles do such organizations as the European Union, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) play in the global economy?
•	How does the European Union affect the economy of Europe and the world?
•	How does the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) affect the global economy?
•	How has the presence of vast quantities of oil impacted the economic, political, and social development of the Middle East?
•	Has North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) been successful? Why or why not?
•	What problems do developing nations of Central and South America, Africa, and Asia face?
•	What impact did reliance on cash crop farming have on developing nations?
•	How did the four tigers of Asia develop strong economies after WWII?

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Vocabulary

balance of trade	market economy
cash crop economies	mixed economy
Euro	revolt
Four Tigers	terrorism
International Monetary Fund	zaibutsu
invasion

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Scholarship

Landes, David. 1999. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some Are So Poor. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

McNeill, J.R. and William H. McNeill. 2003. The Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of World History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Pomeranz, Kenneth. 2000. *The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy*. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Stearns, Peter N. 2000. Gender in World History. New York: Routeledge.

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Helpful Hints

•	Students should understand that the Cold War was more than a military rivalry; it was a struggle for survival and supremacy by two basically different political ideologies and economic systems.
•	Have students compare and contrast industrialization in Europe and Japan with that in Egypt, India, China, or Korea.
•	Students should explain the advantages of belonging to the European Union. They should also analyze the pros and cons or belonging or not belonging to the European Union.
•	President Clinton's negotiations with the United States Senate over the NAFTA agreement should be analyzed. What were the advantages and disadvantages to the United States vis à vis joining NAFTA?
•	Have students explore the reasons why President Clinton supported NAFTA.

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Resources for Teachers (Books/Articles, Visuals/Music)

Ferguson, Nial, 2006. The Cash Nexus. New York: Basic Books.

Friedman, Thomas L. 2000. The Levus and the Olive Tree. New York: Anchor Books.

Gaddis, John Lewis. 2005. The Cold War; A New History. New York: Penguin Books.

Roberts, J.M. 1993. A Short History of the World. New York: Oxford University Press

Smith, Bonnie, ed. 2004-05. Women's History in Global Perspective. Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois Press.

Yergin, Daniel and Joseph Stanislaw. 2002. Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History, Hammars Kjold, Dag. Markings http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm?HomePagLink=toah_1

Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home

The National Security Archive, George Washington University http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

Marshall Plan, Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/

NATO documents at Truman Library http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/nato/large/index.php

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: Vietnamhttp://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam.htm

Presidential Libraries online http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/visit/

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Visuals

Hydro-electric project in the Soviet Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SovietUnion

Map of OPEC Nations http://www.mbendi.co.za/PICS/graphs/opec.jpg


North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 1997) http://www.fas.usda.gov/info/factsheets/NAFTA.asp

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Learning Experience(s)

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Assessments

Editor's Note: All state examinations are aligned to the New York State Learning Standards for Social Studies and Social Studies Resource Guide with Core Curriculum. The chart below specifies where these alignments have occurred (from June 2000 to the present).

Core Curriculum:

Global History and Geography Regents:

1.	Human and physical geography
2.	A comparison of market versus command economies (Western Europe versus Soviet Union)
3.	Economic recovery in Europe and Japan
	a.	Western Germany becomes a major economic power
	b.	European economic community/Common Market/ European Union—steps toward European integration
	c.	Japan becomes an economic superpower
4.	Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC): oil crisis in the 1970s
5.	Pacific Rim economies/economic crisis
6.	North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 1997

June 2000 DBQ, Capitalism vs. Communism

August 2000 Thematic, Science and Technology

January 2001 Thematic, Economic Change (Industrialization)

January 2002 DBQ, Economic Reform

3.	Economic recovery in Europe and Japan
	b.	European economic community/Common Market/ European Union—steps toward European integration

August 2006 Thematic, Movement of People and Goods: Trade

3.	Economic recovery in Europe and Japan
	c.	Japan becomes an economic superpower

August 2004 Thematic, Economic Systems

5.	Pacific Rim economies/economic crisis

August 2004 Thematic, Economic Systems

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