 A History of the Modern World, 9/e R R Palmer,
Yale University
Joel Colton,
Duke University
Lloyd Kramer,
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
A World Endangered: Coexistence and Confrontation in the Cold War
Internet Exercises
Cold War: The 1960s Open
How did the failure of the 1960 Paris summit conference reflect Cold War tensions?
| Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960summit-statements1.html)
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(http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/shermankent/8summit.html)
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The War In Vietnam
Use the documents to explain why the conflict in Vietnam escalated from the end of the Second World War to the 1970s.
| Link 1
(http://www.vva.org/about_the_war.htm)
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Soviet Dissidents
How does the source suggest a crumbling of Communism as a worldview in the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev era?
| Link 1
(http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/dissiden.html)
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The Rise of Student Radicalism
How does the Port Huron Statement reveal the spirit of the "New Left"?
| Link 1
(http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SDS_Port...
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OPEC
How does the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries work?
| Link 1
(http://www.opec.org/)
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The Oil Crisis
Use the case studies to understand impact of the oil crisis of the early 1970s on European countries.
| Link 1
(http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/rtg/oilcrisis/)
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SALT II
Analyze how the SALT II discussions of the late 1970s seemed to defuse the Cold War.
| Link 1
(http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/treaties/salt2-1.html)
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Tienanmen Square
Use a variety of sources available on the web site to analyze the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the Beijing Massacre of June 4.
| Link 1
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gate/index.html)
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