NORTH CAROLINA ESSENTIAL STANDARDS

Cold War

NCES.CW.C.1 - Evaluate cultures during the Cold War in terms of their reflection and manipulation of emotions and attitudes.
- NCES.CW.C.1.1 - Analyze examples of literature, the arts, and pop culture in terms of their historical context and significance to Cold War events.
- NCES.CW.C.1.2 - Evaluate the extent to which literature, the arts, and pop culture reflected and manipulated patriotism through Cold War propaganda.
- NCES.CW.C.1.3 - Evaluate the extent to which literature, the arts and pop culture reflected and manipulated fear, anxiety and dissent during the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.C.1.4 - Evaluate mediums of communication, such as the newspaper, television, film and radio, in terms of their influences, effectiveness and accuracy in reporting Cold War events.
- NCES.CW.C.1.5 - Evaluate the relationship between conformity, consumerism and Cold War technology.

NCES.CW.C.2 - Evaluate national politics and international relationships of the present as legacies of the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.C.2.1 - Evaluate the current geopolitical relationships among and between various nations and regions using a Cold War frame of reference.
- NCES.CW.C.2.2 - Evaluate the relationship between regional conflict and nationalism with the events and outcome of the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.C.2.3 - Evaluate surges in fundamentalism and terrorism as a legacy of the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.C.2.4 - Evaluate the extent to which the Cold War influenced the present domestic politics and culture of various nations, including the United States.

NCES.CW.H.1 - Apply historical inquiry and methods to understand the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.1.1 - Evaluate historical interpretations and narratives on the Cold War in terms of perspective, logic, use of evidence, and possible bias.
- NCES.CW.H.1.2 - Analyze multiple perspectives of the Cold War by leaders, participants and spectators of the moment.
- NCES.CW.H.1.3 - Analyze primary sources in terms of the creator's perspective, purpose, the historical context in which each was produced, and their significance to the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.1.4 - Use historical inquiry and methods to generate historical questions, theories, debates and narratives from a variety of sources to draw conclusions about the Cold War.

NCES.CW.H.2 - Understand factors that led to the development of the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.2.1 - Compare competing historical interpretations on the origins of the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.2.2 - Analyze the development of competing ideologies prior to World War II in terms of social, economic and intellectual factors.
- NCES.CW.H.2.3 - Analyze events and conferences of World War II in terms of competing priorities, philosophies and perceptions of Allied leaders.
- NCES.CW.H.2.4 - Evaluate the extent to which the events and conferences of World War II initially created Cold War tensions in terms of competing priorities, philosophies and perceptions of Allied leaders.

NCES.CW.H.3 - Understand the causes, actions, and implications of various Cold War regional conflicts.
- NCES.CW.H.3.1 - Explain the causes, actions, and implications of various European conflicts during the Cold War, including but not limited to those conflicts in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Berlin/Germany, and Hungary.
- NCES.CW.H.3.2 - Explain the causes, actions, and implications of various Asian conflicts during the Cold War, including but not limited to those conflicts in China, Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
- NCES.CW.H.3.3 - Explain the causes, actions, and implications of various Middle Eastern conflicts during the Cold War, including, but not limited to those conflicts in Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and Afghanistan.
- NCES.CW.H.3.4 - Explain the causes, actions, and implications of various Latin American conflicts during the Cold War, including but not limited to those conflicts in Cuba, Guatemala, and Chile.
- NCES.CW.H.3.5 - Explain the causes, actions, and implications of various African conflicts during the Cold War, including but not limited to those conflicts in Angola, Somalia, and Ethiopia.

NCES.CW.H.4 - Analyze Cold War policies, doctrines and diplomacy in terms of their development, implementation and strategic relevance.
- NCES.CW.H.4.1 - Analyze various policy plans and doctrines in terms of their development, implementation and strategic relevance during the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.4.2 - Analyze various post World War II alliances in terms of their development and strategic relevance during the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.4.3 - Analyze the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction in terms of its impact on the development of new technologies and strategies during the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.4.4 - Explain the impact of competing interpretations of communism/socialism, such as Stalinism and Maoism, on Cold War policies and diplomacy.
- NCES.CW.H.4.5 - Explain the onset and impact of the decline of European colonialism, and the subsequent rise of nationalism on Cold War policies and diplomacy.
- NCES.CW.H.4.6 - Exemplify strategic compromises during the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.4.7 - Evaluate the effectiveness of Cold War policies adopted by the United States and the Soviet Union in terms of their enduring cultural, economic and diplomatic impacts.

NCES.CW.H.5 - Analyze leadership in terms of its influence on the events and outcome of the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.5.1 - Analyze the beliefs and decisions of United States Presidents, from Truman to George H.W. Bush, and their administrations in terms of their influence on Cold War events.
- NCES.CW.H.5.2 - Analyze the beliefs and decisions of General Secretaries of the Soviet Union, from Stalin to Gorbachev, and the Communist Party in terms of their influence on Cold War events.
- NCES.CW.H.5.3 - Analyze the beliefs and actions of anti-Communist leaders such as Syngman Rhee, Ngo Dinh Diem, Chiang Kai-Shek, Fulgencio Batista and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, in terms of their influence on the events of the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.5.4 - Analyze the beliefs and actions of anti-Capitalist leaders, such as Kim Il Sung, Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro in terms of their influence on the events of the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.5.5 - Evaluate the effectiveness of third world leaders, such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Josip Broz Tito in using the strategy of non-alignment during the Cold War.
- NCES.CW.H.5.6 - Evaluate the outcome of the Cold War in terms of the roles played by various leaders such as Ronald Reagan, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev.

NCES.CW.H.6 - Analyze derivatives of the Cold War in terms of their development, implementation and impacts on various people and places.
- NCES.CW.H.6.1 - Analyze nuclear technology in terms of its development, proliferation and impacts on various places.
- NCES.CW.H.6.2 - Analyze Cold War perceptions of loyalty in terms of their development and impacts on the decisions and liberties of various people.
- NCES.CW.H.6.3 - Analyze Cold War covert intelligence operations and acts of espionage in terms of their development, implementation and impacts on various places.
- NCES.CW.H.6.4 - Analyze Cold War geopolitical barriers such as the Berlin Wall, the 17th Parallel and the Iron Curtain, in terms of their development, implementation and impacts on various places.
- NCES.CW.H.6.5 - Analyze the Cold War relationship between governments, industry, and technology in terms of its development and impacts on various places.
- NCES.CW.H.6.6 - Analyze the Cold War race to outer space in terms of its development and impacts on various people and places.
- NCES.CW.H.6.7 - Analyze the relationship between civil rights, social movements and the Cold War in terms of its development and impacts.