CHAPTER 28 - COLD WAR PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS

For this blog, you will be required to answer question based off Primary Source documents. There is a C28-Primary Source questions handout on the chapter 28 webpage. Download that handout and refer to the reading on the page listed. Topics and page number can be seen below. The handout has questions posted that need responses. These responses will need to be posted to the blog. 

The topics and questions are on a first come first serve order. Please be sure to not repeat answers, so check the blog before completing the assignment to make sure your topic has not been selected already. This activity is a prep for Document analysis which you will need for the DBQ. Be sure to research the history behind the document as to best gain the meaning and perspective of the writing. Your overall answers should reflect both your document analysis as well as provide historical evidence to support. Posts should be a minimum of 1 paragraph and maximum of 2 paragraphs in length. Blog posts will be 
due by 11:59pm April 10th.

The readings are as follows.

1.“Opposing Viewpoints: Who Started the Cold War? American and Soviet Perspectives”(p. 869)

2. “The Cuban Missile Crisis from Khrushchev’s Perspective” (p. 875)

3. “Khrushchev Denounces Stalin” (p. 883)

4. “Soviet Repression in Eastern Europe: Hungary, 1956”:  (p. 885)

5. “The Voice of the Women’s Liberation Movement”: 

EUROPEAN NATIONS REBUILD

Your task for this assignment is to select 1 country from Western Europe and 1 from Eastern Europe and examine its efforts to either (1) rebuild itself following WWII and at the same time resist radical changes, namely a Communist takeover or (2) struggle to live under Soviet Communist dominance and behind the Iron Curtain.

Look at the years from 1945-1965 and research the Political, Economic, Social, Cultural, Intellectual and/or Religious aspects for each nation. You must include at least 3 of the 5 aspects mentioned in your response. Your overall synopsis should end with the status of the country by 1965 but can be expanded into the later 60s if necessary, but no further. 

You can use your textbooks for  research, but you should be looking at additional resources for help. If you come across any credible websites, videos or images, please include the link at the end of your blog. 

Your responses should ranges from 2 paragraphs - 1 page (No more!!). A thesis statement (underlined) is required and should be proven with facts throughout the post. All posts are due by 11:59pm April 10th. 

Western European Nations/Regions are as follows:
1)England
2)France
3)West Germany
4)Italy
5)Belgium/Netherlands

Eastern European Nations/Regions are as follows:
1)Poland
2)East Germany
3)Yugoslavia (The Balkans)
4)Hungary
5)Czechoslovakia