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USH 8-3

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Oklahoma Academic Standard 8. The student will analyze the impact foreign and domestic policies from 1977 to 2001.

Objective 8.3  Summarize the series of events leading to the emergence of the United States as the sole superpower following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Empire.

In a Nutshell

In the late 1980’s the Soviet Union was losing influence in Europe, leading to the German public’s demand for reunification. Students should understand how a change in Soviet leadership toward progressiveness and openness led to a change in the political restructuring of the communist superpower. As the Soviet satellite system collapsed, America emerged as a more powerful world leader.

Teacher Action 

Student Action 

  • Provide routine opportunities for students to gather and analyze primary sources in order to compare civic virtues and principles of different political systems.

  • Reinforce critical thinking by evaluating and challenging ideas and assumptions regarding the fall of the Soviet Union and the changing international role for the United States.

  • Evaluate how multiple, complex events are shaped by the unique circumstances of time and place, as well as broader historical contexts to understand the closing events of the Cold War. 

  • Analyze the connections between historical events and geographic contexts in which they have occurred. 

Key Concepts 

Misconceptions 

  • Glasnost; Perestroika; Mikhail Gorbachev,

  •  gradual failure of state economic planning; economic stagnation, political instability, nationalist movements; impact of military commitment to Afghanistan 

  • START Treaty

  • disintegration of the Soviet empire; perceived end of the Cold War

  • reformulation of political, economic and military alliances 

  • Many students may tend to oversimplify the causes of the fall of the Soviet empire and Communist rule as an inevitable victory for the American government; when, in fact, multiple causes were rooted in the failures of ideological promises, economic woes, and independence movements in satellite nations. 

Instructional Resources

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