Directions: Read the Chapter and complete one sentence summaries for each topic below. When you complete each section, go back and write a paragraph summary of that section. When you complete all three sections, write a one paragraph summary of the complete chapter.

  1. The formation of a bipolar world

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    1. The cold war in Europe
      1. Introduction

       

      1. A Divided Germany

         

      2. Blockade and Airlift

         

      3. Berlin Wall

         

      4. The Nuclear Arms Race

         

    1. Confrontations in Korea and Cuba
      1. Introduction

       

      1. The Korea War,

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      2. Globalization of containment

         

      3. Cuba: nuclear flashpoint

       

      1. Bay of Pigs fiasco, April 1961

       

      1. Cuban missile crisis, October 1962

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    2. Cold war societies
      1. Domestic containment

       

      1. Female liberation

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      2. Black nationalism

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      3. The U.S. civil rights movement

       

      1. Cold war consumerism

       

      1. The space race

       

      1. Peaceful coexistence


  2. Challenges to superpower hegemony
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    1. Defiance, dissent, and intervention in Europe
      1. France under de Gaulle

         

      2. Tito's Yugoslavia
       
      1. De-Stalinization

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      2. Hungarian challenge

         

      3. Prague Spring

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    2. The People's Republic of China
      1. Introduction
       
      1. Origins of Communist China

         

      2. Social and economic transformation of China

       

      1. Fraternal cooperation

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      2. Cracks in alliance
         
    1. Détente and the decline of superpower influence
      1. Era of cooperation

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      2. Demise of détente

         

      3. U.S. defeat in Vietnam

         

      4. Soviet setbacks in Afghanistan

         

      5. Cold war countercultural protests in 1960s and 1970s

         

      6. Rock and Roll


      7. Watergate
  3. The end of the cold war
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    1. Introduction

     

    1. Revolution in east and central Europe
      1. Moscow's legacies

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      2. Gorbachev's Impact

         

      3. Revolution's in Eastern Europe

         

    2. The collapse of the Soviet Union
      1. Gorbachev's reforms

         

      2. Perestroika: "restructuring" the economy

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      3. Glasnost: "openness" to public criticism, admitting past mistakes

         

      4. Collapse of the Soviet Union, December 1991

         

    3. Toward an uncertain future
      1. Introduction

      2. A Future without Divisions


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