DO FIRST- ON WORKSHEET Imagine you are in an ongoing dispute with somebody. You have information that could ruin his/her reputation if you shared it with the whole school. But he/she has the same on you. What would you do and why?

1.  At the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two world superpowers.

OPPOSING IDEOLOGIES CAPITALISMCOMMUNISM

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING  Communism goes with _______________ (economic system)  Capitalism goes with ________________ (economic system)  What is the difference between these two economic systems?

2.  The conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is known as the Cold War because even as tensions grew, these superpowers never fought each other directly.

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING  Why would both the U.S. and the Soviet Union want to prevent the Cold War from “heating up?” HINT: How did the U.S. end the war with Japan?

3.  A proxy war is when opposing powers engage in conflict by using other countries as substitutes. Propaganda leaflet dropped in North Korea

4. PROXY WAR  This meant that the U.S. and the Soviet Union would send support to other countries at war (or, more often, to opposing sides engaged in a civil war in those countries) in the form of either supplies and weapons or actual soldiers.  In this way, the two superpowers fought against each other without actually fighting against each other.