1. 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?

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

3. OPPOSING IDEOLOGIES CAPITALISMCOMMUNISM

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

5. 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.

6. 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?

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

8. 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.