What are the 3 characteristics of the post WWII environment?

Answer each question separately
Question 1
Drawing on your textbook chapter two and the following video (World War 2 in 7 Minutes (Links to an external site.)
) discuss the events of WWII. Who were the aggressors? Why did the US ultimately get involved? Who were the winners?
What was the peace settlement ending WWII?
What was the model of order established after WWII?

Question 2
What are the 3 characteristics of the post WWII environment?
Explain how these three characteristics basically set up the Cold War

Question 3

Drawing on your textbook and the following video, discuss the Cold War. Who were the main actors in the Cold War? Why does the Cold War emerge?
Cold War in 9 Minutes – Manny Man Does History (Links to an external site.)

Question 4
Watch the following video and respond to the questions
Cuban Missile Crisis in 5 Minutes (Links to an external site.)
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis about? What option/ policy did the US ultimately choose to help diffuse the conflict?

Question 5
In 2-3 sentences EACH, briefly discuss the 3 main proxy wars of the Cold War:
1. Korea
2. Vietnam
3. Afghanistan

Question 6

What is the symbolic end of the Cold War? What is the official end of the Cold War? How do realists, liberals, and constructivists respectively explain why the Cold War never turned hot (why the US and USSR never directly fought each other)?
Question 7
What are the 3 characteristics of the post-Cold War environment? (1990s)
Question 8
What are the four characteristics of the post 9-11 world?

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