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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 5
Cold War Diplomacy
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Deterrence
Back channel
De-escalation
How can deterrence and a back channel operate during the same crisis? Explain why de-escalation of an immediate danger is different from resolving the entire Cold War.
Read the situation.
The Cold War involved rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union, competing political and economic systems, military alliances, and conflicts involving many other countries. Those countries were not simply empty spaces on a superpower map. In 1962, Soviet nuclear missile deployments in Cuba produced a confrontation shaped partly by Cuban security concerns after the failed United States-backed Bay of Pigs invasion.
02 Organize the information.
Pressure, bargaining, and limits
Classify each supplied development by its main role in this explanation.
Sort the developments.
A. Military pressureB. Negotiated step or assuranceC. Continuing limit
Example
Category letter
1. The United States imposes a naval quarantine.
2. The Soviet Union agrees to remove missiles from Cuba.
3. The United States pledges not to invade Cuba.
4. A private understanding addresses United States missiles in Turkey.
5. The broader nuclear arms race continues after the crisis.
Explain one placement using a detail from the example.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 5
What does the evidence show?
Cold War Diplomacy
03 Follow the evidence.
Test the one-sided victory story
A draft says: “Only one side changed its position, and no negotiated exchange mattered.”
Select all evidence that challenges the draft.
The settlement included a United States non-invasion pledge as well as Soviet missile removal.
A separate understanding concerned United States missiles in Turkey.
A public speech expressed a firm demand.
A map locates Cuba near the United States.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
Whose perspective should the review add?
Most records in the packet come from United States and Soviet officials. The agreement also concerned Cuba and missiles in Turkey.
What would most improve the review?
Add Cuban and Turkish perspectives and investigate how their security concerns were represented or excluded.
Assume both countries had exactly the same priorities as the superpowers.
Remove geography because only leaders’ personalities matter.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write a crisis review explaining one pressure tactic, two negotiated elements, an immediate outcome, and a continuing limit. Identify one perspective that the current packet cannot adequately represent.