Soviet economic collapse
The student will apply social science skills to understand the conflicts during the second half of the twentieth century by a) explaining the causes of the Cold War, including the competition between the American and Soviet economic and political systems and the causes of the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; b) describing the major leaders and events of the Cold War, including the location of major conflicts;
Causes of the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe