HISTORY-SOCIAL SCIENCE CALIFORNIA CONTENT STANDARDS UNIT 10.9.

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REVIEW OF CALIFORNIA CONTENT STANDARDS UNIT 10.9.
Standard 9.1.:
From the Constitution of Japan:
“We, the Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives in the N
ational Diet, determined that we shall secure for ourselves and our posterity th
e fruits of peaceful cooperation with all nations and the blessings of liberty t
hroughout this land
The source for these ideas outlined in the Japanese Constitution is the United S
tates Constitution.
The main reason why Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and East Germany b
ecame satellites of the Soviet Union was that the Soviet army (Red Army)
occupied these areas at the end of World War ll.
Comparison of two maps, a recently unified Germany in 1990 and German territorie
s in the east lost after 1945: At the end of World War ll, Germany lost much of
its eastern land. lt was Poles who migrated into these territories (Southern Eas
t Prussia, Pomerania, West Prussia, and Upper Silesia).
Standard 9.2.:
The .primary cause of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Unio
n was competition for political influence over other countries.
This, of course, presupposes the incompatibility of both political and econonmic
systems and the unwillingness to accept the limitations imposed upon one’s own sy
stem by the mere existence of the other, such as no free access to the east as a
result of political control of the Communist bloc.
One action that was an expression of the growth of nationalism in the Middle Eas
t was the Egyptian seizure of the Suez Canal (Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1956, leadin
g to the Suez Crisis). Another important issue was the loss of control of oil pr
oduction by European companies.
Textbook, chapter 18, pages 519-519: One reason why the United States competed w
ith the Soviet Union for influence in the Congo during the early 196O’s was that t
he United SIaIeS wanted to block Soviet HCCESS to ine Congo’s natural TSSOUTCSS. O
ne way of doing that was not by direct American military intervention but by hav
ing United Nations peacekeeping forces deployed in the Congo.
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n6 30I| l, 1960. II WEIS I lGE1dGCI by President Joseph Kasavubu and Pl 6n1I6f P
atrice Lumumba. Soon QIIQI IITKIQDQITIIQIIOQ, chaos QIIQUQU. SQDQTQIIQI ll/loise
TSOITOIIIIJQ and his Katanga rebels proclaimed an independent Katanga. Premier
Lumumba appealed to the United Nations for aid. The UN demanded withdrawal of Be
lgian forces. The Security Council voted to send in United Nations troops.