Essential Question: What are the government’s responsibilities to its people when protecting the nation against perceived threats?
Thesis: The government’s responsibilities during the Cold War was to prevent communism from expanding while obtaining peace and protection for the United States and the Soviet Union.
“When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.” –Jimmy Carter