COLD WAR
Essential Question:
What are the government’s responsibilities to its people when protecting the nation against perceived threats?
What are the government’s responsibilities to its people when protecting the nation against perceived threats?
"If ... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made."
-- Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the UK, 1979 - 1990
"Until now we've been lenient. We've restrained ourselves for over a month. But a government which serves the people must take strong measures to deal with social unrest. . . ."
-- John Simpson, from "Despatches from the Barricades: An Eyewitness Account
of the Revolutions that Shook the World, 1989 - 1990"
“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
– Jimmy Carter