Cold War Ideological Clashes
The invisible barrier separating Communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe, referenced by Churchill.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The revolutionary medical specialty, often driven by wartime trauma, focused on artificial limbs and mobility assistance.
What is Prosthetics?
This Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 16) focuses on peace, justice, and strong institutions.
What is SDG 16?
An economic system where production is primarily controlled by private individuals and companies, seeking profit.
What is Capitalism?
The 1648 agreement considered the foundation of modern International Relations, establishing state sovereignty.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
The crisis in 1962 where the US and USSR came closest to nuclear war over missiles placed near Florida.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This type of care, drastically improved by WWI, focuses on treating severe emotional and psychological wounds of soldiers.
What is Trauma Care (or Psychiatric/Mental Health Care)?
SDG 17 requires these, involving governments, civil society, and the private sector, to achieve sustainable development.
What are Global Multi-stakeholder Partnerships?
This political ideology champions the values of individual liberty, human rights, and constitutional government.
What is Liberalism?
The historical context marked by rapid industrialization, new military technologies, and the scramble for colonies that led to WWI.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The US foreign policy that committed the United States to supporting free peoples fighting against communism, first applied to Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The massive wartime effort during WWI that mobilized women as nurses, driving their inclusion and professionalization in the medical field.
What is the massive mobilization of women?
The school mission concept that requires students to not only understand global problems but take concrete steps to improve conditions for others.
What is Empathy to Impact?
The key difference between Capitalism and Socialism regarding the ownership and control of the means of production.
What is private versus collective/public ownership?
The event in 1914 that is widely considered the spark that ignited the start of World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The core concept that prevented the US and USSR from launching a nuclear first strike during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
A major disease whose treatment advancements were catalyzed by the need for quick, large-scale intervention during WWI.
What is Typhus (or Tetanus, or Gangrene)?
The skill required of an effective global citizen to understand the opposing side's fears and motivations, especially in ideological conflicts.
What is Empathy?
The political and economic system where the state owns all major resources and plans economic output (the goal of the USSR).
What is Socialism?
A key component of the Cold War overview, named for the financial aid the US offered to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The name for the Cold War tactic where superpowers fought using smaller, third-party nations. Provide two examples for the DAILY DOUBLE.
What is a Proxy War? Korean, Vietnam Wars
The shared responsibility addressed by global partnerships to ensure justice for people living with medical disabilities caused by war.
What is accountability for the legacies of conflict?
DAILY DOUBLE The core ideological difference that separates the US and USSR in the context of how many political parties can exist and have power.
What is multi-party democracy versus one-party rule?
The historical event whose legacy—including massive debt and a failed League of Nations—directly contributed to the outbreak of World War II.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?