大学思辨英语教程精读4教学课件Unit_15.pptx

Unit 15 The Future of  Civilization;;;;Critical Thinking ;Lead in;Lead in;Background Knowledge;continued;continued;continued;continued;continued;Background Knowledge;continued;continued;continued;The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc, that is, Soviet Union, its satellite states, and the Warsaw Pact members, and powers in the Western Bloc, that is, the United States, its NATO allies and others. The two blocs were led by two superpowers with profound economic and political differences, the communist Soviet Union and the capitalist United States. The two blocs were divided by their ideologies, and also by an Iron Curtain, a boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas with border defenses that block any open contact between the blocs, the most notable one among which was the Berlin Wall. Historians do not fully agree on the dates that ;mark the start and end of the Cold War, but it is commonly accepted that the Cold War started after World War II, either in 1945 with the ending of the War, or in 1947 with the US Truman Doctrine, and it came to an end as political democratization swept across the Eastern Bloc countries in the late 1980s, having as its mark either the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 or the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. ;4. Do some research on the Soviet Union and write a 100-word sketch of its history. ; ;Part I Comprehension Check;lowered from the Senate building in the Kremlin and replaced with the tricolor flag of Russia. April 18, 1994 flags of Saudi Arabia and Turkey in Sarajevo: This happened during the Bosnia War (1992-1995), part of the breakup of Yugoslavia. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the secessions of Slovenia and Croatia from Yugoslavia, the multi-ethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (44% Muslim Bosniaks, 32/5% Orthodox Serbs, and 17% Catholic Croats) passed a referendum for independence in February 1992