---
title: "SS5H5: Cold War Origins and Consequences (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SS5H5
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SS5H5
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - grade-5
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# SS5H5: Cold War Origins and Consequences

Discuss the origins and consequences of the Cold War.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: Grade 5, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/grade-5.md

## Expectations

- **SS5H5.a**: Explain the origin and meaning of the term "Iron Curtain."
- **SS5H5.b**: Explain how the United States sought to stop the spread of communism through the Berlin airlift, the Korean War, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- **SS5H5.c**: Identify Joseph McCarthy and Nikita Khrushchev.
- **SS5H5.d**: Discuss the importance of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.