For this week's discussion, you must have completed reading Chapter 13, pages 345-368 and Chapter 14, pages 373-390 in the Pavlac textbook. For this Discussion, answer ONE of the instructor-provided:

For this week's discussion, you must have completed reading Chapter 13, pages 345-368 and Chapter 14, pages 373-390 in the Pavlac textbook.

For this Discussion, answer ONE of the instructor-provided:

1. Leading up to WWII, Japan, Italy and Germany participated in particularly aggressive acts. How did these decisions create the conditions for the upcoming global war?
2. Other than the Holocaust and the dropping of the atomic bomb, what was the most important event of World War II, in your opinion? Why did you choose this one? Be sure to support your opinion with historical facts,
3. Both during World War II and its aftermath. As we have seen many times by now, history is a road of related events that lead us continuously onward, toward the next situation. In your opinion, was there anything that could have been done or handled differently to prevent the outbreak of the Cold War? If so, what, and how could it have been changed?

The fighting of the Cold War ranged considerably between the 1940s and the 1980s.  Please choose ONE of the following events of the Cold War and discuss what role it played in the overall conflict between the democratic and communist powers:

-- the Marshall Plan-- the Korean War-- the Cuban Missile Crisis-- the building of the Berlin Wall-- the Vietnam War