Unit Plan

Pbs: Frontline: From Arms Race to Arms Sales

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During the Cold War, nations like the U.S. and he U.S.S.R. were in a race to develop arms to defend themselves, but what happens to those nations when they collapse and have a stockpile of arms? This activity examines the surplus of arms from a dissolved U.S.S.R falling into the hands of government rebels in places such as Sierra Leone through illegal gun sales.

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