This assignment allows the students the opportunity to explore the vast amount of visual examples that address various aspects of the Cold War and offers new insight into the era.
Did FDR's Weakening Health Lead Stalin to Believe that Eastern Europe Was His for the Taking?
Students should be able to make inferences as to the tenor of each conference, the state of mind of the participants and the importance of the photographs in relation to their background knowledge to support or refute: FDR was too physically ill at Yalta.
Was Truman's Decision to Drop the Bomb, To End the War in the Pacific, Justified or Not?
Students will analysis and evaluate primary documents, videos, excerpts from newspapers and books, and then in groups will create a persuasive essay supporting their point of view, including quotations from the provided sources.
Students will examine the historical interpretation of the origins of the Cold War and use primary documents to defend or refute a particular historical interpretation.