Cold War

Students will create a timeline of the period 1950-1989. This will be used at the beginning of the unit on the latter part of the 20th century. It will be an ongoing project as we work through the unit.

Students will take events of the Cuban Missile Crisis and place them into context of the Cold War. After students list and discuss the media available they will work with a partner to create a poster or diorama depicting a fallout shelter.

Students will work in cooperative groups using primary sources (photographs, maps and documents) and brief biographies to understand how the U.S. and Cuban relations were changed by the Cuban Missile Crisis.

To assist students in developing skills that will enable them to analyze political cartoons and political posters and develop an understanding of the different perspectives of the Korea War, students will analyze political cartoons and political posters.

Cooperative learning through document analysis, students summarize the worldwide efforts of the Cold War, including the competition for power between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The lesson will be a traditional lecture based lesson using primary source documents from President Truman and Joseph McCarthy. I will also incorporate a documentary movie on the HUAC trials and McCarthy. My main focus will be on the Red Scare.

Through a brief lecture, document analysis, and creation of museum exhibit on McCarthyism students will evaluate the political, social and cultural impact of McCarthyism in America.

The purpose of this lesson is to link the Communist Revolution in China (1949) to subsequent Cold War events, including Korea and McCarthyism.

A series of lectures, document analysis, cooperative learning and individual assignments.

After an examination and reading of letters from President Harry S. Truman to his wife, Bess, students will be able to come to a consensus as to the true feelings President Harry S. Truman had regarding specific Cold War events such as the Marshall Plan.