The Cold War Tenth Grade U.S. History Rodney Mileski

Table of Contents Slide 1: I ntroduction Slide 2: T able of Contents Slides 3-4-5: A merican Heritage Slides 6-7-8: P eople in Societies Slides : W orld Interactions Slides : C itizenship Rights and Responsibilities Slides : D emocratic Processes Slides : D ecision Making and resources Slides S cience, Technology, and Society

The struggle of the Cold War began at the end of World War II. The conflict between the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic (USSR) and the United States of America (USA) covered over four decades and ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. We are going to look at a few significant situations and events during this period that eventually led to end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War.

Student activities focused on President Truman and the Truman Doctrine. Student activities focused on President Truman and the Truman Doctrine. A website that allows you the reader to feel the nervousness and learn about the Cuban Missile Crisis. A website that allows you the reader to feel the nervousness and learn about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The past and present functions and members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The past and present functions and members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. /timeline.html /timeline.html A chronological timeline of important events of the Cold War. A chronological timeline of important events of the Cold War. An interactive map detailing the advancements and setbacks of the Korean War. An interactive map detailing the advancements and setbacks of the Korean War.

Activities : Do activity #4 and activity #5 from the website on the Truman Doctrine. Activity #1: Do activity #4 and activity #5 from the website on the Truman Doctrine. : Please explain in detail the Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, Rosenberg Spy Case, Massive Retaliation, U-2 Affair, Bay of Pigs, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Vietnamization, Containment, Détente, Star Wars, INF Treaty, SALT I, and Chernobyl. Activity #2: Please explain in detail the Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, Rosenberg Spy Case, Massive Retaliation, U-2 Affair, Bay of Pigs, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Vietnamization, Containment, Détente, Star Wars, INF Treaty, SALT I, and Chernobyl. : Korea is still divided near the 38th parallel into two countries. Ask students to locate a recent news article (print or online) about tensions between North and South Korea, and use these articles as a starting point to talk about the origins of this division. Activity #3: Korea is still divided near the 38th parallel into two countries. Ask students to locate a recent news article (print or online) about tensions between North and South Korea, and use these articles as a starting point to talk about the origins of this division. : Please complete both the quizzes on the website linked to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Have the questions wrote down also. Activity #4: Please complete both the quizzes on the website linked to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Have the questions wrote down also. : After reading the transcripts between David Gergen and George Kennan, please describe in your own words how Mr. Kennan felt about containment and how he felt we should have approached the War. Please use excerpts from the article to reinforce your points. Activity #5 : After reading the transcripts between David Gergen and George Kennan, please describe in your own words how Mr. Kennan felt about containment and how he felt we should have approached the War. Please use excerpts from the article to reinforce your points.

With the threat of nuclear attack from the Russians during the Cold War, the American culture began to prepare. Fallout shelters were very popular and gave the society a sense of security in a terrifying situation. Do you feel these Cold War fallout shelters are just historical relics, or is our culture beginning to embrace the idea of shelters again since 9/11/01?

Fallout shelters were very common to American culture during the Cold War. Fallout shelters were very common to American culture during the Cold War. Nuclear war survival skills. Nuclear war survival skills. Six major effects of nuclear explosion. Six major effects of nuclear explosion. Indian Hill fallout shelter (Cincinnati, Ohio) Six Steps to Survival. (Nuclear Attack)

#1 In the late 1950s, American were buying and building fallout shelters. What is a fallout shelter? What purpose did it serve? What do they reveal about Cold War anxieties? #2 Direct students to conduct at least two interviews with adults who were in elementary or high school during the period to determine what the interviewees did at home and at school to cope with the threat of nuclear war. Alert students to inquire about how the subject felt during the drills. Require students to record their questions and the responses of their subjects. Ask student volunteers to describe their interviews to the class. #3 Direct the students to use the display, diagram, and photograph of a "fallout shelter" to create a bill of materials to construct and stock an atomic bomb shelter at today's prices. As a concluding exercise, permit the students to report on items missing from the bill of materials that they think are essential for survival and to defend their suggestions. (Students should assume that electricity is not available.) #4 We will take one day or half a day to visit the Wright State University Library and walk through the tunnels. I will have them realize that the tunnels were not built for student enjoyment but for the possibility of nuclear attack. #5 Based on the information we have on the capability and destruction of a nuclear bomb, we will map out how far the destruction will travel if WPAFB was hit with a nuclear missile.

Historians have labeled these the two “Hot Wars” of the Cold War Era. Were these two wars in the U.S.’s best national interest? It is important for us to see where these wars were located and how many military personnel we lost in the battles.

A good site that covers causes, operations, and peace talks of the Korean War. A website filled with information on the Korean War. Book reviews and oral history of soldiers in the Korean War. A chronological timeline of events that took place in Vietnam from 1961 to A few letters from soldiers in Vietnam.

Activities Korean War #1 List the countries, sent from the United Nations, that were involved in the Korean War. Did the recent events in China’s government have anything to do with our involvement? Why was Australia extremely interested in being involved also? #2 Vietnam We will be using this site to do a lesson on Vietnam refugees. Korea Korean WarNorthSouth Korea today #3 Why did war break out in Korea in 1950? Who decided to divide Korea at the 38th parallel? In your opinion, what is the importance of the Korean peninsula’s geographic location? Explain how the Korean War ended. What is the relationship between North and South Korea today? Describe the current relationship between the United States and these two countries. WWW Virtual Library WWW Virtual Library #4 Display a map of Vietnam. Ask students to use their texts or other reference materials to help label the map of Vietnam, identifying its major cities, waterways, neighboring countries, and physical features. Have students research the type of climate in Vietnam, the vegetation, and the amount of annual rainfall. The WWW Virtual Library has numerous online map resources.WWW Virtual Library #5 Now that you have a better understanding of the times, was Ho Chi Minh fighting for communism or was he fighting for independence? Summarize in your own words.

As the Cold War continued and our involvement in Vietnam grew, citizens began to demand that significant issues be resolved. The civil rights movement and the protests against the war began to demand attention. For African-Americans the sixties were a struggle, but a significant accomplishment in the struggle for equality As the Cold War continued and our involvement in Vietnam grew, citizens began to demand that significant issues be resolved. The civil rights movement and the protests against the war began to demand attention. For African-Americans the sixties were a struggle, but a significant accomplishment in the struggle for equality.

Milestones in the modern civil rights movement (Timeline). Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream”. Outrage and rebellion to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The early years of the National Organization for Women. Lessons of Vietnam and Serbia.

#1 Using the computer and other resources please complete the 25 question quiz on black history. This will be do in one week. There will be a quiz covering this material. #2 Please fill out the worksheet that covers the video. We will be watching a video titled THE ROAD TO BROWN. #3 In your own words, please explain to me why you feel we were right or not right being involved in Vietnam. Please back your opinions with information we have covered in class. This is a one page minimum. #4 Define completely these key events in the sixties movements: Black Codes, Boycott, Civil disobedience, Jim Crow, etc. #5 As we covered the protest to the Vietnam war, we saw incidents where protesters took frustration out on American soldiers. Do you think this is fair? Are there people today in the U.S. who are protesting our involvement in the War on Terrorism. Should we be giving people the right to voice their disapproval about our own government. Why or why not. Please take your time and turn in a paper of at least two pages in length.

Communism DemocracyDemocracyDemocracyDemocracy Let us look at the differences between communism and democracy and determine if the Cold War was important fighting. Was it our responsibility to make sure that other governments of the world would not become communist? Would our world be the same today if we had not stood up to communism in all parts of the world?

The principles of Communism. A website that covers the leaders of the USSR and important doctrines. The Declaration of Independence. The Bill of Rights wp-srv/politics/herblock/essay1.htm Political cartoons during the Cold War era.

Activities #1 After reading the article, what are the benefits or downfalls of living in a country with economic freedom. Explain in detail. What do you feel would be the perfect economic situation? (Capitalism or Communism ). #2 Is socialism different from communism? What ways are they similar and what ways are they alike? Do you feel that there are politicians in the U.S. who favor a socialist government? Is this good for the U.S. or is it contradictory to the original establishment by our Founding Fathers? #3 Hand out the test on the Communist Manifesto and Declaration. Tell the students that if they don't know for sure whether a statement is from the Declaration or the Manifesto, to take a logical guess from the issues or tone of the statement. After taking the test, read each question and have the students hold hands up on each question as to which document the statement was taken from. Then tell them the answer and why it is more logical that it come from the particular document from which it was taken. You may call for observations from the students, both as to what led them to their correct or incorrect answer, and whether they can perceive a pattern developing.

Activities continued #4 Assign students, either individually or in pairs, to research one of the following topics: House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Julius Rosenberg, Ethel Rosenberg, Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner, Jr., Gordon Kahn, Bertold Brecht, The Hollywood Ten, Arthur Miller, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and A. Mitchell Palmer. #5 Interactive computer history games that cover the Cold war.

Market Economy Command Economies Our approach to economics and our economy was also much different that communism. Our Founding Fathers created this great nation on the principles of a market economy while socialism and communism feel it necessary to live under a command economy. To preserve our great Nation and its economy we needed to stop the spread of communism Our approach to economics and our economy was also much different that communism. Our Founding Fathers created this great nation on the principles of a market economy while socialism and communism feel it necessary to live under a command economy. To preserve our great Nation and its economy we needed to stop the spread of communism.

This site defines what a market economy is. An explanation of capitalism and its beginnings. Explanation of command economy. In-depth explanations of socialism In-depth explanations of socialism. Good explanation of supply and demand.

Activities #1 This is a website with a simulation of the students being in a command economy. #2 A class simulation on the concept of demand. #3 This is an excellent simulation to use the entire quarter. The simulation allows them to be part of the economy (classroom) and has an incentive program to increase participation. This is excellent before they go in to the real world. #4 A great activity on the concept of supply and demand that allows the students to be physically active and not at a desk. #5 The students will be completing a worksheet on demand-shifters. We will have gone over these ideas in class and they will take this home to do.

Science, Technology, and Society With the Cold War in full gear and each country trying to stay one step in front of the other, technology and science flourished. Whether it was the space race or the defense race technology was going to places it had never been before. WAR BREEDS INNOVATION Yurri Gagarin (Vostok 1) Alan B. Shepard (Freedom 7)

Cold War Technology ce.timeline/frameset.html ce.timeline/frameset.html Timeline of the Cold War space race. Detailing the advancements and descriptions of missiles created during the Cold War. Cold War inventions may help save the earth. History of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization

#1 A simulation examining life without the Cold War #2 Please list at least five different inventions to evolve from the Cold War and describe their impact to society. t.html t.html #3 t.html t.html On-line quiz that checks our knowledge and gives us topics to explore with more detail. #4 The students will be completing a worksheet that covers many space missions of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. over the years. They will be explaining each mission in some detail. The NASA homepage will be very useful for this project. #5 Complete a worksheet that follows along with the PBS video PLAGUE WAR. This will help us understand our involvement and the USSR’s involvement in the biological and chemical warfare race. Our two nations are responsible for much of this that is in the world today. Will also look at the concept of “brain drain” and how it effects us now.