1. U.S. HISTORY ON THIS DAY: IF YOU WANT ME TO KEEP YOUR ELECTRONICS, KEEP THEM OUT! Britain repealed the Stamp Act Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were married Theodore Roosevelt opened the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona. It was the largest dam in the U.S. at the time The Germans sank the U.S. ships, City of Memphis, Vigilante and the Illinois, without any warning Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini agreed to join in Germany's war against France and Britain The third military draft began in the U.S. because of World War II The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was ratified Nationalist troops landed on the mainland of China and capture Communist held Sungmen U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill The U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Miranda decision concerning legal council for defendants Arab oil-producing nations ended their five-month embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan The U.S. performed nuclear tests at a Nevada test site The first free elections took place in East Germany.
BELL WORK: #
PICK-UP TWO NATIONS LIVE ON THE EDGE.
COMPLETE ACTIVE READING:
AS YOU READ:
1. UNDERLINE IMPORTANT INFORMATION/TERMS/ NAMES.
2. CIRCLE UNFAMILIAR INFORMATION/TERMS/ NAMES.
3. ASK QUESTIONS IN MARGINS, SPACE BELOW OR BACK ABOUT CIRCLED ITEMS.
4. WERE AMERICANS JUSTIFIED IN BUILDING BOMB/FALLOUT SHELTERS IN THE 1950s?
AGENDA:
DISCUSS BRINKMANSHIP & THE ARMS RACE.
COMPLETE & DISCUSS BRINKMANSHIP ACTIVITY 6.7.
COMPLETE EXIT TICKET.
HOMEWORK:
UNIT 6 VOCABULARY QUIZ WEDNESDAY
UNIT 6 TEST & BINDER CHECK THURSDAY

2. Exit Ticket/Objective 6.7 Assessment
As the Cold War moved into the 1950s the U.S. and U.S.S.R. entered into a nuclear (1)_____ , raising the fear of a nuclear war. As a result, Americans began conducting air raid drills and even building (2)_____ under their homes. This build-up of nuclear weapons led to the race to build an (3)_____ that was 1000 times more powerful than the original atomic bombs. By 1952 (4)______ had become the President of the United States. He adopted a policy called (5)_____, which meant that the U.S. was willing to go to the edge of nuclear war to stop the threat of (6)_____. In order to secretly fight communism around the world the U.S. government created the (7)_____ to conduct covert operations in foreign countries.

3. Exit Ticket/Objective 6.7 Assessment
The Soviets responded to U.S. and NATO actions by forming the (8)_____ which was a military alliance between the U.S.S.R. and 7 Eastern European nations. As the Cold War escalated the Soviets shocked the world when in October of 1957 they launched (9)____ the first artificial satellite to orbit earth. After this event the U.S. began to feel as if they were losing the Cold War. The U.S. intensified its efforts to spy on the Soviets leading to the 1960 (10)_____ when U.S. pilot (11)_____ was forced down over the Soviet Union and sent to prison as an American spy.

4. Exit Ticket/Objective 6.7 Assessment
Based on what you have learned, should Americans have been fearful about the threat of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union?
Be sure to provide:
C (claim, restate question with opinion)
E (two pieces of supporting evidence)
R (reasoning, explain evidence)