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INTRODUCTION...4
- Assumptions...5
- Authors and Contributors...6
- Standards...7
- California History-Social Science Content Standards
- Common Core Reading Standards
- Standards Alignment by Lesson
LESSON 1: ROOTS OF THE COLD WAR...18
- Procedures...19
- Modifications/Support For Student Literacy...23
- Standards...24
- Common Core Reading Standards
- California History-Social Science Content Standards
- Cold War Pre-Test...27
- Background Information...31
- American Foreign Policy Prior to WWII
- Soviet Foreign Policy Prior to WWII
- Defining The Cold War...33
- Activity: Definition Worksheet
- Cold War Wall Chart...34
- Organizing the Cold War Wall Chart
- Activity: “The Cold War: Why did We Fight?” - Student Chart
- Wartime Experience...36
- Teacher Instructions
- Activity: Sorting US & USSR Experiences
- Yalta And Potsdam...37
- Activity: Foreign Policy Goals
- Yalta Reading
- Potsdam Reading
- Comparing Churchill And Stalin...40
- Activity: Excerpt Analysis
- Iron Curtain (“Sinews of Peace”) Speech: Except & Analysis Worksheet
- Response to Churchill - Joseph Stalin, Interview in Pravda: Excerpt & Analysis Worksheet
- Instructions For Sentence Deconstruction...46
- Teaching Sentence Deconstruction
- The Marshall Plan...48
- Directions
- Activity: Excerpt Review and Discussion Note Taking Chart
- Activity: “It’s the same without mechanical problems” - Cartoon Analysis & Discussion Questions
- The Sources Of Soviet Conduct...52
- Background & Excerpt from “The Sources of Soviet Conduct”
- Discussion Questions
- Truman vs. Zhdanov...54
- Directions
- Activity: Significant Terms Organization Chart
- Excerpt from the Truman Doctrine
- Excerpt from “Report on the International Situation to the Cominform”
- The Berlin Blockade...59
- Background
- Activity: Proposal to President Truman on How to Respond to the Soviet Blockade
- The Berlin Airlift...60
- When and How Did the Cold War Begin?...61
- Activity: Short Essay
LESSON 2: DECOLONIZATION...63
- Procedures...64
- Decolonization, 1945-1965...68
- Background: Reading & Comprehension Questions
- Colonial Independence: Reading & Comprehension Questions
- Impact of WWII: Reading & Comprehension Questions
- Decolonization and Nationalism: Reading & Comprehension Questions
- The US and the Soviet Union: Reading & Comprehension Questions
- Decolonization through Maps...73
- The Three World Order, 1947-1991: Map & Questions
- Decolonization of Africa: Map & Questions
- Nigeria-Linguistic Groups: Map & Questions
- Colonial Africa, 1913: Map & Questions
- Decolonization in Asia and the Middle East: Map & Questions
- US-Red and Blue States: Map & Questions
- Religions in India, 1909: Map
- Hindus and Muslims in India, 1909: Map0
- Partition of India, 1947: Map & Questions
- The Three World Order, 1947-1991(Again): Map & Questions
- Analyzing Country Statistics...83
- Activity: Categorizing Nations into First World, Second World, and Third World
- Measuring Wealth: GDP Overview
- 1960 GDP and Population Chart
- Activity: Measuring Wealth
- Activity: Passenger Cars & Ratios
- Activity: Analyzing Population - Growth Rates, Mortality Rates, Children in School
- Activity: Priorities for Egypt in 1960
- What is a Third Way?...92
- Activity: Analyze Two Sources to Answer the Question “What is the third way?
- Directions
- Note Taking Chart
- Excerpt from Frantz Fanon’s Book “The Wretched of the Earth”
- Excerpt from Jawaharlal Nehru’s 1956 Address
- Activity: Analyze Two Sources to Answer the Question “What is the third way?
- World Order Agendas Chart...96
- The Suez Canal...97
- Activity: What was Egypt’s Third Way?
- Building the Suez Canal: Reading & Comprehension Questions
- Egypt under Imperialism: Reading & Comprehension Questions
- Israel: Reading & Comprehension Questions
- Nasser’s Revolution: Reading & Comprehension Questions
- Gamal Abd al Nasser, “Speech at Alexandria, July 26, 1956”...106
- Excerpt from Nasser’s 1956 Speech
- Discussion Questions
- Activity: Analyzing Nasser’s 1956 Speech - Chart
- The Suez Canal Crisis Conference...113
- Activity: Reenactment of Negotiations between the US, Soviet Union, Egypt, Great Britain, France, and Indonesia
- United States Position Paper
- Excerpt from Eisenhower and Dulles Radio-Television Report, August 3, 1956
- Excerpt from Dulles, “Statement at 22-Power London Conference, August 16, 1956”
- Background Information
- Soviet Union Position Paper
- Excerpt from Dmitri Shepilov, “Statement at 22-Power London Conference, August 17, 1956”
- Background Information
- Great Britain Position Paper
- Excerpt from Anthony Eden, Speech to the House of Commons, December 23, 1929
- Excerpt from Emanuel Shinwell, Address to Chiefs of Staff on May 23, 1951
- Excerpt from Selwyn Llyod, “Statement at the 22-Power London Conference, August 18, 1956”
- Excerpt from Anthony Eden, Speech to the House of Commons on the Suez Crisis, October 31, 1956
- France Position Paper
- Excerpt from Christian Pineau, “Statement at the 22-Power London Conference, August 17, 1956”
- Indonesia Position Paper
- Excerpt from President Sukarno, Speech at the Asian-African Conference at Bandung, April 18, 1955
- Excerpt from Ruslan Abdulgani, “Statements at 22-Power London Conference, August 16 & 18, 1956
- Background Information
- Pakistan Position Paper
- Excerpt from Hamidul Huq Choudhury, “Statements at the 22-Power London Conference, August 18, 1956”
- Resolution of the Suez Crisis...128
- UN Resolution 118 & Comprehension Questions
- The Suez Crisis in Brief
- Important Points
- Background of the Cuban Missile Crisis...131
- Reading
- Timeline
- Analyzing Cuba in 1960...134
- Activity: Worksheet on the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Map: The Three World Orders, 1947-1991
- Activity: Analyze Cuba’s Needs & Set Priorities
- John F. Kennedy, The Lesson of Cuba, 1961...137
- Activity: Sentence Chunking Worksheet
- Castro, Second Declaration of Havana, 1962...141
- Activity: Sentence Chunking Worksheet
- Opposing Viewpoints: John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro...146
- Activity: Compare Speeches & Analyze the Leaders’ Perspectives
LESSON 3: PRINCIPLES VS. PRACTICE...148
- Procedures...149
- Comparing Principles to Practice...153
- Activity: Worksheet on the Relationship between Principles and Practice in the Three World Orders
- Industrialized Racism in the United States...154
- Reading
- John F. Kennedy, “Civil Rights Announcement”...157
- Excerpt from Kennedy’s June 11, 1963 Address on Civil Rights
- Activity: Sentence Deconstruction
- Activity: Comprehension Questions
- Martin Luther King, Jr., “Speech on South Africa”...160
- Excerpt from King’s December 7, 1964 Speech on South Africa
- Activity: Sentence Deconstruction
- Activity: Comprehension Questions
- Mao Zedong, “A New Storm against Imperialism”...163
- Excerpt from Zedong’s Speech “A New Storm against Imperialism, 1968”
- Activity: Sentence Deconstruction
- Activity: Comprehension Questions
- Prague Spring & the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia...165
- Excerpt from CIA’s “A Look Back…The Prague Spring and Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia”
- The Intelligence Community Watches
- Optimism Fades
- Soviet Invasion Renews the Cold War Chill
- Activity: Event Flowchart
- Excerpt from CIA’s “A Look Back…The Prague Spring and Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia”
- The Role of Media in Prague Spring...168
- Excerpt from Ukrainian Communist Party Report to Soviet Union
- Comprehension Questions
- Prague Spring Archival Film...170
- Activity: Film Note Taking Form
- The Brezhnev Doctrine...171
- Excerpt from “Sovereignty and International Duties of Socialist Countries,” by Sergei Kovalev
- Activity: Analyzing Coded Language in Kovalev’
- Excerpt from Leonid Brezhnev, “Speech at the 5th Party Congress of the Polish United Workers Party”
- Activity: Comparing the Brezhnev Doctrine and the Truman Doctrine
- China Under Mao Zedong...173
- Reading
- Activity: Identifying and Analyzing the Major Programs of the Mao Zedong Era
- Propaganda from Mao...178
- Posters
- Carry on the Struggle
- Chairman Mao Loves Children
- To Villages We Go
- The Commune is Like a Gigantic Dragon
- Charmin Mao is the Great Liberator
- Walk the Road of Dazhai
- Transform the Hai River
- Awakened Peoples
- The Eastern Sea is Red
- Activity: Propaganda Analysis – Posters & Quotes from Mao’s “Little Red Book”
- Posters
- Chile Statistics - 1970...191
- Activity: Comparing Chile’s Economy to First and Second World Countries
- Table: Country Statistics
- Chile in 1973: Background...194
- Reading
- Discussion Questions
- Nixon’s National Security Council...196
- Excerpt from Nixon’s National Security Council Meeting, November 9, 1970
- Activity: Sentence Deconstruction
- President Allende’s 1972 UN Speech...198
- Excerpt from Allende’s December 4, 1972 Address at the United Nations in New York
- Activity: Communist Regimes’ and Liberal Democratic Regimes’ Possible Reactions to Allende’s Ideas
- Activity: Quote Analysis - How does it oppose the First and Second World Orders and support the Third Way?
- Comparing Principles and Practice (Redux)...203
- Activity: Worksheet on the Relationship between Principles and Practice in the Three World Orders
- Activity: Short Answer - What is the relationship between principles and practice in each of the three world orders? Do principles inform practices? Do practices undermine principles?
LESSON 4: HOT SPOTS RESEARCH PROJECT. 204
- Procedures...205
- Group Assignment...207
- Activity: Research Note Taking Form
- Activity: Newspaper Organization Sheet
- Algerian War of Independence - 1954-1962...209
- Background
- Excerpt from Pierre Mendès Statement before the French National Assembly, 1954
- Excerpt from National Liberation Front’s “Proclamation to the Algerian People”
- Excerpt from JFK’s Speech “Imperialism – The Enemy of Freedom”
- Activity: Select Event from Timeline to Use as Newspaper Topic
- Activity: Assigning Research Tasks
- Afghanistan - 1979-1989...213
- Background
- Excerpt from Yutii Andropov’s “Reasons to Invade Afghanistan: Memorandum to Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev”
- Excerpt from Zbigniew Brzezinski’s “Memorandum on the Soviet Afghan Intervention to President Carter”
- Excerpt from Vladimir Tamarov’s “A Soviet Solider in Afghanistan”
- Activity: Select Event from Timeline to Use as Newspaper Topic
- Activity: Assigning Research Tasks
- Cambodia...217
- Background
- Excerpt from Mr. Kissinger/The President Transcript
- Excerpt of a Physician’s Description of His Prison Camp
- Excerpt from the Written Record of Prak Khan’s Witness Statement
- Activity: Select Event from Timeline to Use as Newspaper Topic
- Activity: Assigning Research Tasks
- Angola...222
- Background
- Letter from Agostinho Neto to Cuban Leadership
- Excerpt from National Security Council Meeting, June 27, 1975
- Letter from Jorge Risquet to Fidel Castro
- Nicaragua...226
- Background
- “Document 493: Memorandum of Conversation, Managua, May 6, 1970”
- “Letter to William Casey, CIA Director, from Senator Barry Goldwater (R) Arizona”
- Ronald Reagan, “Speech from the Oval Office about the Iran-Contra Affair”
- Activity: Select Event from Timeline to Use as Newspaper Topic
- Activity: Assigning Research Tasks
- Guatemala...233
- Background
- “Statement on Growth of Communism in Guatemala”
- “Resignation Speech of President Jacobo Arbenz”
- “Radio Address by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles”
- Activity: Select Event from Timeline to Use as Newspaper Topic
- Activity: Assigning Research Tasks
- Congo...239
- Background
- Independence Day speech of Patrice Lumumba, June 30, 1960
- Letter from Nikita Khrushchev to Patrice Lumumba
- Excerpt from US State Department Report on Soviet Influence in Post-Independence Congo
- Excerpt from Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba’s Last Statement
- Activity: Select Event from Timeline to Use as Newspaper Topic
- Activity: Assigning Research Tasks
- Iran...247
- Background
- Excerpt from Mohammad Mossadeq, Nationalizing Iranian Oil
- American and British Plan for the Overthrow of Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran
- Excerpt from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran in Imperialism’s Clutches
- Hungary...251
- Background
- Statement of the Soviet Government, October 30, 1956
- Imry Nage: Last Message, November 4, 1956
- Department of State Bulletin, November 12, 1956
LESSON 5: THE END OF THE COLD WAR...254
- Procedures...255
- The Era of Détente...258
- Background
- Comprehension Questions
- The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan...260
- Background
- Excerpt from Yuri Andropov’s “Memorandum to Brezhnev, Dec. 1979”
- Activity: Sentence Deconstruction & Discussion Question
- Map of Afghanistan
- Excerpt from American National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to President Carter
- Activity: Diplomatic Adviser’s Recommendation to Respond to Increasing Tensions
- Cold War Developments...266
- Background for Developments in the United States in the 1980’s
- Activity: Timeline for US & USSR Cold War Developments in the 1980’s
- Activity: Developments in Cold War America in the 1980’s Chart
- The Reagan Doctrine
- Background
- Excerpt from President Reagan’s 1984 Speech about American Goals in Central America
- Response to the Reagan Doctrine: Excerpt from “Human Rights in Nicaragua: Rhetoric and Reality”
- Military Build-Up
- Activity: In-Text Exercises
- Background
- Excerpt from President Reagan’s “Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security”
- Defense Spending Over Time
- Iran-Contra
- Activity: In-Text Exercises
- Background
- Government Report on Iran-Contra
- Government Executive Summary on Iran Contra
- Nuclear Fear
- Activity: In-Text Exercises
- Government Report on Three Mile Island Accident
- Silent Spring
- Cracks in the Soviet Union in the 1980’s...279
- Background
- Cracks within the Soviet Economy: Reading & Discussion Questions
- Cracks in Soviet Political Freedom: Reading & Discussion Questions
- Cracks in Soviet Foreign Policy: Reading & Discussion Questions
- Cracks in the Soviet Environment: Reading & Discussion Questions
- Diplomacy and Reform...287
- Background
- Reagan’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress after the Geneva Summit, November 21, 1985
- Arms Race Adds Pressure: Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev
- American and Soviet Remarks at the Signing of the INF Treaty
- Activity: Chart on the Agreements that Changed the Terms of the Cold War
- China’s Different Path...291
- Background
- Economic Transformations
- Political Challenges
- Deng Xiaoping’s Remarks to the Central Committee, February 24, 1984
- U.S. State Department Summary, June 5, 1989
- Discussion Questions
- East German Family Activity...294
- Directions & Steps
- Family Member Profiles
- Background Information
- Changes in the Soviet Union
- The Opening of Satellite States
- Responses to Openness
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- Excerpt from Vaclav Havel’s “Speech to the Nation”
- Excerpt from Mikhail Gorbachev’s Nationally Televised Farewell Address
- Activity: The Decision
- Activity: Development & Family Decision Chart
- Activity: The Presentation
- Legacy of the Cold War...300
- Effects of the End of the Cold War
- Excerpt from President George H.W. Bush’s 1992 State of the Union Address
- Activity: Causes and Effects of the End of the Cold War Chart