UNIT: Cold War (Starting May 21-28, 2015)

This is our unit plan.  Under the unit plan is a brief outline of what we do in class each day.

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UNIT: Cold War
	For links to the assignments/readings/notes below, SELECT HERE!!!!
Learning Targets for the Unit: I CAN…compare the ideologies, values and lifestyles of America and the USSR during the Cold War Era. I CAN...explain the major events of the Cold War and evaluate their impact on America and Americans. Essential Question(s) for the Unit: When should the rights of Americans be limited?
COLOR KEY:   DOCUMENT/WEBSITE LINK    SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT    TURNED IN/POINTS TAKEN    DUE DATE
Date	Assignment/Activity	Description/Directions (select above for unit folder with assignments)	Due Date
	Story of Us: Superpowers	1. Watch documentary & complete questions on wkst
5/21	Cold War Ideologies	1. Contrast the ideologies, beliefs and lifestyle of America and the USSR - use chart below to fill in your own (on wkst)
	Events that Led to the Cold War	1. use chart below to fill in your own (on wkst)
	Overview/Review	1. Crash Course Review Video (select here)- USA versus USSR - Cold War
	Cold War’s Global Impact	1. Use blue textbook and Global Impact handout to complete #1-6 in Cold War Big Picture packet 2. Complete map, shading the areas addressed in the handout as either “Communist” or “Supported by America”
	Cold War at Home	1. Use text handouts to complete the rest of the packet (and the Red Scare chart) 2. Clips from the Cold War Era - How-To’s (building a bomb shelter, “duck and cover” in school, etc. - SEE "NUCLEAR THREAT" BELOW 3. CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS - SELECT HERE for link to a quick overview video
	Nuclear Threat (Watch These to better understand the “Nuclear Threat” in the U.S. during the Cold War)	1. Trinity & Beyond - actual footage (previously classified government footage) and first person scientist accounts of the creation, testing and use of the atomic bomb - ADD TO YOUR ASSIGNMENT CHART as you watch the clips and interviews SELECT HERE FOR LINK TO THE VIDEO CLIP This video is free but has commercials.  Just watch the first segments (up to the second commercial break - about 20 minutes) 2. Educational Videos from the 1950's that contains training drills to prepare school children from a nuclear attack (created by the Civil Defense Agency) - ADD TO YOUR ASSIGNMENT CHART as you watch the clips and interviews SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - drills to prepare children for nuclear attack (tuck & cover) SELECT HERE FOR  CLIP - nuclear war preparation for housewives - vintage film SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - bomb shelter from the 1950's in someone's house today SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - bomb shelter from the 1950's in the basement of a school SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - gov't educational video on how to build a bomb shelter SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - Civil Defense film on how to survive a nuclear attack SELECT HERE FOR CLIP - gov't educational film on the effects of nuclear fallout

Daily Activities

Most activities/assignments listed here are explained & detailed in the chart above.

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May 21 - May 22, 2015

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Thursday (May 21)

1. Actual footage from the Internment camps 
2. Turn in Japanese Internment wkst
3. Intro to Cold War - Contrasting Cold War Ideologies
5. Cold War packet = use handout to complete "Global Impact" chart DUE: Monday (entire packet)

Friday (May 22)

1. Finish going over contrasting ideologies
2. Crash Course - Cold War (USA versus USSR)

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May 25 - May 29, 2015

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Monday (May 25)

No School - Memorial Day

Tuesday (May 26)

1. Crash Course World History
2. Read & complete #1-6 on page two of the packet (using blue textbook)
3. Complete (and discuss) CHINA row in packet
4. Brief review of Korea, Vietnam and Cuban Missile Crisis
5. Using "Cold War in the Atomic Age" text reading, complete last page of packet (due: Wed)

Wednesday (May 27) 

1.  Archieved films - "Duck and Cover"
2. TURN IN PACKETS
3. Finish going over Cold War Info