Public Schools of Robeson CountyAmerican History II

Social Studies Lesson A

Unit 8: Cold War and Vietnam

Essential Standards / AH2.H.2 Analyze key political, economic and social turning points in American History using historical thinking.
AH2.H3 Understand the factors that led to exploration, settlement, movement, and expansion and their impact on Unite States development over time.
AH2.H3 Analyze how conflict and compromise have shaped politics, economics and culture in the United States.
AH2.H3 Understand how tensions between freedom, equality and power have shaped the political, economic and social development of the United States.
AH2.H.6 Understand how and why the role of the United States in the world has changed over time.
AH2.H.7 Understand the impact of war on American politics, economics, society and culture.
Essential Question:
What were the causes of the Cold War? / Social Studies Goals:
I Can Statements:
Elaborate on the changes in technology and its impact on American life
Learning Targets:
M T W TH F
Time Allotted:
1 Day
Conceptual Len(s): / Historical
Political
Economic
Prior Knowledge: / The causes and the effects of World War II
Vocabulary: / 1. United Nations
2. Satellite Nations
3. Containment
4. Iron curtain
5. Cold War
6. Truman Doctrine
7. Marshall Plan
8. Berlin Airlift
9. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
10. Chiang Kai-shek
11. Taiwan
12. 38th Parallel
13. Korean War
14. HUAC
15. Hollywood Ten
16. Blacklist
17. McCarthyism
18. H-Bomb
19. Brinkmanship
20. Central Intelligence Agency
21. Warsaw Pact
22. Eisenhower Doctrine
23. U-2 incident

Tasks For Lesson

Engage—What tasks will “hook” students and uncover what they know and think about the concept? / Students will speculate what the work “Cold War” means.
Explore/Explain—What tasks will encourage students to observe, question, and investigate the concepts and explain concepts in their own words? / Students will investigate what happened to the U.S.S.R before during and after World War II. They will then research the Potsdam and Yalta Conference to provide details of how both the U.S. and the USSR rose to become major powers after World War II.
Elaborate—What experimental inquiry, investigative projects, problem solving, and decision-making tasks will help students apply their new labels, definitions, explanations, and skills? / Students will read Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech and will be given a map of 1947 Europe. Ask the students to write their answer to the following?
  1. What is taking place in the document?
  2. What course of action do you think the nation (US or USSR) will take next?

Evaluate—What formative assessments will ensure that learning is occurring? / Student discussion and work
Revisit the starter, the definition of a “Cold War”
Differentiation—What tasks will challenge students and support those who need additional help?