4/6/16

Post WWII America

**Watch the following clip and answer the question below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ85j6U2Fvs

What were average/typical American citizens (soldiers, their families, etc.) thinking and feeling in years immediately after WWII?

Mr. Salzer

10th Grade US History

Cold War and Postwar America

Day Two

Course Essential Questions

1.  Howdo the major events/themes of United States history occur relative to one another?

2.  What actions are taken by the United States to establish itself as a global power?

3.  How do the American People respond to constantly changing conditions and especially to crisis that occur over time.

4.  In what ways does America pursue its best interests both domestically and especially abroad?

Unit Essential Questions

1.  What were the causes and effects of the early Cold War Era?

2.  What was life like in 1950s America?

Daily Skills
1.Explain how the conclusion of WWII resulted in the emergence of the US and the Soviet Union as competing global powers.
2. Examine the policy of containment and predict how this policy will lead to future conflict between the US and Soviet Union. / Content
Iron Curtain; Truman Doctrine; Marshall
Plan; United
Nations; Containment; / Activities
Iron Curtain Speech, Cold War Propaganda, Berlin Simulation, Candy Bomber / Assessment
How is the Berlin Airlift a symbol of American success for the entire Cold War?

DO NOW: What were average/typical American citizens (soldiers, their families, etc.) thinking and feeling in years immediately after WWII?

1.  Wuzzles

2.  Sub Updates

a.  DO NOW

i.  Have VJ Day in Hawaii playing

ii.  Students should answer while watching 4 minute clip

iii.  Discuss

1.  Celebration, glad the war was over, etc.

2.  Was the average American thinking about Kennan and Clifford’s foreign policy proposals for the post War World?

b.  Review the ideological foundations of the Cold War and the opinions of Kennan and Clifford

i.  Which plan would you go with if you were Truman?

ii.  What Does Truman actually do?

3.  Notes/Lecture

a.  Yalta

b.  Potsdam

c.  Iron Curtain

i.  Without formally splitting East and West Europe, it happened with that speech

ii.  Churchill had brought recognition or recognition to Americans regarding a fundamental split between East and West

1.  Western Europe would develop like the allies who had liberated it, capitalist and democratic

2.  While Eastern Europe would develop like the Soviets who had liberated it, communist

iii.  How had Americans and Soviets previous viewed post WWII Europe?

1.  Complacency/an Alliance of three equals

d.  Satellite Nations

i.  Romanian story of how Communism is instituted

ii.  A new propaganda war emerges between American and Soviet Press

1.  US/SU Cold War Propaganda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2PUIQpAEAQ&feature=related

4.  This presented an interesting dilemma for the Capital city of Berlin which existed entirely within the Eastern Bloc or Eastern Germany

a.  Berlin as we discussed yesterday was split four ways between the Allies (French, British, US, and SU)

5.  Simulate the dilemma by rearranging the desks

a.  Eastern and Western Blocs

b.  Identify three students deep within the eastern bloc to represent the capitalist and democratic Western Berlin

6.  As the students physically rearranging, draw a map simulating Europe and Berlin

a.  Recognition of the grave situation, what should be done with Western Berlin?

i.  Remember yesterday’s political discussions

ii.  Cannot appease

iii.  Do not want to engage in war (because we just ended a war and because we believe the soviets will fall on their own)

b.  T-P-S

7.  Simulation of supplies

a.  Milk, Flour, Meat, Coal, Candy?

8.  Notes/lecture

9.  The Candy Bomber

a.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d7eOF8-4gw

b.  Final question (could be used at the beginning of the hour tomorrow)

c.  How is the Berlin Airlift a symbol of American success for the entire Cold War?