Cold War Days 3-5

Hello history lovers,
This week brings the dreaded state testing to LHS! I will be seeing most of you on Monday and Friday, and A4 will be with me all week. Congratulations! We will be covering the 50's and 60's this week. We look at the political fallout of life in the midst of the Cold War, but we also take a more lighthearted look at the culture, art, and music of the 50's. We will hopefully even have time to complete a space race class competition.

Unit: Cold War
Day: 3 Monday

Outcome(s): Students will understand the culture of the US in the 1950’s. Students
Lesson Activities/ Resources:
• Focus: TCI 1.3 McCarthy experiential exercise (or suburb cartoon)
• Review Cold War, HUAC, and McCarthyism
* Lecture/Discussion of 1950's
• Watch Fifties video (United Streaming or the Century)
• Exit Question: Explain how the US changed politically, socially, and economically in the 1950’s?

Unit: Cold War
Agenda 4/22 Testing: 4th block video
Unit: Cold War
Agenda Day 4 Friday
Students will be able to describe the new military policy of the Kennedy administration and how it fit into the Cold War Policy of Containment
Students will understand the competition between superpowers in the space race
Focus: Kennedy Presidents Video
Instruct: Discuss Kennedy Overview of campaign promises, obstacles
Use TCI 1.4 Handouts
Space Race: Students will separate into teams of two and “build a space shuttle”
Assessment: Answer debriefing questions about space race

Exit question: Were the Kennedy accomplishments during his short time in office creating a successful or failed approach to containment and foreign policy?

Unit: Cold War
Outcome(s) I can
• Explain the reasons for the origin and escalation of US involvement in Vietnam
• Summarize the social and political impacts of the Vietnam War at home and abroad
Agenda Day 5
• Focus (No time)
• Instruct: Powerpoint Vietnam conflict
• Complete packet/webquest
• Exit question: Describe how Vietnam changed the military, political, and social issues in the United States