5/27/14

Warm-Up: Complete #15 in class work packet.

Ending the Cold War - From Brinkmanship to Detente

Partner Quiz tomorrow.

HW: Finish Vocabulary Terms

5/20/14

Warm-Up: Skip
Lesson: More Hot Spots

Cuban Missile Crisis - Video

Vietnam War- US longest War - BBC Documentary 

HW: Next two readings: Escaping to the West and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Annotate and Summary

MIDTERM ANSWERS

5/19/14

Warm-Up: Read the Korean War (Annotate and Summarize)

Lesson: What and Where Hot spots during the Cold War?

 Korean War

HW: Next two readings. Berlin Wall

5/16/14

Warm-Up: Class work packet #5

Lesson: 1. What effect did the nuclear and arms race have on the cold war?
Class work #6-7
Film Clip (5 minutes)
(Interactive Space Race Timeline)
(Nuclear Explosions beginning with WWII - Nuclear World) (Trinity)

2. What was the purpose and impact of the Berlin Wall?

Reading Berlin Wall

Video The Wall (28 minutes)

HW: What was the Korean War and Escaping to the West (Berlin Wall)

5/15/14

Warm-Up: Describe what is happening in the picture and how does it reflect the US Foreign Policy?


Lesson: How did the United States try to contain communism in the beginning?

Classwork #2, #3 and #5

Berlin Airlift Video

HW: Next two reading- What was the Berlin Airlift, and Why was there

5/14/14

Warm-Up: What is a super power? Super Hero?

Lesson: What was the Cold War?

Notes

Maps (Assignments #1 and 2)

HW: Next two readings - Why Does the Iron Curtain Descend? What is the Truman Doctrine? Readings

5/13/14

Warm-Up: What similarities did you notice between the dictators and differences?

Gallery Submissions 

Cold War / Map Intro

HW: How did the Cold War Start? Annotate the reading