Standard #: SS.912.W.8.1


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Identify the United States and Soviet aligned states of Europe, and contrast their political and economic characteristics.


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Related Access Points

Access Point Number Access Point Title
SS.912.W.8.AP.1 Recognize that the countries of NATO aligned with the United States and countries in the Warsaw Pact aligned with the Soviet Union after World War II.


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Lesson Plans

Name Description
Cold War Alliances (1 of 3)
  • Students will read primary source text from the start of the Cold War. The text will identify the struggle between the democratic nations of the United States and Great Britain to limit the spread of communism by the Soviet Union.
  • Along with reading, analyzing, and text-marking, students will answer guided questions related to the text.
  • As a final closing activity, students will predict how the events in the quotation will lead to a growing political divide in Europe during the Cold War.
Cold War Alliances (3 of 3)

On a blank map, students will identify the political alliance of European countries during the Cold War. A political map of Europe will be provided for students to reference when completing their activity.

Cold War Alliances (2 of 3)
  • Students will be asked to identify the establishment of alliances during the Cold War. Links to two separate brief articles will be provided for students to learn about the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact.
  • A guided chart will be included for students to track the alliance of numerous countries. After, students will answer an analysis question comparing the creation and membership of the two separate alliances.
Containment: Cold War Part 1

In this lesson, students will learn about the early stages of the Cold War when the United States and Soviet Union navigated how to both be superpowers through a short reading. Then, they will identify and color countries on a map that exemplifies the divide between the East and West. This is lesson 1 of 3 in a mini unit integrating civics and social studies.

Unit/Lesson Sequence

Name Description
Nationalism, Colonialism, and The Cold War This web resource provides a full teaching unit in PDF format designed to help students understand shifts in world politics during the second half of the twentieth century. Through an examination of primary and secondary source documents, students will work to gain awareness of the process that led to the creation of more than fifty independent sovereign states. Students will analyze the influence that the Soviet Union and the United States held over new states during the Cold War. The unit's summative assessment asks students to present research findings explaining the specific contexts of one newly-independent African state and one newly-independent Southeast Asian state.
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