SS.912.W.8.1

• 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.

Type: Lesson Plan

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.

Type: Lesson Plan

• 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.

Type: Lesson Plan

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.

Type: Lesson Plan