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= Cold War Unit = Scope And Sequence 1. Overview of the Cold War 2-3 periods 2. Propaganda of the Cold War 2-3 class periods 3. Social Networking- Learning more about the Cold War through social media 2-3 class periods 4. The Fight and End of Communism 2 class periods

Overview

The Cold War unit explores more than just the logistics of dates, events and circumstances, it explores how people where effected, through propaganda, politics, economics and so forth. The time period is so present in our students lives because it occurred in their parents lifetime (for the most part!). The richness in the history of this subject allows for teachers to use modern technology to connect with recent history before it fades away.

Essential Questions: 1. Why did the Cold War occur and why did it effect the world in the way that it did? 2. What was the human impact of the Cold War on people (think economics, social and political consequences) 3. How did the use of manipulation effect how people saw themselves in the role of their country or east vs. west? 4. How did the struggles of oppression (uprisings) help end the cold war? 5. Is political ideology the answer to human governance or lack thereof?

Unit Standards: From California (my former state and last place that I had to use standards!) 3. Describe the uprisings in Poland (1952), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968) and those countries' resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet control. Lesson 4 4. Analyze the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the weakness of the command economy, burdens of military commitments, and growing resistance to Soviet rule by dissidents in satellite states and the non-Russian Soviet republics. Lesson 3 and 4
 * 1) Students show the connections, causal and otherwise, between particular historical events and larger social, economic, and political trends and developments. Lesson 1, 2, 3, 4
 * 2) Analyze the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and Soviet client states on the other. Lesson 1 and 2

The Use of technology: Technology is there to enhance the subject matter and make it more real for the students. Given that we have so many tools to use this century we can easily take advantage of this technology and pass it on to our students. For instance, guest speakers of the cold war era might be difficult because of location and time constraints. With Skype or DimDim, students can quite easily get in touch with these people and actively learn from their own historical perspective. As well other Web 2.0 tools only help to engage students more into the curriculum.

What our Wikispaces are for: Wikispaces is for the anchoring of all student work as an online portfolio. Instructions-Students are to start a wikispaces page using www.wikispaces.com. Students create and account and then logon to confirm. Students are also instructed to write the username and password down so that they will not forget them. The Wikispaces is an online portfolio that will be a collection space for all their materials created for this unit. Each activity will be on a separate page so that it is neat and organized. As well students should keep this wiki as they grow older this is a great piece to put into their college portfolio.

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