1. Housekeeping and Review
2. Presentations Begin:
1) Lynn and Georgia
2) Nevada And Katherine
3)Kenzie
4) Jeremy and Romy
5) Josh and Yash
3. Introduction to the Post War World
a) On March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill delivered one of his most famous speeches. Though he was not the first to use the phrase “iron curtain”, this speech brought the phrase into common usage and is thought by some to mark the beginning of the Cold War.
[…] an iron curtain has descended across the continent.
b) The Cold War in 9 minutes
Activity: Once you have seen the two video I want you to create a word splash. Students will walk around and words or sentences to the following topics that they have just learned. The topics incude (thinking in term of who what where when why):
February 4th – 11th 1945 Yalta Conference
July 17th – August 2nd 1945 Potsdam Conference
June 1948 Formation of West Germany
June 24th 1948 Berlin Blockade
May 1949 End of Berlin Blockade
April 4th 1949 NATO formed
June 25th 1950 Korean War July 27th 1953 Korean War Ends
May 14th 1955 Warsaw Pact
April 17th 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion
August 13th 1961 Berlin Wall
October 14th 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
July 1965 Vietnam War
April 30th 1970 Vietnam War
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