COLD WAR THERMOMETER



COLD WAR THERMOMETER

CLASS CHALLENGE

OVERVIEW:

The level of tension between the United States and Soviet Union varied over time. Some confrontations such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, raised tensions to especially high levels; it could easily have erupted in war. Other individual events weren’t nearly so hot, but during the late 1940s and early 1950s, a lot of events happened during a short period. The frequency of events increased overall tensions. The purpose of this activity is to briefly explore the fluctuations in tensions over the course of the cold war.

THE CHALLENGE: Make the BEST Cold War temperature display and LEARN the most.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. As a class, brainstorm ways of tracking the rise and fall of Cold War tensions on a temperature scale. (You might consider a scale such as degrees C—degrees of crisis—and assign a number to each confrontation or avoidance of confrontation between the superpowers.)

2. Choose and research one of the Cold War incidents, write a descriptive analysis of the incident, and assign it a rating on the crisis scale and explain how and why you rated it the way you did. (See the grading sheet.)

3. Create a visually-pleasing and informative visual aide (11”x17” max) that you will use in your presentation and later add to the crisis temperature chart.

4. Present your individual incidents (in chronological order) to the class. As a class, plot each incident on the crisis temperature chart. You might consider assigning a higher temperature to a period when events were frequent.

5. As you listen to the presentations, take good notes and look specifically for how each event affected tensions during the cold war. You will responsible for knowing each of the events and how they influenced tensions.

EVENTS:

1. Truman Doctrine

2. Berlin Airlift

3. Suez Crisis

4. Rival Alliances – NATO & Warsaw Pact

5. Atomic Weapons Tests

6. Hungarian Uprising, 1956

7. Space Race – Sputnik, ICBM, etc

8. U-2 Incident

9. Korean War

10. Bay of Pigs Invasion

11. Cuban Missile Crisis

12. Expansion of war in Vietnam

13. Prague, 1968

14. Détente

15. President Nixon’s Visit to China

16. Arms Reduction Talks – SALT I, SALT II

17. Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

18. S.D.I. or Star Wars

19. Fall of the Berlin Wall - 1989

20. Fall of the USSR

Name: __________________

COLD WAR THERMOMETER PROJECT

GRADING SHEET

|Standards |Mastery|Great |Average|Fair |Poor |N.C. |

|VISUAL AIDE: CONTENT & RESEARCH: |10 |9 |8 |7 |6 |0 |

|- Content rich and informative in your own words. | | | | | | |

|- Information is accurate and treated thoroughly. | | | | | | |

|- Covers all aspects of the cold war incident. | | | | | | |

|- Assigns the event a rating and explains the how and why for the rating. | | | | | | |

|- Reference and cite at least 2 print or print-like (journal article / database article) | | | | | | |

|using MLA formatting. | | | | | | |

|VISUAL AIDE: LAYOUT & DESIGN |10 |9 |8 |7 |6 |0 |

|- Visually appealing and heightens interests | | | | | | |

|- Uses graphics, pictures, and illustrations that are TCA appropriate. | | | | | | |

|- Reveals a high level of effort and best work. | | | | | | |

|- Maximum of 11”x17” size, one sided. | | | | | | |

|PRESENTATION |10 |9 |8 |7 |6 |0 |

|- Delivers an informative and persuasive presentation of the main ideas to the class. | | | | | | |

|- Proposes a rating for the event and proceeds to give clear and concise reasons as to why| | | | | | |

|it should be given that rating. | | | | | | |

|- Maintains poise, frequent eye contact, fluency, and is audible. | | | | | | |

|- Uses a visual aide to enhance the presentation. | | | | | | |

|- 3 to 5 minutes in length. | | | | | | |

|TEAMWORK |5 |4 |3 |2 |1 |0 |

|- Makes meaningful contributions to the success of the class activity by offering ideas, | | | | | | |

|carrying out assignments in a timely manner, and giving full attention to speakers | | | | | | |

|(including the taking individual notes.) | | | | | | |

Comments: TOTAL SCORE = ___________ of 35 POINT

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