In this culminating activity, students will use available items from the makerspace to create a new innovation to demonstrate the advancement (and superiority) of one of the countries involved in the Cold War.  The learner will summarize the governments in conflict that lead to the space race and arms race during the Cold War.

In this lesson, students examine the relationships between and among powers inside and outside Afghanistan in connection to United States military aggression in the territory.

This is the news article which is attached to the lesson plan of the same name.

This online interactive lesson from the United Kingdom's National Archives guides students through several primary sources in this case study about the Allies at War - What the Public Did Not See to answer the big question, "How strong was the wartime friendship between Britain, the USA, and the USSR 1941-45?" There is a worksheet, glossary, and timeline provided to assist students in their analysis. You must click on the picture of each primary source to access it.

This online interactive lesson from the United Kingdom's National Archives guides students through several primary sources in this case study about the Allies at War - What the Public Saw to answer the big question, "How strong was the wartime friendship between Britain, the USA, and the USSR 1941-45?" There is a worksheet, glossary, and timeline provided to assist students in their analysis. You must click on the picture of each primary source to access it.

Students will learn about the history behind Argentina's Dirty War through music, research, and discussion. Special attention is paid to the documentary film, Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo and the Search for Identity, which deals with the victims of the Dirty War as well as citizens who heroically stood up to the junta.

In this 5 minute podcast, BBC historians debate the effect of Khrushchev on the Cold War.

This 5 minute podcast features historians debating on how near the world came to extinction during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

This online interactive lesson from the United Kingdom's National Archives guides students through several primary sources in this case study about banning the bomb to answer the big question, "The Nuclear Game - how close was it?" There is a worksheet, glossary, and timeline provided to assist students in their analysis. You must click on the picture of each primary source to access it.

This online interactive lesson from the United Kingdom's National Archives guides students through several primary sources in this case study about the Berlin Blockade to answer the big question, "How did the Cold War work?" There is a worksheet, glossary, and timeline provided to assist students in their analysis. You must click on the picture of each primary source to access it.

This article examines the Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift as early developments in the Cold War. It includes a map, primary source quotes, and a list of results of the Berlin crisis. At the end of the article, there are reflection questions and a quiz for students to assess their knowledge.

This primary source is a summary of proceedings and conclusions from the Berlin (Potsdam) Conference from July 17-August 2, 1945. The Big Three, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman, met at the conference.

This online interactive lesson from the United Kingdom's National Archives guides students through several primary sources in this case study about the Berlin Wall to answer the big question, "How did the Cold War work?" There is a worksheet, glossary, and timeline provided to assist students in their analysis. You must click on the picture of each primary source to access it.

This assignment will allow students to dig deeper into a theme/lens of American History 2.  This can be adapted to work with any time period or extended to last the entire semester to see change over time.  Students will incorporate research and writing, technology, and even art.  Students will research the time period through one of the following lenses: Conflict/War, Technology, Government and Policy, American Dream, American Identity.  For use with other units or time periods you could include Business and Economy.Students will create a webpage on a Google Site created by the teacher.  Students must include on their page a summary of their topic, a timeline, a student created video, and a student created visual.

Students explore the end of detente, US and USSR developments in the 1980s, diplomacy and reform under Gorbachev and Reagan, China's solution, the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

Students will be able to: identify specific regions and countries where there was a significant struggle to incorporate Communism and apply their knowledge of the spread of Communism to better understand the current political spread. Students will be awakened to the greater global dimensions of the Cold war, and how it has shaped our world today.When people think of the Cold War they tend to think of Russia and the United states. Yet, some of the greatest effects and areas of fighting was among the Third world nations.

This article details the decline of communism at the Cold War as a result of internal Soviet Union struggles. It examines the revoluions as a symptom of the problems facing the USSR. At the end of the article, there are reflection questions and a quiz for students to assess their knowledge.

In this lesson, students examine the Cold War roots of the recent debate over the construction of United States and Russian missile defense shields.

This online interactive lesson from the United Kingdom's National Archives guides students through several primary sources to answer the big question, "Did Churchill Cause the Cold War?" There is a worksheet, glossary, and timeline provided to assist students in their analysis. You must click on the picture of each primary source to access it.