Digital Unit Plan Template Unit Title: The Cold War Content Area: World History

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

Name: Matthew Payan Grade Level: 9th and 10th

CA Content Standards: 10.9 Students analyze the international developments in the post-World World War II world. 10.9.1: Compare the economic and military power shifts caused by the war, including the Yalta Pact, the development of nuclear weapons, Soviet control over Eastern European nations, and the economic recoveries of Germany and Japan. 10.9.2: Analyze the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and Soviet client states on the other, including competition for influence in such places as Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, and Chile. 10.9.3: Understand the importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which established the pattern for America's postwar policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as Southeast Asia (i.e., the Korean War, Vietnam War), Cuba, and Africa. 10.9.4: Analyze the Chinese Civil War, the rise of Mao Tse-tung, and the subsequent political and economic upheavals in China (e.g., the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square uprising). 10.9.5: 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. 10.9.6: Understand how the forces of nationalism developed in the Middle East, how the Holocaust affected world opinion regarding the need for a Jewish state, and the significance and effects of the location and establishment of Israel on world affairs. 10.9.7: 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. 10.9.8: Discuss the establishment and work of the United Nations and the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American States. Common Core State Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the

date and origin of the information. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.3 Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.9 Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.10 By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 910 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Big Ideas:

The Monroe Doctrine rebuilds Western Europe. The Soviet Union establishes satellite nations. The Red Scare fuels anti-communist sentiment in the U.S. The Truman Doctrine and Containment Policy take effect and increase U.S. involvement in international affairs. The two superpowers enter the Atomic Age and an "arms-race" begins. The Cold War enters Space, the final frontier. The Cold War heats up with political clashes like the Cuban Missile Crisis. Proxy Wars in Korea and Vietnam bring the world to the brink of war. The Soviet Union weakens and collapses, ending the Cold War.

Unit Goals and Objectives:

Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations for the start of the Cold War. Outline the goals of the U.S. policy of containment, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the formation of NATO. Identify the main periods of increase and decrease in Cold War tensions. Discuss the domestic consequences of the Cold War and the rise and decline of McCarthyism. Describe the events and consequences of the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Reagan Doctrine. Assess the strengths and shortcomings of the Soviet Union and how its downfall led to the Cold War's end.

Read and analyze complex texts in order to write an essay about the collapse of the Soviet Union and The Butter Battle Book.

Unit Summary:

During the second World War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union fought alongside each other as allies. But there was always an air of caution in their correspondence, an unsettling tension that seemed to foreshadow the events that followed. General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. Third Army during WWII, said this of the Soviets at the conclusion of the war: "Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect." This tended to be the path that the United States and the Soviet Union took at the conclusion of the war. One of tension and endless saberrattling and arms building. The U.S. was concerned about Soviet Leader Josef Stalin's blood-thirsty and tyrannical rule as well as the spread of Communism to the rest of the world. The Soviets were resentful of the delayed U.S. entry into the war which cost tens of millions or Russian lives and how the U.S. did not treat the Soviet Union as a legitimate part of the international community. As a result, these two superpowers continued to butt heads as the Soviets spread across Eastern Europe and the U.S. adopted policies of Containment and vowed to stop the "soviet menace." An iron curtain fell across Europe and the two sides braced for what would be the war to end all wars, as nuclear technology was perfected by each country. Soon, proxy wars developed all across the world where the U.S. fought the spread of communism but never directly fought the Soviets. These years, from 1947-1991, became known as the Cold War.
Assessment Plan: Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:

KWL Chart: Students list what they already know about the Cold War, what they want to know, and at the end of the introductory lesson, what they learned.

Quiz: The origins of the Cold War. Graphic Organizer: Body building Primary Source Analysis. Flashcards: Important events and people during the Cold War. Flow Map: Students will list the events of the

Newspaper Project: Write a newspaper depicting world events during the 1960s. Essay: Students will write an essay critically analyzing the The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss as it relates to the Cold War.

Cold War in chronological order.

Lesson 1 Student Learning Objective: 1) Identify the main periods of increase and decrease in Cold War tensions. 2) Describe the events and consequences of the Korean War. Acceptable Evidence: Students will complete a graphic organizer during the lecture and will have to answer the questions on the back based on what they learned. Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization Interaction
Lesson Activities: 1) The instructor has prepared a Slide Rocket Presentation on the Korean War and the teacher will lecture about the Korean War for 15 minutes. 2) Students will begin by watching a video clip of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Korean War and pair-sharing with their partner the answer to a few questions about the video. 3) The instructor will then open up the discussion to the entire class and use equity cards to cold call on students at random. 4) The teacher will begin the presentation on the Korean War and students will follow along by completing their graphic organizer. The instructor will stop periodically to allow the students to pair-share and discuss what they learned. 5) Once the students have finished their graphic organizer, they will work with a partner to answer the questions on the back of their graphic organizer. Upon completing this, the instructor will give students a RAFT postcard, they are to write a letter to a friend pretending to be from North Korea, South Korea, or one of the Coalition countries and describe the events of the Korean War to their friend. They will also have to illustrate the front of the postcard and this will act as their exit slip for the day. Lesson Activities: 1) Students will work individually to complete their Webquest assignment. Students must visit each website and answer the corresponding questions on their Webquest worksheet. The instructor will stop the class after the students have completed each section to allow students to pair-share and then the instructor will call on students at random using equity cards to share their answers. 2) Once students have completed the Webquest, they will need to type two paragraphs answering the question at the bottom of their worksheet. These will be used as an exit slip and inform the instructor if the students mastered the objectives of the unit.

Lesson 2 Student Learning Objective: 1) Identify the main periods of increase and decrease in Cold War tensions. 2) Discuss the domestic consequences of the Cold War. 3) Describe the events and consequences of the Vietnam War. Lesson 3 Acceptable Evidence: Students will complete an online researching project called a Webquest to learn more about the Vietnam War. Students must answer all the questions by visiting each website and then complete two paragraphs answering the question at the bottom. Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization Interaction

Student Learning Objective: 1) Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations for the start of the Cold War. 2) Outline the goals of the U.S. policy of containment, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the formation of NATO.

Acceptable Evidence: Students will fill out a graphic organizer and then use that organizer to help them create a popplet Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting Communist and Democratic Ideologies.

Instructional Strategies: Communication Collection Collaboration Presentation Organization Interaction

Lesson Activities:

1) Students will work with a partner to participate in a Gallery Walk. They will be given a graphic organizer in the form of a Venn Diagram and they will need to walk around the room looking for key phrases and terms and place them in the correct bubble. Either the Soviet Union, United States, or Both. o Around the room there are phrases and examples of democracy, communism, and the different economy types. There are five of each for each column of the Venn diagram on their graphic organizer. The students will need to write them down in the correct column according to their prior knowledge and what they have learned so far in the unit. Some examples include: U.S.: - Government of the people - Private property the ability to accumulate wealth - Freedom of the Press - Contributed the Marshall Plan as a way to rebuild Europe - Established the Containment Policy U.S.S.R.: - Redistribution of wealth and no private property - Had Satellite Nations - No Freedom of the Press or Speech - Required a violent revolution by the working classes - Built the Berlin Wall to prevent people from fleeing to the West Both: - Involved in Space Race - Participated in Yalta Conference - Competed for dominance in other countries - Involved in Proxy Wars - Struggled to maintain dominance in the Arms Race 2) When students have finished the gallery walk, they are to look up additional information about each of the 15 bullet points in their textbook or online for use in their Popplet Venn Diagram. 3) Their Popplet Venn Diagram must include at least 6 images, all fifteen bullet points, and 10 additional bubbles that provide additional information to support each of the bullet points.

Unit Resources:

Popplet www.popplet.com Visualy www.visau.ly The Butter Battle Book www.teachpeace.com/drseussbutterbattlebook McDougall Little Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction

Useful Websites:
The Cold War Museum Trivia Game www.coldwar.org/trivia/index The Marshall Plan www.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/mars0 The National Air and Space Museum on the Cold War www.airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/ Studs Terkel on the Cold War www.studsterkel.org The Vietnam War www.vietnam.vassar.edu The Cold War International History Project www.wilsoncenter.org/program/cold-war-international-history-project Cold War Interactive Map www.teachingamericanhistory.org Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History History by Era www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/1945-present/postwar-politics-and-cold-war