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• Display the following website, and ask students if they
have heard the news about the new disease. They will
inevitably say “no” and then show them the website.
• http://bit.ly/1Kcc8FQ
• Once you have read the story to the students, facilitate a
discussion about what should be done about the new
disease.
• The purpose of this grabber is to instill FEAR in the
students to make a connection to the fear of communism
during the Cold war
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• Once the discussion has served it purpose, lead a
discussion to connect the fear of the “Red Flu” to
McCarthyism.
• If having Asthma creates a greater risk of carrying the
Red Flu, what should be done to do the people with
Asthma? Removed from society? Etc…
• Link these ideas to the Red Scare/McCarthy hearings and
fear of government infiltration by communists.
The Cold War
EQ: What was the impact of the rise of
Communism on the foreign policy of the
United States?
Building the Ultimate
Team
• Imagine that Tom Brady and Russell
Wilson wanted to build the ultimate
football team
• In order to build their team, they would
have to compete with each other for the
best athletes
• With a partner, make a list of things Brady
and Wilson could do to better their team.
Ultimate Team: Cold War
Edition
• The Two Teams: USA vs. USSR
• Marshal Plan- Congress
• Truman Doctrine
Cold War
• The Cold War was a struggle between the western democratic
nations (mainly the United States) and the communist nation of
the Soviet Union (and later China) for the political supremacy
of the world. Ideological War.
• Following World War II, the United States and the other Allies
divided Germany into four occupation zones. Rivalries for
influence over the German territories led to disagreements
during the occupation of Germany by the French, British,
Russians, and Americans.
• Thus beginning the Cold War. Over four decades,
competition between the United States and the USSR involved
many other countries aligned with one of the two superpowers
Marshall Plan
• Europe lay in ruins after WWII. The traditional
European powers were physically, financially, and
emotionally unable to reconstruct the continent.
• The Marshall Plan: 13 billion dollars given
to European countries by the U.S. to rebuild
economies.
• Why give all that $$ to Europe?
Containment Policy
• Containment Policy: US foreign policy regarding
communism. The goal was to prevent the spread of
communism and keep it contained where it already
existed.
• Truman Doctrine: United States would provide political,
military, and economic assistance to all democratic
nations under threat from communism.
• First used for Greece and Turkey.
Korean War
China had fallen to
communism
The Korean Peninsula was
divided at the 38th Parallel
US forces helped defend
Democratic South Korea
against invading
Communist North Korean
forces
Back to our Teams…
• If you were Tom Brady how would you defeat Russell
Wilson’s team?
• Legal and Illegal Ways
Arms Race
• Why is there a need to build weapons
following WWII?
• Competition?
Space Race
• The USSR started the Space Race with the United States
in 1957, when they launched Sputnik, the first unmanned
spacecraft to escape earth’s gravity
• Why would this freak out Americans?