AP U.S. History – Fall 2011
Unit 4 Syllabus
Chapter 28
12 Days
The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945-1961
Reading Assignments
Text – Chapter 28:
Read and study Chapters 28 stressing Study Guide Questions and I&S Items
Zinn - Chapter 5, A People’s War?, pp. 159-181
Pre-Unit
Introduce Unit 4 Syllabus
Study Guide and I&S Items Chapter 28, Due: ___________
Presentation Analysis Readings:
Group # _____ Chapter 5: The Cold War by Joseph Nye, Jr.
Group # _____ Primary Sources: Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech, 1946; Truman Doctrine, 1947
Group # _____ Primary Sources: The Marshall Plan, 1947; Sources of Soviet Conduct, 1947
Group # _____ Primary Sources: Selective Security Act, 1948; The North Atlantic Treaty, 1949
Group # _____ Truman’s Hard Line Prompted the Cold War by Walter LaFeber
Group # _____ Stalin’s Hard Line Prompted a Defensive Response in the U.S. and Europe by
John Lewis Gaddis
Group # _____ The Cold War, 1947 by Walter Lippman
Group # _____ The Centrality of the Bomb by Alperovitz and Bird
Week of 12/5/2011
Day 1 (12/5): Collect/Discuss Unit 3 Essay: Should Truman have used the Atomic Bombs?
Return/Review Unit 3 Objective Test
Teacher Presentation: The Origins of the Cold War, 1940s
Day 2 (12/6):
Presentation Analysis: Chapter 5 by Nye
Presentation Analysis: Primary Sources Groups
Day 3 (12/8): Finish Primary Sources Presentation Analysis
Begin Truman video
Day 4 (12/9): Collect Chapter 28 Study Guide Questions; Finish Truman video
Video: American Experience: Truman and the Cold War Years
Week of 12/12/2011
Day 6 (12/12): Return/Discuss Unit 3 Essay; Best of the Worst
Finish video: American Experience: Truman and the Cold War Years
Day 7 (12/14): Presentation Analysis: The Cold War by Lippman; The Centrality of the Bomb by
Alperovitz and Bird
Day 8 (12/15): Teacher Presentation: The 1950s, The Hydrogen Bomb to Fidel Castro; Class Discussion
The People’s War by Zinn, pp.159-181
Day 9 (12/16): Analyzing the Causes of the Cold War; Presentation Analysis: Truman’s Hard Line… by
LaFeber, and Satlin’s Hard Line… by Gaddis
Week of 12/19/2011
Day 10 (12/20): Introduce Essay: Examine the origins of the Cold War
Computer Lab/Laptops: Using guidelines and resources listed students will research, write, and
proofread essay. Thesis and opening paragraph, approved by teacher
Due: ___________
Day 11 (12/21): Computer Lab/Laptops
Day 12 (12/22): Chapter
28 Objective Test
Half Day December 23 - Hand out Unit 5 Materials
Enjoy your (politically correct) WINTER BREAK!