20th CENTURY TOPICS CREATIVE PROJECT
AVAILABLE TOPICS:
Iron Curtain :: Be sure to address the
following
1. Conditions in the U.S. and Europe after
the war
2. Greek Civil War
3. George Kennan
4. Paris Conference 1946
5. Policy of “Containment
Marshall Plan :: Be sure to address the
following:
1. Truman Doctrine
2. Planned economy
3. George Marshall
4. Stalin’s interpretation
5. Czech government response
6. COMECON
7. Cominform
8. Yugoslavia and Marshall Tito
9. Italian elections and the CIA
Berlin Crisis :: Be sure to address the
following:
1. Divided Berlin
2. D-Mark
3. The Berlin Blockade
4. Operation Vittles
5. RIAS, FRD, DDR, NATA
Korean Conflict :: Be sure to address the
following:
1. 38TH Parallel
2. Syngman Rhee
3. ROK, DPRK
4. Kim Il Sung
5. Douglas MacArthur
6. Pusan
7. Eisenhower
Vietnam War :: Be sure to address the
following:
1. 17TH Parallel
2. Diem Bien Phu
3. Gulf of Tonkin
4. Hanoi
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Haiphong
Hue
Saigon, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand
Vietcong / NLF
Robert McNamara
General Giap
General Westmorland
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Cedar Falls
Tet Offensive
After Stalin :: Be sure to address the
following:
1. Walter Ulbricht
2. John Foster Dulles
3. Konrad Adenauer
4. Kruschev’s 20th Soviet Party Congress
Speech
5. Radio Free Europe
6. Wladyslaw Gomulka
7. Molotov cocktails
8. Nagy
China :: Be sure to address the following
1. Mao Zedong
2. People’s Liberation Army
3. Chiang Kai-shek
4. Taiwan
5. Quemoy
6. Great Leap Forward
7. Cultural Revolution
8. Sino-Soviet
9. Ping-Pong Diplomacy
10. Henry Kissinger
Cuba :: Be sure to address the following:
1. Fulgencio Batista
2. Fidel Castro
3. Bay of Pigs
4. U-2 flights
5. Ex-Comm
6. Robert Kennedy
7. DEFCON
***Cont’d***
GUIDELINES:
- Causes of the event
- Significance of Key People
- Key Dates
- Key Events
- Key Conflict
- Effects of the event
- Use of a primary source
The project must include handouts for the class with the key people, places, and terms of the
topic. The project can take the form of a video, discussion, or any other method as along as the
information is clearly presented in the presentation.
PRIMARY SOURCE LINKS
Iron Curtain
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/iron/iron_eye.html
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/iron/iron_re3.html
Marshall Plan
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/marshall/mpln_re3.html
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/cw_prop.html
Berlin Crisis
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/comrades/com_re2.html
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/comrades/com_re3.html
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/berlin/brln_re2.html
Korean Conflict
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/korea/kore_re1.html
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/korea/kore_r11.html
Vietnam War
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/vietnam/viet_re1.html
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/documents.html
China
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/china/chna_re3.html
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/china/chna_re4.html
Cuba
http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/cuba/cuba_re8.html
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/
The Reds
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/commie-for-fbi.html
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/is-this-tomorrow.html