The Cold War

1. To begin spend some time surfing through these databases on the Cold War. They provide in-depth information about many of the facets of the Cold War, but don't read too heavily into anything yet! Just skim and start to note events that you find interesting:

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cold-war-history

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/

http://www.coldwar.org/

2. After your initial browsing select the five events that you want to include on your presentation. Here is a short list of examples that you could (but are not required) to choose from!

 Feb. 1945 Yalta Conference, Soviet Union
 June 1945 United Nations
 July 1945 Potsdam Conference
 1949 Communist Revolution in China
 March 1946 Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
 1947 Truman Doctrine
 1947 Marshall Plan
 1949 NATO
 1955 Warsaw Pact
 July 1945 A-Bomb tested
 August 1945 A-Bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
 1952 Hydrogen Bomb
 June 1948 Berlin Blockade - Airlift
 1961 Berlin Wall built
 June 1950- July 1953 Korean War
 1954 SEATO
 1979 SALT II
 1957 Sputnik
 1961 Bay of Pigs  1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
 1961-1975 Vietnam War
 1979 – 1986 Afghanistan
 1972 SALT I
 1985 Glasnost/Perestroika
 1959 Cuban revolution
 1957 Sputnik

3. After you've selected events that you think are interesting, start to create your presentation and be sure to include the following: (Remember you may use PowerPoint or Prezi to create slides for the presentation)

    a. Name and dates for ALL of the events should be your first slide

    b. The next slides should answer who was involved and what happened?

    c. Make sure to discuss why was this event important? What were the long term effects?

    d. Pictures and color! Don't make the reader stare at a block of text the entire time!