Lesson Plan 4 Name Faith Falise/ Subject and Grade Level 7th Grade Social Studies Unit Title Holocaust to the Cold War 1940’s-1960’s Standard(s) 7-5 The student will demonstrate an understanding of international developments during the Cold War era 7-5.1 Compare the political and economic ideologies of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War Objective(s) TSWBAT explain the political and economic ideologies of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War Instructional Design Include what the teacher will be doing AND what the students will be doing in each segment of the instructional design. Pacing …show more content…
Presentation/Demonstration #1 The presentation of new information will be presented as follows: TTW give a mini lecture using Power Point: The power point presentation will explain: • The political and economic ideologies of the United States and the Soviet Union were in direct contrast and competition with one another. • The United States had a capitalist economy while the Soviet Union was a communist country. • These political ideologies were in contrast to another and served as the source of tension that initiated the Cold War directly following WWII. Presentation/Demonstration #2 TTW show a video on the Cold War: “The Cold War and Nuclear Arms Race”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk-S981jK1c TTW ask random students to respond to this question with the Smart Board Pen tray, writing their answers on the Smart Board: “Write one emotion you are feeling after seeing the detonation of a nuclear bomb”. (Transition: OK students, we have some guests in our classroom today that will be instrumental in your next project.) (Technology: Smart Board with power point presentation. Students will be able to use the Smart Board pens to write their answers on the board …show more content…
You will be working in pairs). TTW instruct the class to break into pairs. TTW instruct students to construct 5 questions to present to our invited guests. TTW instruct students that the invited guests are people who were children in the 1950s and 1960’s, during the Cold War. TTW prompt students understanding of the type of interview questions by providing a sample question such as, “Were you afraid of nuclear war when you were a child”? Students will take turns interviewing the guests by presenting their questions with the use of a play microphone, as if they were on a talk show. Guests will be Americans and 1 guest will be from the former Soviet Union (currently Russia). (Multiple Intelligence: Verbal/Linguistic) (Cultural Perspective) (I.S. Grouping) 35 (include 2 minutes for phys-ical trans-ition) Independent Practice TSW write in their Social Studies notebook. TSW write freely in response to the question, “How did the Cold War affect people”? “How did they live their lives differently”? (I.S. Free Write). 15
“The distinct differences in the political systems of the two countries often prevented them from reaching a mutual understanding on key policy issues and even, as in the case of the Cuban missile crisis, brought them to the brink of war” (Library of Congress). The Soviet Union and The United States were complete opposites, The United States was a democracy whereas The Soviet Union was a dictatorship. This only began their differences though, their economies, beliefs, goals, and even their fears, everything about them made them different except for their enemy. The
After the end of WW2, two major governmental institutions, the USA and the USSR, with conflicting political ideologies and agendas, set forth to dominate each other in international politics. This period of time, also known as the Cold War, initiated an era of crazed hysteria in the United States as these two governments frequently clashed and bitterly fought. As a result, the frightened public grew delirious as the world grew dangerously close to a calamitous nuclear war, which ultimately prompted the Eisenhower administration to hinder the spread of communism and encourage the U.S. population to rapidly pursue higher education for the future welfare of this nation. One of the biggest fears of the American people is that the concept of communism contrasts drastically from the concept of capitalism, which the United States was essentially founded upon. The United States, as the public believed, was not a land of perfect communal equality, but rather a land of equal opportunity.
The post-war world left the Soviets and the United States in an ideological power struggle. The origin of the cold war is hard to pinpoint. There were several issues and disagreements that led to it. The political differences between the 2 nations were absolute opposites. America was a democracy, a system that allows its citizens to choose the political party in which runs the government. The Communists were led by one of the most vicious dictators in human history, Joseph Stalin.
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During the late 1940's and the 1950's, the Cold War became increasingly tense. Each side accused the other of wanting to rule the world (Walker 388). Each side believed its political and economic systems were better than the other's. Each strengthened its armed forces. Both sides viewed the Cold War as a dispute between right and wron...
Odd Arne Westad, Director of the Cold War Studies Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, explains how the Cold War “shaped the world we live in today — its politics, economics, and military affairs“ (Westad, The Global Cold War, 1). Furthermore, Westad continues, “ the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created foundations” for most of the historic conflicts we see today. The Cold War, asserts Westad, centers on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers — the United States and the Soviet Union — escalates to antipathy and conflict that in the end helped oust one world power while challenging the other. This supplies a universal understanding on the Cold War (Westad, The Global Cold War, 1). After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union opposed each other over the expansion of their power.
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After World War Two, the United States and Soviet Union quickly became enemies due to different ideals. The Soviet Union supported communism, while the United States supported capitalism and democracy. Communism was an economic system where the state owned all means of production, and goods and services were shared. Under communist rule, free elections were prohibited and media was censored. The United States did not agree with this system of government.
The Cold War (1945-1991) was a substantial war that was fought on an. economic, philosophical, cultural, social and political level. This impacted globally and changed the majority of the world’s societies to a. liberated fashion, rather than the archaic and conservative ways. Global war is a war engaged in by all if not most of the principle nations of the world, a prime example of such would be of the two great wars. Therefore the cold war can’t be classified as a global war in terms of the military and actual warfare’s, as the two superpowers (Soviet Union and USA) fought indirectly with each other, however to an extent the cold war can be said it’s a global war in terms of its politics and economics. The The effects of the Cold War were definitely felt globally and had an aftermath.
At the same time, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were involved in the Cold War. They were competing against one another, constantly trying to show that their country (and therefore their form of government and ideals) was the better choice. They were competing for influence over the rest of the world. Eventually the USSR and Communism lost, but far more important results came out of this competition instead.
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