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Date: 4/7/16
Lesson Title: Intro to the Cold War
Subject: The Cold War - 1950s
Instruction time: 90 minutes
Students level by grade: Juniors
Standard(s) to be addressed:
SS.912.H.1 - Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among
these elements.
Learning Objectives for this lesson (Written using verbs from Blooms Taxonomy):
Student will be able to explain U.S. policy during the Cold War and the ideological differences between
the United States and Soviet Union
Students will be able to discuss and explain the effects of the Red Scare and connect it to current events
Specific resources needed for this lesson:
Projector, projection screen, computer
Instructional method(s) used in this lesson:
Discussion, direct instruction, questioning, collaborative learning
Lesson Sequence:
Bell: What were the main U.S. policies in the Cold War?
Cold War Policies
Small groups (3-4) students will work together to answer questions
based on the previous nights reading assignment, on the early Cold War Policies
Each group will complete all questions
Each group will be responsible for presenting their answers for one of the
questions to the class
Red Scare -Two Parts
Part 1 - Direct Instruction
Fear of Communism - Goal is to spread - Stalin
American government looks to address Communism within our own borders
Democrats are accused of being weak against Communism
Rise of House Un-American Activities Committee
Investigates the film industry Question What is so important about the film industry?
Producers, actors - blacklist forms
Turns towards officials of the State Department
Alger Hiss - accused of perjury, imprisoned - discredits liberal Democrats Question What effect do
you think this will have?
Persecuted by Nixon
Federal Loyalty Review Program
Seeking out government employees with communist leanings
200+ are forced to/ voluntarily resign Question Is this Constitutional, under our understandings
of the law?
Opens the area of fear - FBI - J. Edgar Hoover establishes lists of subversive groups - begins harassing
anyone deemed subversive
McCarren Internal Security Act