Quarter 4 Agenda
Tuesday, March 28, 2016
Learning Goal: I can explain the impacts of WWII on
American economy/politics; I can explain the beginnings
of the Cold War
Warm-up: CNN Student News – Just Watching 
Agenda:
New Rules & Reminders
Cold War Begins Storyboard
*Ladies – don’t wear a skirt tomorrow! We will be moving!
New Classroom Rules/Procedures &
Reminders
First 10/ Last 10
Make sure to sign out & take pass when leaving!
No name = 0
Complete sentences a must
If you lean in the chair, you don’t get a chair.
NO GUM. Automatic lunch detention.
Essay rules:
If you write “I” or any personal pronouns in a paper = 0
Do NOT write “I am going to tell you…,” “Did you ever
wonder?,” “This paper will explain,” etc. These are poor
sentence starters and we are going to do better this
quarter!
Peacetime Adjustments
Peacetime
Adjustments
Postwar Economy
Labor Unrest &
Reaction
Steps on Civil Rights
Reelection & the
Fair Deal
Peacetime Adjustments
Peacetime Adjustments
Postwar Economy
Labor Unrest & Reaction
Steps on Civil Rights
Reelection & the Fair
Deal
Effect 1
End of
WWII
Effect 2
Effect 3
Factories closed; workers laid
off
End of
WWII
Racial issues arose
Post-war economy
boomed
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Learning Goal: I can explain the impacts of WWII on
American economy/politics; I can explain the beginnings
of the Cold War
Warm-up: CNN Student News – Write down 3 things you
learn. 
Agenda:
Cold War Begins Storyboard
Preparing for a WMD
America Fights a Cold War
Origins of the Cold
War (847)
The Berlin Airlift
(847/8)
Politics of
Containment (848)
The Cold War at
Home (849)
Reflection Questions – write the ? and answer on
the next page in your notebook
Pages
847-849
1. Describe how each of these terms are
related: containment, Truman Doctrine,
NATO (1 sentence minimum)
2. Describe the Berlin airlift and how it was
related to Truman’s containment policy
(2 sentence minimum)
3. How do you think the fear of communism
after WWII compares to fear of terrorism
today? (2 sentence minimum)
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Learning Goal: I can explain the impacts of WWII on
American economy/politics; I can explain the
beginnings of the Cold War
Warm-up: Explain containment
Agenda:
Who Caused the Cold War? Primary Source Activity
Key Ideas to Review - WWII
Communism vs. Capitalism
Communism: resources/means of production
are owned by the community
Capitalism: private ownership of all means of
production
Who/what countries made up the “Big Three?”
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
U.S. and Soviet Union were allies during WWII
Key Ideas – after WWII
Europe in ruins and former colonial empires
crumbling
Two superpowers emerged: U.S. and U.S.S.R.
Set the stage for increased competition
between the two superpowers
Soviet Red Army remained in Eastern Europe
after war
U.S. developed policies of containment (Truman
Doctrine, Marshall Plan)
Central Historical Question:
Who started the Cold War,
the United States or the
Soviet Union?
Friday, March 31, 2016
Learning Goal: I can explain the impacts of WWII on
American economy/politics; I can explain the
beginnings of the Cold War
Warm-up: CNN Student News – Write down 2 things you
learn 
Agenda:
Who Caused the Cold War? Primary Source Poster
The Cold War Begins Poster
Using the documents & outside research, you
will create a poster about the beginning of the
Cold War
Must include:
Title
Background Info
Timeline of the Early Cold War
Document Analysis
Final Analysis/Decision – your answer to the question
The Cold War Begins Poster
 Make sure to include title!
 Background Info
• Why did it
• What was the • When did it
• Who was
begin?
take place?
Cold War?
involved?
 Timeline
Put the following events in order on a timeline. Try to find the exact dates, but
if you can’t, you may just use month and year
• Sept. 30,1949: Mao
Zedong (a
communist) takes
control of China
• US drops first atomic
bomb in war
• Berlin Blockade ends
• Marshall Plan is
announced
• May 1955: Warsaw
Pact*
• Winston Churchill
delivers “Iron
Curtain” speech
• Feb. 1948:
Communist takeover
in Czechoslovakia
• Truman announces
Truman Doctrine
• Berlin Blockade
begins
• July 1949: NATO
treaty ratified
• Japan surrenders,
ending WWII
• Soviets explode first
atomic bomb
• Yalta Conference*