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LTs and EQs for WWII

Day 1: 4/7Cold War: What to do with Germany?

LT1: Students will be able to read and answer questions regarding what happened to Germany following WWII.

LT2: EQ1: How was Germany dealt with following

WWII?

EQ2: What happened at the Yalta Conference? Potsdam Conf?

Day 2: 4/8 Cold War: Containment/Iron Curtain

LT1: Students will be able to read and answer questions regarding what happened to Germany following WWII.

LT2: EQ1: What did the term “iron curtain” mean?

EQ2: What was President Truman’s policy on communism?

Division of Germany

Notice where Berlin is!

Division of Berlin

Day 3: 4/9Cold War: Containment- Korea

LT1: Students will be able to answer questions regarding the “Best Years”

LT2: EQ1: What happened in Korea? How were the

Soviets and Chinese involved?

EQ2: What was Joseph McCarthy’s claim? What industry did he claim was dominated?

Vocab terms to know

Iron Curtain- Dividing Europe into 2 separate areas. Symbolize- Soviet efforts to block itself and satellite states from contact with West and non-Soviet areas.

Containment- an effort to block the Soviets’ attempts to spread their influence by creating alliances and supporting weaker countries.

Satellite Nations- countries dependent upon and dominated by the Soviet Union

Truman Doctrine- Truman asked Congress for $400 million in economic and military aid for Turkey and Greece. Why? US should support free peoples throughout the world who

were resisting takeovers by “armed minorities” or “outside pressures”

Vocab terms to know

Marshall Plan- Provide aid to all European nations that needed it. Saying that this move was directed “not against any country or

doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos”-

NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization Defensive military alliance- an attack on one would be an attack on all. Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg,

Netherlands, Norway, Portugal.

Berlin Airlift- Soviet Union holds West Berlin hostage. Cut off all traffic into W Berlin. See map. No supplies let in- starvation Attempt to stop the Western alliance from trying to reunify

Germany Airlift: Fly food and supplies into West Berlin. 327 days, planes took

off and landed every few minutes. 2.3 million tons of supplies- Food, fuel, medicine, Xmas presents

Day 4: 4/10Cold War: McCarthyism / 2nd Red Scare

LT1: Students will be able to explain the fear of communism in the United States through the Red/Green dot game

LT2: Students will identify the meaning of McCarthyism and the impact he had on America through lecture and political cartoons

EQ1: Why were so many Americans accused of being communists?

EQ2: How did McCarthyism impact the lives of Americans? Take out notebooks- Title and Date

What was the 1st Red Scare about?

Red Dot Green Dot Game

Red Dot = Communists Green Dot = Non Commie

Do not let anyone see what color dot you have or you are disqualified

You are trying to get the largest group without any communists in it.

Larger the groups = more extra credit points Smaller groups gain less extra credit points

Do not get any points if a communist is in the group The communists gets the points of the group if they infiltrate it

2nd Red Scare 1947-1954

Following WWII, increased fear of the spread of communism- Abroad and in the USA Especially espionage* in the US government and other

social areas. There really were Americans (in the government even)

who were spying for the Soviet Union.

Senator Joseph McCarthy led the charge against finding the communists McCarthyism- practice of making accusations of

disloyalty or treason without proper regard for evidence

McCarthyism

Intense anti-communist suspicion in the USA. Thousands of Americans were accused of

being communists Government employees Entertainment industry Educators Union activists

Pair-Share: Why do you think these people were accused?

McCarthyism

What is the meaning of this depiction of McCarthy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnUf30oefQw

Fallout of McCarthyism

Discuss with partners: What do you think happened to these people McCarthy questioned and accused of being communists? Destroyed careers Loss of jobs Imprisoned

Most of tactics used by McCarthy were found illegal and so most people who were accused were found innocent Do you think everything was fine with these people

afterward?

Hollywood 10

10 motion picture producers, directors, screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Refused to answer questions- accused of contempt of Congress (preventing Congress from doing their job)

Blacklisted from the film industry – most never employed in Hollywood againWrote under false names or names of friends in the industry

Over 300 directors, commentators, actors, writers were blacklisted (boycotted) by the studios

McCarthyism- Committee on Un-American Activities

What is going on in this picture?

Decline of McCarthyism

Initial popularity “Reds in our churches”Investigates the armyTelevision hearings

Bullying people – cruel, manipulative, and reckless

Day 5: 4/11Cold War: Korean War

LT1: Students will identify the causes of the Korean War through reading and answering questions

LT2: Students will describe Korea now and then

EQ1: Why were so many Americans accused of being communists?

EQ2: How did McCarthyism impact the lives of Americans? Take out notebooks- Title and Date