Cold War and Vietnam

Students will review what they learned about the people, events, speeches, and more from Eisenhower's presidency by making trading cards, a cube, or both. Each option balances academic requirements with personal choice and historically responsible...

Students will review what they learned about the people, events, speeches, and more from Kennedy's presidency by making trading cards, a cube, or both. Each option balances academic requirements with personal choice and historically responsible...

Students will review 22 events and locations from the Vietnam War with this timeline stations and map activity. They will first put together one timeline with 11 events and write academic identifications. They will then match 11 other events to their...

Students will review Truman's presidency and the start of the Cold War by reading 28 statements and determining which are true and which are false. They will then complete 3 other tasks with the material. This is best done in pairs or triplets...

Students will review what they learned about the people, events, battles, politics, causes, effects, turning points, and more from the Korean War by making trading cards, a cube, or both. Each option balances academic requirements with personal choice...

Students will review a year of United States History (American History, US History) with the critical thinking review game, "what doesn't belong and why?" Each topic has up to 11 sets of terms or phrases (people, events, terms, laws, documents, speeches,...

These are 185+ focus questions, thinking prompts, essential questions, objectives, guiding questions, discussion questions, or essay questions you can use for US History (American History, United States History) from the Gilded Age through the Cold War...

Students will read and analyze excerpts from Joseph McCarthy on his reasons for pursuing potential communists in the State Department and the findings of the Tydings Committee and their take on McCarthyism/the Red Scare by answering 30 questions...

Students will read and analyze two points of view on what America's approach towards the Soviet Union should be at the start of the Cold War by answering 41 questions and completing an extension task. The excerpts are from Henry Wallace in 1946 and...

Do your students get certain aspects of the Korean and Vietnam War mixed up? This Korean or Vietnam War Card Sort is a great way for students to review the 2 wars in a hands-on way.   First students pull out the "title cards" - Korean War...

Students will learn about a variety of Cold War events and people by designing a poster on over 30 topics including but not limited to: JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Space Race, AIDS, Atomic Bomb, Eisenhower, Berlin Wall, Red China, Joe McCarthy, Stalin,...

Students will review a year of United States History (American History, US History) with the critical thinking review game, "what doesn't belong and why?" Each topic has up to 11 sets of terms or phrases (people, events, terms, laws, documents, speeches,...