The Cold War Thaws History Presentation

Mr. Harms has designed a number of PowerPoint and Keynote presentations with key Social Studies Concepts and Critical Thinking Questions to help students understand history. Designed by a teacher for teachers, this PowerPoint focuses on "The Cold War Thaws".

Overview
These history presentations are designed to give students an overview of the events leading to a thaw in the Cold War. Students will be shown maps, animations and descriptions of some of the major events leading to easing tensions in the cold war thaws .

Customizable
The presentation is totally customizable, allowing you to add your own pictures, graphics and animations to take what we've done even farther.

Benefit
 What is your time worth? Our basic pricing system for History Presentations is 10 cents per slide.  Some title slides may only take 30 seconds to create, but complex slides with animations and coordinated builds for complicated topics may take 30 minutes or more.  It's not unusual for a presentation to take between 3 and 7 hours of work.  What could you do with 6 or 7 free hours?

Topics Included 
Topics include: Cold War, Stagnation, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, De-Stalinization, Hungary, Imrey Nagy, Prague Spring, Leonid Brezhnev, Alexander Dubcek, Friendship Treaty, Mao Zedong, Detente, Realpolitik, SALT I, SALT II, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, SDI.

Included in The Presentation Package:
1.    Keynote Presentation
2.    Power Point Presentation
3.    Text edit file of the outline of the presentation and presenter's notes.

The package is a digital download (Zip File) of these three items.

Modern World History Presentations
We have a number of PowerPoints related to The Cold War. These units are proven to engage students in a way that text books and documentaries can’t. Hundreds of teachers are using these lesson plans to bring history to life for students. It’s a unit you’ll use year after year.

Unit 8 Perspectives On The Present
Chapter 33 Restructuring The Post War World
Section 5 "The Cold War Thaws"

​​These materials were prepared by Harms LLC and have neither been developed, reviewed, nor endorsed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, publisher of the original WORLD HISTORY: Patterns of Interaction work on which this material is based.

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