The Cold War At Home Analysis
UNITED STATES
HISTORY
1945-1960
The Cold War:
Containment
at Home and
Abroad
PLEASE SEE
NOTES ON
THE PDF,
PAGE 5.
LESSONS IN US HISTORY
By Eileen Luhr, Department of History, The University of California, Irvine
Teacher Consultant, Chuck Lawhon, Century High School, Santa Ana
Faculty Consultant, Vicki L. Ruiz, Professor of History and Chicano-Latino Studies,
The University of California, Irvine
Managing Editor, Danielle McClellan
The publication of this CD has been made possible largely through funding from GEAR UP Santa Ana. This branch of GEAR UP has made a distinctive contribution to public school education in the U.S. by creating intellectual space within an urban school district for students who otherwise would …show more content…
Victor Navasky, Naming Names (New York: Viking Press, 1980).
This is a history of the House Un-American Activities
Committee, with a particular interest in the “friendly” witnesses. Ellen Schrecker, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1998). Schrecker explores the impact of anticommunism in the United States from the first Red
Scare until the end of McCarthyism. In doing so, she also offers a history of the Communist Party in the United States.
Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1992). Spigel explores the connection between television and the nuclear family ideal in the 1950s.
ASSESSMENT:
Diagnostic—see final lesson for writing prompt.
Foreign policy
* Victoria E. Bonnell, The Iconography of Power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1997). This monograph offers examples of and insights into Soviet propaganda.
* Michael Herr, Dispatches (New York: Knopf, 1977). In this account of the Vietnam War, Herr, a journalist who covered the war, attempts to capture the feel of combat from …show more content…
2. In February 1945, when it was clear that the Allies would win the war, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Joseph Stalin (USSR) and Winston Churchill (Great
Britain) to discuss the fate of postwar Europe. The leaders divided Germany into quarters to be occupied by American, French, British, and Russian forces, and Stalin agreed to allow elections in Poland, which was occupied by Soviet forces. On your map of Europe, please locate the following countries:
a. Germany: draw a line from the northwest corner of the German border with
Czechoslovakia to the Baltic Sea. The area to the west of this line will be West
Germany (the combined quarters of USA, France, and England) and the area to the east of this line will be East Germany (USSR). Color East Germany red.
b. Poland. Color red.
The division of Europe
3. The Soviet Union gained control over parts of Eastern Europe that Germany had captured during the war. On your map of Europe, please locate the following countries and color them red:
a. Albania and Bulgaria. Occupied by USSR in 1944, communist-controlled by 1948.
b. Czechoslovakia. Communist-controlled by 1948.
c. Hungary and Romania. Communist-controlled by
HISTORY
1945-1960
The Cold War:
Containment
at Home and
Abroad
PLEASE SEE
NOTES ON
THE PDF,
PAGE 5.
LESSONS IN US HISTORY
By Eileen Luhr, Department of History, The University of California, Irvine
Teacher Consultant, Chuck Lawhon, Century High School, Santa Ana
Faculty Consultant, Vicki L. Ruiz, Professor of History and Chicano-Latino Studies,
The University of California, Irvine
Managing Editor, Danielle McClellan
The publication of this CD has been made possible largely through funding from GEAR UP Santa Ana. This branch of GEAR UP has made a distinctive contribution to public school education in the U.S. by creating intellectual space within an urban school district for students who otherwise would …show more content…
Victor Navasky, Naming Names (New York: Viking Press, 1980).
This is a history of the House Un-American Activities
Committee, with a particular interest in the “friendly” witnesses. Ellen Schrecker, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1998). Schrecker explores the impact of anticommunism in the United States from the first Red
Scare until the end of McCarthyism. In doing so, she also offers a history of the Communist Party in the United States.
Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1992). Spigel explores the connection between television and the nuclear family ideal in the 1950s.
ASSESSMENT:
Diagnostic—see final lesson for writing prompt.
Foreign policy
* Victoria E. Bonnell, The Iconography of Power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1997). This monograph offers examples of and insights into Soviet propaganda.
* Michael Herr, Dispatches (New York: Knopf, 1977). In this account of the Vietnam War, Herr, a journalist who covered the war, attempts to capture the feel of combat from …show more content…
2. In February 1945, when it was clear that the Allies would win the war, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Joseph Stalin (USSR) and Winston Churchill (Great
Britain) to discuss the fate of postwar Europe. The leaders divided Germany into quarters to be occupied by American, French, British, and Russian forces, and Stalin agreed to allow elections in Poland, which was occupied by Soviet forces. On your map of Europe, please locate the following countries:
a. Germany: draw a line from the northwest corner of the German border with
Czechoslovakia to the Baltic Sea. The area to the west of this line will be West
Germany (the combined quarters of USA, France, and England) and the area to the east of this line will be East Germany (USSR). Color East Germany red.
b. Poland. Color red.
The division of Europe
3. The Soviet Union gained control over parts of Eastern Europe that Germany had captured during the war. On your map of Europe, please locate the following countries and color them red:
a. Albania and Bulgaria. Occupied by USSR in 1944, communist-controlled by 1948.
b. Czechoslovakia. Communist-controlled by 1948.
c. Hungary and Romania. Communist-controlled by