Tensions of the Cold War
Weighing the Evidence
About this Activity
- Created by:Harris/McDonald
- Historical Era:Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Thinking Skill:Historical Issues-Analysis & Decision-Making
- Bloom's Taxonomy:Evaluating
Students decide whether primary resources from the Cold War support one of two opposing concepts: A) events that led to rising tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. B) events that resulted in lessened tensionds between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Then students must validate their choices with factual proof and accurate interpretation of the documents. Finally the students must summarize the evolution of events from one of the concepts as they resulted in the end of the Cold War.
https://docsteach.org/activities/student/tensions-of-the-cold-warDocuments in this activity
- Churchill, Truman, and Stalin
- Civil Defense Poster
- Draft statement by President Eisenhower on Joseph Stalin
- Kennedy Address on Cuba
- Letter from Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev (English version)
- The "Kitchen" Debate
- President Lyndon B. Johnson Giving His Midnight Address on Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident
- Photograph of President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev at the first Summit in Geneva
- Photograph of President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev signing the INF Treaty in the East Room of the White House
- President Bush and President Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in the Kremlin in Moscow, Soviet Union
- President Nixon meets with China's Communist Party Leader, Mao Tse- Tung
- President Reagan Giving a Speech at the Berlin Wall
- The Reagans and Gorbachevs at the White House State Dinner
- Presidential Address: National Association of Evangelicals, Orlando, Florida, Tuesday, March 8, 1983
- Remarks at Brandenberg Gate, Berlin, Germany [President's Speaking Copy]
- We Are Afghanistan