Learning Goal: Students will be able to describe the relationship between the social, political, and economic status of their event/conflict/theme during the Cold War and current events.
America the Story of Us
Before we map out how our lives today are affected by the Cold War, we should fully understand the end of the Cold War. To do this, we will watch another episode of "America the Story of Us" called "Millenium". When we are done we will do a group activity with a decision tree graphic organizer to trace the impacts of the Cold War on our world today. As you watch, please keep track of the social, political, and economic details discussed in the video.
Tracing the Affects of the Cold War
After we watch the video, we will work on a graphic organizer together so we can trace the details of our lives today that have been impacted by the Cold War. As a group we can decide whether or not we would like to do this going backwards (from today tracing the development back to the Cold War) or forward (Cold War details moving to today.) Below is the graphic organizer we will be working with.