Cold War Presentations

Task:

Students will complete a PowerPoint or GoogleSlides presentation that will describe the results and elements of the Cold War.

Your presentation must be at least 5 minutes in length, and will need to include bulleted information as well as images.

Although you will have some information on the presentation slides, you will be required to expand on the information (not just read the slides). You may use index cards to help you.

Please keep in mind the following while you are preparing and researching:

Who, what when, where, why and how! Be thorough.

Outline from textbook - 15 points (classwork grade)

Final Presentation - 50 points (quiz grade)

Due Date: Thursday, 4-12.

Topics (with pages from textbook):

• Spy Cases (781-783)
• Race for Space (787, 840)
• U-2 Incident (788-789)
• HUAC and the Hollywood Ten (780-781)
• Bay of Pigs Invasion (833)
• Berlin Crisis (835-836)
• Operation Ajax and Washtub (786-787)
• Assassination of JFK (841-842)
• Election of 1960 (831-832)
• McCarthyism (783-784)
• Cuban Missile Crisis (833-834)

Spy Cases

• Rosenberg, Hiss and Oppenheimer Cases from Cold War Reference Library

Race for Space

• The Space Race from Encyclopedia of US History

U-2 Incident

• U-2 Incident from Encyclopedia of Espionage

HUAC and the Hollywood Ten

• HUAC and the Hollywood Ten from Encyclopedia of US History

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion from Encyclopedia of Pop Culture

Berlin Crisis

• The Berlin Wall from Encyclopedia of Espionage

Operation Ajax and Washtub

• Operation Ajax from Global Events
• Operation Washtub (US) from Times of London

Assassination of JFK

• JFK Assassination from New York Times Upfront
• John F. Kennedy from The Cold War Reference Library

Election of 1960

• 1960: The First Mass-Media Election from New York Times Upfront

McCarthyism

• McCarthyism from Encyclopedia of Espionage

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cuban Missile Crisis from the Cold War Reference Library