Cold War Exploring History Through Primary Sources

ISBN: 0-7439-8137-5

Price: $129.00

Use original documents and photographs as well as letters, maps, cartoons, and posters to help students explore the past. Primary sources provide unique insight into the lives of people in different time periods. Each kit includes: 16 photographs and primary source documents--photo cards with background information, discussion questions, and suggested activities printed on the back; CD with photographs, other primary sources student activity sheets, and extension activities; and 80 page Teacher's Guide including lesson plans, background information, a wide variety of student activities, and a document-based assessment section to help students prepare for essays found on many standardized tests. Each kit also meets the NCSS standards for primary source documents. Photographs: H-bomb on Bikini Atoll; Berlin blockade; Winston Churchill giving his Iron Curtain speech; Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev; Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers; Greek guerrilla fighters; Berlin Wall coming down; Korean War soldiers. Other items: Space Race cartoon; President Truman's diary entry from the Potsdam Conference; Letter from the Rosenberg's son to President Eisenhower; Mao Tse-Tung on the cover of TIME; General MacArthur's farewell speech; Poster of Humphrey Bogart saying "I'm no Communist"; Game of Bluff based on the Bay of Pigs; Comic book cover for the Incredible Hulk, who was affected by radioactivity. This series has received the 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers EdPress.