Unit Eight: The Cold War

Class Materials

  • Unit Eight Target Vocabulary
  • Cold War Conversation Project Handout
  • Cold War Conversation Project Rubric
  • Powerpoint on “The Iron Curtain”
  • Proxy Wars Information Packets
  • Proxy Wars Chart
  • “What If?” Nuclear Blast Information

Primary Source Documents and Guides

  • The Truman Doctrine Excerpt and Questions
  • Nuclear Brinksmanship Statistics
  • Personal Accounts from Vietnam
  • Patrice Lumumba Speech
  • Mikhail Gorbachev Speech on Perestroika
  • Vaclav Havel’s New Years Address
  • Article on Putin
  • “The Tank Man”
  • Boris Yeltsin Assassination Attempts Primary Sources