Materials

• Overhead with brainstorming responses from previous session
• Cold War Timeline handout (Attachment D) with holes punched to fit notebooks
• Cold War notes to be discussed (Attachment A)
• Two political outline maps of Europe
• Class textbook

Instructional Activities

1. Display on the overhead and review the student responses from the previous day’s brainstorming activity. Remind them that when the unit on the Cold War is completed, they will revisit this information.
   
   
2. Explain to students that they will complete a Cold War timeline during their study of this organizing topic. They will add to the timeline at the end of each class period the events that were discussed during that period. Distribute the timeline handout (Attachment D), and instruct them to secure it in their notebook.
   
   
3. Begin discussion of this organizing topic by displaying the first Cold War notes on the overhead. Use the teacher’s notes on Attachment B to guide discussion on each note.
   
   
4. Distribute maps of Europe to the students. Instruct them to develop, using their textbooks and other sources provided by the teacher, a color-coded map reflecting international boundaries in Europe at the end of World War II and another map of Europe reflecting current international boundaries. Current maps should reflect former Soviet republics.
   
   
5. Instruct the students to complete the maps from activity, or assign a teacher-selected reading, worksheet, or other reinforcement activity, using available resources.