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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Berlin Wall

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history of the Berlin Wall during the Cold War. This wall kept people from freely leaving East Berlin.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Communism

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history of Communism and the Cold War. Karl Marx, Lenin, and Mao were world leaders over communist countries.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Cuban Missile Crisis

For Students 4th - 8th
Kids learn about the history of Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War. The Soviet Union put nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Red Scare

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn the history of the Red Scare during the Cold War. A fear of communism caused black lists and accusations led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Space Race

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn the history of the Space Race during the Cold War. A race between the United States and the Soviet Union to put a man on the Moon.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Suez Crisis

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn the history of the Suez Crisis during the Cold War. A fight over control of the Suez Canal involving Egypt, Israel, Britain, and France.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Vietnam War

For Students 4th - 8th
Kids learn the history of the Vietnam War during the Cold War. A fight between the communists of North Vietnam and the US supported South.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Cold War Pre Assessment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a pre-assessment to a Cold War unit based on the 5th Grade Social Studies standards for South Carolina.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Cold War Review

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review of Cold War personalities, events, and policies.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Crossword Puzzle Print Out for Kids: Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
Print out a crossword puzzle game about the Cold War on this site. Learn about history and have fun at the same time.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Crossword Puzzle Game for Kids: Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids try out this fun crossword puzzle game about the Cold War. Learn about history and have fun at the same time.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Collapse of the Soviet Union

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history of the Collapse of the Soviet Union which put an end to the Cold War.
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Other

Cold War Story: Chapter 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a very brief mention of free elections that were agreed to at the end of the WWII. Site gives a great overview of how the Cold War emerged out of WWII. A very nice analysis!
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Other

Atom Central: The Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
Read how the dropping of the atomic bombs planted the seeds of hostility between the United States and the USSR.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Start of the Cold War:berlin Airlift & Nato

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Berlin airlift, NATO, and the National Security Act.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Cold War Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the US's early attempts to contain communism through economic and military aid.
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A&E Television

History.com: The Mariel Boatlift: How Cold War Politics Drove Thousands of Cubans to Florida in 1980

For Students 9th - 10th
After Fidel Castro loosened emigration policies, some 125,000 Cubans landed on U.S. shores over a span of five months. The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 was a mass emigration of Cubans to the United States. The exodus was driven by a stagnant...
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A&E Television

History.com: The Mariel Boatlift: How Cold War Politics Drove Thousands of Cubans to Florida in 1980

For Students 9th - 10th
After Fidel Castro loosened emigration policies, some 125,000 Cubans landed on U.S. shores over a span of five months. The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 was a mass emigration of Cubans to the United States. The exodus was driven by a stagnant...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Nixon, Vietnam, and the Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
Outline of later Vietnam War struggles during the Nixon era and U.S. relations with Communist countries.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Start of Cold War, Part 1: Yalta Conference and Containment

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of World War II, the Yalta Conference saw the splitting of Germany into four zones and the United States began a policy of containment of communism.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Start of Cold War, Part 2: Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains President Truman's plan to contain communism, which signaled the end of American isolationism. Also discusses America's pledge of financial aid to rebuild Europe with the Marshall Plan.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Start of Cold War, Part 3: Berlin Airlift and Creation of Nato

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the Berlin airlift, NATO, and the National Security Act.
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Other

Turmoil and Triumph: The George Shultz Years: Cold War Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
End-of-the-Cold-War timeline, which enumerates events that led up to the collapse of the Soviet empire during the Reagan administration, is both an account of the period and a retrospective of Reagan's policies vis-a-vis the Soviets,...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: Ronald Reagan

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Portrait Gallery presents a look at presidential actions and decisions about the Cold War. Click on Ronald Reagan to see how his anti-Communist beliefs led to increases in the defense budget, but also, by the end of his...

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