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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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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Allied Plans for German Industry After World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the Allies' industrial plans for Germany during the Cold War.
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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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Handout
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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Handout
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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Digital History

Digital History: War in Europe [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at the course of the war in Europe, and America's involvement after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It examines the military strategies...
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: The Gulf War

For Students 9th - 10th
Almost as soon as the Cold War ended, another war began. The First Persian Gulf stemmed from the Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait and the threat that posed to other Persian Gulf states and the countries throughout the world that...
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: America and the Vietnam War

For Students 11th
America's involvement in the Vietnam War is examined in this tutorial, the anti-war movement, and the impact of the war. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.
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Sam Houston State University

Shsu: Yugoslvia: A Country Study: Post War Yugoslavia

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive history of the political position of Yugoslavia after World War Two, and its break from Stalinism.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Korean War

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the first hot war in the Cold War: Korea.
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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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BBC

Bbc: The Cold War: Korean War: China's Intervention

For Students 9th - 10th
Chronicles the events beginning at General MacArthur's replacement by General Ridgway at the onset of China entering the Korean War. Highlights the Chinese air offense over the skies of South and North Korea.

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