The Cold War and Decolonization
We call it the Cold War, but was it HOT? This global conflict sparked full-scale wars, espionage, space races, revolts, and the threat of nuclear holocaust. In these lessons, students investigate just how hot the cold war got.
The Cold War in Three Lessons
The Cold War was a world-wide ideological, economic, and military contest between the United States and the Soviet Union. It reshaped global power and pushed the world to the brink of destruction. In the lessons below, your students can negotiate a Cold War crisis, create a timeline linking the Cold War to decolonization, and explain this tumultuous era to an alien.
With conflicts of various kinds simmering around the world, it’s easy to wonder: Is the world entering a new cold war? Did the old one ever really end? Historians Trevor Getz and Bennett Sherry explore these questions in this new blog post.
The Cold War involved lots of comparison, as both superpowers tried to convince the world they were better than the other. In this blog post, author Eman M. Elshaikh uses a 1948 propaganda cartoon as a hook for teaching comparison.
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