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Monday
11/29/2021
10th Grade US History
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this
lesson, students will be able
to:
understand the implications
of segregation
explain the key events of the
Civil Rights Movement of the
1960s
compare and contrast the
civil rights issues of the
1960s to those of modern
society
Direct Instruction
Instructions: Independent
Activity Option
Have the students view the
Study.com video lesson The
Civil Rights Movement During
the 1960s, pausing at 1:53.
Then, have students read
MLK's I Have a Dream
Speech out loud.
Next, ask students to discuss
the themes of MLK's speech
in terms of the early events of
the 1960s Civil Rights
Movement mentioned in the
video lesson. How must the
African-American people
have felt during this time?
Play the remainder of the
video lesson.
Now have the students work
in pairs to identify the
elements of MLK's speech
Tuesday
11/30/2021
10th Grade US History
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this
lesson, students will be able
to:
outline the life and work of
Malcolm X
analyze the speeches and
writings of Malcolm X
interpret public sentiment
regarding Malcolm X based
on newspaper articles about
his assassination
Direct Instruction
Instructions
Write the selected Malcolm X
quotes on the board for the
class without identifying their
author.
Ask the students to read the
quotes.
Now discuss the purpose and
perceived meaning of each of
the quotes as a class.
Ask the students to try to
guess who might have written
these quotes, writing their
ideas on the board.
Instruct the class to read the
introduction, 'Malcolm's Early
Life,' 'The Life of Red in
Boston,' and 'Satan, and then
Malcolm X' sections of the
text lesson Malcolm X:
Biography, Speeches &
Assassination.
Did anyone correctly link the
Wednesday
12/01/2021
10th Grade US History
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this
lesson, students will be able
to:
summarize the student
movement of the 1960s
list the factors that led to the
student movement
discuss the outcomes of the
movements
Direct Instruction
Instructions
Begin by asking students to
take turns sharing some
causes that they feel
passionate about.
What can be done to work on
behalf of the causes
mentioned in class?
What types of causes do you
think were of interest to
previous generations?
Play the video lesson The
Student Movement of the
1960s, pausing it at 1:10.
What led to the student
movement of the 1960s?
Why did students of the
1960s feel unrest regarding
the post WWII culture?
Play the video lesson again
and pause it at 2:15.
What was the New Left?
How were SDS and Young
Americans for Freedom
different?
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Thursday
12/02/2021
10th Grade US History
Objectives:
• Analyze the ways that
Ronald Reagan challenged
communism
and the Soviet Union
• Explain why communism
collapsed in Europe and
in the Soviet Union
• Describe other foreign
policy challenges that
faced the United States in the
1980s
Why it Matters:
President Ronald Reagan
believed that the United
States had
lost its way in the wake of the
Vietnam War. Rather than
détente, he felt the
United States should seek to
roll back Soviet rule in
Eastern Europe and
elsewhere. Reagan believed
that peace would come
through strength. Although
they initially increased
tensions between the two
superpowers, Reagan’s
foreign
policies contributed to the
end of the Cold War.
Directions:
Complete the readings and
tasks at hand in order to
answer
the essential question
Reagan Challenges
Friday
12/03/2021
10th Grade US History
Objectives:
After completing this lesson,
students will be able to:
•Interpret graphs and analyze
scientific data.
•Better understand the
complex role of interrelated
political factors that can
influence the legislative
process.
•Build categorization skills
essential to quality essay
writing.
•Analyze the importance of
landmark environmental
legislation of the 1970s and
its continued significance.
This lesson examined
scientific data, attitudes,
events and legislation in the
years leading up to, during
and following
the “environmental decade”
of the 1970s. Lead a class
discussion reviewing this
information and relating it to
issues
today. Use the following
questions as a guide.
Hey its Bill
You are Bill
in 1970. Things did not go
well on your last camping trip.
You drove from the
city out to the National Park
with you family. It was an
awful drive, the
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that have been resolved and
those that are still
problematic. They should
mark up the photocopies of
the speech with their
comments and analysis.
Discussion Questions
Have the struggles of the
Civil Rights Movement of the
1960s been resolved?
What issues in modern times
harken back to the Civil
Rights Movement?
Guided Practice
Instructions: Group Activity
Option
Begin by dividing the
students into groups based
on hair color and explaining
that today, you will conduct
an experiment. The light-
haired students will be in one
group and the dark-haired
students in another.
Now explain to the students
that the light-haired students
will defer to the dark-haired
students. They will eat only
after the dark-haired students
have eaten. They will use the
restrooms only when the
dark-haired students are
finished. They will also have
extra homework assignments
and will have to clean up after
the dark-haired students.
Finally, the dark-haired
students get to chew gum
and the light-haired students
do not.
quotes to Malcolm X?
Play the video clips of
Malcolm X's speeches for the
class now.
What seemed to be his
purpose in the speeches?
Who was his intended
audience?
Now have the class read the
'Malcolm X's Rise to
Prominence in the Nation of
Islam,' 'Disillusion with the
Nation of Islam,' and 'New
Identity After the Nation of
Islam' sections of the text
lesson.
Based on the information
learned in the text lessons, at
what point in Malcolm X's life
might these speeches have
been written and delivered?
Pass out the photocopies of
Malcolm X's writings to the
class now. What themes
emerge? What point in
Malcolm X's life might these
have been written. Discuss
this ideas as a class before
moving on.
Guided Practice
Discussion Questions
How did Malcolm X's life
experiences contribute to his
life's work?
What religious themes and
issues faced by Malcolm X
still resonate today?
Independent Practice
Activity
Break the class into several
What is participatory
democracy?
Play the video lesson. Pause
it at 3:19.
How are racial injustice and
poverty related?
Why were these issues
driving forces behind the
student movement of the
1960s?
Why did the Economic
Research and Action Project
ultimately fail?
Play the video lesson for the
class. Pause it at 5:17.
What are old guard college
administrators?
What role did they play in the
student movements of the
1960s?
What was the Free Speech
Movement?
Play the video lesson,
pausing it this time at 7:23.
What did the Vietnam war
have to do with the student
movement of the 1960s?
What happened at Kent State
University?
Play the remainder of the
video lesson for the class.
Was the student movement
of the 1960s successful in
enacting change? Why or
why not?
What brought an end to the
movement?
Pass out the paper copies of
the worksheet to the class,
one for each student.
Ask the students to complete
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Communism
President Reagan believed
that the United States needed
to
weaken communism by
challenging it as much as
possible without provoking
war.
To this end, he devised
policies aimed at toppling
communist nations, ranging
from building new nuclear
missile systems to funding
covert operations against
Soviet troops and allies
around the globe.
Directions/ Task:
As you read this section and
the following documents,
create
a flow chart- to sequence
major events related to the
fall of communism in
Europe and the Soviet Union.
Document A: Reagan Builds
up the US Military
Under Reagan, the United
States committed itself to the
largest peacetime military
buildup in its history. Reagan
dedicated billions of
dollars to the development
and production of B-1 and
B-2 bombers, MX missile
systems, and other projects.
In spite of massive protests
by the nuclear freeze
movement in the United
States and abroad, the
Reagan administration placed
a aspects of some 1970s
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camping site was a disaster,
and the fishing was a joke.
You have had it. You are
going to get as much
information together to show
your congressional
representatives that they
need to do something about
these problems.
Create a
NearPod presentation going
through the steps of making
an effective piece of
environmental legation. You
should
1)Identify
the problem: You may
choose one problem or
multiple. Be sure to include
evidence of your problem
such as pictures, charts or
graphs. You may also want
to utilize the poll feature or
some other interactive to
engage your
“representative”
2)Develop
a solution. It is not enough to
simply say, “Hey this is a
problem,” you need
to present a solution. Be sure
to understand and address so
potential consequences.
Also these changes in the
70s were gradual, therefor
you may want to identify a
short term and long term
plan.
Your plan can
be original or can include
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Ask the students how they
feel about these changes in
status based on hair color.
Write their feelings on the
board.
Now have the students view
the Study.com video lesson
The Civil Rights Movement
During the 1960s, pausing at
1:53.
Read MLK's I Have a Dream
Speech, with students taking
turns reading paragraphs out
loud.
Next, have the students
discuss the themes of MLK's
speech in terms of the
assigned roles and the early
events of the 1960s Civil
Rights Movement mentioned
in the video lesson. How
must the African-American
people have felt during this
time? How does this compare
to the feelings of the light-
haired students? How would
they feel if this experiment
became a permanent change
in society? Write their
responses on the board.
Play the remainder of the
video lesson.
Announce that the
experiment will not actually
take place, but was proposed
as a method to recreate the
senseless segregation of the
1960s.
Now have the students work
in pairs to identify the
elements of MLK's speech
small groups.
Give each group an article on
the assassination of Malcolm
X.
Have the groups read the
articles and work together to
answer the following
questions:
Generally speaking, what
was public opinion toward
Malcolm X?
Who might the readers of this
article have been?
What does the information
presented in the article say
about the time period?
What can we surmise about
the public's opinion of
Malcolm X based on this
article?
When each group has
finished their analysis, have
them take turns presenting
their findings to the class.
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the worksheet using what new generation of nuclear legislation that we covered.
they learned about the missiles in Europe. Be sure to cite your images,
student movement of the Reagan supported this charts and other information.
1960s to do so. massive military buildup, in You are to use MLA
When everyone has part, format.
completed the worksheet, because he did not believe There is no
review each question and that the Soviet Union could slide maximum or minimum.
answer with the class in an afford to spend as much You should still include
open discussion format. on defense as the United A.A title slide with your name
States could. Reagan felt this B.A slide clearly identifying
Guided Practice applied particularly to your problem
the Strategic Defense C.Images that support your
Activity
Initiative (SDI), a proposed problem
Divide the students into small
program in which land and D.A slide that clearly state
groups.
space-based lasers would your solution
Give each group several of
destroy any missiles aimed at E.Data or image that
the printed articles from
the United States before supports your solution
popular online student
they could reach their targets. F.A reference slide
newspapers.
Some dubbed the missile
Instruct each group to work
program “Star Wars”,
together to review and
after the popular science-
discuss the articles assigned
fiction movie trilogy, and
to them.
claimed that it was
When each group has
unrealistic.
finished reviewing their
Directions/ Questions
articles, hand out the
1. Listen to Reagan’s speech
newspaper articles on recent
about “Star Wars” and
campus protests to each
describe
group.
what our strategy is, and
Once again, have each group
why?
work together to review and
United States History Studies
discuss the articles.
Since Reconstruction -
Possibly have them create a
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Venn diagram or other
what our strategy is, and
organizer comparing and
why?
contrasting the student
http://www.youtube.com/
movement of the 1960s and
watch?v=4hGLBA65tZg
current movements.
http://www.youtube.com/
When each group has
watch?v=yDCzpAuWM1w
finished reviewing the
2. Look at the Chart below.
articles, address the following
Reagan’s foreign policy
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that have been resolved and
those that are still
problematic. They should
mark up the photocopies of
the speech with their
comments and analysis.
Ask the pairs to take turns
presenting their analyses.
Does other students agree
with the analysis of the pair?
If not, why? Did they overlook
anything?
discussion questions as a
class.
How do the issues presented
in the student newspapers
compare to those addressed
by the student movement of
the 1960s?
What did you learn about
recent campus protests from
the articles?
What do the current issues
and campus protests have in
common with the student
movement of the 1960s?
Did the student movement of
the 1960s ever really die?
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stance
caused defensive spending to
increase dramatically. How
much did defense
spending increase between
1979 and 1988?
3. Essential Question: What
were Reagan’s foreign
policies,
and how did they contribute
to the fall of communism in
Europe?
Document B: Reagan Aids
Anticommunists
Reagan also sought to
weaken the Soviet Union by
supporting
anticommunist rebellions
around the globe. To this
end, the United States
funded and trained the
mujahedeen, anti-Soviet
rebels in Afghanistan.
Reagan’s
advisers believed that with
US help, these guerrillas
could drive the Soviets
out of Afghanistan. In 1988,
Soviet forces finally began to
withdraw after
years of fierce Afghan
resistance.
Closer to home, Secretary of
State Alexander Haig feared
that
the newly formed Sandinista
government in Nicaragua
provided the Soviets with a
“safe house” in America’s
backyard. To counter this
threat, the administration
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backed a group of
anticommunist
counterrevolutionaries,
known as the Contras.
At the same time, the United
States supported a right-wing
government in El
Salvador as it battled leftist
rebels. Many human rights
activists strongly
objected to this policy; even
US Ambassador Robert
White described the legal
system in El Salvador as
“rotten” and called for the
United States to suspend
aid to the nation. Instead,
Congress made funding for El
Salvador’s government
dependent on the nation
making progress on human
rights.
In 1983, Reagan acted to
counter another perceived
threat in
the Western Hemisphere.
Members of a radical leftist
movement with some help
from Cuba had violently
ousted the Grenadian prime
minister. On October 25,
2983, US troops invaded
Grenada to prevent the island
nation from becoming a
communist outpost and to
protect the lives of American
medical students. Even
though the legal grounds for
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approved of Reagan’s
decision.
Questions:
1. Watch the clip on Soviet
Invasion in Afghanistan and
create a list of sequential
events:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=lM25EVU_s3w
2. Watch: President Reagan:
Address on Central America,
April
27, 1983; and summarize his
speech:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=R_aCYBF5rlY
3. Watch the Film on
Reagan’s speech to invade
Grenada and
summarize what he says:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=EZe44yMV1tw
4. Why did Socialist
governments in Afghanistan,
Central
America, and Grenada alarm
foreign policy official in the
United States?
5. Essential Question: What
were Reagan’s foreign
policies,
and how did they contribute
to the fall of communism in
Europe?
Document C: Gorbachev
Pursues Reform
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev
became the leader of the
Soviet
Union. Gorbachev ushered in
a new Soviet era by perusing

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the twin policies of

glasnost and perestroika.
Glasnost meant “a new
openness”, and perestroika
stood for reforming the Soviet
System- for instance, by
moving away from a
socialist of state-controlled
economy. Gorbachev’s
reforms created an opening
for a shift in relations
between the two
superpowers.
Gorbachev started these
reforms mostly because the
Soviet
Union’s economy lay in
shambles. The nation faced
regular shortages of food.
Union’s economy lay in
shambles. The nation faced
regular shortages of food.
Its factories and workers
could not compete with their
Western counterparts. A
huge chunk of the Soviet
economy’s money went
toward paying for the military.
The war in Afghanistan had
drained Soviet resources
Gorbachev realized that his
nation could not match the
military buildup initiated by
the Reagan
administration.
Questions/ Task:
1. Watch the film on
Gorbachev's Policies of
Glasnost and
Perestroika Explanation and
Significance – and you tell

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me the significance of
it: http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=obPy5zDhOPY
2. Essential Question: What
were Reagan’s foreign
policies,
and how did they contribute
to the fall of communism in
Europe?
Document D: Tear Down This
Wall!
On June 12, 1987, President
Ronald Reagan spoke at the
Brandenburg Gate, near the
Berlin Wall, in West Berlin,
Germany. His speech
acknowledged the new Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s
efforts at reform in the
Soviet Union. However,
Reagan was not satisfied with
Gorbachev’s limited
measures. He challenged the
Soviet Union leader to show
a real commitment to
reform by tearing down the
Berlin Wall that had stood
between East and West
Berlin since 1961. This wall
symbolized the division
between communism and
democracy.
In the 1950s, Khrushchev
predicted: “We will bury you”.
But
in the West today, we see a
free world that has achieved
a level of prosperity
and well being
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world, we
see failure, technological
backwardness, declining
standards of health, even
want of the most basic kind-
too little food. Even today, the
Society Union
still cannot feed itself. After
these four decades, then,
there stands before
the entire world one great
and inescapable conclusion:
Freedom leads to
prosperity. Freedom replaces
the ancient hatreds among
the nations with comity
(courtesy) and peace.
Freedom is the victor.
And now the Soviets
themselves may, in a limited
way, be
coming to understand the
importance of freedom. We
hear much from Moscow
about
a new policy of reform and
openness. Some political
prisoners have been
released. Certain foreign
news broadcasts are no
longer being jammed. Some
economic enterprises have
been permitted to operate
with greater freedom from
state control.
Are these the beginnings of
profound changes in the
Soviet
State? Or are they token
gestures, intended to raise
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or to strengthen the Soviet

system without changing it?
We welcome change and
openness; for we believe that
freedom and security go
together; that the
advance of human liberty can
only strengthen the cause of
world peace. There is
one sign the Soviets can
make that would be
unmistakable, that would
advance
dramatically the cause of
freedom and peace.
General Secretary
Gorbachev, if you seek
peace, if you seek
prosperity for the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe, if
you seek liberalization:
Come here to this gate! Mr.
Gorbachev, open this gate!
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down
this wall!
Questions
1. How does Reagan support
his statement “Freedom is the
victor”? Highlight supporting
arguments
2. How does Reagan
challenge Gorbachev to
prove that his
reforms are not “token
gestures”?
3. What did the wall signify?
4. In Reagan’s speech how
does he say essentially that
the
American Way is better than
the Soviet Way?

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5. Write a response letter to

Ronald Reagan as
Gorbachev.
What emotions do you feel
after hearing the speech? Are
you mad? Sad? Happy?
Etc...
Etc...
Document E: The Two
Leaders Meet
Gorbachev’s policies and
personality helped soften the
Soviet
Union’s international image.
Reagan responded to this
change by moderating his
own stance toward the Soviet
Union. While the two nations
had held no summits
during Reagan’s first four
years in office, their leaders
met four times
between 1985 and 1989.
During their final meeting in
Moscow, Regan and
Gorbachev toasted each
other at a state dinner toured
the sights like old
friends, and held join press
conference. At the press
conference, a reporter
asked Reagan about his
description of the Soviet
Union as an “evil empire”.
Reagan responded, “I was
talking about another era.”
Then, Gorbachev allowed
President Reagan to address
students at Moscow State
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and democracy:
“Your generation is living in
one of the most exciting times
in Soviet history. It is a time
when the first breath of
freedom stirs the air
and the heart beats to the
accelerated rhythm of hope,
when the accumulated
spiritual energies of a long
silence yearn to break free...
We do not know what
the conclusion of this journey
will be, but we’re hopeful that
the promise of
reform will be fulfilled...
leading to a new world of
reconciliation, friendship,
and peace.”- Ronald Reagan,
May 31, 1988
Even before this summit, the
two nations had signed a
historic nuclear arms pact
and had begun negotiations
on the START I Treaty,
which would reduce the
number of nuclear weapons
in the world.
Questions/ Task:
1. What policies toward
communism did President
Ronald Reagan
pursue?
Document F: Communism
Ends in Eastern Europe &
In a little over three years’
time after Reagan’s speech in
Moscow, the Cold War had
come to an end. The Berlin
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Hungary held democratic

elections; and the Soviet
Union
disintegrate into numerous
separate republics. Time
Magazine observed “It was
one of those rare times when
the tectonic plates of history
shift beneath men’s
feet, and nothing after is quite
the same.”
More so than any other
event, the fall of the Berlin
Wall
symbolized the end of
communism in Europe. For
decades, the wall had
blocked
travel from communist East
Berlin to democratic West
Berlin. Guards shot those
who attempted to escape
over the wall to West Berlin.
Then, in November 1989,
following the fall of East
Germany’s communist
government, East Germany
authorities opened the wall’s
gates. Thousands climbed
atop the wall; some even
took sledgehammers and
chipped away at the
barricade. Within a year, East
and
West Germany would reunite
as one single nation.
Communists also lost power
in
Poland, Hungary,
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Albania in
1990s; and Yugoslavia in
1991.
Question(s)
1. Essential Question: What
were Reagan’s foreign
policies,
and how did they contribute
to the fall of communism in
Europe?
Document G: Soviet Union
Breaks Apart
In August 1991, hard liners in
the Soviet Union attempted to
stage a coup in a last gasp
attempt to maintain
communist rule. But when
millions of Russians, led by
Boris Yelstin, rallied in the
streets in support
of Gorbachev, the coup fell
apart. Not long afterward, the
Communist Party lost
power, and the Soviet Union
separated into 15
independent republics. Boris
Yelstin became the new
leader of the largest new
republic, the Russian
Federation.
Federation.
Historians do not totally agree
on what cause the Soviet
Union to collapse. Most
acknowledge that
Gorbachev’s policy of
glasnost opened
the floodgates to rebellions
against Soviet domination of
Eastern Europe.
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policy of perestroika fostered

a challenge to
communist rule within the
Soviet Union. Yet, a number
of scholars give Reagan
credit for bringing an end to
the Cold War. By dedicating
America to a massive
arms buildup, they argue he
hastened the collapse of the
Soviet economy. In
turn, this compelled
Gorbachev to promote reform
at home and relinquish
control
of Eastern Europe.
The key rival competitor, and
enemy of the United States
for
so many years had suddenly
disappeared. {resident
George H.W Bush met and
signed agreements with first
Gorbachev and then Yeltsin ti
scale down and even
eliminate certain types of
nuclear weapons. Bush and
Yelstin issued a joint
statement in 1992 pledging
friendship and cooperation.
The long Cold War; which
had absorbed so much of the
energy and resources of the
Soviet Union and the
United States since 1945,
was finally over.
Question(s)
1. What key actions and
events brought about the end
of the
Cold War?

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2. Essential Question: What

were Reagan’s foreign
policies,
and how did they contribute
to the fall of communism in
Europe?
Document H: Trouble
Persists in the Middle East
Even as the Soviet Union
collapsed, the United States
continued to confront
problems in the Middle East.
In 1982, Reagan sent a group
of 800 United States Marines
to Lenanon as part of an
international force trying
to bring peace to a nation
torn by civil war. On Octovber
23, 1983, a truck
loaded with thousands of
pounds of explosives
smashed through barriers at
the
headquarters of the United
States Marines in Beiruit,
Lebanon’s capitol, and
into a four story building that
housed hundreds of military
personnel. The
explosion killed 241 marines.
Reagan withdrew the
remaining marines in
February
1984. The incident illustrated,
once again, the complicated
nature of Middle
Eastern politics.
During the 1980s, the United
States often clashed with
Libya.
Led by Muammar al-Qaddafi,

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whom Reagan describes as

“the mad dog of the Middle
East”, Libya supported
terrorist groups. In 1986,
following a terrorist attack
on a Berlin nightclub, which
Reagan blamed on Qaddafi,
US war planes bombed
Libya. The air raid killed one
of Qaddafi’s daughters. Even
though Qaddafi was
unharmed, his criticism of the
United States dwindled.
The first day of Reagan’s
presidency had started with a
breakthourhg in the Middle
East. Twenty minutes after he
took the oath of
office on January 20, 1981-
Iran released all 52
Americans it had held
hostage
since 1979. But during his
second term, the Iran-Contra
affair badly tarnished
Reagan’s reputation.
The Iran –Contrad Affair
began when the United
States sold
weapons to Iran in 1985 in
exchange for Iran’s promise
to pressure terrorist
groups in Lebanon to release
some American hostages.
The plan didn’t work, and
it contradicted the
adminsitration’s policy of
refusing to negotiate with
terrorists. Then, the
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the
Contras in Nicaragua, despite
the fact that in 1983
Congress had banned
sending
funds to the Contras. News of
these deals came out in
1986. President Reagan
accepted responsibility for the
actions of his administration,
he never
admitted however, to ordering
his aides to support the
Contras. Ultimately,
several leading administration
officials and a top aide, Oliver
North, were
convicted on charges
stemming from the scandal.
In spite for this, Reagan left
office with extremely high
approval ratings.
Questions/ Tasks:
1. What was the Iran-Contra
Scandal; what affect did it
have?
2. Watch Ronald Reagan’s
Address on the Iran-Contra
Affair
2. Watch Ronald Reagan’s
Address on the Iran-Contra
Affair
and summarize what the
President says:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=R67CH-qhXJs
3. Essential Question: What
were Reagan’s foreign
policies,
and how did they contribute
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Europe?
Overall:
1. During Reagan’s first term,
Reagan called the Soviet
Union
an “evil empire”, but in his
second term, he developed a
working relationship
with Gorbachev. What
accounts for this change in
strategy?
2. Why did Reagan order an
air raid on Libya?
3. Essential Question: What
were Reagan’s foreign
policies,
and how did they contribute
to the fall of communism in
Europe?
The Cold War Around the
World:
How Did It Effect Each
Country?
Directions:
Learning about the Cold War
can help you brush up on
your
world geography. On your
blank political map, locate
these Cold War trouble
spots. On this sheet, give a
capsule summary of the
conflict and the date when
it occurred, from the end of
World War II to 1970
1. Two Chinas- policy
problems
2. Iran 1946, 1953
3. Greece
4. Turkey Tensions
5. Marshall Plan

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6. Iron Curtain
7. Korea
8. Berlin
9. Vietnam
10. Guatemala
11. Poland
12. Hungary
13. Suez Canal
14. Cuba
15. Lebanon
16. Cambodia
KEY: The Cold War Around
the World:
How Did It Effect Each
Country?
Directions:
Learning about the Cold War
can help you brush up on
your
world geography. On your
blank political map, locate
these Cold War trouble
spots. On this sheet, give a
capsule summary of the
conflict and the date when
it occurred, from the end of
World War II to 1970
1. Two Chinas- policy
problems
a. Mainland China and
Taiwan (Formosa): Mao Ze
Dong and his
Communists take control of
mainland China, 1949: Chang
Kai-Shek, and his
Nationalists flee to Formosa;
the “China lobby” accuses
Democrats of “Losing
China”; the US moves to
protect Formosa from
Communist China’s threats,

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1950s
2. Iran 1946, 1953
a. Soviets refuse to remove
their troops at the end of the
war in 1946; the CIA
engineers a coup to oust
nationalist Mossadeq, put
back
Shah Reza Pahlavi, 1953
3. Greece
a. US sends aid under the
Truman Doctrine to help
democratic
Greek government defeat
guerilla war against
communists, 1947
Greek government defeat
guerilla war against
communists, 1947
4. Turkey Tensions
a. Turkey received aid under
the Truman Doctrine to resist
Soviet pressures for joint
control of Dardanelles, 1947
5. Marshall Plan
a. Massive US economic aid
to Western Europe so its
economies
would recover from the war
and not be susceptible to
Communist agitation
6. Iron Curtain
a. Soviets install Soviet
dominated governments in
Eastern
Europe after World War II-
Poland, East Germany,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Romania,
Bulgaria, and Albania
7. Korea

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a. 1950-53, UN war (mostly

with US forces) to push back
North
Korean invasion of South
Korea
8. Berlin
a. Soviets blockade and
Western airlift, 1948; crisis of
18958 when Khrushchev
demanded withdrawal of all
Western troops; Berlin wall
built 1961
9. Vietnam
a. 1950-54, US gives aid to
French to fight Ho Chi Minh
and
his communist Vietminh
forces; Eisenhower ,
Kennedy gives aid and send
advisors
to the South Vietnamese
government in their fight
against Communist Viet Cong
and North Vietnam; Johnson
escalates war; Nixon starts
troop withdrawals
10. Guatemala
a. CIA supports rebels who
oust democratic elected
Arbenz
government and set up a
military dictatorship, on
pretext of Arbenz being
“nearly Communist-1954
11. Poland
a. Riots against Soviet control
1956
12. Hungary
a. Soviet tanks crush
uprising, 1956, US protests
13. Suez Canal

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a. Egypt takes over the canal;

Israel attacks Sinai
Peninsula, France and Britain
take canal, US and USSR
support a UN cease fire
and condemnation of Britain,
France, and Israel-1956
14. Cuba
a. Castro drives out Batista,
1959, alienates US with
Communist reforms and
appointments, turn to Soviet
Union for support; Bay of
Pigs botched invasion of
Cuban exiles supported by
US 1960; 1962 missile crisis
15. Lebanon
a. US troops invade to hold
off supposed Communist
threat 1958
16. Cambodia
a. Nixon escalates Vietnam
War by sending US troops
into
Cambodia 1970

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