Lasting from the end of World War II in 1945 until the early 1990s, the Cold War was one of the most significant events of the 20th century.  For example, the Cold War included the major wars in both Vietnam and Korea, the high tension point of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the drama of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Click below to learn more about specific topics related to the Cold War.

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READINGS & SOURCES

​|Atomic Bombing of Japan
|Bay of Pigs
​|Berlin Blockade and Airlift
|Berlin Wall
​|Brinkmanship in the Cold War
|Capitalism
​|Causes of the Cold War
​|Cold War Overview
​|Communism
​|Containment in the Cold War
|Cuban Missile Crisis
|Democracy
|Dictatorship
​|Detente
​|Disarmament Agreements
​|Domino Theory
|Dwight D. Eisenhower
​|End of the Cold War
​|Espionage in the Cold War
|Fidel Castro
|Harry S. Truman
​|House Un-American Activities Committee

​|Ideological Conflict in the Cold War
|Iron Curtain
​|John F. Kennedy
​|Joseph McCarthy
​|Joseph Stalin
​|Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
​|Kitchen Debate​
|Korean War
​|Lyndon Johnson
|Manhattan Project
|Marshall Plan
​|McCarthyism
|Mikhail Gorbachev
|Mutual Assured Destruction
|NATO
​|Neil Armstrong
|Nikita Khrushchev
​|Nuclear Arms Race

​​|Perestroika and Glasnost
​​|Potsdam Conference
|Propaganda in the Cold War
​|Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" Speech
​|Richard Nixon
|Robert Oppenheimer
|Ronald Reagan
|Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
|Space Race
​|Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
​​|Truman Doctrine
|U-2 Spy Plane Incident
​|Vietnam War
|Warsaw Pact
|Winston Churchill
|Yalta Conference

TEACHING RESOURCES & LESSONS

Vietnam War - PowerPoint with Cloze Notes (64 Slides/Pages on Major Events!)

Korean War - PowerPoint with Cloze Notes (37 Slides/Pages on Major Events!)

Karl Marx - PowerPoint with Cloze Notes (25 Slides/Pages on his life and ideas!)

Joseph Stalin - PowerPoint with Cloze Notes (World War II and the Cold War)

Berlin Wall (Cold War) - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

Communism - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

Cuban Missile Crisis (Cold War) - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

Dictatorship - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

Reasons For & Against the Atomic Bombing of Japan - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

Socialism - PowerPoint with Notes Copy