Period 8: 1945-1980 - The Cold War and Redefining America
Assignments for Mr. Hutchison's classes:
Reminder: April 12 will be an in-class DBQ essay!
Content Block Activity Files
Click on the links below to download and complete activities:
- Scored Discussion #6 Documents
- Teenagers in the 1950's
- Essential Historical Question: In what ways did youth culture in the 1950's influence the braoder American experience?
- Cold War Practice DBQ
- 1950's Stations Guide and Stations
- Montgomery Bus Boycott Documents
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail DocBlock
- MLK and Malcolm X Documents
- Civil Rights Movement DBQ
- Civil Rights Act Documents
- Aims of the Movements Documents and Chart
- Widening the Struggle Stations
- Opposing Viewpoints on the Vietnam War: Lyndon Johnson Eugene McCarthy
- Vietnam War according to global textbooks
- Great Society Documents
- Reading - Conservatism begins in the Sixties
- Nixon Practice DBQ
- Historians Debate the Seventies
- Link to the Camp David Accords
- Iran Hostage Crisis Documents
- From Malaise to Morning in America DBQ practice
Skills Activity Files

vietnam_blank_map.pdf |

vietnam_war_map_directions.pdf |

women_in_the_1950s_sheg_documents.pdf |

cold_war_sheg_documents.pdf |
Cold War Stations: Use the document files below to respond to the questions on the directions sheet

cold_war_stations_directions.pdf |
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great_society_sheg_documents.pdf |

montgomery_boycott_sheg_documents.pdf |

stonewall_riots_student_materials_0.pdf |

gulf_of_tonkin_resolution_sheg_documents.pdf |

anti-vietnam_war_movement_sheg_documents.pdf |

watergate_primary_source_worksheet.pdf |

u-s-v-nixon.pdf |

smoking-gun-transcript-v-2.pdf |
Document Recitation Block Files

george_orwell_you_and_the_atomic_bomb.pdf |

historians_debate_the_cold_war.pdf |
Cold War Lit Circles
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letter_from_a_birmingham_jail_abriged.pdf |

southern_manifesto.pdf |
Old PowerPoints for Reference

cold_war_notes.pdf |
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stonewall_riots_sheg.pdf |

stormy_sixties.pdf |

the-vietnam-war.pdf |

the_1970s.pdf |
Targeted Standards
NAT-1.0 Explain how ideas about democracy, freedom, and individualism found expression in the development of cultural values, political institutions, and American identity.
POL-2.0 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society and institutions.
POL-3.0 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies.
CUL-3.0 Explain how ideas about women’s rights and gender roles have affected society and politics.
WOR-1.0 Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North America.
POL-2.0 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society and institutions.
POL-3.0 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies.
CUL-3.0 Explain how ideas about women’s rights and gender roles have affected society and politics.
WOR-1.0 Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North America.
Other resources you might find interesting:
LGBT civil rights interviews: https://makinggayhistory.com/
LGBT civil rights interviews: https://makinggayhistory.com/