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APUSH Unit 8 Project
Due: _________ Points: ____
Common Core Standards for 11th Grade History: Reading (R-H) & Writing (W-H)
R-H 11.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources,
connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole.
R-H 11.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an
accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.
R-H 11.6: Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar
topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.
R-H 11.10: Read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 11-12 text complexity band
independently and proficiently.
W--H 11.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are
appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
W-H 11.7: Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a
self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate;
synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under
investigation.
W-H 11.9: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Your group will create an online presentation that addresses
your assigned essential questions.
Presentations must include:
• A title slide with the names of all the people in your group
• At least one slide for each subtopic you are assigned. These slides need to cover both the
key information and the significance of each topic.
• Pictures, images, and/or graphics
• Extra credit will be given if you include a table, chart or graph that shows data that is
directly related to your topics.
• An answer to the essential question (for the years you are assigned):
How did the Cold War impact American foreign policy and society?
Your presentation should take 10 minutes. All members of your group must contribute to the
research & the creation of the presentation, and must participate in the presentation itself!
Your completed project must be submitted to or shared with your teacher by 11pm the night
before it is due.
APUSH Unit 8
The Cold War & Domestic Turmoil
1945 - 1980
Essential Question (for all groups):
How did the Cold War impact American foreign policy and society?
Sub-questions to consider:
1. What were the foreign & domestic Cold War fears of the American people?
2. What international incidents/events increased Americans’ fears and led to the escalation of the Cold War?
3. How did the Cold War shape United States foreign affairs?
4. How did the Cold War impact American politics & society?
5. How did the Cold War affect the U.S. economy?
6. What was the relationship between the Cold War and Americans’ perceptions of our own values and principles?
Use the questions above to guide you as you address the specifics below.
Please limit yourself to the time period assigned to your group!
Group A Focus: The Truman Years (1945 - 1953)
X-Article
(“Mr. X” = George Kennan)
1947
Executive Order 9981
1948
Margaret Chase Smith’s
Declaration of Conscience
1950
Walter Lippman
(response to Kennan)
1947
UN Declaration of Human
Rights
1948
NSC-68
1950
Loyalty Review Board
1947
McCarthy’s Enemies from
Within Speech
1950
firing of MacArthur
1951
“Duck & Cover”
1951
APUSH Unit 8
The Cold War & Domestic Turmoil
1945 - 1980
Essential Question (for all groups):
How did the Cold War impact American foreign policy and society?
Sub-questions to consider:
1. What were the foreign & domestic Cold War fears of the American people?
2. What international incidents/events increased Americans’ fears and led to the escalation of the Cold War?
3. How did the Cold War shape United States foreign affairs?
4. How did the Cold War impact American politics & society?
5. How did the Cold War affect the U.S. economy?
6. What was the relationship between the Cold War and Americans’ perceptions of our own values and principles?
Use the questions above to guide you as you address the specifics below.
Please limit yourself to the time period assigned to your group!
Group B Focus: The Eisenhower Years
Iran Coup
1953
Massive Retaliation Doctrine &
“One Nation, Under God” 1954
brinkmanship
& “In God We Trust” 1956
(John Foster Dulles)
Domino Theory speech
1954
Suez Crisis &
the Eisenhower Doctrine
1956s
NASA
1958
Guatemala Coup
1954
Federal Highway Act
1956
National Defense Education
Act
1958
Beatniks
APUSH Unit 8
The Cold War & Domestic Turmoil
1945 - 1980
Essential Question (for all groups):
How did the Cold War impact American foreign policy and society?
Sub-questions to consider:
1. What were the foreign & domestic Cold War fears of the American people?
2. What international incidents/events increased Americans’ fears and led to the escalation of the Cold War?
3. How did the Cold War shape United States foreign affairs?
4. How did the Cold War impact American politics & society?
5. How did the Cold War affect the U.S. economy?
6. What was the relationship between the Cold War and Americans’ perceptions of our own values and principles?
Use the questions above to guide you as you address the specifics below.
Please limit yourself to the time period assigned to your group!
Group C Focus: The Kennedy Years
Bay of Pigs
1961
Space Race
Students for a Democratic
Society, Port Huron Statement
1962
Peace Corps
1961
fallout shelters/triangle sign
1962
“Ich bin ein Berliner”
1963
Flexible Response
(Robert McNamara)
1961
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
1963
Hot Line Agreement
1963
APUSH Unit 8
The Cold War & Domestic Turmoil
1945 - 1980
Essential Question (for all groups):
How did the Cold War impact American foreign policy and society?
Sub-questions to consider:
1. What were the foreign & domestic Cold War fears of the American people?
2. What international incidents/events increased Americans’ fears and led to the escalation of the Cold War?
3. How did the Cold War shape United States foreign affairs?
4. How did the Cold War impact American politics & society?
5. How did the Cold War affect the U.S. economy?
6. What was the relationship between the Cold War and Americans’ perceptions of our own values and principles?
Use the questions above to guide you as you address the specifics below.
Please limit yourself to the time period assigned to your group!
Group D Focus: The Johnson Years
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964
Operation Rolling Thunder
1965
Jane Fonda
“Daisy Girl Ad”
1964
the draft
Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty
1968
Muhammad Ali
Democratic National
Convention protests
1968
Troop Build-up in Vietnam
1965
Nixon’s Silent Majority speech
1968
APUSH Unit 8
The Cold War & Domestic Turmoil
1945 - 1980
Essential Question (for all groups):
How did the Cold War impact American foreign policy and society?
Sub-questions to consider:
1. What were the foreign & domestic Cold War fears of the American people?
2. What international incidents/events increased Americans’ fears and led to the escalation of the Cold War?
3. How did the Cold War shape United States foreign affairs?
4. How did the Cold War impact American politics & society?
5. How did the Cold War affect the U.S. economy?
6. What was the relationship between the Cold War and Americans’ perceptions of our own values and principles?
Use the questions above to guide you as you address the specifics below.
Please limit yourself to the time period assigned to your group!
Group E Focus: The Nixon Years
realpolitik
Henry Kissinger
CIA-backed coup in Cambodia
1970
The Pentagon Papers
1971
Tinker v. Des Moines
1969
Kent State
1970
détente
secret bombing of Cambodia
1969
26th Amendment
1971
SALT I
1972
War Powers Act
1973
APUSH Unit 8
The Cold War & Domestic Turmoil
1945 - 1980
Essential Question (for all groups):
How did the Cold War impact American foreign policy and society?
Sub-questions to consider:
1. What were the foreign & domestic Cold War fears of the American people?
2. What international incidents/events increased Americans’ fears and led to the escalation of the Cold War?
3. How did the Cold War shape United States foreign affairs?
4. How did the Cold War impact American politics & society?
5. How did the Cold War affect the U.S. economy?
6. What was the relationship between the Cold War and Americans’ perceptions of our own values and principles?
Use the questions above to guide you as you address the specifics below.
Please limit yourself to the time period assigned to your group!
Group F Focus: The Ford & Carter Years
Freedom of Information Act
1974
Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty
1976
SALT II
1979
conditional clemency for draft
dodgers (Ford, 1974) and
blanket pardon (Carter, 1981)
Camp David Accords
1978
Energy Crisis & Malaise Speech
1979
Helsinki Accords
1975
Iranian Revolution; Hostage
Crisis
1979 - 1981
Soviet Union invades
Afghanistan; US Responds
1979
Carter’s letter to
Andrei Sakharov
1977