1. End Four Minutes First Four Chart Activity #4 Label & date your paper.
Pp in Blue Book
Identify a transitional phrase & explain what it is doing.
Keep this with all of your other First Four work.
To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling.
When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds.
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2. Today’s Agenda Intro Unit 2.1 – Roots of Cold War
Major Themes & Unit Question
Finish Projects from Last Class
Brief presentations
Breakdown of the Wartime Alliances
PowerPoint & Notes

3. End Four Minutes First Four Chart Activity #5 Label & date your paper.
Summarize a source
P. 98 – Either B or D
What is the main message and/or major points?
Keep this with all of your other First Four work.
To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling.
When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds.
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4. How does fear affect our behavior?
Unit Question
How does fear affect our behavior?
Major Themes

5. Group Projects Pp
Visual – comic book, mind map, chart/graph, kids book, etc.
What was the Cold War?
How have different historians explained its causes?
How were American & Soviet ideas so different?
How did the demise of Germany contribute to it?

6. Guiding Question
How did the USA-USSR alliance begin to break down in 1945?
The break-up of WW II allies…

7. During the War, Britain and the USA were allies of the Soviet Union.
What happened?
Germany?
Ideology?

8. In 1945, the Big Three held two conferences – at Yalta and Potsdam – to try to sort out how they would organize the world after the war.   It was at these conferences that the tensions between the two sides became obvious.

9. Goals of the Big Three FDR Spread democracy in Europe Trusted Stalin
US & USSR on good terms

10. Goals of the Big Three Churchill Did not trust Stalin
Concerned about a free Europe – stop spread of communism
Britain had gone to war in 1939 to protect Poland – didn’t want to abandon them to USSR

11. Goals of the Big Three Stalin Obsessed with security for USSR
Protection from any future invasion
Wanted control of Poland

12. Yalta Divide Germany into four ‘zones of occupation.
Bring Nazi war-criminals to trial.
USSR got huge part of Eastern Poland
Free elections as soon as possible in Poland.
Help people of Europe set up democratic and self-governing countries
Creation of United Nations
USSR to help US fight Japan in exchange for islands north of Japan

13. Assignment 2 What characters and/or symbols to you see?
What is the message?
This cartoon by the American cartoonist Paul Plaschke appeared in the Chicago Tribune in early 1945.