Introduction
The Cold War was a monumental war between communism and capitalism. The United States and the USSR had lots of tension between their people. They both tried to spread their ideas throughout the world and have their way of government dominate the other through the world. In this webquest you will analyze and answer these essential questions:
1. How did the US and the USSR compete with each other outside of the competition to spread either democracy and capitalism or communism around the world?
2. How did the Korean War and the Vietnam War effect the countries involved?
3. How did the Cold War begin and how did it come to an end?
Task
Create an outline on important events of the Cold War. Be sure to include people involved, the outcome of the events and the effect it had on advancements of the Cold War.
Directions:
1. Read the sources given.
2. Analyze the information on the site and find the key events its talking about.
3. Create an outiline of each event.
4. In your outline be sure to include people involved, what happened, the outcome of the event, and the effect the event had on the people and/or countries involved.
5. Answer each essential question
Process
1. Read the 9 sources given in the Credits tab (3 for each to get answers for each essential question) (60 minutes)
2. Take note of each event in the site you're on (10 minutes)
3. Analyze the key points of each event you read about by including them in your outline (20 minutes)
4. Create an outline that highlights all the events you read about (30 minutes)
5. In your outline be sure to include these necessary requirements: people involved in each event, what took place during the event, what the outcome of the event was, and an analysis of the effects the event had on the people and/or countries involved. (Part of #4; will take place during the 30 minutes of creating the outline)
6. on another piece of paper, write answers to the essential questions in 2-3 sentences. Use the information you learned from the sites given to answer the essential questions. (10 minutes)
Evaluation
5 points: (5 points are given for each bullet)
-all necessary requirements listed in the process tab that are said to be included are included in the outline
-it is obvious they fully understood the content and fully answered all essential questions
-the outline created is neat and easy to follow
4 points: (4 points are given for each bullet)
-most of the necessary requirements are included in the outline
-they mostly understood the content and answered all essential questions
-you can follow and understand the outline for the most part
3 points: (3 points will be given for each bullet)
-some of the necessary requirements are included in the outline
-its debatable whether they understood the content and answered at least 2 essential questions
-the outline created is not easy to follow but with time can kind of be understood
2 points: (2 points will be given for each bullet)
-less than half of the necessary requirements are included in the outline
-it's obvious they barely understood the content and answered 1 essential question
-the outline created is hard to follow
1 point: (1 point will be given for each bullet)
-none of the necessary requirements are included outline
-they did not understand the content and answered none of the essential questions
Conclusion
Reflection questions:
1. Did you learn anything new from this webquest?
2. Was this webquest easy to follow and navigate?
3. If there were any problems you had with this webquest what were they?
4. Was the information you learned similar to that you learned in class about the Cold War?
5. Was this webquest simple or frustrating?
Credits
Essential question 1 resources:
The key events of the space race are included. It talks about the US and USSR competing for advancements in space
http://www.history.com/topics/space-race
the key events of the arms race are included. It talks about the US and the USSR's competition to have an advantage by having more weapons.
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/arms-race
the technology advancements are discussed. NASA talks about what technology was created by the US and the USSR.
http://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/coldWarCoOp.html
Essential question 2 resources:
The events that occurred in the Korean War are listed. It tells what happened and the effect from the war on the people involved.
http://www.academia.edu/4276713/Impact_of_the_korean_war
The effects of the Vietnam War are listed it talks of different changes the country made and how people felt.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3469
There are similarities of what happened in the Vietnam and Korean War that are listed. This site also lists differences of each war.
http://gcsehistory.pbworks.com/w/page/8041668/Korea%20and%20Vietnam%20-…
Essential question 3 resources:
The causes of the Cold War are listed. It talks of many reasons between both countries for the start of the Cold War.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/…
The site lists the way the Cold War came to an end. It also tells of events that occurred in Germany while the war was coming to an end.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/59e.asp
This site tells a few reasons for the start of the war. It then tells events that happened to keep the tension of the Cold War going and it tells how the war came to an end.