cold war

Introduction

The Cold War started for the US because they wanted to end the spreading of communism. Through the Cold War the US entered many battles, that did cause a lot of controversy between the american government and citizens. This Webquest will teach you about the Cold War,many why certain things were done in the Cold War. 

How did the US governemnet and citizens feel about communism during the Cold War? 

How did the people, and government feel about the war? 

How did democracy affect the lives of people in the Cold War?  

Thsi is image shows the correlation between America and  the over Union during the Cold War. 

This picture show the possible nuclear war that could have happened in the Cold War. 

Task

Your task will b to create a story board. 

Direction: complete the folowing criteria to create the story board.

  • reaserch causes and effects.  
  • Write 3 causes and effects. 
  • Create a table. 
  • Create and draw 4 pictures with captions.
  • Color your pictures. 

Process

  • Reaerch cause and effect of the Korean War and the Vietnam war. 
  • Write 3 cause and effects of the korean War and th vitnam war. 
  • Create a table with notes on the two wars. 
  • create and draw two pictures that represent events that happened in the space race, and arms race.mMust included color for the pictures.
  • answer the questions.

Evaluation

Resorces: http://www.phschool.com/atschool/ahon09/chapter25/web_extra.html

this website gives you specific examples of how communism affected the people, and what they thought. It makes things very clear and is not super wordy. 

http://www.phschool.com/atschool/ahon09/chapter25/web_extra.html

This source gives a little bit of background information. It also talks about what people thought, how they felt, and what affected the government and the citizens. 

http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-was-american-role-defender-dem…

This website talks about democracy and what it was. It goes on to give information about how it affected the people, and what people did about it. 

Rubric: 

5- the prentation is unapliling, does not have anything to domwith any of the topics no color was included for the pictures. All essential questions were not answered. 

10- the presentation was moderate, discusses 1-3 of the topics had little to no color for the pictures, a few essential questions were answered but not worded well. 

15- the presentation was appalling, most of the topics were covered and the tasks were somewhat complete using color for the pictures. most of the essential questions were answered well. 

20- the presentation was great. All topics were covered and the assignments were completed, and included color for the pictures. The essential questions were fully answerd. 

Conclusion

  • How difficult was it to reaserch the causes and effects of the korean War and the Vietnam war. 
  • Did you feel that it was difficult to create a table with information on the two wars. 
  • Was this Webquest easy or hard to complete? Why? 
  • Did you feel that the Webquest was clear or easy to understand. 
  • Were the sources to difficult to get information from.