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The Cold War Primary Sources Pack Gallopade International

The Primary Sources series is the winner of the 2015 Academics' Choice Awards for the 2015 Smart Book Award in recognition of mind-building excellence. The The Cold War Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source that are printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" card stock.

The Cold War Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards!

Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.

The 20 documents in the The Cold War Primary Sources Pack are:
1. Photograph of German children watching 20 tons of flour being unloaded from a USAF airplane during the Berlin Airlift - 1948
2. Photograph of German children playing with toy American aircraft, simulating supply planes landing in western Berlin during the Berlin Airlift - 1948
3. Photograph depicting the 38th parallel - dividing line between communist North Korea and the anti-communist South Korea- 1950
4. Photograph of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - American citizens found guilty of passing information about the U. S. atomic bomb to the Soviet Union - 1951
5. Example of anti-Communist propaganda during the 1950s - specifically targeting the entertainment industry
6. Cartoon of Fidel Castro -