Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 10/14/2008
Students will learn how a "cold war" between the United States and the Soviet Union began after World War II in this section of the online exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War. Americans led Western efforts to contain Communism. The Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, the origins of NATO and the arms race that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis are all discussed. A non-flash version of this site is available: The Cold War.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
The family fallout shelter represents the public policy assumptions of the atomic age, namely, th...
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