CENTER FOR COLD WAR STUDIES, UCSB August 27, 2004

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CENTER FOR COLD WAR STUDIES, UCSBAugust 2-7, 2004

• Changing Roles from Cold War to Peacekeeping to
  the War on Terror

NATO
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DAY 1

• Start with a review of key terms and events (
  iron curtain, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine,
  Berlin Airlift )that are necessary to begin a
  discussion of NATO with a rousing game of. . . .

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Welcome to Who Wants to be an Extra-Credit-aire
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THE COLD WAR
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He coined the metaphor iron curtain in
describing the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc
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A George Kennan
B Winston Churchill
D Joe Stalin
C Harry S. Truman
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President Truman was worried about Soviet
involvement in
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A Italy and France
B Italy and Belgium
C Italy and Turkey
D Greece and Turkey
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DAY 1

• PowerPoint Introduce NATO, why it was created,
  who was involved, its place in the Cold War.

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• Map Cold War Europe Students will locate
  iron curtain and original NATO members. Discuss
  ways NATO could act as deterrent to Soviet
  expansion. Locate Warsaw Pact nations

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• Group Activity Students assigned parts of the
  North Atlantic Treaty, 1949 and, in 2-3
  sentences, paraphrase the preamble and articles
  then discuss.

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DAY 2

• Opening Map Quiz Students identify iron
  curtain and NATO countries.

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DAY 2

• PowerPoint Discuss What NATO has done
  post-Cold War, success/failure in Yugo (B-H) as
  peacekeeper, player in War on Terror (Afghan,
  Iraq).

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• Map Students evaluate new members, how the end
  of the Cold War changes the game for NATO, and
  look at world map to identify hot spots of
  current or possible NATO involvement.

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• Discussion / Cartoon Evaluation For closure,
  use political cartoons about NATOs recent
  actions to engage class in discussion.

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From NATO action in the former Yugoslavia NATO
as peacekeeper or aggressor?
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What appears to be the dual role of NATO?
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What does this suggest about the role of the US
President in directing NATO?