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America in the 1950s | Digital Learning | Activity Bundle

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    1. Every Single One of the 114 Activities from the You Will Love History US History Collection! Each activity comes ready to use with videos from our YouTube Channel, perfect for Distance Learning. Each assignment comes in Digital and Paper copies!If you need presentations and quizzes to go with the a
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    Do you need to update your activities, but don't have the time? Are you looking for "state of the art", innovative, and engaging activities to help your students comprehend the changes to America and the world in the 1950's? Do you want to convert your class into a "21st century" learning environment? This bundle is ONE OF A KIND!

    This "America in the 1950's Unit Activity" Bundle has everything you need to teach your students about the key events, people, conflicts, movements, and pieces of legislation that shaped the decade of the 1950's. This bundle includes 8 ACTIVITIES AND ANSWER KEYS that will challenge your students to not only understand the material, but read and draw conclusions from primary source documents and images to fully immerse themselves in history. By the time your students have completed these activities, they will have a great foundation from which they can scaffold learning through American history!

    This bundle includes several types of activities that touch multiple pedagogies and learning styles, including:

    ➙ Document-based questions

    ➙ Close Reading

    ➙ Graphic Organizers

    ➙ Personal Reflection

    ➙ Linear Learning

    This bundle covers many topics throughout the decade of the 1950's:

    ➙ Post-War America

    ➙ The GI Bill and Economic Conversion

    ➙ The Election of 1948

    ➙ Truman's "Fair Deal"

    ➙ The Integration of the U.S. Military

    ➙ The Division of Europe

    ➙ The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

    ➙ The Berlin Airlift and the Formation of the Warsaw Pact

    ➙ The Chinese Civil War

    ➙ The Korean War

    ➙ The Highway System, Corporate America, the Baby Boom, and the Polio
    Vaccine

    ➙ The Emergence of Rock 'N Roll, TV, and Car Culture

    ➙ The Birth of the Civil Rights Movement

    ➙ SCLC, SNCC, and the Rise of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    ➙ The Montgomery Bus Boycott

    ➙ The Nuclear Arms Race and the Space Race

    ➙ CIA Involvement in Iran and Guatemala

    ➙ The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Suez Crisis

    ➙ The Hungarian Revolution

    ➙ Sputnik

    ➙ The U2 Spy Plane Incident

    ➙ Brinkmanship and "Mutually Assured Destruction"

    These lessons are included in our America in the 1950s Deluxe Bundle which includes everything you need to "plug and play" these lessons.

    Digital Lesson

    Hard Copy Lesson

    Access to our FREE video lecture on YouTube

    PowerPoint Presentation

    Google Slides Presentation

    5 Question Quiz

    Teacher Notes

    Best of all, every one of these activities aligns directly with an objective video lecture from our "Unit 7 - America in the 1950s" video playlist:

    Unit 7- America in the 1950s

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    Total Pages
    50+
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    Teaching Duration
    1 month
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