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 starter activity

 starter activity. Test your knowledge of Cold War key words by playing Cold War bingo!  Check your glossary is up-to-date by using the key words hand-out your teacher provides. What were the achievements of the Thaw?.  Learning objectives.

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 starter activity

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  1. starter activity Test your knowledge of Cold War key words by playing Cold War bingo!  Check your glossary is up-to-date by using the key words hand-out your teacher provides.

  2. What were the achievements of the Thaw?  Learning objectives To analyse the contribution of John Foster Dulles to Cold War politics To evaluate the success or failure of the Thaw

  3.  Your task • Read the obituary of John Foster Dulles. What qualities made him a good / weak secretary of state? • Analyse sources D-F on p.83. • How effective was Dulles influence on US foreign policy under Eisenhower? John Foster Dulles, Sec of State, 1953-9

  4.  Your task • If necessary, re-read you timeline of the events of the Thaw based on p.85-6 in your textbooks. • Complete the timeline task your teacher gives you. • Which event was the most significant sign of improving / worsening relations? • Overall, do you think ‘Thaw’ was an accurate term to describe the period 1953-62?

  5.  Your task • Watch the film clip about the Thaw. Note down the positive achievements and failures of the period • To what extent was the Thaw the result of the new personalities in place? The Kitchen Debate between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow on July 24, 1959.

  6.  Your task • Study the sources on p.87. Break into teams and answer the following questions: • Team 1 answer Qs 1 &2 • Team 2 answer Q3 • Team 3 answer Q4 • Team 4 write a judgement paragraph in answer to Q5 • Team 5 write a judgement paragraph in answer to Q6

  7.  Extension task • Read Isaacs p.140-160 on key events of the Thaw Supplement your notes with evidence relating to achievements and failures of the period.

  8.  Homework • Complete the glossary task set during the starter activity. • Complete gaps in your notes or work on targets set, e.g. producing a bank of ‘juicy quotes’

  9.  Plenary • Dulles – contribution to US foreign policy • Thaw – key events • Thaw – achievements / failures • Extension: on balance did the Thaw ‘fail to achieve anything of substance’?

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