Hot Spots Research Project

In this lesson students continue their studies about the relationship between Cold War principles and practices through individual, group, and guided research. This lesson is a newspaper research project in which students will produce a newspaper about a hotspot in the Cold War, in other words, a specific site where the conflict between the Americans and Soviets played out on the ground –and through the interests –of a third nation. Students will create a new paper that represents either the Soviet, American, or non-aligned country’s point of view. This lesson reinforces the idea that the responses of the three worlds to regional hotspots often undermined their appeal and ideological authenticity. Students will learn in depth how to pay special attention to multiple –and often conflicting –points of views.