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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Glossary and Terms

For Students 4th - 8th
Kids learn the Glossary and Terms of the Cold War. Definitions for words such as glasnost, detente, SALT, Iron Curtain, and proxy war.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Soviet Afghanistan War

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history of the Soviet Afghanistan War during the Cold War. A hard fought war with no winner.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Origins of the Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a brief overview of the events that led up to the Cold War.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: George H. W. Bush

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Portrait Gallery presents a look at the several presidents and their actions in regard to the Cold War. Click on George Bush to see and hear his speech about the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Cold War ends.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Summary

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history of the Cold War. The battles, people, events, and countries involved in this nuclear stalemate.
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Ducksters: Word Search: Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
A fun word search game with terms about the Cold War. Play online or print out a version for use in class or at home.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Cold War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an extensive flipchart of the Cold War covering such things as: the Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, war protests, and the fall of communism. This flipchart contains...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Wilson Center: The Cold War Files

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline of the events of the Cold War.
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Schoenherr: Cold War Policies 1945 1991

For Students 9th - 10th
This reference page links readers to information on the Cold War time period, both on American soil, and overseas.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Arms Race

For Students 4th - 8th
Kids learn about the history of the Arms Race during the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union building nuclear weapons stockpiles.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Bay of Pigs

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba during the Cold War. A CIA led attempt to take over Fidel Castro's government.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Berlin Airlift

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history of the Berlin Airlift during the Cold War. Planes were used to get around the Soviet blockade of Berlin.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Berlin Wall

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history of the Berlin Wall during the Cold War. This wall kept people from freely leaving East Berlin.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Communism

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history of Communism and the Cold War. Karl Marx, Lenin, and Mao were world leaders over communist countries.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Cuban Missile Crisis

For Students 4th - 8th
Kids learn about the history of Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War. The Soviet Union put nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Red Scare

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn the history of the Red Scare during the Cold War. A fear of communism caused black lists and accusations led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Space Race

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn the history of the Space Race during the Cold War. A race between the United States and the Soviet Union to put a man on the Moon.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Suez Crisis

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn the history of the Suez Crisis during the Cold War. A fight over control of the Suez Canal involving Egypt, Israel, Britain, and France.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Vietnam War

For Students 4th - 8th
Kids learn the history of the Vietnam War during the Cold War. A fight between the communists of North Vietnam and the US supported South.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Cold War Pre Assessment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a pre-assessment to a Cold War unit based on the 5th Grade Social Studies standards for South Carolina.
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Class Flow: Cold War Review

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review of Cold War personalities, events, and policies.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Crossword Puzzle Print Out for Kids: Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
Print out a crossword puzzle game about the Cold War on this site. Learn about history and have fun at the same time.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Crossword Puzzle Game for Kids: Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids try out this fun crossword puzzle game about the Cold War. Learn about history and have fun at the same time.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Collapse of the Soviet Union

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the history of the Collapse of the Soviet Union which put an end to the Cold War.

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