This document provides instructions for a summative project on the Cold War. Students will choose one of several topics to research such as the Korean War or the rise of Mao Zedung in China. For their topic, students will complete a concept map with four categories and three facts per category, citing sources. They will then create a 9-page storybook titled "Cold War: [their topic]" with a title page, picture, and 10-sentence description for each of the four categories researched. The project is meant to help students learn about power shifts, influence, and other aspects of the Cold War through independent research.

1. Cold War
Storybook
Cold War Individual Project

2. Summative Project: Introduction
● Each student will complete a Concept Map about one of the following
topics:
o Power Shifts: Yalta Conference, the development of nuclear weapons, Soviet control over
Eastern European nations, and the economic recoveries of Germany and Japan
o Competition for influence: Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, and Chile
o Cold War and Asia: Korean War, Vietnam War, Tiananmen Square (massacre and
protests), and the Six Day War
o Chinese Civil War: Rise of Mao Tse-tung, political and economic upheavals in China (the
Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square uprising)
o Satellite Uprisings: Poland (1956), Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), and those
countries’ resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s as people in Soviet satellites sought
freedom from Soviet control
o Collapse of the Soviet Union: The weakness of the economy, burdens of military
commitments, Growing resistance to Soviet rule in satellite states, and Anti-Soviet
American presidents
o World of Cliques: Warsaw Pact, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American
States

3. Summative Project: Directions
● The topic you chose has 4 pre-assigned
categories for you to research
o ex: Competition for influence: Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam,
and Chile
● Under each category, you need to find three
facts and list your source
o Chile
 The CIA helped overthrow socialist President Allende with a
coup (http://www.coldwarstudies.com/2013/04/10/cold-war-chile/)
 America allowed a Chilean bureaucratic-authoritarian regime
under General Augusto Pinochet
(http://www.coldwarstudies.com/2013/04/10/cold-war-chile/)
 Secretary of State Colin Powell about the United States
support for the coup, to which Powell replied that "it is not a
part of American history that we're proud of"
(http://fas.org/irp/news/2003/02/dos022003.html)

4. Summative Project: Expectations
● Each student picks a topic
● Graphic organizer is completed at home
o 3 facts are complete sentences with sources listed
after each
 Wikipedia is not to be cited
● Graphic organizers are due Monday
● Information collected will go into creating a
Storybook
o Book will be titled: ‘Cold War: (your topic)’
 For each category researched, 2 pages will be
dedicated
● 1 for the title and a picture (drawn or printed)
● 1 with a min. 10 sentence description of the
event as it relates to the Cold War
 Should total 9 pages
● Cover (with image and title) + 8 pages dedicated
to the categories