Create a video newscast on “A Look Back at the Cold War”. You
and a partner will pick 2 topics from the list below, except one group. One
group will not be responsible for researching/recording a topic; rather, they
will be responsible for compiling the videos from their classmates, editing it
into a movie AND being the News Anchors/Announcers that link the topics
together.
Each segment should include a retrospective and detailed
explanation of the events, their importance to the time period, and visual
evidence. It can include interviews with important people (either real or
staged) and/or actual footage. Your segment should include S.P.R.I.T.E.
S: Social
P: Political
R:
Religious
I:
Intellectual
T:
Technology
E: Economic
Thus, the topics include:
1)
Newscast editors/Announcers
2)
Cold War USSR under Stalin
3)
Early Cold War policies/events (Berlin
Blockade/Airlift, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Warsaw Pact)
4)
Attempted breaks from Communism (Prague Spring
in 1968, Hungary 1956, Poland Solidarity Movement of the 1980s)
5)
Cold War USSR under Khruschev and Brezhnev
6)
Cold War USSR under Gorbachev & the end of
satellite states
7)
The end of communism in the USSR
8)
Britain during the Cold War
9)
France during the Cold War
10) Central Europe & Italy
during the Cold War
11)Scandinavia during the Cold
War
12)The European Union,
Maastrict Treaty & the Euro
13)The continued crisis in the
Balkans (civil war in Yugoslavia, establishment of new states, Milosevic etc)
Topics will be selected first come, first served
