A Guide to Primary Resources for U.S. History : The "Peace" Sixties CNN Interactive: The Cold War Experience This sophisticated project website focused on the Vietnam War protest movment contains very interesting features, among other things a component ("You Make the Call") that allows students to make policy decisions based on historical facts and then view the real decisions and reasons behind their outcome. There are also many links to archival photographs and documents of the period. (Primary source material organized skillfully around secondary source commentary). On the CNN site, there is a link to "Brinksmanship: You make the call." In this brief exercise, students decide how to respond when they draw a low draft number in 1969. They read a brief introduction to their character and advice from three of his advisors (mother, father and campus radical) to help them make a decision about what to do. Students can also link to "Interactive: The Draft and You" and type in their birthday to see if they would have been drafted. There is a link to "Cold War Culture: Atomic Rock." The resource describes music with Cold War commentary and provides music clips for Nena's 99 Red Balloons and Sting's The Russians Love Their Children Too. Students can listen to the music, write down the lyrics, and identify the message in the words.

(b) explaining the origins of the Cold War, and describing the Truman Doctrine and the policy of containment of communism, the American role in wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Europe;

The "Peace" Sixties
CNN Interactive: The Cold War Experience

Description: This sophisticated project website focused on the Vietnam War protest movement contains very interesting features, among other things a component ("You Make the Call") that allows students to make policy decisions based on historical facts and then view the real decisions and reasons behind their outcome. There are also many links to archival photographs and documents of the period. (Primary source material organized skillfully around secondary source commentary).

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"Do Now" Suggestion

On the CNN site, there is a link to "Brinksmanship: You make the call." In this brief exercise, students decide how to respond when they draw a low draft number in 1969. They read a brief introduction to their character and advice from three of his advisors (mother, father and campus radical) to help them make a decision about what to do. Students can also link to "Interactive: The Draft and You" and type in their birthday to see if they would have been drafted.

Suggestion for Using this Resource as Part of a Lesson

There is a link to "Cold War Culture: Atomic Rock." The resource describes music with Cold War commentary and provides music clips for Nena's 99 Red Balloons and Sting's The Russians Love Their Children Too. Students can listen to the music, write down the lyrics, and identify the message in the words.