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This assignment allows the students the opportunity to explore the vast amount of visual examples that address various aspects of the Cold War and offers new insight into the era.

Students should be able to make inferences as to the tenor of each conference, the state of mind of the participants and the importance of the photographs in relation to their background knowledge to support or refute: FDR was too physically ill at Yalta.

Students will analysis and evaluate primary documents, videos, excerpts from newspapers and books, and then in groups will create a persuasive essay supporting their point of view, including quotations from the provided sources.

This lesson asks students to consider the war years as equally important in pushing for racial equality.

Students will examine the historical interpretation of the origins of the Cold War and use primary documents to defend or refute a particular historical interpretation.

Class discussion on the end of the war in the pacific.

Students will write a 20-point persuasive essay explaining their decision on how to end WWII.

Draw conclusions about Pearl Harbor based on primary documents and reasoned discussion.

In this lesson students will continue with their examination of the dropping of the atomic bombs, this time focusing on varying historical perspectives. In particular this will include the Japanese perspective.

In this lesson students will be introduced to important background information on the dropping of the atomic bombs.