Nist Ib Diploma History:

NIST IB Diploma History:

Cycle 1 Day 1: The Cold War

Today’s question: Why did the Cold War begin and end in Europe? We will be discussing this question for the next three lessons, but before we discuss today’s question, let’s survey the class and see what we alreadyknow about the Cold War. In this course, you need to

read and write.

Reading: Whenever reading about a topic in history, use a variety of sources. Books about the Cold War with different points of view include: • • • • • • • •

The Global Cold War by Odd Arne West A Brief History of the Cold War by Colonel John Hughes-Wilson The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis Cold War Civil Rights by Mary Dudziak For the Soul of Mankind by Melvyn Leffler The Cold War: A History by Martin Walker Mao’s China and the Cold War by Chen Jian Age of Conflict: the Short 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm

The authors of these books have different perspectives and different biases. Their ideologies and perspectives might range from Communist to anti-Communist, from Eurocentric to Nonaligned. As you read history, you must analyze each source for the author’s biasesand perspectives. To start reading about the Cold War, I recommend: Wikipedia article on the Cold War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_war As always, evaluate the authors’ points of view. Additionally, there are many excellent audio-visual resources on the Cold War, especially the 24 episodes of Cold Warby Jeremy Isaacs. Each episode is available on youtube (in parts) or on googlevideo (whole episodes). A Canadian named khanbaliqhas a youtube channel worth viewing. Each episode is 46 or 47 minutes long, just as the Cold War is generally thought to have begun in ’46 or ’47. Today’s video is: Perhaps the easiest way to find the episodes of Cold War is to enter into your google search engine: cold war ep 1

(for Cold War Episode 1), and then:

cold war ep 2

(for Cold War Episode 2), etc.

We also have them on the NIST resources portal.