Name _______________________________ Date ________ Period ______ Date Due ________
NHS Honors USWA Unit 3: EUROPE – WILSON THROUGH FDR
Cold War: Europe Event Project
You will be assigned a European Cold War Event or person and create an informational one-slide
PowerPoint presentation. I will select the best ones and compile them into a handout for all students to put
in their notebook and use as a resource.
FORMAT
Here is the format
with the layout and the
font you must use.
The image and the
summary can be
switched as it is in the
sample below. You
can let the summary
take up to 75% of the
slide, but never less
than 50%.
Your summary has to
be brief and to the
point!
SAMPLE
You must include
(1) the name of the
event as a title
(2) a description of the
event
(3) the year in which it
occurred
and if possible
(4) it’s significance
Save using this format: 1POakleySputnik
Period + name + one word describing topic
Tips:
- Think “What is the least I need to know, but still know what happened”
- Avoid details
- Avoid using terms your classmates won’t know
- Have someone proofread your summary for clarity and efficacy before turning it in
90+ 75-90 50-75 <50
Summary shows little Summary is inaccurate,
Summary shows total Summary shows an
understanding of the event, incomplete, or not
understanding of the adequate understanding,
the year may be wrong or turned in
Summary event, the year it the year it happened, and
missing, and there is no
happened, and its attempts to explain its
attempt to show its
significance significance
significance
Plagiarism will result in a zero!
Image exceptionally Image is of something barely Image is not related to
Image adequately
Image(s) compliments the related to, or unrelated to the the event, or is not
compliments the event
event event. included
List of Cold War Events circle yours!
1. Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” 9. Creation of NATO 16. Launch of Sputnik I 24. Apollo-Soyuz mission
speech 10. Long telegram 17. Moscow Summit (Nixon) 25. Moscow Summit (Reagan)
2. perestroika & glasnost 11. Berlin Wall built 18. Prague Spring 26. START 1
3. Berlin Airlift 12. détente 19. German reunification 27. Reagan’s Berlin Wall
4. Potsdam Conference 13. Collapse of the Soviet 20. Velvet Revolution speech
5. Marshall Plan announced Union 21. Khrushchev visits the U.S. 28. Hungarian uprising
6. U-2 shot down over USSR 14. containment (Cold War) 22. JFK’s Berlin Wall speech 29. 1st American in space
7. Berlin Wall falls 15. Truman Doctrine 23. East German workers 30. De-Stalinization
8. Space Defense Initiative announced revolt
Notes
Summary rough draft
When you are done, share with me at Philip.oakley@hcbe.net
