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The Cold War: 1945-1991

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The best part of this presentation about the Cold War is the various pictures, photos, and maps throughout the slides. The timeline of this time period is difficult to follow in the presentation, as well as the details about several main points that are mentioned but not discussed. Perhaps utilized most effectively in the context of your existing lecture, these slides would serve as a way to connect events under the umbrella of  the Cold War.

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the bay of pigs, cuba, the space race, the 1960s, the berlin wall, the cold war, the cuban missile crisis, nato, the korean war, the marshall plan, the soviet union, the united nations, the vietnam war, the warsaw pact

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bay of pigs, berlin wall, cold war, cuban missile crisis, hippies, korean war, marshall plan, nato, potsdam, space race, united nations, ussr, vietnam war, warsaw pact, yalta, social studies
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8th - 11th
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Social Studies & History
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