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Postwar & Dawn of Cold War Readers Theater Script (Grades 11-12)

Postwar & Dawn of Cold War Readers Theater Script (Grades 11-12)

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Postwar & Dawn of Cold War Readers Theater Script (Grades 11-12)

Transition from victory to rivalry as diplomatic conferences, relief measures, and airlifts shape the early Cold War—alongside domestic reintegration and uneven access to opportunity.

Focus: Students trace how agreements, disagreements, and aid plans set the postwar order.

Summary: Scenes move from Yalta and Potsdam to the GI Bill, Nuremberg, the “Iron Curtain,” the Berlin Airlift, and the UN—linking policy to lived experience.

Script Summary

  • Yalta’s plans and tensions.
  • Truman’s transition message to Congress.
  • Potsdam debates and atomic disclosure.
  • GI Bill benefits and inequities.
  • Nuremberg’s legal reckoning.
  • Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech.
  • Campus conversations on mobility and limits.
  • Berlin blockade and airlift response.
  • Marshall Plan outline and reactions.
  • UN charter and hopes vs. veto power.

What’s Included

(a single PDF with links to Google Docs/Slides, if print format is preferred you can download from your Google Drive to word/pdf/ppt/etc)

  • Readers Theater script (~9 pages, 10 scenes, ~15 characters, editable Google Doc/PDF)
  • Teacher Guide (10 pages) with scene summaries, primary‑source context, CCSS alignment, discussion questions
  • Student Worksheet deck (25 Google Slides) covering vocabulary, short‑answer, analysis & extension tasks
  • 20‑question self‑grading Google Forms quiz

Skills Addressed

  • Analyzing diplomatic texts and postwar legislation.
  • Fluency in position‑taking and synthesis.
  • Collaborative debates on containment and access.
  • Academic vocabulary: containment, reintegration, sovereignty.

The worksheet deepens learning with:

  • 10 text-based comprehension questions
  • 5 higher-order analysis prompts
  • 5 optional research extension questions (use of primary source links)

Primary Sources

  • Yalta agreements (1945)
  • Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill) (1944)
  • Truman’s Address to Congress (1945)

 

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  4. The Holocaust & Genocide in World War II
  5. Tuskegee Airmen and African Americans in WWII
  6. Rosie the Riveter & Social Changes
  7. The Manhattan Project & End of WWII
  8. Postwar & Dawn of Cold War

Standards Alignment

  • CCSS W.11-12.2
  • CCSS SL.11-12.1
  • CCSS SL.11-12.4
  • CCSS L.11-12.4
  • CCSS CCRA.R.2
  • CCSS CCRA.W.2
  • CCSS CCRA.SL.1
  • CCSS CCRA.L.4
  • CCSS RH.11-12.1
  • CCSS RH.11-12.2
  • CCSS RH.11-12.6
  • CCSS RH.11-12.7

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