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This is part 6 in an 8 part unit study on Russia. Design and launch various types of rockets, dramatize the Berlin Airlift and the Chocolate Pilot, prepare and eat blini, and more while learning about the Cold War and the Arms Race. Also included are our favorite books, YouTube video clips, lapbook and activity links, and other resources we used as we studied the Cold War and Arms Race using the fun unit study book Russia: Land of Endurance by Konos Curriculum. Use these ideas with your class, family, or homeschool co-op group!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Included in this lens you’ll find some of the activities we did along with our favorite books we read and YouTube clips we watched while we studied The Cold War & the Arms Race. Topics featured include World War II, the Spread of Communism, the Iron Curtain, the Korean War, the Arms Race, and Blini.<\/p>\n

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World War II<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Locating the countries Germany invaded<\/p>\n

Our Favorite Books on World War II<\/h2>\n

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World War II & the Cold War: 1940-1960- Graphic U.S. History (Saddleback Graphic: U.S. History) by Saddleback Educational Publishing – Book images are from amazon.com.<\/p>\n

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More great picture books on WWII<\/h2>\n

We tried to only give a brief overview of World War II. These three books were my children’s top choices of the ones we read. World War II & the Cold War: 1940-1960- Graphic U.S. History (Saddleback Graphic: U.S. History) by Saddleback Educational Publishing is a good graphic book (comic-book style) covering WWII and the Cold War. My boys especially LOVE any graphic illustrated books they can find, and I love that they actually learn from them! World War 2 Tales (Chester the Crab’s Comix With Content) by Bentley Boyd looks like a comic book but actually teaches quite a bit. This focuses on World War II. You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Secret Agent During World War II!: A Perilous Mission Behind Enemy Lines by John Malam is part of the fun “You Wouldn’t Want to…” series. It talks about a British soldier’s mission into German-occupied France. It doesn’t focus on Russia but does a good job of covering what agents did during the war. My children loved this one!<\/p>\n

YouTube Clip We Enjoyed on WWII<\/h2>\n

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The Spread of Communism, The Iron Curtain, & The Korean War<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Domino Theory<\/p>\n

My children did take turns trying to stop the dominoes from falling once the first domino was knocked down. They were never successful.<\/p>\n

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Berlin Airlift & the Chocolate Pilot: They made parachutes for chocolate, climbed a tree, & dropped them on “the children of West Berlin.”<\/p>\n

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Our Favorite Picture Books on the Berlin Airlift, the Iron Curtain, & the Korean War<\/h2>\n

YouTube Clips on the Red Curtain, Marshall Plan, Berlin, & the Korean War<\/h2>\n

We only watched parts of the videos on the Red Curtain, Marshall Plan, Berlin, & the Korean War. Some of them have been taken down since we watched them. We really enjoyed the ones by The History Channel such as Declassified Rise And Fall Of The Wall and Communism.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Marshall Plan Explained: US History Review<\/h2>\n

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Arms Race<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Building up “arms” (collecting acorns) in an arms race<\/p>\n

(The purple team won.)<\/p>\n

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School Bomb Drill<\/p>\n

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Good YouTube Clips on the Arms Race<\/h2>\n

We also watched all of the video “Sputnik” as it includes both the atomic bomb and the Space Race (which we’ll be learning about next).<\/p>\n

The Doomsday Clock is Ticking! – THE COLD WAR Arms Race<\/h2>\n

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Blini<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Making blini (Russian pancakes) for lunch<\/p>\n

We used this recipes from food.com<\/a> and served them with berry preserves<\/p>\n

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Painting a Russian Orthodox triptych from Lesson 1: Russian Geography and Early Russian History Lesson<\/p>\n

Cook borscht and blini, study and paint like the famous artists of Russia, perform a miniature “Nutcracker” ballet performance, dramatize a Communist lunch (complete with sentencing to “Siberia” for the non-compliant), and more in the fun 8 part study on Russia!<\/p>\n