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Take 5 minutes to study the Cold War Warm-Up Quiz from 4/20-21 and then go to Edmodo to take the quiz. You have 45 minutes on this one!

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Edmodo is an easy way to get your students connected so they can safely collaborate, get and stay organized, and access assignments, grades, and school messages.

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Copy the attached diagram into your Warm-Up Section:

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Go to Edmodo and take the Warm-Up Quiz on the Pre-Watch Video

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Edmodo is an easy way to get your students connected so they can safely collaborate, get and stay organized, and access assignments, grades, and school messages.

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Day 2- PBS: When National Security Trumped Ethics

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Day 2- PBS: When National Security Trumped Ethics

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Annie Jacobsen. (Little, Brown & Company, 2014) 575 pp., endnotes, bibliography, index.
Reviewed by Jay Watkins
As World War II ended, the race was on with the Soviet Union to seize as many German scientists as possible in anticipation of the Cold War. The full story has remained elusive until now. Operation Paperclip, by Annie Jacobsen, provides perhaps the most comprehensive, up-to-date narrative available to the general public. Her book is a detailed and highly readable account of the program. Jacobsen compiled extensive primary and secondary sources, duly annotated in over 100 pages of notes and bibliography. In it are many new sources, among them US government records (President Clinton's "Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act"), German archival records, first-person accounts, memoirs, and letters. The book also contains a useful index and biographies of the principal players.

Jacobsen offers a detailed chronology of events related to Operation Paperclip. Because of its scope and the introduction of so many characters, the narrative could have been improved if the author had focused on a shorter list than the 89 individuals profiled and maintained more topical continuity. Nevertheless, the book is a compelling work with interesting historical and personal revelations, for example:

One of the most notorious cases of WMD proliferation occurred on 15 May 1945, when the German U-234 submarine, bound for Japan, was captured off Newfoundland by the USS Sutton. The U-boat carried Dr. Heinz Schlicke, Director of Naval Test Fields at Kiel, and the cargo included plans for the Hs293 glider bomb, V-1 glide bomb (forerunner to cruise missiles), V-2 rocket (forerunner to the SCUD missile), Me262 fighter aircraft (the first combat jet fighter), low observable submarine designs, and lead-lined boxes filled with 1,200 lbs. of uranium oxide, a key ingredient of atomic bombs. Schlicke, who claimed to be an electronic warfare expert, became a prisoner at Ft. Meade, MD.

Sarin was produced at Dyhernfurth (Dyhernfurth later fell into Russian hands). Its name derives from the initials of its developers: Gerhard Schrader and Otto Ambros from the infamous IG Farben chemical company-maker of the killing gases used at concentration camps-and from the names of two German Army officers.

Schrader tells the story of inventing "tabun," a nerve agent named after the English word "taboo." The Germans called it 9/91 and, after their defeat at Stalingrad, seriously considered using it on the Russians.

Henry Wallace, former vice president and secretary of commerce, believed the scientists' ideas could launch new civilian industries and produce jobs. Indeed, German scientists developed synthetic rubber (used in automobile tires), non-running hosiery, the ear thermometer, electromagnetic tape, and miniaturized electrical components, to name a few.

Werner von Braun is well known to those who remember the Apollo moon landing. During the Ford administration, von Braun was almost awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom-until one of Ford's senior advisors, David Gergen, objected to his Nazi past.

Less well known is that another 120 fellow German scientists, engineers, and technicians developed the Saturn V launch vehicle, or that the Launch Operations Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was headed by Kurt Debus, an ardent Nazi. The Vertical Assembly Building-bigger in volume than the Pentagon and almost as tall as the Washington Monument-was designed by Bernhard Tessmann, former facilities designer at the German missile launch facility at Peenemuende.

Other prominent Nazis hired under Operation Paperclip included:

Dr. Hubertus Strughold, who played an important role in space medicine by developing space suits and other life-support systems. In June 1948, he put a rhesus monkey named Albert in the pressurized nosecone of a V-2 rocket in a pressurized nose cone, the first step in the effort to send humans to space.

General Reinhard Gehlen, former head of Nazi intelligence operations against the Soviets, was hired by the US Army and later by the CIA to operate 600 ex-Nazi agents in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany. In 1948, CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter assumed control of the so-called Gehlen Organization.

German biologist Dr. Kurt Blome was hired to develop offensive and defensive capabilities to counter Soviet biological warfare activities.

In 1949, the CIA created the Office of Scientific Intelligence. Its first director, Dr. Willard Machle, traveled to Germany to set up a special program to interrogate Soviet spies. The CIA believed the Russians had developed mind-control programs and wanted to know how US spies would hold up against this capability if caught. He also aimed to explore the feasibility of creating a "Manchurian candidate" through behavioral modification. Thus, Operation Bluebird was born. Bluebird, later called MKULTRA, was a research activity experimenting in behavioral engineering of humans. The Nuremberg Code prohibits experimentation with humans without their consent. During this program, Dr. Frank Olson, a US Army biological weapons researcher, was given the drug LSD without his knowledge, leading to his death by leaping from a building. DCI Richard Helms ordered much of the documentation destroyed, and the circumstances of his demise remain controversial to this day.

Although she understandably questions the morality of the decision to hire Nazi SS scientists, Jacobsen balances her judgment with an understanding of the perceived threat of the Soviet Union under Stalin and the communists' dialectical determination to prepare for total war with the West. The Soviets similarly captured and used German scientists for their own defense programs. That side of the story is not covered in this book.

Jacobsen provides insights on joint intelligence coordination and cooperation among US services and Allies; operational deconfliction; document and foreign materiel acquisition and exploitation; interrogation techniques; active tracking; production of foreign intelligence; surveillance and countersurveillance methods; and negotiating the sometimes conflicting objectives of the judiciary and the Intelligence Community (i.e., "hang them" vs. "hire them!").
All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed in this journal are those of the authors. Nothing in any of the articles should be construed as asserting or implying US government endorsement of their factual statements and interpretations. Articles by non-US government employees are copyrighted.

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Annie Jacobsen. (Little, Brown & Company, 2014) 575 pp., endnotes, bibliography, index. Reviewed by Jay Watkins As World War II ended, the race was on with the Soviet Union to seize as many German scientists as possible in anticipation of the Cold War. The full story has remained elusive until now.

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Go to the class discussion board and post a response to today's question!

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Day 2: Operation Paperclip & the Cold War

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Day 2: Operation Paperclip & the Cold War

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1. Why was the U.S. recruiting Nazis?

2. Why was gaining the upper hand over the Soviets considered so important?

3. What types of technology was the U.S. trying  to control?

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Operation Paperclip: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists

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by Leopold and Adam Hello everybody. This documentary was our submission to the 2008 National History Day competition. We wanted to know what you all think. If you like it, tell us. If you don't, tell us just the same. Due to technical issues, Adam and I created two separate versions of the project.

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Day 2 - The Origins of the Cold War Discussion

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Day 2 - The Origins of the Cold War Discussion

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1. What are the origins of the Cold War?

2. Who were Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower?

How were their approaches and goals different?

3. What is a superpower and who were the two superpowers?

4. Make a Venn diagram to compare & contrast the goals and ideologies of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Include both the Democratic/Capitalist system (United States) and the Dictatorial/Communist (the Soviet Union) system.

5. Where did the state of tension between the U.S. & the U.S.S.R. come from and how did it occur without actual fighting?

6. How did this tension divide the world into two camps?

7. Describe the Soviet Union’s domination over Eastern European countries.

8. Explain the American policy of containment (to stop the spread of communism).

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The Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted for decades and resulted in anti-communist suspicions and international incidents that led the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear disaster.

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Copy the attached diagram into your Warm-Up sections.

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Discussion Board: Atomic Age Debate (4/20-24)

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Discussion Board: Atomic Age Debate (4/20-24)

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Go to the discussion board and follow these instructions:

1. Read both posted questions carefully.

2. Choose which question that best aligns with your stance for the debate.

3. Respond fully to the question that you have chosen for the debate.

4. Open the question for the opposite side and comment on 5 (five) of your classmates' posts.

5. REMEMBER TO FOLLOW THE NETIQUETTE GUIDELINES!!

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The Cold War: Crash Course US History #37

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Students will be able to

Explain the origins of the Cold War

Describe the differences in goals and ideologies between the United States and the Soviet Union (the two superpowers).

Describe the state of tension between the U.S. & the U.S.S.R. that occurred without actual fighting

Explain how this tension divided the world into two camps.

Compare & Contrast the Democratic and Capitalist system (United States) and the Dictatorial and Communist (the Soviet Union).

Describe the Soviet Union’s domination over Eastern European countries

Explain the American policy of containment (to stop the spread of communism)

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The Medical Effects of the Nagasaki Atomic Bombing

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An atomic bomb exploded over the Urakami district of Nagasaki at 11:02 a. m., August 9, 1945．A half a century has passed since that second nuclear calamity in human history, but the end of the nuclear age remains stubbornly out of sight.

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Day 1: Day 1: Do Bombs & Morality Mix? Part 1

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Day 1: Day 1: Do Bombs & Morality Mix? Part 1

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University of Portsmouth, in collaboration with the National Archives and funded by JISC.

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Explore the London Blitz through our website. Discover London during WW2 bombing raids, exploring maps, images and memories. The Bomb Sight web map and mobile app reveals WW2 bomb census maps between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941, previously available only by viewing them in the Reading Room of The National Archives.

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The animation was created by the Imperial War Museum to mark the re-opening of the American Air Museum

It shows the progress of the Allied strategic bombing campaign against the Germans from 1939 to 1945

The map is designed to highlight way the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces worked together

Bombing was essential to win the war for the Allies but has been criticised for killing thousands of civilians

The progress of the Allied bombing campaign which helped to win the Second World War has been graphically illustrated in an extraordinary animation.

The map pinpoints the exact location of every bombing raid by either the Royal Air Force or the United States Army Air Forces from the start of the conflict in 1939 until its end six years later.

It vividly demonstrates the importance of the 1.6million tonnes of explosive deployed against the Nazis and their allies - and the way Britain and America collaborated in the war.

The animation was created by researchers from the Imperial War Museum in order to mark the re-opening of the American Air Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

It is the first time the full extent of the Allies' strategic bombing campaign against Hitler has been documented in this graphic format.

The video shows how in the early years of the war bombing raids were deployed relatively seldom, becoming more important as the conflict went on.

The US joined the war in December 1941, and from then on the RAF and the USAAF worked together to defeat the Axis threat in Europe.

The IWM graphic depicts RAF raids in blue and USAAF ones in red, demonstrating how the burden which was initially shouldered by Britain became increasingly shared by both air forces.

More than 80 per cent of bombing raids took place in the final 18 months of the war as the Allies advanced against Germany, recapturing France and then moving eastwards towards Hitler's capital of Berlin.

A sudden flurry of bombs can be seen in the map in June 1944 - marking D-Day, when the air forces worked to support ground troops who landed on the beaches of Normandy in the action which decisively turned the tide of the war.

The bombing campaign is often credited with winning the Second World War for the Allies - but the tactics were also controversial because they led to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, with British commander 'Bomber' Harris eschewing precision targeting in favour of area bombing

AIR CAMPAIGN THAT WON THE WAR

The animation project was spearheaded by researcher Emily Charles, who pored over RAF and USAAF records to chronicle every single Second World War raid.

She told MailOnline that existing books which describe the raids often fail to give their exact targets, so she had to go back to the original documents to rediscover details of the missions.

Describing how the bombing raids ended up affecting most of Western Europe, she added: 'You look at the map and there's not much that's not covered in colour.'

The animation chronicles how the bombing started in France, spreading east towards the Netherlands and Germany before pausing in 1944 as the Allies prepared for D-Day, and then returning with a vengeance and sweeping in to Hitler's heartland.

An interactive version of the video as well as other animations will be available to visitors at the American Air Museum once it reopens on Saturday.

The museum, part of IWM Duxford, tells the story of collaboration between Britain and the US from 1918 until the present day.

Among its other displays are aircraft used in the Gulf War and in the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as older planes from the Second World War.

Around 30,000 US airmen were killed while serving in Europe during the war against Hitler.

Diane Lees, director-general of IWM, said: 'The transformed American Air Museum will tell the story of the relationship between Britain and America in very human terms.

'Personal stories come to the fore, vividly demonstrating the consequences of war in the 20th and 21st centuries.'

Find out more about the American Air Museum at www.americanairmuseum.com - you can also contribute your own stories to be added to the website.

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Animation shows every bomb dropped by Allies during Second World War

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The animation was created by the Imperial War Museum to mark the re-opening of the American Air Museum It shows the progress of the Allied strategic bombing campaign against the Germans from 1939 to 1945 The map is designed to highlight way the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces worked together Bombing was essential to win the war for the Allies but has been criticised for killing thousands of civilians The progress of the Allied bombing campaign which helped to win the Second World War has been graphically illustrated in an extraordinary animation.

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Day 1: Atomic Bombs Debate Preparation Document

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Day 1: Atomic Bombs Debate Preparation Document

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If you have not already filled out your online debate prep sheet, go ahead and work on this during the discussion on the only use of atomic bombs in the history of warfare. If you need to alter yours during the discussion, feel free to change your position by adding new facts to back up what you have to say.