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COLD WAR PROJECT-COVERT INTELLIGENCE

The Cold War was an integral part of the latter 1940s and the 1950s (it continued until 1989, but our

focus will be from 1945-1960). This was a time of political changes, technological innovations, war (both

hot and cold), significant international events, cultural changes and intrigue.

Youve been selected for a special mission. Your mission is to form a covert group to go back in time and

infiltrate the United States during the Cold War (1945-1960). Your group needs to know all it can about

this time period and so a list of essential intel will be given to you. Youll need to select a crack team

who can find the information, help the team assimilate to the culture that existed and also accomplish

the tasks given to you to demonstrate that your covert group is the best for the job.

Integral members of your group are: a linguist, a weapons specialist, a computer expert, a

mathematician, agents skilled in deception tools (key to ensuring that your team can easily transform

themselves in the time period you may be sent to), musical experts, a cultural affairs specialist, a foreign

affairs specialist, an historian, a political scientist, an economist and a technology expert. This is a big

team and some of you on the team may specialize in one area while some of you may be able to assist in

multiple areas, HOWEVER,the entire team has to work together to pull this off or you will beeliminated.

Sources to help you: your history textbook (chapters 25 and 26), packets that will be in the room (but

cant leave unless you somehow capture the intel, prior knowledge from previous educational

experiences, your own research (which may or may not be given in class), videos that Ill use to brief you

on some areas/events and finally, your own unique abilities and skills.

WARNING:There are other teams whove also been given this task and you all have to impress me

(Code Name-Badger) to win the assignment. There are threats to all of the teamsnuclear attack,

double-agents and covert teams from the other side. You have to guard your team from these threats.

Pre-mission Ops: You have to do the following before the mission:

1. Delegate tasks to team members,

2. Select a mission leader(s) to help your team meet my deadline.

3. All covert teams have must have a team name and each member of the team has to have an alias

you have to do this for the mission.

4. All spies have to be able to pass off their intel without being caught by the other spies or

government agencies not sympathetic to your beliefs. Your final mission will require you to pass the

information to me in a unique scenario with a unique pass system.

5. If you want to get a refresher on spies or cultural aspects to help you better understand the Cold War

(1945-1960) (note the movies may be filmed in years outside the mission parameters, but they still had

to know the intel you are gathering in order to do the film):

Movies:Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Fail Safe, Dr. No,

From Russia with Love, You Only Live Twice, The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film), any of theBourne

films or Mission Impossible films will help you to understand how spies and teams operate, Matt Helm

series starring Dean Martin and the Flint series starring James Coburn

Television shows:The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the Avengers, I Spy, Mission Impossible and Johnny Quest

(cartoon series)

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BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE:The following is information that you must know to help prepare you for

the mission:

-know the philosophies of democracy and communism

-satellite states

-why Potsdam Conference was key

-Churchills Iron Curtain speech

-policies of Truman while president

-key terms/phrases-containment, brinkmanship, massive retaliation, mutually assured destruction

(MAD), Red Scare, Hollywood 10, blacklist

-people-Truman, Stalin, Khrushchev, John Foster Dulles, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, Joseph R. McCarthy,

Margaret Chase Smith and Eisenhower

-organizations-NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, NASA

-government policies-Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower Doctrine, Smith Act and Marshall Plan

-events-Berlin Airlift, Korean War, 1949 nuclear explosion, death of Stalin, 1956 East European uprisings,

Suez Crisis and House Un-American Activities Committee

Cultural aspects-demobilization, GI Bill, baby boom, Dr. Spock, Jonas Salk, Taft-Hartley, Fair Deal,

suburbs, car culture, interstate highway system, sunbelt, migration, service sector employment,

information industries, franchises, multi-national corporations (mnc), AFL-CIO, educational changes,culturism, 1950s family, religious revival, the beat movement, racial issues, poverty for urban and rural,

THE INFLUENCE OF TELEVISON AND ROCK N ROLL

Objectives for the unit:

1. To analyze the different motives of the United States and Soviet Union at the close of World War II

and the start of the Cold War.

2. To analyze the cultural, historical, economic and political factors that propelled the US and the Soviet

Union into the Cold War.

3. To examine atomic diplomacy in the early Cold War years and to determine the extent to which

acquisition of atomic weaponry caused or affected the Cold War.

4. To examine a variety of primary sources and secondary sources and to distinguish betweenunsupported expression of opinion and informed hypotheses grounded in historical evidence.

5. To analyze how popular culture reflected the Cold War.

6. To analyze the use of covert operations during this time period to give one side or the other the

upper hand in the Cold War.

YOU WILL BE GIVEN YOUR MISSION ONCE ALL OF THIS HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHEDGOOD LUCK AND

THIS INTEL MAY SELF-DESTRUCT IN 45 SECONDS.