Cold War 1945-91 Deep + Globalization + Internet + Climate Change — 9/11 + COVID-19 + Greta Thunberg — TRAUMA-INFORMED for Cold War + 9/11 + COVID

MG-15 ACTIVE for Cold War + 9/11 + COVID content. Display MG-20 + MG-25 posters. Read aloud Greta Thunberg UN Sept 23 2019: 'How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.'

• Activate MG-15 PROTOCOL
• Display MG-20 + MG-25
• Recite TWELVE PROMISES

M-8-S-HIS-18-A Diagram

Caregiver letter week 18; sensory-quiet space; MG-15 active for Cold War nuclear + 9/11 + COVID content.

MG-15 Diagram

MG-15 TRAUMA-INFORMED PROTOCOL card (8.5x11 laminated double-sided at every table + teacher desk) — caregiver letter in advance + Compassion Circle close + alternative-assignment options + sensory-quiet space + opt-out without penalty + n-word substituted + 'incarceration' not 'internment' + 'enslaved person' not 'slave' + 'cultural genocide' named + NO graphic imagery; explicit list of Lessons with MG-15 active: 4 (WWI), 9 (Japanese American incarceration), 10 (Holocaust), 11 (Hiroshima), 12 (Tulsa 1921 + Emmett Till + lynching), 13 (Vietnam War), 17 (decolonial violence + apartheid), 18 (9/11 + ongoing); USC Shoah Foundation + Yad Vashem + Hiroshima Peace Memorial + Densho + EJI + Truth & Reconciliation South Africa survivor-voice protocols cited.

Today covers Cold War 1945-91 + 21st-century preview. COLD WAR — IRON CURTAIN Churchill March 5 1946 Fulton MO; CONTAINMENT George Kennan 'Long Telegram' Feb 22 1946 + 'X Article' July 1947 Foreign Affairs; TRUMAN DOCTRINE March 12 1947 (aid to Greece + Turkey); MARSHALL PLAN ECA Economic Cooperation Administration April 3 1948 ~$13B 1948 dollars (~$170B 2024); BERLIN AIRLIFT June 24 1948 – May 12 1949 ~277,000 flights ~2.3M tons; NATO April 4 1949 12 founding members; Soviet atomic bomb Joe-1 Aug 29 1949; PRC OCT 1 1949 MAO ZEDONG declared People's Republic of China; KOREAN WAR June 25 1950 – armistice July 27 1953 ~3M Korean civilian deaths per Cumings + ~37,000 US dead + ~600,000 Chinese; MacArthur recalled by Truman April 11 1951; division at 38th parallel persists; MCCARTHYISM 1950-54 Sen. Joseph McCarthy + HUAC House Un-American Activities Committee + Hollywood Ten 1947 + Hiss-Chambers 1948 + Rosenberg execution June 19 1953; Edward R. Murrow CBS See It Now March 9 1954; Army-McCarthy hearings April-June 1954 + Joseph Welch 'Have you no sense of decency?'; McCarthy censured Dec 2 1954; WARSAW PACT May 14 1955; KHRUSHCHEV Secret Speech Feb 25 1956 (de-Stalinization); HUNGARIAN UPRISING Oct 23 – Nov 10 1956 Soviet invasion crushed; SPUTNIK Oct 4 1957 + National Defense Education Act Sept 2 1958 + NASA July 29 1958; U-2 SHOOTDOWN May 1 1960 Gary Powers; BAY OF PIGS April 17-19 1961 (CIA Cuban exile failed invasion); BERLIN WALL Aug 13 1961; CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Oct 16-28 1962 — Kennedy + Khrushchev + Castro 13-day standoff after U-2 found Soviet IRBMs in Cuba; Kennedy Address Oct 22 1962; Adlai Stevenson UN Oct 25 1962 'Don't wait for the translation'; Khrushchev letter Oct 26 personal + Oct 27 demand for Turkey Jupiter missiles removal; secret Bobby Kennedy-Dobrynin agreement Oct 27 evening; resolution Oct 28; closest to nuclear war in human history per Allison 1971 + Dobbs 2008; KENNEDY ASSASSINATED Nov 22 1963 Dallas Lee Harvey Oswald (Warren Commission 1964 single-gunman conclusion + ongoing scholarly debate); GULF OF TONKIN Aug 1964 + Vietnam War Lesson 13; TET 1968 Lesson 13; APOLLO 11 July 20 1969 (Neil Armstrong + Buzz Aldrin + Michael Collins); PRAGUE SPRING Jan-Aug 1968 Soviet invasion Aug 20-21 1968; DÉTENTE Nixon-Kissinger SALT I May 26 1972 + Nixon China Feb 21-28 1972; HELSINKI ACCORDS Aug 1 1975 (human-rights provisions later used by Soviet dissidents); SOLIDARITY Poland founded Sept 17 1980 LECH WAŁĘSA Gdansk shipyard strikers + martial law Dec 13 1981; SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR Dec 24 1979 – Feb 15 1989 ~15,000 Soviet dead + ~1-2M Afghan; mujahideen US-supported; al-Qaeda emerged from this context; REAGAN 'evil empire' March 8 1983 + Strategic Defense Initiative March 23 1983; KAL 007 Sept 1 1983; Able Archer Nov 1983; GORBACHEV PERESTROIKA + GLASNOST 1985+; REYKJAVIK SUMMIT Oct 11-12 1986; INF TREATY Dec 8 1987; CHERNOBYL April 26 1986; REAGAN 'TEAR DOWN THIS WALL' June 12 1987 Brandenburg Gate; FALL OF BERLIN WALL Nov 9 1989; ROMANIAN REVOLUTION Dec 1989 (Ceaușescu); GERMAN REUNIFICATION Oct 3 1990; SOVIET COUP ATTEMPT Aug 19-22 1991 + USSR DISSOLUTION Dec 25-26 1991 (Yeltsin + 12 republics + CIS). 21ST-CENTURY PREVIEW: GLOBALIZATION — Bretton Woods 1944 + IMF + World Bank + GATT 1947; NAFTA Jan 1 1994 (Clinton signed Dec 8 1993); WTO Jan 1 1995 (replaced GATT); EU enlargement (Maastricht 1992 + Euro 1999/2002 + 2004 enlargement 10 nations + Brexit June 23 2016); CHINA WTO accession Dec 11 2001; 2008 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS Sept 15 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy + TARP Oct 3 2008 + Great Recession; INTERNET — ARPANET Oct 29 1969 first message; TIM BERNERS-LEE WWW 1989 CERN; Mosaic 1993; Netscape 1994; Google Sept 4 1998; iPHONE June 29 2007; FACEBOOK Feb 4 2004; TWITTER March 21 2006; TIKTOK 2016; AI Large Language Models 2022+; concerns: surveillance + misinformation + algorithmic bias + digital divide + content moderation. 9/11 Sept 11 2001 (~2,977 dead Pentagon + WTC NYC + Flight 93 PA; al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden); PATRIOT ACT Oct 26 2001; AFGHANISTAN War Oct 7 2001 – Aug 30 2021 (~176,000+ deaths per Watson Institute Costs of War); IRAQ War March 19 2003 – Dec 18 2011 (~209,000-655,000 deaths per Watson Institute + Lancet 2006 + WMD assertions later debunked); GUANTÁNAMO Bay detention 2002+; ARAB SPRING Dec 17 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolation Tunisia + Egypt Jan 25 2011 + Syria Civil War 2011+; OCCUPY WALL STREET Sept 17 2011 'we are the 99 percent'; BLACK LIVES MATTER 2013+ Trayvon Martin verdict July 13 2013 (Alicia Garza + Patrisse Cullors + Opal Tometi); #METOO 2017 (Tarana Burke 2006 + viral Oct 15 2017 Alyssa Milano + Harvey Weinstein); STANDING ROCK Sioux Reservation Dakota Access Pipeline April 1 2016 – Feb 23 2017 (Water Protectors LaDonna Brave Bull Allard); Charleston AME Church June 17 2015; Charlottesville Aug 11-12 2017 Heather Heyer; Pittsburgh Tree of Life Oct 27 2018; Buffalo Tops May 14 2022; Atlanta spa shootings March 16 2021; Monterey Park Jan 21 2023. CLIMATE CHANGE — Keeling Curve Charles David Keeling Mauna Loa CO2 measurements since March 1958; IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change formed Nov 1988; UNFCCC Rio Earth Summit June 1992; KYOTO PROTOCOL Dec 11 1997 (US Senate Byrd-Hagel Resolution unanimous 95-0 against ratification); PARIS ACCORD Dec 12 2015 (~195 signatories; Trump withdrew June 1 2017 + Biden re-entered Jan 20 2021; Trump 2025 withdrew again); IPCC AR6 2021-23 (~1.1-1.2°C global warming above pre-industrial baseline + likely 1.5°C threshold 2025-2030s without rapid emissions reductions); GRETA THUNBERG Skolstrejk för klimatet Aug 20 2018 + UN Climate Action Summit Sept 23 2019 'How dare you?'; Sunrise Movement 2017; Fridays for Future; Indigenous climate leadership Standing Rock + LandBack. COVID-19 Jan 2020 – present ~7M deaths globally per WHO 2024 + ~1.2M US + ongoing long-COVID + vaccine inequity Global South + global supply-chain disruptions; trauma-informed for students who have lost family. K-8 LEAVES STUDENTS EQUIPPED to evaluate sources + name silences + center own-voice + take civic action.

• One vote.

  model Per Allison 1971 Essence of Decision + Dobbs 2008 One Minute to Midnight: secret Bobby Kennedy-Dobrynin Oct 27 evening agreement (Turkey Jupiter missiles removed secretly) prevented escalation. Soviet submarine B-59 came within 1 vote of launching nuclear torpedo Oct 27 1962 (Vasily Arkhipov refused). Per Q11 MULTI-PERSPECTIVE Kennedy + Khrushchev + Castro all had limited information. Per Q12: 9 nuclear states + ~12,500 warheads today.

  prompt Why Cuban Missile Crisis was 'closest to nuclear war in history'?
• Youth voice.

  model School strikes for climate Aug 20 2018; UN Sept 23 2019 'How dare you?' Mobilized 6M global youth Sept 20 2019; refused symbolic-only diplomacy; named intergenerational injustice. Per MG-14g extended into 21st century climate + Q12 PRESENT-CONNECTION.

  prompt Why Greta Thunberg matters?

• Date Cuban Missile Crisis + Berlin Wall + USSR dissolution.
• Date Paris Accord + 9/11.
• Quote 1 line from Thunberg 2019.

M-8-S-HIS-18-B Chart

36x48 timeline + world map; Iron Curtain 1946 + Marshall Plan 1948 + Berlin Airlift 1948-49 + NATO 1949 + Korean War 1950-53 + Hungarian Uprising 1956 + Sputnik 1957 + Bay of Pigs 1961 + Berlin Wall 1961-89 + Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 1962 + Vietnam War + détente 1972 + Soviet-Afghan 1979-89 + Reagan-Gorbachev Reykjavik 1986 INF 1987 + fall Berlin Wall Nov 9 1989 + USSR dissolution Dec 1991; nuclear arms race + MAD + 9 nuclear states today.

MG-20 Chart

MG-20 COLD WAR 1945-91 poster — 36x48; world map + timeline; Iron Curtain Churchill Mar 5 1946 Fulton MO; Truman Doctrine March 12 1947; Marshall Plan April 3 1948; Berlin Airlift June 24 1948 – May 12 1949; NATO April 4 1949; Soviet atomic bomb Aug 29 1949; PRC Oct 1 1949 Mao; Korean War June 25 1950 – armistice July 27 1953 ~3M Korean civilian deaths per Cumings + ~37,000 US dead; Warsaw Pact May 14 1955; Hungarian Uprising Oct-Nov 1956; Sputnik Oct 4 1957; U-2 1960; Bay of Pigs Apr 17-19 1961; Berlin Wall Aug 13 1961 – fall Nov 9 1989; Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 16-28 1962; Vietnam War (separate MG); Tet Offensive Jan 30 1968; Apollo 11 July 20 1969; détente 1972 SALT I; Helsinki Accords 1975; Soviet-Afghan War 1979-89; Solidarity Poland 1980; Reagan-Gorbachev Reykjavik 1986 INF Treaty 1987; fall of Berlin Wall Nov 9 1989; USSR dissolution Dec 25-26 1991. CENTERED: nuclear arms race + MAD doctrine + nuclear-bomb-test ban + START + ongoing nuclear-weapon-state count today (9 states ~12,500 warheads per FAS 2024).

M-8-S-HIS-18-C Chart

24x36 3-panel poster: LEFT globalization (NAFTA 1994 + WTO 1995 + EU + 2008 GFC + supply chains); MIDDLE Internet (ARPANET 1969 + WWW 1989 + Mosaic 1993 + Google 1998 + iPhone 2007 + Facebook + Twitter + TikTok + AI 2022+); RIGHT climate (Keeling Curve 1958+ + IPCC 1988 + UNFCCC 1992 + Kyoto 1997 + Paris Dec 12 2015 + Thunberg 2018+ + IPCC AR6 2021-23 + Sunrise + Indigenous Standing Rock); previews high school study.

MG-25 Map

MG-25 GLOBALIZATION + INTERNET + CLIMATE preview poster (24x36) — for Lesson 18; left panel globalization (NAFTA 1994 + WTO 1995 + EU enlargement + BRICS 2009 + supply-chain map + offshoring + 2008 Global Financial Crisis); middle panel Internet (ARPANET 1969 + Tim Berners-Lee WWW 1989 + Mosaic 1993 + Google 1998 + iPhone 2007 + Facebook 2004 + Twitter 2006 + TikTok 2016 + social-media + misinformation + digital divide); right panel climate (Keeling Curve Mauna Loa 1958-present + IPCC formed 1988 + UNFCCC 1992 + Kyoto Protocol 1997 + Paris Accord Dec 12 2015 195 signatories + Greta Thunberg 2018 climate strikes + IPCC AR6 2021-23 + Sunrise Movement + Indigenous climate leadership Standing Rock + LandBack); centered: this previews high school study; G8 leaves students equipped.

M-8-S-HIS-18-D Photograph

Composite: Greta Thunberg UN Climate Action Summit Sept 23 2019 'How dare you?' + Standing Rock Sioux Water Protectors April 2016 – Feb 2017 LaDonna Brave Bull Allard + BLM 2013+ + #MeToo 2017 + Tahrir Square Egypt Jan 25 2011 + Occupy Wall Street Sept 17 2011; caption naming each + ongoing civil-society resistance.

• Pairs: assigned 1 of 4 topics (Cold War / globalization / Internet / climate); produce 3-min present-out + Q11 + Q12.

  scaffold Topic-specific source packet
• VNPS: scatterplot CO2 ppm Mauna Loa 1958-2024 (link to G8-Spring math.g8.s.ds.bivariate_data_analysis) + global temperature anomaly 1880-2024; identify trend.

  scaffold Pre-printed data table

• Date Berlin Wall fall.
• Date Paris Accord.
• Quote 1 line from Thunberg OR Standing Rock.

• Add 1 sticky to MG-6
• Preview Lesson 19: How a Bill Becomes a Law mock-Congress

• Watch Thunberg UN Sept 23 2019 (4 min) + write 1 paragraph applying MG-7 Q3 + Q10 + Q12.