Download Life in Post WWII America Webquest

LG 19- Life in post-WWII America
As you read and watch each of the links below, fill in your worksheet on life in post-WWII America. This
worksheet will be submitted on Edmodo
Living in America During the Cold War
Link 1: Take a tour of a Nebraska Fallout Shelter
Link 2: Listen to the Iron Curtain Speech
Churchill Sinews of Peace (Iron Curtain).mp4
TV and Rock n Roll
Link 3: Television
Link 4:
Link 5:
Comes to America
TV 1950s.mp4
1950s_1960s TV Commercials (Part 1).mp4
Link 6:
Link 7:
Music 1950s Part 1 (1).mp4
Music 1950s Part 2 (2).mp4
Fashion and Homes
Link 8: Fashion, Fads, and Trends of the 1950s
Link 9: Levittown Part 1
Link 10: Levittown Part 2
Page 2 on the next page
We didn’t start the fire
Link 11:
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire (lyrics and history).mp4
As you watch the video, choose five (5) items from the song about life in post-WWII America.
These items could be people or events associated with the post-WWII America. It will help if
you watch the video the whole way through, then play it again stopping it at specific points to
find your five items. Use the internet to research each item. After you have chosen your five
items, complete a Window Notes page for each one. See the Window Notes format below.
We didn’t start the fire: WINDOW NOTES
Topic:
___________________________________________________________________________________
Key Vocabulary:
Facts, Details, and Ideas:
-Words that I need to know
about this event or person.
-Important information about
this event or person.
-Give the Word and meaning
-Bullet form
Question:
Summary:
-Give one question you have
about the event or person.
-Summarize the event or person
in 15 – 20 words.
-What do you want to know?