Primary Sources: Radio Clips

1) Listen to each audio clip carefully

3) How does what the speaker’s saying fit into the bigger picture?

2) Identify the speaker, the date (year), the situation

Clip 1. Neville Chamberlain (September 3, 1938)

Clip 2. Neville Chamberlain (September 3, 1939)

Clip 3. Winston Churchill (May 19, 1940)

Clip 4. Franklin Roosevelt (December 8, 1941)

Clip 5. Harry Truman (August 6, 1945)

European Theater

Pacific Theater

Visualized American History (1952)

Cold War (1945-1960)

1) What is meant by the term “Cold War”?

2) What were the main issues dividing the major powers immediately after WWII?

3) In what ways did Europe recover from the war and deal with post-war problems (political, economic, social, intellectual, etc.)?

Visualized American History (1952)

1) Pick ONE of the post-war problems above & explain it.

2) Explain how the problem you chose is connected to one of the others.

Visualized American History (1952)

Visualized World History (1955)