1950s and 1960s Word Wall Vocabulary Puzzle

Description

Help your students build and retain key vocabulary terms with a visually appealing word wall. This resource includes 47 word wall terms related to the 1950s and the 1960s in the United States, vocabulary review strategies, and a vocabulary (tarsia) review puzzle to support your students’ learning.

The following terms are included – 38th Parallel, Arms Race, Baby Boom, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Berlin Airlift, Brinkmanship, Brown v. the Board of Education, The Children’s March, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Containment, The Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Demilitarized Zone, Domino Theory, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower Doctrine, Emmett Till, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, The Fair Housing Act, Flexible Response, The Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer, GI Bill, The Green Book, Interstate Highway System, Iron Curtain, John F. Kennedy, Levittowns, Lyndon Johnson, March on Washington, Marshall Plan, Martin Luther King, Massive Retaliation, McCarthy Hearings, The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Mutual Assured Destruction, Nikita Khrushchev, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Redlining, Red Scare, Rosa Parks, Potsdam Conference, Segregation, The Suez Canal Crisis, Truman Doctrine, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Warsaw Pact

Included in this resource:

• 47 word wall terms that are specifically correlated with my 1950s and 1960s unit bundle. The definitions are written to access students at the middle school level. (PDF – not editable) (NOTE: I used to include an editable PowerPoint file. I’m not going to anymore because they made the files too big, and were frustrating to buyers. If you purchase this product and you would like the PowerPoint version, please feel free to email me.)
• A Vocabulary Tarsia review puzzle for students to complete cooperatively or as a full class (PowerPoint, PDF and a Google Slides link)
• Strategies for implementation
• The list of vocabulary terms utilized in both resources (PowerPoint, PDF, and a Google Slides link)

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