Indiana Social Studies IS.1.24
The Standard
Analyze the responses in Indiana resulting from Cold War tensions.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Post-War Indiana: 1945 to 1960
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how Cold War fears shaped decisions in Indiana. They use local examples, such as school air raid drills and Bunker Hill Air Force Base, to connect a fear to a response.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain who took an action, what they did, and what they feared. They can describe a likely effect on Indiana residents without treating a drill as an actual attack.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume that every national Cold War policy was an Indiana law. They may mistake air raid drills for responses to attacks that happened or assume all residents felt the same way.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Indiana schools practiced air raid drills, and Bunker Hill Air Force Base reopened in 1954. Choose one response and explain the fear behind it and one likely effect on Indiana residents.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
On a blank Indiana map, mark Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Miami County and add labels for its military purpose and a possible local effect.
Ask students to write three sentences: Why might an Indiana school practice an air raid drill in 1955, and what could the drill not prevent?
Give pairs cards labeled nuclear attack fears, school drills, Bunker Hill base reopening, and base jobs; sort them into causes, responses, and effects.
Display your county's emergency alert signup page; have students explain how alerts and 1950s school drills prepare people in different ways.
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