oral+history+reflection

I have always been very interested in the Cold War because it went on for such a long time and it was the biggest war near when I was born. During the Cold War unit in history clase I was very interested in the different proxy wars and reasons why the war started. I thought that I had a fairly good understanding on the whole war but I did more research and found even more details. I then came up with a set of questions that were important to the Cold War and interesting to me. I chose my grandpa for this project because he always tells me stories of what life was like in the past. I also chose him because I knew that he lived in Germany during parts of the Cold War so he would have a differnet perspective of the war. He full described what it was like there and the things that he saw. My grandpa and family is very conected to Germany in that time because my mom was born there. My grandpa was a strong patriot and always supported the US and them winning battles. I think that my grandpa was a great choice to interview and he had a very interesting perspective on the Cold War.