Objective: Students will map the nations of NATO and learn a greeting from each country.

Resources/Materials: Atlas, oral input on languages from teacher, blank map, red, blue & green crayons

Summary of lesson: Part I - Students will receive the background information on NATO, an atlas and a blank world map. Using an atlas for reference, the students will color the original 1949 countries in red, the 1952 additions in green and the 1990 additions in blue. Part II - Using information presented by the teacher, the students will write down a greeting in the following languages:

Background Information: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), regional defense alliance, created by the North Atlantic Treaty that was singed on April 4, 1949. The original signatories were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the United States. Greece and Turkey were admitted to the alliance in 1952, West Germany in 1955, and Spain in 1982. NATO's purpose is to enhance the stability, well-being, and freedom of its members by means of a system of collective security. In 1990 the newly unified Germany replaced West Germany as a NATO member. In the years after World War II (1939-1945), many Western leaders saw the policies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as threatening to stability and peace. The forcible installation of Communist governments throughout Eastern Europe, territorial demands by the Soviets, and their support of guerrilla war in Greece appeared to many as the first steps of World War III.

Evaluation: 1) completion of color-coded map 2) oral recognition of various international greetings in choral response