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Unit 8 Objectives:
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Vocabulary
1. Cold War, Communism,
Capitalism
2. NATO, Warsaw Pact, Iron
Curtain
3. Satellite States, Soviet Union
4. Marshall Plan, Truman
Doctrine
5. Domino Theory, Containment
6. Korean War, Douglass
MacArthur, DMZ, 38th Parallel
7. Joseph McCarthy,
McCarthyism
8. Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro
9. Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile
Crisis
10. John F. Kennedy, Nikita
Khrushchev
11. Vietnam War, Tet Offensive,
17th Parallel
USH20 Analyze the domestic and international impact of the Cold
War on the United States.
a. Describe the creation of the Marshall Plan, U.S. commitment to
Europe, the Truman Doctrine, and the origins and implications
of the containment policy.
b. Explain the impact of the new communist regime in China and
the outbreak of the Korean War and how these events
contributed to the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
c. Describe the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs, and the Cuban
missile crisis.
d. Describe the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive, and growing
opposition to the war.
e. Explain the role of geography on the U.S. containment policy,
the Korean War, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, and
the Vietnam War.
USH21 Explain the impact of technological development and
economic growth on the United States, 1945-1975.
12. Baby boom, Levittown
a. Describe the baby boom and its impact as shown by Levittown
and the Interstate Highway Act.
13. Interstate Highway Act,
Dwight Eisenhower
b. Describe the impact television has had on American culture;
include the presidential debates (Kennedy/Nixon, 1960)
14. Election of 1960, television
c. Analyze the impact of technology on American life; include the
development of the personal computer and the expanded use
of air conditioning.
15. Sputnik I, Space Race
d. Describe the impact of competition with the USSR as evidenced
by the launch of Sputnik I and President Eisenhower’s actions.
USHS 20: Analyze the domestic and international impact of the Cold War on the U.S.
A. Describe the creation of the Marshall Plan, US commitment to Europe, the Truman Doctrine,
and the origins and implications of the containment policy (850, 848).
1. What is the Truman Doctrine?
2. What events caused President Truman to propose the Truman Doctrine?
3. Which nations were the first to be aided through the Truman Doctrine?
4. What is containment?
5. Why did the government believe containment would work?
6. What was the goal of the Marshall Plan?
7. What part of the world was it designed to aid?
8. Why was the Marshall Plan important in post-war Europe?
B. Explain the impact of the new communist regime in China, the outbreak of the Korean War,
and how these events contributed to the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy (854, 855-857, 873875).
9. What nation became communist in 1949?
10.What impact did this (the item above) have on the U.S.?
11.What happened to the peninsula of Korea after WWII? (NOT war)
12.What was the outcome of the Korean War?
13.What role did geography play in the Korean War? (think of terms from above in section A)
14.Who was Joseph McCarthy?
15.What kind of accusations did he make?
16.What is the Red Scare?
17.How was the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s different from the Red Scare in 1919? (Look
back to unit 6)
C. Describe the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis (956-958).
18.What happened in Cuba in 1959?
19.What actions did Fidel Castro take which angered many Americans?
20.What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
21.What role did geography play in the Bay of Pigs invasion? (think of why geography made
Cuba important to the US)
22.Was it successful?
23.What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
24.What nation came to the aid of Cuba? Why?
25.How did President Kennedy try to prevent Soviet intervention?
26.What role did geography play in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
27.What was the outcome of the Crisis?
28.How did the Cuban Missile Crisis impact US society?
D. Describe the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive and growing opposition to the war (984-991,
995-996).
29.What nation had colonized Vietnam in the 1800s?
30.Who was Ho Chi Mihn?
31.What is the domino theory?
32.Which side did the U.S. support in the Vietnam War?
E. Explain the role of geography on the US containment policy, the Korean War, the Bay of Pigs,
the Cuban missile crisis, and the Vietnam War.
33.What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
34.What role did geography play in the Vietnam War?
35.What was the Tet Offensive?
36.Why did Americans oppose the Vietnam War?
USHS21: Explain the impact of technological development and economic growth on the U.S.
F. Describe the baby boom and its impact as shown by Levittown and the Interstate Highway Act
(883, 889, 890).
37.What was the Baby Boom?
38.What was Levittown?
39.What was the Interstate Highway Act?
40.How are the items above related?
G. Describe the impact television has had on American Culture; include the presidential debates
(Kennedy/ Nixon, 1960) and news coverage of the Civil Rights Movement (897-900)
41.What impact did television have on the American family in the 1950s?
42.What impact did television have on the 1960 Presidential election?
H. Analyze the impact of technology on American Life; include the development of the personal
computer and the expanded use of air conditioning (1106-1107)
43.How has the development of the personal computer and air conditioning changed American
society?
I. Describe the impact of competition with the USSR as evidenced by the launch of Sputnik I and
President Eisenhower’s actions (865, 895)
44.What was Sputnik?
45. What impact did the launch of Sputnik have on American society?
46.What did the launching of Sputnik start?