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Chapter 27: The Cold War
Chapter 28: The Affluent Society
Chapter 29: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism
Chapter 30: The Crisis of Authority
Part I: Unit Terms (50 points)
Define each of the terms by writing them on note cards.
1. Cold war
2. Teheran Conference
3. Big Three
4. Yalta Conference
5. United Nations
6. Security Council
7. Zone of occupation
8. Potsdam conference
9. Chiang Kai-shek
10. Mao Zedong
11. Containment
12. George F. Kennan
13. Truman Doctrine
14. Domino effect
15. Marshall Plan
16. Selective Service System
17. Atomic Energy
Commission
18. National Security Act
19. NSC
20. CIA
21. Department of Defense
22. Berlin Airlift
23. NATO
24. Warsaw Pact
25. Taiwan
26. NSC-68
27. GI Bill of Rights
28. Fair Deal
29. Welfare-state Liberalism
30. Wagner Act
31. Taft-Hartley Act
32. Dixiecrat
33. Strom Thurmond
34. Korean war
35. HUAC
36. Whittaker Chambers
37. Pumpkin papers
38. Alger Hiss
39. Richard M. Nixon
40. J. Edward Hoover
41. Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
42. Joseph McCarthy
43. McCarthyism
44. Adlai Stevenson
45. Baby boom
46. suburbs
47. John Maynard Keynes
48. Keynesian economics
49. AFL-CIO
50. William Levitt
51. Levittown
52. G.I. Bill
53. Benjamin Spock
54. NBC
55. CBS
56. ABC
57. Soap opera
58. Social diversity
59. Cultural alienation
60. Sputnik
61. Yuri Gagarin
62. NASA
63. National Defense
64. Beats or beatniks
65. Jack Kerouac
66. J.D. Salinger
67. Michael Harrington
68. Culture of poverty
69. Urban renewal
70. Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka,
Kansas
71. Thurgood Marshall
72. Central High School
(little Rock, Arkansas)
73. Orval Faubus
74. Rosa Parks
75. Martin Luther King Jr.
76. SCLC
77. Jackie Robinson
78. Federal Highway Act
79. J. Robert Oppenheimer
80. Massive retaliation
81. Brinkmanship
82. Ho Chi Minh
83. Dien Bien Phu
84. Mohammed Mossadegh
85. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
86. Suez Crisis
87. New Frontier
88. Great Society Programs
89. Department of Housing
and Urban Development
90. Immigration Act
91. Geneva Accords
92. Ngo Dinh Diem
93. Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini
94. Gulf of Tonkin resolution
95. Tet offensive
96. Salt II
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97. Green Berets
98. Peace Corps
99. Bay of Pigs
100. Berlin Wall
101. Cuban Missile Crisis
102. Vietminh
103. Watergate
104. CRP
105. Saturday night
Massacre
106. Spiro Agnew
107. U.S. v. Richard Nixon
108. Gideon v. Wainwright
109. Miranda v. Arizona
110. Bakke v. Board of
Regents of California
Part II: Reading Questions (50 points)
The Cold War
1. Analyze the reasons for the development of tensions between the Soviet Union and the
United States.
2. Analyze the degree of success the policy of containment achieved between 1945 and
1953.
3. Analyze the reasons for the grown of anti-labor sentiment following World War II.
4. Analyze the reasons for and results of the second Red Scare.
5. Analyze the ways in which the United States prepared to avoid a serious economic
recession following World War II.
6. Compare and contrast the response of the American people to the end of World War II to
the American people’s response to the end of World War I.
7. Analyze the political debates over the uses of atomic technology in the post-World War II
era.
8. To what degree and in what ways did post-World War II foreign policy represent a
fundamental change from previous foreign policy?
The Affluent Society
1. Analyze the reasons for the development of a prolonged and robust economy during the
1950s.
2. Analyze the factors that led to the homogenization of American society during the 1950s.
3. Analyze the reasons for the growth of the civil rights movement during the 1950s and the
degree of success it achieved.
4. Analyze the continuity and change in migration patterns in the United States during the
1950s.
5. Analyze the positive and negative effects of increased scientific and technological
development during the 1950s.
6. Evaluate the reasons for and the success of American foreign policy during the 1950s.
7. Analyze how mass media influenced traditional perceptions of gender roles during the
1950s.
8. To what degree and in what ways did post-World War II American society mirror postWorld War I society politically, economically, and socially.
Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism
1. Analyze the reasons for the realignment of political parties during the 1960s.
2. Analyze the impact of growing militancy in the civil rights movement.
3. Analyze the political, social, and economic impact of the war in Vietnam on American
society.
4. Analyze the degree to which the civil rights movement of the 1960s resolved issues left
unsettled by Reconstruction.
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5. Analyze the factors that led some moderate Americans to abandon the liberal agenda by
the late 1960s.
6. Analyze the degree to which the Great Society was successful in accomplishing its goals
and the degree to which it failed to achieve lasting change
7. To what degree and in what ways could the year 1968 be considered a turning point in
U.S. history?
The Crisis of Authority
1. Analyze the success of the youth movement in challenging traditional American values.
2. To what degree and in what ways were attempts by minorities (including women,
Latinos, American Indians, and gay rights advocates) successful in realizing their goals?
3. Analyze the political, social, and economic causes that led the United States to withdraw
from Vietnam.
4. To what degree and in what ways was American foreign policy during the 1960s and
early 1970s a continuation of past U.S. foreign policy and to what degree and in what
ways was it a departure from previous U.S. foreign policy?
5. Analyze the degree to which the new conservative movement challenged the policies of
the Great Society.
6. Compare and contrast the elections of 1964, 1968, and 1972.
7. Analyze the impact and ramifications of the Watergate scandal on Americans’ perception
of government.
Part III: Presidential Charts (30 points)
Complete presidential charts (political, social, and economic impact) for Eisenhower, Kennedy,
Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter.
Part VI: Concept Questions (25 points)
To review the unit and prepare for the unit test, answer the following questions.
Themes
Beliefs, Ideas, and
Cultures
America in the
World
Geography and
Environment
Peopling
Identity
Politics and Power
Work, Exchange,
and Technology
Concept Questions
Explain the ways in which the youth culture of the 1960s challenged traditional
American value systems.
Explain the impact of the war in Vietnam on U.S. foreign relations during the 1960s.
Explain how the growing concern over the environment led to specific pieces of
legislation designed to remedy those concerns.
Explain the changes in migration patterns brought on by increased affluence, white
flight, and the baby boom.
Explain the impact of the Cold War on perceptions of American identity, particularly,
relating to the second Red Scare.
Explain the impact of the war in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal on the American
people’s perception of government. Explain why the elections of 1964, 1968,
1972showed such varied results.
Explain economic problems associated with stagflation, the Arab oil embargo, and
deindustrialization of the American economy.