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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: Reading Questions
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 port-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.
5. Analyze the factors that led some moderate Americans to abandon the liberal agenda by
the late 1960s.
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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 II: Unit Terms
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
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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
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 III: Assignments/Discussions
1. We Didn’t Start the Fire Assignment
Part IV: Presidential Charts
Complete presidential charts for Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter.
Part V: Concept Questions
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
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.
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Politics and
Power
Work, Exchange,
and Technology
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.
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YouTube or iTunes Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire, listen to the song and
then fill out the following information:
1949-1952
You need to tell me why Billy Joel would include these topics in his song “We Didn’t Start The Fire”,
about the Cold War, at this particular date in time. Remember the song is in chronological order.
Harry Truman:
Doris Day:
Red China:
Johnny Ray:
South Pacific:
Walter Winchell:
Joe DiMaggio:
Joe McCarthy:
Richard Nixon:
Studebaker:
Television:
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North Korea-South Korea:
Marilyn Monroe:
Rosenbergs:
H-bomb:
Sugar Ray:
Panmunjom:
Brando:
The King and I:
And The Catcher In The Rye:
Eisenhower:
Vaccine:
England's got a new queen:
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Marciano:
Liberace:
Santayana goodbye:
1953-1956
You need to tell me why Billy Joel would include these topics in his song “We Didn’t Start The Fire”,
about the Cold War, at this particular date in time. Remember the song is in chronological order.
Joseph Stalin:
Malenkov:
Nasser and Prokofiev:
Rockefeller:
Campanella:
Communist Bloc:
Roy Cohn:
Juan Peron:
Toscanini:
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Dacron:
Dien Bien Phu Falls:
Rock Around the Clock:
Einstein:
James Dean:
Brooklyn's got a winning team:
Davy Crockett:
Peter Pan:
Elvis Presley:
Disneyland:
Bardot:
Budapest:
Alabama:
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Khrushchev:
Princess Grace:
Peyton Place:
Trouble in the Suez:
1957-1960
You need to tell me why Billy Joel would include these topics in his song “We Didn’t Start The Fire”,
about the Cold War, at this particular date in time. Remember the song is in chronological order.
Little Rock:
Pasternak:
Mickey Mantle:
Kerouac:
Sputnik:
Chou En-Lai:
Bridge On The River Kwai:
Lebanon:
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Charles de Gaulle:
California baseball:
Starkweather homicides:
Children of Thalidomide:
Buddy Holly:
Ben Hur:
Space Monkey:
Mafia:
Hula Hoops:
Castro:
Edsel is a no-go:
U2:
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Syngman Rhee:
Payola:
Kennedy:
Chubby Checker:
Psycho:
Belgians in the Congo:
1961-1963
You need to tell me why Billy Joel would include these topics in his song “We Didn’t Start The Fire”,
about the Cold War, at this particular date in time. Remember the song is in chronological order.
Hemingway:
Eichman:
Stranger in a Strange Land:
Dylan:
Berlin:
Bay of Pigs invasion:
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Lawrence of Arabia:
British Beatlemania:
Ole Miss:
John Glenn:
Liston beats Patterson:
Pope Paul:
Malcolm X:
British Politician sex:
J.F.K. blown away:
1964-1989
You need to tell me why Billy Joel would include these topics in his song “We Didn’t Start The Fire”,
about the Cold War, at this particular date in time. Remember the song is in chronological order.
Birth control:
Ho Chi Minh:
Richard Nixon back again:
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Moonshot:
Woodstock:
Watergate:
Ppunk rock:
Begin:
Reagan:
Palestine:
Terror on the airline:
Ayatollah's in Iran:
Russians in Afghanistan:
Wheel of Fortune:
Sally Ride:
Heavy metal suicide:
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Foreign debts:
Homeless Vets:
AIDS:
Crack:
Bernie Goetz:
Hypodermics on the shores:
China's under martial law:
Rock and roller cola wars: