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Homework Sheet Unit 15:
Beginnings of the Cold War in America: Truman and Eisenhower
Date
Mon
Class Activities
 Post War America and the World
Homework Due In Class Today

Chapter 39: 880-900
4/4
 The Cold War Continues
o Politics at Home
Tues
4/5
o Arms and Space Race
o Korea and Vietnam
 Chapter 39: 903-906
 Chapter 40: 918-924 (read through Cuba)
 Documents 1-2
 Receive Unit 15 Review
Block
4/6
 Civil Rights at Home
o McCarthy
o Battling Segregation
 America’s Changing Economy and Culture
Friday
4/8
 Unit 15 Test
 Get Unit 16 HW
 Chapter 39: 900-903
 Chapter 40: 908-918 and 924-934 (start at
Kennedy)
 Documents 3-7
 Unit 15 Review Due
Sources Used this Unit:
 Pageant (Your Textbook): Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American
Pageant: A History of the Republic. Boston: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin. 11th Edition.
Prepare in Advance for Block Day Reading!!!
Unit 15: Beginnings of the Cold War
Content Covered
Economics:
Postwar economic anxieties; The Long Economic Boom (1950-1970); Ike’s Economic
Conservatism; Interstate Highway Act of 1956; Science and Technology Drive Economic
Growth; Service Sector; 1950’s Consumer Culture
Social Change:
The GI Bill; Sunbelt Growth; Suburbia; Baby Boom; TV; Working Women; The Feminine
Mystique; Sports; Rock and Roll; Changes in Literature and Playwriting
Politics:
Truman; Democratic Divisions in 1948; Fair Deal; 1952 Election; Effect of Media, Especially
TV, on Politics; Ike in 1956; Landrum-Griffin Act; Election of 1960 and JFK; Adding Alaska
and Hawaii
Foreign Policy:
Yalta; US / Soviet Relations; Shaping the Postwar World; Nuremberg Trials; Division of
Germany; Reconstruction of Japan; Dealing with Illegal Mexican Immigration; Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles; “Policy of Boldness”; “New Look” in Foreign Policy that didn’t
change much; Military Industrial Complex; Problems in the Middle East
The Cold War:
Berlin Airlift; Containment; Kennan; Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Recognition of Israel;
Rearmament; Creation of New Government Programs: DOD, CIA, NSC; NATO; Korean
Conflict; Vietnam Conflict; Bloody Hungarian Revolution; Space Race; Spirit of Camp David;
U-2 incident; Cuba
Red Scare:
Rosenberg Case; HUAC; Alger Hiss; Loyalty Review Board; McCarthy
The Fight for Civil Rights:
Attempts at Desegregation in the South; NAACP; Emmett Till; Rosa Parks and the Montgomery
Bus Boycott; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Desegregation in the Korean Conflict; Chief Justice Earl
Warren; Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; With “all deliberate speed”; Little
Rock; Civil Rights Act of 1957; SCLC; Sit-In’s; SNCC
Primary Reading
 American Pageant: Chapters 39-40
Secondary Reading
The Cold War:
1. NSC-68 Offers a Blueprint for the Cold War (1950) – Document 40-F-3 TAS V2 (441-445)
2. Secretary John Foster Dulles Warns of Massive Retaliation (1954) – Document 41-A-1 TAS V2
(452-455)
The Red Scare:
3. The McCarthy Hysteria – Documents 41-B-1,2,&3 TAS V2 (456-461)
The Fight for Civil Rights:
4. Eisenhower Sends Federal Troops [to Little Rock] (1957) – Document 41-C-3 TAS V2 (464466)
5. Martin Luther King, Jr. Asks for the Ballot (1957) – Document 41-C-6 TAS V2 (468-471)
Social and Economic Change in America:
6. The Move to Suburbia (1954) – Document 40-A-3 TAS V2 (410-413)
Chapter 39: The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
George F. Kennan
Douglas MacArthur
Dean Acheson
Joseph McCarthy
II.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
white flight
Yalta Conference
Nuremberg trials
iron curtain
Berlin airlift
containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
National Security Act
III.
Essay Questions:
26.
How and why did the American economy soar from 1950 to 1970?
27.
How have economic and population changes shaped American society since World War II?
5.
6.
7.
8.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Benjamin Spock
Henry Wallace
Richard M. Nixon
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Taft-Hartley Act
House Committee on Un-American
Activities
McCarran Act
Fair Deal
thirty-eighth parallel
NSC-68
Sunbelt
28.
What were the immediate conflicts and deeper causes that led the United States and the
Soviet Union to go from being allies to bitter Cold War rivals?
29.
Explain the steps that led to the long-term involvement of the United States in major overseas
military commitments, including NATO and the Korean War. How did expanding military power and
the Cold War affect American society and ideas?
30.
Discuss President Harry Truman’s role as a leader in both international and domestic affairs
from 1945-1952. Does Truman deserve to be considered a “great” president? Why or why not?
Chapter 40: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1960
IV.
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Dwight Eisenhower
Earl Warren
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
II.
Define and state the historical significance of the following:
9.
10.
11.
“creeping socialism”
desegregation
“massive retaliation”
III.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Geneva Conference
South East Asia Treaty Organization
Hungarian revolt
Suez Crisis
5.
6.
7.
9.
12.
13.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Ho Chi Minh
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
John F. Kennedy
military-industrial complex
feminism
Eisenhower Doctrine
U-2 incident
Sputnik
“missile gap”
National Defense Education Act
The Feminine Mystique
Essay Questions:
26.
In what ways was the Eisenhower era a time of caution and conservatism, and in what ways was it
actually a time of economic, social, and cultural change?
27.
How did Eisenhower balance assertiveness and restraint in his foreign policy in Vietnam, Europe, and
the Middle East?
28.
What were the dynamics of the Cold War with the Soviet Union in the 1950s, and how did Eisenhower
and Khrushchev combine confrontation and conversation in their relationship?
29.
How did America’s far-flung international responsibilities affect the U.S. economy and society in the
Eisenhower era?
30.
How did television and other innovations of the “consumer age” affect American politics and the culture
of the 1950s?