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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?