1960s

Thursday, May1: Read Chapter 38.

 

The Cold War at Home and Abroad in the 1940s and 1950s

Wednesday, April 16: read Chapter 36
 Monday, April 28 read Chapter 37

1. What conditions and Truman mistakes led the country to believe that he would lose in 1948?

2. How was Truman able to win the election of 1948?
3. What progress was made on Civil Rights during the 1950s? To what extent were Truman and Eisenhower responsible for this success?
4. What was the Fair Deal? Was it a good program?
5. Was Eisenhower’s domestic program liberal, conservative, or both?
6. How was Eisenhower’s foreign policy different from Truman’s? Were they successful?
7. What were the domestic and international consequences of America’s approach to the Cold War?
8. How did the U.S. economy change after WWII? How did this affect the average American worker?
9. What happened to unions in the 1950s? Why?
10. How did prosperity and affluence change American society and culture? How did it affect where and how Americans lived? How did it affect education and American youth?
11. How much poverty was there in the 1950s? What was the lot of the poor in the 1950s?
12. What were family roles like during the baby boom?

Know the significance of the following:

Containment

Yalta agreements

Potsdam agreements

United Nations

Security Council

General Assembly

“iron curtain”

George F. Kennan

Kennan’s “long telegram”

Dean Acheson

George C. Marshall

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

1949 blockade of Berlin

NATO

Warsaw Pact

Chiang Kai-Shek

Mao Tse-Tung

“Red China”

NSC-68

National Security Act

National Security Council

 

Truman’s Domestic Politics

G.I. Bill of Rights

International Monetary fund

World Bank

GATT

Election of ’48

Taft-Hartley Act

To Secure These Rights

Henry Wallace

Thomas E. Dewey

Fair Deal

 

Korean War

“police action”

“limited war”

General MacArthur

 

Red Scare of the 1950s

House Committee on Un-American Activities

Federal Employee Loyalty Program

Alger Hiss

Ethel & Julius Rosenberg

McCarthyism

McCarran Internal Security Act

 

Eisenhower’s Domestic Policies

Adlai Stevenson

Richard Nixon

“Dynamic Conservatism”

Warren Court

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

 

Eisenhower and the Cold War

John Foster Dulles

“New Look” foreign policy

“massive retaliation”

Central Intelligence Agency

Guatamala, 1954

Eisenhower Doctrine

Iran, 1958

U-2

Nikita Krushchev

Eisenhower’s Farewell Address

Sputnik

NASA

World War II

Thursday, 4/10; Read Chapter 35

1.  How and why did the United States go from isolationism and neutrality to involvement in the war?

2.      What were the turning points of the war?

3.      How did the war affect African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Japanese Americans, and Jews?

4.      How did the war change the lives and roles of women?

5.      How did the war change the labor movement?

6.      How did the war effect the economy, society, and government?

7.      How did WWII create the Cold War?

 

Know the significance of the following:

PreWar

Nye Commission; Good neighbor policy; Neutrality acts; Spanish Civil War; Manchuria; Munich Pact; Sudatenland; Nazi-Soviet Pact; Czechslovokia; Kristallnacht

Mobilization

War Production Board; National War Labor Board; Office of Price Administration; Manhattan Project; Office of War Information

Race

Congress of Racial Equality; Fair Employment Practices Commission; A.    Philip Randolph; Double V Campaign; Holocaust; Japanese Internment; Zoot Suit Riots

The War

Axis; Invasion of Poland; Invasion of France; Battle of Britain; blitzkrieg; Lend-Lease Act; Pearl Harbor; Stalingrad; D-Day; Battle of the Bulge; Midway; island hopping; Battle of the Coral Sea; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Emperor Hirohito; General Tojo; General Dwight Eisenhower; General Douglas McArthur

Diplomacy

Atlantic Charter; Yalta; Potsdam

Great Depression and the New Deal

Thursday. 4/3: Read 770-780
Friday. 4/4: Read 780-792
Monday, 4/7: Read 792-799
Tuesday, 4/8: Read 800-820

Big Questions
1. What factors and events caused the Great Depression?
2. Why was FDR such a successful politician? Why was Hoover a failure?
3. Describe the differences between the First, Second, and Third New Deals.
4. Describe the new Democratic coalition created by FDR?
5. How did the war New Deal affect the labor movement?
6. How did the New Deal change government?
7. Why did the FDR’s “court-packing” scheme fail?
8. How did the New Deal affect African Americans?
9. What is Keynesian economics?

Know the significance of the following:

New Deal Programs: Emergency Banking Relief Act; Glass-Steagall Act.; Civilian Conservation Act; National Industrial Recovery Act; National Recovery Administration; Agricultural Adjustment Act; Soil Conservation Act; Farm Credit Administration; Tennessee Valley Authority; Rural Electrification Administration; Truth in Securities Act; Public Works Administration; Works Progress Administration; Resettlement Administration

Economics: Roosevelt Recession; Francis Keynes

Labor: Section 7a of NIRA; Wagner Act; National Labor Relations Board; AFL; CIO; John L. Lewis; Trade union; Industrial Union; UAW; Walter Ruether; Sit-down strike; Fair Labor Standards Act; National Housing Act

Politics: FDR; Frances Perkins; Harold Ickes; Al Smith; Herbert Hoover; Fr. Coughlin; Dr. Townsend; Huey Long; Court-packing scheme; Alf Landon

The 1920s

Friday, 3/28: Read Chapter 31, American Life in the Roaring 20s
 Monday 3/31: Read Chapter 32 The Politics of Boom and Bust

1. Why was there great and prolonged prosperity throughout the 1920s?
2. How had the economy changed?
3. What happened to the labor movement?
4. What happened to the women’s movement?
5. What were the prevailing political moods, policies, and issues of the 1920s?
6. How did consumerism and “mass culture” affect American culture?
7. What new entertainments emerged during the 1920s?
8. What were the prominent developments and authors in literature?
9. Was this a period of increasing personal freedom and liberty, or of social control and oppression?

Know the significance of the following: open shop; welfare capitalism; National Association of Manufacturers; Henry Ford; Warren Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Smoot-Hawley Tariff; Teapot Dome; Kellog-Briand Pact Herbert Hoover; “rugged individualism”; Al Smith; jazz; Jelly Roll Morton; Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington; the Charleston; George Gershwin; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; Sinclair Lewis; T.S. Eliot; Langston Hughes; Thomas Hart Benton; Edward Hopper; Georgia O’Keefe; Alfred Steiglist; Social Conflicts; Red Scare; National Origins Act; Ku Klux Klan; Great Migration; Harlem Renaissance; Marcus Garvey; Scopes Trial; 18th Amendment; Volstead Act; Margaret Sanger

World War I

Major Questions:• Why did the United States finally get involved in a European war when we had resisted them for so long?
• How did our involvement in World War I change the United States at that time?
• Did it in any way change us permanently?

Monday, 3/24; The Road to War: Read pages 688-694.
1. What factors caused the war?
2. How did the U.S. government and public respond to the war?
3. What challenges were there to the U.S. remaining neutral? Were we ever really neutral?
4. Why did the U.S. enter the war? Why did we enter on the side of Britain and France? 

Tues, 3/25; The War and American Society: Read 696-710.
1. How did the U.S. raise an army?
2. What did the federal government do to supply the troops with the proper material and food? What long-term effect might this have had?
3. How did the war affect the economy?
4. What effect did U.S. troops have on the war? What effect did the war have on American soldiers?
5. What did the government do to get Americans to support the war?
6. Who opposed the war? What happened to those who opposed the war? Why? Was the government responsible?

Wed, 3/26; The Search for a New World Order: Read 710-719 and handouts
1. What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points generally aiming at doing? Was this a new idea? Was it a good idea?
2. Why did Wilson fail to get his Fourteen Points into the Treaty of Versailles?
3. Was the League of Nations a good idea? Why did the Senate reject it? Was it the Senate’s fault, or Wilson’s?

Explain the significance of the following:
Lusitannia; Sussex; Jane Addams; George Creel; General John Pershing; Eugene V. Debs; Bernard Baruch; Herbert Hoover; Zimmermann note; Selective Service Act; Committee on Public ; Information; Espionage and Sedition Acts; Industrial Workers of the World ; “Wobblies”; War Information Board; War Industries Board; National War Labor Board; Sixteenth Amendment; Eighteenth Amendment; Nineteenth Amendment; Food Administration; Russian Revolution; Bolshevism; Big Four; Henry Cabot Lodge; collective security; Irreconcilables; Reservationists; Fourteen Points; self-determination; Treaty of Versailles; Article 10; League of Nations.

American Imperialism?

Tuesday 3/11: Stirrings of Imperialism: Read 626-630
1. Why did the United States begin to expand overseas?
2. Was this a change from earlier American foreign policy?
3. How and why did the United States acquire Hawaii? Why did Cleveland oppose the annexation?

 Wednesday 3/12: War With Spain & The Republic as Empire: Read 630-647
1. What effect did the Platt Amendment have on Cuba and its relationship to the United States?
2. Why did the United States declare war on Spain? Was it for selfish or selfless reasons?
3. Why did we invade the Philippines?
4. Why did the United States hold onto the Philippines? Was this the right thing to do?
5. Did the United States become an imperialist power as a result of the Spanish-American War?

 Thursday 3/13: The Republic as Empire: Read 636-653; 675-676; 685-688
1. What were the results of the Philippine War for the Philippines and America?
2. Explain the arguments of the Anti-Imperialist League.
3. What was the Open Door in China? Why did the United States call for it? Was it successful?
4. Explain the Roosevelt Corollary? How did it relate to the Monroe Doctrine? Was it good for the United States? Was it good for Latin America?
5. How did the United States gain the Panama Canal? Was this just? Why was it so important to the United States?
6. How was Dollar Diplomacy different from Roosevelt’s policies? How was it the same?
7. How was Wilson’s policy towards Latin America different? How was it the same?
8. What was the overall affect of these three presidents’ policies towards Latin America? Does it have any affect on today? Were these policies wise? Were they moral?


Know the significance of the following: The Influence of Sea Power upon History by Alfred Thayer Mahan; Frederck Jackson Turner and his “Frontier Thesis”; Samoa; Hawaii; Queen Liliuokalani; Spanish-American War; William McKinley; William Randolph Hearst; yellow journalism; U.S.S. Maine ; Teller Amendment; Admiral Dewey; Battle of San Juan Hill; Platt Amendment; Philippines; Anti-Imperialist League; Theodore Roosevelt; Open Door; John Hay; Panama Canal; Roosevelt Corollary; Gunboat Diplomacy; “Speak Softly, but Carry a Big Stick”; “Great White Fleet”; William Howard Taft; Dollar Diplomacy; Woodrow Wilson; Pancho Villa