Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Cold War at Home and Abroad

Monday, April 22: read Ch. 36
Thursday, April 25 read Chapter 37
Monday, April 29 read Chapter 38

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


 

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

World War II

Wednesday; 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

Monday, April 8, 2013

Great Depression and the New Deal


Tues. 4/9: Read 770-780
Wed. 4/10: Read 780-792
Thrs 4/11: Read 792-799
Fri 4/12: Read 800-820

Big Questions1. 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