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