Friday, April 11, 2014

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

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