AH8

Expectations for Learning

24. Analyze the policy of containment the United States followed during the Cold War in response to the spread of communism.

25. Explain how the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism reflected Cold War fears in American society.

26. Analyze how the Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam influenced domestic and international politics between the end of World War II and 1992.

28. Summarize the struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil rights that occurred in the United States in the postwar period.

29. Describe how American life in the postwar period was impacted by the postwar economic boom and by advances in science.

30. Analyze the social and political effects of the continuing population flow from cities to suburbs, the internal migrations from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt, and the increase in immigration resulting from passage of the 1965 Immigration Act.

31. Explain the government’s role in the economy, environmental protection, social welfare and national security became the topic of political debates between 1945 and 1994.