HONORS U.S. HISTORY – CHAPTER 35, 36
Compare and contrast one of these areas of life from 1940 to 1959: sports, entertainment, technology, media, education, literature, religion, culture, fashion, gender, youth. – 5-10 minute presentation – cite both primary and secondary sources for your research – you will need a bibliography – DUE THURS 1/19
MON 1/9 - Examine the Nuremberg trials. Trace the origins of the Cold War, including the historical background of the US-USSR relations, the wartime relations, and early post-WWII relations. Who started the Cold War? What was NSC-68? – Varying Viewpoints - Examine the rationale for the postwar policy of containment. Explain how it was used in the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and NATO. Identify the factors that produced the anti-Communist “witch hunt” after WWII. Describe some important short and long-range consequences. - Describe the problems that led to the Korean conflict. Why do you think there was such strong popular support for McCarthy's anti-communist crusade of the 1950's? DBQ 17 pA101
TUES 1/10 – Evaluate President Eisenhower's response to the fall of Dien Bien Phu, the Hungarian revolt, the Suez crisis, and Castro's revolution in Cuba, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, and the social programs of the New Deal. Briefly explain each event then choose two of the events and tell whether you feel Eisenhower’s response was correct.
WED 1/11 - Examine the economic, social and cultural life of a “typical” family of the 1940’s and 1950’s. What was the impact of suburban living on men and women? What had the biggest effect upon the suburban family of the 1950’s – G.I. Bill - How important has the postwar “baby boom” been to American history? - Briefly describe the causes of the long economic boom from 1950-1970. What were the overall effects of the boom? Describe how the population movements from the Northeast to the Sunbelt, and from inner cities to the suburbs, altered major features of American society. Which of these two migrations do you feel was the most significant? Why? DUE - THURS 1/12
THURS 1/12 – Examine the consumer culture of the 1950's. What was life like in the 1950’s? What did Americans want? What changes were occurring at the end of the decade and describe what effect they had on the country? – How did television and other innovations of the consumer age affect American politics, society, and culture in the 1950’s? -
FRI 1/13 - Describe the Civil Rights movement of the 1940’s and 1950’s. Describe the reasons for its beginnings and their goals of education and voting. - Besides Brown v. BOE and the Montgomery bus boycott, what were the 2 most important breakthroughs in the civil rights movement and race relations of the late 1940’s and 50’s? Explain your choices.
TUES 1/17 - Presentations
WED 1/18 - TEST – ESSAY – Choose 6 events, and link them together, between 1898 and 1960 that allowed the U.S. to develop into the leading military/economic/political power in the world. Explain each event and how it led to the growth of American power. - SHOW CAUSATION
STUDY GUIDE
Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Dean Acheson, Joseph McCarthy, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Benjamin Spock, Thomas Dewey, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Yalta Conference, Cold War, United Nations, Marshall Plan, Nuremberg Trials, iron curtain, Berlin airlift, containment, National Security Act, white flight, Taft-Hartley Act, NATO, House Committee on Un-American Activities(HUAC), Fair Deal, NSC-68, CIA, FBI, Sunbelt, 38th Parallel, G.I. Bill, IMF, Mao Zedong, Earl Warren, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, J.F.K., integration, massive retaliation, brinkmanship, U-2 incident, Civil Rights Act of 1957, "missile gap", Suez crisis, Hungarian revolt, Adlai Stevenson, Sputnik, Brown v. BOE, Plessy v. Ferguson, the Montgomery bus boycott, the Little Rock crisis, the Greensboro sit-in, Geneva conference on Vietnam, Shah of Iran