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Key Terms
Key Terms
Chapter 24: isolationism, Pearl Harbor, Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, the Bracero Program, Japanese Internment, the UN, the GI Bill, United Nations
Chapter 24: isolationism, Pearl Harbor, Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, the Bracero Program, Japanese Internment, the UN, the GI Bill, United Nations
Chapter 25:
Capitalism, detente, United Nations, occupation zones, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Molotov Plan, Berlin airlift, NATO, Warsaw Pact, Korean War, proxy war, Vietnam War, H-Bomb, Mutually Assured Destruction, Sputnik, Space Race, Joseph McCarthy, HUAC, Domino theory, military-industrial complex
Chapter 26:
Levittown, Brown v. BOE of Topeka, KS, Thurgood Marshall, redlining, FHA, Double V Campaign,Emmett Till, Little Rock Nine, Montgomery Bus Boycott, SCLC, television, Affluent Society, Baby Boom, Rock’n’roll, Beat Generation, conservative, liberal, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Levittown, Brown v. BOE of Topeka, KS, Thurgood Marshall, redlining, FHA, Double V Campaign,Emmett Till, Little Rock Nine, Montgomery Bus Boycott, SCLC, television, Affluent Society, Baby Boom, Rock’n’roll, Beat Generation, conservative, liberal, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Key Questions
Key Questions
Compare and contrast the homefronts between WWI and WWII.
Explain the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union post-WWII?
How did the US military and nuclear weapons influence American society change post-WWII?
How did the economic growth of the 1950s usher in a new age of consumerism in the United States, and to what extent was it enjoyed by all Americans?
Explain the road to segregation of suburbia and how the early Civil Rights movement of the 1950s played out in schools
Podcast Resources
Podcast Resources
American Story Tellers - Season 1: The Cold War
American History Hit - President Eisenhower: War on Soviets and Segregation
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