Unit 2 Test on Wednesday, September 30, 2026
The Cold War Era
(1945-1990)
Essential Questions
How were the U.S. and North Carolina involved in the Cold War?
How did the Cold War drive technological, economic, and political change in North Carolina and the U.S?
Unit 12 Notes
12.1 12.7
12.2 12.8
12.3 12.9
12.4 12.10
12.5 12.11
12.6 12.12
Resources
Postwar Challenges
The Cold War Erupts
The United Nations
Containment and the Marshall Plan
The Berlin Airlift and NATO
The Korean War
Domestic Challenges
The 1950s: Happy Days
McCarthyism
Suburban Growth
Land of Television
America Rocks and Rolls
The Cold War Continues
Voices against Conformity
The Vietnam War
Early Involvement
Years of Escalation: 1965-68
The Tet Offensive
The Antiwar Movement
Years of Withdrawal
Politics from Camelot to Watergate
The Election of 1960
Kennedy's New Frontier
Kennedy's Global Challenges
Kennedy Assassination
Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society"
1968: Year of Unraveling
Triangular Diplomacy: U.S., USSR, and China