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Unit Overview: Hope, Tragedy, and Conflict
This unit covers the immediate post -WWII era through the Civil Rights movement and the beginning of the Vietnam War. Important themes covered in this unit:
The Truman Doctrine and the Cold War
The 2nd Red Scare and McCarthyism
The 1950's and the rise of Suburban America
The Civil Rights movement and de-segregation
The Korean War
America's involvement in the Vietnam Conflict
Unit Essay: The Containment Policy
In order to get credit for this project you must write an essay on the following topic:
The Containment Policy
The official policy of the US towards communism throughout the Cold War was summed up in a policy called The Containment Policy. The idea of this policy was to prevent communism from spreading, and the US did this in a variety of ways on a variety of fronts. Using three specific examples of the US implementing this policy, write an essay of 600 words or more explaining whether or not the Containment Policy was a success or not. Pick three examples to write about from the following list: (each example is also a link to a Wikipedia article on the subject)
George F Kennan, author of the Long Telegram, the basis for the Truman Doctrine or Containment Policy.
This is actually an easy essay to write: pick three of the following items and read the Wikipedia articles asking yourself, "Who won? US or USSR?" and this gives you the answer to the success/failure of containment for that particular example. Turn your three examples into your three body paras and make sure to discuss the success or failure of the Containment Policy throughout your essay. Please let me know if you need additional help.
Unit Videos:
Cold War Episode 2: The Iron Curtain
Cold War Episode 5: The Korean War
Vietnam, a Televised History 1: Roots of a War
Vietnam, a Televised History 2: America's Mandarin
Unit Lectures:
Containment Policy Essay Class
Primary Sources:
US Reconstruction to Present B Unit 1 Key Terms
For this project you must define the terms listed below and explain each term's significance to the unit/era being studied. Your definition should be 2-3 sentences long and may be copied and pasted from a source like Wikipedia, but the significance of the term must be in your own words and based on your own understanding. To fill out a term's significance, ask yourself, "Why is this item included in my study of this unit? Why is this term in a history book?" The answer to this question is your term's significance.
Unit 1 Key Terms:
Nuclear Proliferation
Federal Aid Highway Act
New Frontier
affirmative action
Hungarian Revolution
McCarthyism/HUAC
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Ngo Dinh Diem
Suez Crisis
Brown v Board of Education
Civil Rights Movement
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Geneva Accords of 1954
Little Rock Nine
Cuban Missile Crisis
Operation Rolling Thunder
Gary Powers
Sputnik
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Credibility Gap
Below is an example of a key term done with the proper format:
William the Conqueror: William I (c. 1028[2] – 9 September 1087), also known as William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquérant), was the first Norman King of England from Christmas 1066 until his death. He was also Duke of Normandy from 3 July 1035 until his death, under the name William II. Before his conquest of England, he was known as William the Bastard because of the illegitimacy of his birth.To press his claim to the English crown, William invaded England in 1066, leading an army of Normans, Bretons, Flemings, and Frenchmen (from Paris andÎle-de-France) to victory over the English forces of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest.[3] (I copied and pasted this definition from Wikipedia)
Significance: William the Conqueror is significant because his conquest of England created the first nation state in Europe. His rearrangement of English feudal territories to give himself dramatically more power than the the barons and nobles around him caused him to be the most powerful monarch in Europe and eventually led to the rise of other nation states over the next few centuries. (These are my words based on my knowledge of English and European history.)
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