“1946-1952 best years”
Answer the following questions as you view the video!
1. What phrase did Winston Churchill coin in his Missouri Speech?
What was he describing?
2. Why did the U.S. need to be the nation to stand up to Joseph Stalin and the rising power of the Soviet Union?
3. What problems did the GI’s face when they returned home from the war?
4. What became the driving force behind the rising American economy?
5. How was the house shortage solved?
6. What was the “baby boom”?
Why did women seem to have things tougher than men?
7. Why was there irony in the return of the black soldiers?
Why was Jackie Robinson so significant during this period?
8. How was the Soviet Union impacted by the war?
9. Why did Communism seem so attractive in Europe?
How did the U.S. counter this threat?
10. Why were the Russians so brutal in Eastern Germany?
11. How was Berlin divided?
Why was Stalin so upset about this?
12. Describe the first confrontation of the Cold War:
13. How did Stalin “shock” the West?
How did America respond?
14. What happened in China that was so devastating to the U.S.?
15. When AND where did America go back to war?
16. How were the returning veterans of this conflict treated compared to the World War 2 vets?
Why would this have been a “forgotten war”?
17. How was the threat of communism affecting America at home?
18. How did Hollywood exemplify the growing “red scare”?
19. How many Americans were questioned about their loyalties and potentially being communists?
20. What was so “baffling” for America about the Cold War?
21. How did television change America in the early 1950’s?