Unit 9: Cold War 50s-70s(1946-1979)
Study guide– AP U.S. History –
Main ideas / changes over time:
Post-World War II transition
During the late 1940s, the United States under President Truman adjusted to post-war transition problems with an economic boom, a baby boom, and attempts to extend the New Deal to more Americans.
Cold War beginning
After World War II, the Cold War broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union over control of Europe, expansion of ideologies, nuclear power, and control of East Asia.
Life in the 1950s
The 1950s U.S. under President Eisenhower was marked as a period of prosperity, consumerism and family life in the shadow of the continuing Cold War.
Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement
During the early 1960s Presidents Kennedy and Johnson supported civil rights and poverty reform at home while struggling with the Cold War abroad.
Vietnam and 1960s protest
In response to Vietnam and social problems in the U.S., many Americans participated in protest and counterculture during the late 1960s.
1968 and Nixon through Carter
SFI names and terms – remember to make connections, understand significance, recognize cause and effect, and group with patterns and categories
- Harry S Truman
- Cold War – problems b/t US & USSR
- G.I. Bill
- FHA
- Levittown
- Redlining
- Integration of military
- Jackie Robinson
- Baby boom
- Dixiecrats
- Fair Deal
- United Nations (UN)
- Long telegram
- Iron curtain
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- Berlin blockade/airlift
- CIA
- NATO
- Mao Zedong
- H-bomb and arms race
- NSC-68
- Korean War
- Second Red Scare
- HUAC & blacklisting
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- Joseph McCarthy
- McCarthyism
- 1950s prosperity
- Interstate system
- Television
- Rock and roll
- Elvis Presley
- Billy Graham
- Beat generation
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Military-industrial complex
- Massive retaliation
- Containment policy
- Sputnik
- NASA
- U-2 Incident
- John F. Kennedy
- Cuban revolution
- Bay of Pigs invasion
- Berlin wall
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Space race
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Southern Manifesto
- Little Rock nine
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Sit-ins
- Project C – Birmingham
- Bull Connor
- March on Washington
- Assassination of JFK
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Civil Rights Act 1964
- Freedom Summer
- Bloody Selma
- Voting Rights Act 1965
- Great Society
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Vietnam War
- Anti-war protests
- Students for Democratic Society (SDS)
- The Feminine Mystique
- Sexual revolution
- Counterculture/hippie characteristics
- Woodstock Music and Arts Festival
- Jonestown
ADDENDUM:
Ch. 29:
“Long hot summers” – race riots
Black Power
Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
Black Panthers
Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers (UFW)
1968:
Tet Offensive
Dr. King assassination
Robert Kennedy assassination
Democratic National Convention protests, Chicago
Richard Nixon
Silent Majority
George Wallace
KentStateUniversity shooting
Moon landing – Apollo 11
Détente
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
Silent Spring
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
Watergate scandal
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Camp David Agreement
Iran hostage crisis
Dates:
Presidential administrations 1945 - 19801954 – Brown v. Board of Education decision; start of major civil rights protests / 1964 – Gulf of Tonkin resolution, escalating Vietnam War
1968 – “The Year of the Gun”; Nixon elected, Tet Offensive, RFK and MLK killed, DNC protests
DBQ essay question possibilities:
- Historians tend to portray the 1950s as a decade of prosperity, conformity, and consensus, and the 1960s as a decade of turbulence, protest, and disillusionment. Evaluate the validity of this statement, especially concerning social and political aspects of the U.S.
- Analyze the ways in which the Vietnam War heightened social, political, and economic tensions in the United States. Focus your answer on the period 1964 to 1975.