APUSH UNIT TEN Chapter 27: The Cold War
Origins of the Cold War Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 Russian Civil War… Red Scare of 1919 Uneasy Alliance in WWII
Yalta Conference
United Nations
Nuremberg Trials
Occupation of Germany
Satellite States “Iron Curtain”
Potsdam Conference
China Mao Zedong Chiang Kai-Shek (Jiang Jie-shi)
Occupied Japan
Containment Policy
Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Arms Race
NSC-68
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
GI Bill Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944)
The “Fair Deal”
1946 Midterm Elections Establish Republican control of the 80th Congress… 22nd Amendment (1951)… Taft-Hartley Act (1947)…
Election of 1948: A Split in the Democratic Party Liberal Democrats- Progressive Party Henry Wallace
Southern Democrats – State’s Rights Party (Dixiecrats) Strom Thurmond
Democrats – Harry S Truman Republicans – Thomas Dewey
Dewey Defeats Truman?!?!?!?
The Nuclear Age
Syngman Rhee
Korea – “The Forgotten War” June 25, 1950… MacArthur’s assault on Inchon… Stalemate on the 38th Parallel A “limited war”…
Truman vs. MacArthur
The Second Red Scare Loyalty Review Board Dennis et al. v U.S. McCarran Internal Security Act House Un-American Activities Committee
Alger Hiss Case
McCarthyism Joe McCarthy… Army-McCarthy Hearings…
Rosenberg Case
“Checkers”
Election of 1952
Chapter 28: The Affluent Society APUSH UNIT TEN Chapter 28: The Affluent Society
Happy Days?
Baby Boom
Suburban Growth
William J. Levitt - Levittown
Rise of the Sunbelt
Medical Breakthroughs Antibiotics… Penicillin … Salk Vaccine…
Television
50’s Pop Culture TV
Advertising
UNIVAC
The Hydrogen Bomb
Sputnik - 1957 National Defense and Education Act NASA….
Ike’s Domestic Policies Modern Republicanism Prosperity
Highway Act - 1956
Women Baby and Child Care – Dr. Benjamin Spock Cult of Domesticity
“Beatniks” Jack Kerouac Allen Ginsberg
Rock n Roll
Civil Rights Movement Jackie Robinson – 1947 – Brooklyn Dodgers… Truman – 1948 – desegregation of the military… Changing Demographics… Changing Attitudes…
1896 Plessy v Ferguson – “separate but equal” 1954 Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, KS … Chief Justice Earl Warren…
Massive Resistance
“Clinton 12”
Southern Manifesto
Little Rock Nine - 1956
Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr. Southern Christian Leadership Conference…
Decolonization
U.S. – Soviet Relations Geneva… “Peaceful Coexistence” – Nikita Kruschev Hungarian Revolt…
Covert Action Reza Shah Pahlvi - Iran Nixon in Venezuela
French Indochina Ho Chi Minh… Dien Bien Phu…
Middle East Israel – 1948 Suez Crisis… “Eisenhower Doctrine”… OPEC…
Cuba - 1959 Fidel Castro
U-2 Incident
Ike’s Legacy