1. 11.01
Describe the effects of the Cold War on economic, political, and social life in America

2. 2nd Red Scare
1950’s
McCarthyism- Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of card carrying communists; included on his list were actors (Hollywood Ten); and politicians
Some actors were blacklisted and their careers ruined

3. 2nd Red Scare (cont)
House UnAmerican Committee (HUAC) is created-their job is to search for suspected communist
Alger Hiss-worker for the State Dept that is convicted of perjury…scares Americans

4. 2nd Red Scare (cont)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg-convicted of selling secrets to USSR; secrets pertaining to weaponry
They are executed for treason

5. Cold War effects Home Life
Duck and Cover drills
Fallout shelters
Bomb shelters
Selective Service Act continues-keep military big in case Russia attacks

6. Suburbia Grows
National Highway Act-passed by Eisenhower; builds 25,000 miles of interstate; created to help move the military in the event of nuclear war; it also helped civilian travel and the growth of suburbs

7. Suburbia Grows (cont)
William Levitt- begins mass producing houses; affordable for Americans and fits the “American Dream”
GI Bill-provides veterans of the military access to low interest loans for school, buy houses, or start business
Baby Boom explosion in births after WWII

8. Levittown

9. Baby Boom

10. Politics
Nixon (‘69-’74)-détente; thawing of Cold War tensions with the USSR
Nixon is the first to visit Communist China and Russia
Passes SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty) to reduce number of nuclear warheads; supposedly reduces chance of nuclear war

11. 11.02
Trace major events in the Civil Rights Movement and evaluate its impact.

12. Civil Rights Movement
De Jure segregation- legally sanctioned; enforced by authorities
De Facto segregation-by choice or by custom
Affirmative Action- saving spaces for or actively recruiting minorities

13. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sparked by Rosa Parks
Blacks refuse to ride busses to protest Rosa Parks’ arrest
Boycott lasts 381 days and eventually the public busses in Montgomery,AL are integrated

14. MLK, Jr Takes the lead of the Civil Rights movement
Non violent, civil disobedience (Thoreau, Gandhi)
Encouraged voting, boycotts, and marches

15. MLK, Jr (cont)
“I have a dream”-August of 1963, marchers demonstrate to encourage the passage of Civil Rights legislation
Letter from a Birmingham Jail

16. MLK, Jr (Cont) Assassinated April 4, 1968 in Memphis,TN
He was there to speak on behalf of the sanitation workers that were on strike
Shot by James Earl Ray

17. Malcolm X Threatened Violence
Supported by younger, more militant blacks
Black Muslims (Nation of Islam)
Shot and killed in 1965

18. Black Panthers Started in Oakland, CA by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
Militant style
Promoted a revolution against white society

19. SNCC Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee Organized Sit ins
Jesse Jackson
Changed from non-violent to militant under Stokely Carmichael- “Black Power”

20. SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Council
MLK, Jr. started this non-violent organization

21. CORE Congress of Racial Equality Freedom Rides
Later changed from non-violent to militant; advocated “Black Power”

22. Legislation and Court Cases
Brown v. Board of Ed- overturned Plessey, ended segregation, ended separate but equal
24th amendment-banned poll tax

23. Executive Action (presidents)
Truman-desegregated military
Eisenhower-enforced Brown decision in the Little Rock Crisis
JFK-supported Civil Rights Legislation, Robert Kennedy investigated segregated busses
Johnson-Civil Rights Act ‘64; Voting Rights Act ‘65

24. Eisenhower Little Rock, AR
School Board said black students could attend Central HS
Governor Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to Central HS to prevent black students from entering
Eisenhower orders the US military to Little Rock to ensure the black students could enter Central HS

25. Johnson
Civil Rights Act ‘64- outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin
Voting Rights Act ‘65-outlawed literacy tests to vote