1. Cold War
And 1950s culture

2. Cold War Definition Ideological differences: USSR vs. US political
Democracy vs. communism/totalitarianism
Describe the differences
Different ideas of freedom: describe
economic
Capitalism: define and describe
Communism: define and describe

3. Q. List the following presidents in order from the earliest to the most recent.
a. Kennedy b. Truman
c. Johnson d. Eisenhower

5. Q. Place the following Soviet leaders in order from earliest to most recent
a. Nikita Khruschev
b. Joseph Stalin
c. Mikhail Gorbachev
d. Leonid Brezhnev

6. Cold War Terms Iron Curtain Containment Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift June 1948-May 1949
NATO and Warsaw Pact
Domino Theory

8. Cold War and Hot War in Asia
China goes Red under Mao Tse Tung
Korean War
Division
North Korea attacks
UN (US led) intervention
Chinese intervention
Stalemate and end 1953

10. Cold War Korean war dead: Nuclear weapons as deterrent: MAD Space Race
37,000 US dead
1-2 mil S Koreans dead
1.8 million N Korean, Chinese dead
Nuclear weapons as deterrent: MAD
Space Race
Sputnik
Laika

13. CIA and covert interventions Peacetime draft 1948 1952 election
Iran, Guatemala
Peacetime draft 1948
1952 election
Eisenhower Doctrine

14. McCarthyism Definition Causes: Recent communist gains – esp. China
Fear turned inward
Politically useful
Richard Nixon’s election vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas

15. Pre-McCarthy Spy trials: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Loyalty Oaths
High profile hearings before HUAC, Senate
Job Losses and black listing

16. Joseph McCarthy High profile accusations and hearings
Edward R Murrow: See It Now Mar 9, 1954
(Recent film: Good Night and Good Luck)
Army McCarthy Hearings (April-Jun, 1954)
McCarthy censured by Congress

17. Results of McCarthyism
National Security trumps civil liberties
Job Losses and Ruined Reputations
Cultural Conformity
“Subversive” organizations targeted

18. 1950s culture When are the ‘50s? GI Bill: Baby Boom TV
What were the Reasons?
effects/impacts of the GI Bill? (see sidebar in textbook)
Baby Boom TV
Consumer culture
Credit cards
Two income family

20. What happened to Rosie the Riveter? (see sidebar in book p 962):
What were employment stats and trends?
How did women feel about it?
How did employers respond?
How did unions?

21. Social Changes in Post War US
“the problem that has no name”
Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique
Suburbs: Why was there such a housing demand? What are characteristics of suburbia?
Interstates built
Polio vaccine 1954
Sun belt: What is it? Why was there growth and migration?

22. 1950s people Alfred Kinsey: sex surveys
Jackson Pollack

23. Beatniks

24. Beatniks Describe the culture: style, outlook, activities
Jack Kerouac: On the Road
Allen Ginsburg: Howl
William S Burroughs: Naked Lunch

25. Music Chuck Berry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLD5H4uQ1xs
Elvis Presley

26. More Cold War under Kennedy
Eisenhower’s exit warning of the Military Industrial Complex: Why We Fight clip:
Aid to non-communists in 3rd World
Peace Corps
Cuba:
Fidel Castro takes over 1959
Bay of Pigs invasion and results
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Berlin Wall 1961

27. Where was JFK assassinated?
a. Nashville b. Washington, DC
c. Los Angeles d. Dallas

28. Kennedy’s Assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
Warren Commission