1. AP US History
Segment 2 Week 10

2. Objectives This Week 8.01 The Cold War Quiz 8.02 Postwar America Quiz
8.03 Civil Rights Movement Writing Assignment

3. 8.01 The Cold War Make sure you understand the following topics:
Containment
Vietnam War
Golf of Tonkin
McCarthyism
Arms Race
Iran
Protests over the Vietnam War
Truman Doctrine
Detente

4. The Cold War
Political tension between the US and Soviet Union
“Cold” war
Indirect Confrontations
Detente

5. Cold War Domestic Policies
Loyalty Review system
McCarthyism and HUAC
National Security Act
NSC-68
NASA
National Defense Education Act

6. Cold War Foreign Policy
Containment and Truman Doctrine
NATO
Marshall Plan
Korean War
Vietnam War
CIA-backed coups
U-2 Spy Plane
Cuban Missile Crisis
Afghanistan
Space Race
Hydrogen bomb

7. Indirect Confrontations

8. US and the Middle East

9. 8.02 Postwar America Make sure you understand the following topics:
Rise of the Suburbs
Baby boom
Air Conditioning/Sun Belt
American culture after WW2
Christianity used as the defense against communism
Conservatism
G.I. Bill

10. Prosperity
Baby boom
Suburbs
GI Bill
Rise of the Sun Belt
Color TV

11. Impact of Television
Nixon-Kennedy Debate
Vietnam War

12. Culture Religious revival during the 1950s, more conservative
1950s “Beats” generation
Rock ’n’ Roll
Society was segregated but sports and music became desegregated

13. Any Questions?
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