1. Period 3 & 7
We will examine the political changes of the 1950s including Eisenhower’s Election and the growth of the Civil Rights movement
AP Review
Election Chart
Chapter 38 Notes
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Cold War Atlas

3. AP REVIEW Return to Normalcy Teapot Dome Scandal Al Smith
Kellog-Briand Pact
League of Nations

11. McCarthyism
Senator McCarthy stated that the government was hiring communists to work for the government.
Became very popular and convinced Americans to be afraid of communists.
None of his statements could be backed up.

12. Civil Rights
The 1954 landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, reversed the previous 1896 ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal”
Took more than a decade for the schools in the Deep South to be integrated

16. Eisenhower sends troops in to Little Rock Arkansas to protect nine students at Central High School
MLK formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to pursue civil rights
Sit-in movement begins with four college students sitting at an all white lunch counter
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee is established

19. Eisenhower uses his experience with German Autobahn to build Interstate Highway system in US
Built for defensive purposes and to link cities