Topics: Post WW2, Truman, Cold War Begins: 1945-1952
GI Bill of Rights, sunbelt, Taft Hartley Act, Election of 1948, Harry Truman, Dixicrats, Fair Deal, United Nations, IMF, World Bank, Cold War, Yalta Conference, buffer zones, puppet governments, “Iron Curtain” speech. George Kennan, Long Telegram, Containment, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Divided Germany, Berlin Airlift, NATO, NSC-68, Chinese Civil War, People’s Republic of China, “loss of China”, Smith Act, Federal Employee Loyalty Program, House of Un-American Activities Committee, Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Joseph McCarthy, Korean War
Textbooks:
Kennedy- American Pageant Chapter 36
Brinkley- American History Chapter 27
Henretta- America’s History Chapter 25-26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxTsEnG_kx4
cold_war_slides.pdf |
Topics: The 1950s: Eisenhower Administration
Dwight Eisenhower, Interstate Highway Act, Baby boom, Levittown, rise of television, Betty Friedan, Beatniks, de factor discrimination, Brown v. Board of Education, Southern Manifesto, Little Rock 9, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Sit-Ins, SNCC, brinkmanship, John Foster Dulles, New Look policy, Hungarian Revolution, Atoms for Peace, Spirit of Geneva, Khrushchev, détente, Sputnik, National Defense of Education Act, NASA, U-2 Spy plane incident, CIA, Operation Ajax, Suez Crisis, Eisenhower Doctrine, OPEC, CIA Guatemala, Cuban Revolution, Military Industrial Complex
Textbooks:
Kennedy- American Pageant Chapter 37
Brinkley- American History Chapter 28
Henretta- America’s History Chapter 25-27
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https://youtu.be/RZnGkSqpeVA
1950s.pdf |
Topics: The Sixties: 1960-1968
Election of 1960, John F Kennedy, New Frontier, Man on the Moon, Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, détente, flexible response, Robert McNamara, Green Berets, JFK assassination, Lyndon B Johnson, Great Society, War on Poverty, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Immigration & Nationality Act of 1965, Election of 1964, Barry Goldwater, Rise of New Conservatives, Silent Spring, Freedom Rides, March on Washington, Freedom Summer, 24th Amendment, Black Power Movement, Malcolm X, Black Panthers, Watts Riots, Vietnam War, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Tet Offensive, Anti-War Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, New Left, National Organization for Women, Stonewall Riots,
Textbooks:
Kennedy- American Pageant Chapter 38
Brinkley- American History Chapter 29-30
Henretta- America’s History Chapter 27-28
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https://youtu.be/yrdMfrNSNps
1960s.pdf |