Origins of the Cold War n n Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 Russian Civil War… Red Scare of 1919 Uneasy Alliance in WWII
Yalta Conference
United Nations
Nuremberg Trials
Occupation of Germany
Satellite States n “Iron Curtain”
Potsdam Conference
China n Mao Zedong n Chiang Kai-Shek (Jiang Jie-shi)
Occupied Japan
Containment Policy
Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Arms Race
NSC-68
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
GI Bill n Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944)
The “Fair Deal”
1946 Midterm Elections n n n Establish Republican control of the 80 th Congress… 22 nd Amendment (1951)… Taft-Hartley Act (1947)…
Election of 1948: A Split in the Democratic Party n n Liberal Democrats. Progressive Party Henry Wallace
n n Southern Democrats – State’s Rights Party (Dixiecrats) Strom Thurmond
n n Democrats – Harry S Truman n n Republicans – Thomas Dewey
Dewey Defeats Truman? !? !? !?
The Nuclear Age
Syngman Rhee
Korea – “The Forgotten War” n n June 25, 1950… Mac. Arthur’s assault on Inchon… Stalemate on the 38 th Parallel A “limited war”…
Truman vs. Mac. Arthur
The Second Red Scare n n Loyalty Review Board Dennis et al. v U. S. Mc. Carran Internal Security Act House Un-American Activities Committee
Alger Hiss Case
Mc. Carthyism n n Joe Mc. Carthy… Army-Mc. Carthy Hearings…
Rosenberg Case
“Checkers”
Election of 1952
APUSH UNIT TEN Chapter 28: The Affluent Society
Happy Days?
Baby Boom
Suburban Growth
William J. Levitt - Levittown
Rise of the Sunbelt
Medical Breakthroughs n n n Antibiotics… Penicillin … Salk Vaccine…
Television
50’s Pop Culture n TV
Advertising
UNIVAC
The Hydrogen Bomb
Sputnik - 1957 n n National Defense and Education Act NASA….
Ike’s Domestic Policies n n Modern Republicanism Prosperity
Highway Act - 1956
Women n n Baby and Child Care – Dr. Benjamin Spock Cult of Domesticity
“Beatniks” n Jack Kerouac n Allen Ginsberg
Rock n Roll
Civil Rights Movement n n Jackie Robinson – 1947 – Brooklyn Dodgers… Truman – 1948 – desegregation of the military… Changing Demographics… Changing Attitudes…
n n n 1896 Plessy v Ferguson – “separate but equal” 1954 Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, KS … Chief Justice Earl Warren…
Massive Resistance
“Clinton 12”
Southern Manifesto
Little Rock Nine - 1956
Montgomery Bus Boycott n Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr. n Southern Christian Leadership Conference…
Decolonization
U. S. – Soviet Relations n n n Geneva… “Peaceful Coexistence” – Nikita Kruschev Hungarian Revolt…
Covert Action n Reza Shah Pahlvi Iran n Nixon in Venezuela
French Indochina n n Ho Chi Minh… Dien Bien Phu…
Middle East n n Israel – 1948 Suez Crisis… “Eisenhower Doctrine”… OPEC…