Unit XIII FOCUS QUESTIONS
The Cold War Begins Chapter 36 pp. 825-866 How and why did the American economy soar from 1950 to 1970? How did population changes shape American society following World War II? (Discuss: GNP; GI Bill; Sunbelt; Suburbs; White Flight; Baby Boom) What were the immediate conflicts and deeper causes that led the United States and the Soviet Union to go from being allies to bitter Cold War rivals? (Discuss: Yalta Conference; Communism vs. Capitalism; sphere of influence ; United Nations)
The Cold War Begins Chapter 36 pp. 866-879 Explain the steps that led to the long-term involvement of the United States in major overseas commitments. (Discuss: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Iron Curtain, Berlin Airlift, NATO and the Korean War. How did expanding military power and the Cold War affect American society and ideas? (Discuss: NSC-68, H-bomb, Loyalty Review Board, Smith Act, HUAC, Alger Hiss, McCarran Internal Security Act, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg)
Eisenhower-1950 s Chapter 37 pp. 882-895 What was life like for women in the 1950's? (Discuss: The post-war cult of domesticity, pink-collar ghetto, Betty Friedan s-the Feminine Mystique) How was popular culture changing and reflecting America? (Discuss: The Consumer Culture, Television, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Playboy, The Affluent Society) Joseph McCarthy may have been more dangerous to our form of government than any communists who might have been in the country. Explain. What conditions in the South brought about the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement? (Discuss: Jim Crow Laws, Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King Jr.) Why are the 1950 s widely considered to be the beginning of the modern Civil Rights movement? (Discuss: Brown v. Board of Education, The Little Rock Crisis, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Sit-ins, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)
Eisenhower-1950 s Chapter 37 pp. 895-903 Did Eisenhower live up to his philosophy of dynamic conservatism? (Discuss: The bracero program, termination of the Indian New Deal, Interstate Highway Act of 1956) Was Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation effective? (Discuss: John Foster Dulles, Strategic Air Command, Massive Retaliation, Military-Industrial Complex) How did the United States get involved in Vietnam? (Discuss: Ho Chi Minh, Dienbienphu, Geneva Conference, Ngo Dinh Diem, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization-look it up online!) Why was the U.S. concerned about problems in the Middle East? (Discuss: Shah of Iran, The Suez Crisis, Eisenhower Doctrine, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)) Why was the presidential election of 1960 significant? (Discuss: Richard Nixon, John Kennedy, New Frontier, Televised debates)
The Sixties Chapter 38 pp. 909-922 What successes and failures did Kennedy s New Frontier experience at home and abroad? (Discuss: Peace Corps, The Space Race, Trade Expansion Act, Alliance for Progress) Why did Kennedy believe that a policy of flexible response could better meet the foreign problems of the 1960s? (Discuss: Berlin Wall, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis) Were Kennedy's civil rights actions more the cause of events or a reaction to events in the Civil Rights movement? (Discuss: The Freedom Riders, James Meredith, Birmingham-MLK, JR., March on Washington, I Have a Dream )
The Sixties Chapter 38 pp. 922-927 Did President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) provide good leadership to the country in his first term? (Discuss: Civil Rights Act of 1964, Affirmative Action, War on Poverty, Great Society, The Other America, Medicare/Medicaid, entitlements, Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Project Head Start) What positive steps forward were made by the Civil Rights movement in the mid-1960s and why did the movement eventually turn away from non-violence in the late 1960s? (Discuss: The Twenty-fourth Amendment, Freedom Summer, Selma to Montgomery, The Voting Rights Act of 1965, Watts riots, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Black Power )
The Sixties Chapter 38 pp. 927-935 Why did President Johnson increase America's military presence in Vietnam? (Discuss: Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Operation Rolling Thunder, Viet Cong, escalation ) Describe the negative consequences of America s involvement in the Vietnam War. (Discuss: Six Day War, Anti-war demonstrations, Fulbright Hearings, credibility gap, Cointelpro ) Why was the 1968 presidential election historically significant? (Discuss: Tet Offensive, Eugene McCarthy, LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, Robert Kennedy, 1968 Democratic Convention, Richard Nixon, George Wallace) Why did a 1960s counterculture develop and how was it expressed? (Discuss: Beat generation -look up online, Free Speech Movement, sexual revolution, Stonewall Inn, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), flower children, three P s)