10-17%, DBQ, LEQ, and SAQ's
Unit 8 Learning Objective-Explain the context for societal change from 1945-1980
Unit 8 Key Concepts
Unit 8 Key Concepts
- The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and working to maintain a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences
- Cold War vs Soviet Union
- Containment
- Free Market Economy
- Power of Federal Government while protecting civil liberties
- New movements for civil rights and liberal efforts to expand the role of government generated a range of political and cultural responses
- Civil Rights Movements-African Americans and many others
- Postwar economic and demographic changes had far-reaching consequences for American society, politics, and culture
- Economic Change
- Social Change
- Culture Change
8.2,8.7-The Cold War from 1945-1980 and America as a World Power
AMSCO p. 561-570, 600-604
OpenStax p. 757-764, 784-791
OpenStax p. 757-764, 784-791
B-Border Changes
R-Races-Arms and Space
A-Alliances
C-Communism/Containment
E-East vs West
R-Races-Arms and Space
A-Alliances
C-Communism/Containment
E-East vs West
The United States
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The Soviet Union
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Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan-Economic Assistance to restore infrastructure in Europe post WWII
Truman Doctrine-Military, Political, and Economic assistance to all democratic nations to support anti communist efforts
Truman Doctrine-Military, Political, and Economic assistance to all democratic nations to support anti communist efforts
NATO vs Warsaw Pact
Mutually Assured Destruction and Arms Race
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Space Race
Discussion Questions
1. Why a Space Race?
2. What does this race prove?
3. Do you think something like this will happen again?
1. Why a Space Race?
2. What does this race prove?
3. Do you think something like this will happen again?
Korean War
Korean War Impact-Start and End at 38th Parallels
Berlin and Cuba
8.3-Red Scare
AMSCO p. 570-572, 579-587
HUAC-Un American Activities Committee
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Find the Communist/Infiltrate
8.4, 8.5-Economy and Culture after 1945
AMSCO p. 557-561, 590-592
OpenStax p. 764-773
OpenStax p. 764-773
G.I. Bill and Baby Boom
Levittown and Interstates
Rust Belt to Sun Belt and Suburbanization
Mass Culture=Popular Culture
Mass Culture Maintained and Challenged
Mass Culture
- Consumer Culture-Similar to 1920's
- TV Culture
- 1946 7,000 TV's
- 1960 60 Million TV's
- TV-I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver
- Advertising-TV, Radio
- Automobile Culture
- 28.7 Million Cars in 1945
- 61.7 Million Cars in 1960
- Buying on Credit-->Now Credit Cards
- White Collar Jobs-->Office Work-->Large Corporations
- Ma and Pa stores out of business
- With TV, automobiles, rock and roll, and disposable income youth had more power than ever before
- With baby boomers growing up in 50's push for youth has mass # of people as well
8.8-Vietnam War
AMSCO p. 612-617, 625-627
OpenStax p. 795-797, 829-833
OpenStax p. 795-797, 829-833
Military Industrial Complex-Fear that all are military production with industry is that our economic success is based whether we are in war
Causes and Effects of Vietnam War
- Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon all tied to Vietnam
- Support but not fight North Vietnamese
- Gulf of Tonkin Aggression and Resolution-1964
- Authority given to President to influence region-No Congress declaration
- Tet Offense-1968-up to 500,000 troops in Vietnam
- No stop spread of communism?
- Congress didn't declare war?
- Nixon's Vietnamization
- Removal of troops
- Support with financial aid the South Vietnamese
- Removal of troops
Vietnam and Domino Theory
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Vietnam Backlash
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Song Activity
- Breakdown the lyrics of each song.
- Analyze the Vietnam War or war connections you're able to find?
- Answer how do these musicians feel about the Vietnam War? How do you know?
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8.6, 8.10-Early Civil Rights Movement and African American Civil Rights 1960's
AMSCO p. 587-590, 606-609
OpenStax p. 773-778, 797-804
OpenStax p. 773-778, 797-804
Civil Liberties- Basic rights are guaranteed to all example- Bill of Rights
Civil Rights- Free from unequal treatment
Plessy vs Ferguson(1896)- Supreme Court Case making separate but equal society legal.
Jim Crow Laws- De jure segregation-Mandated by Government
Post Civil Rights Act(1965)-De facto segregation-Social segregation
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
National Association for Advancement of Color People (NAACP)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Civil Rights- Free from unequal treatment
Plessy vs Ferguson(1896)- Supreme Court Case making separate but equal society legal.
Jim Crow Laws- De jure segregation-Mandated by Government
Post Civil Rights Act(1965)-De facto segregation-Social segregation
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
National Association for Advancement of Color People (NAACP)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Non Violent Protest and Civil Disobedience
Civil Rights Events
A Time for Justice-Video of Civil Rights Events
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Civil Rights Act(1964)-Made discrimination based on race, sex, religion, gender illegal
Voting Rights Act(1965)-Prohibited racial discrimination in the voting booth by outlawing literacy test and poll taxes
Voting Rights Act(1965)-Prohibited racial discrimination in the voting booth by outlawing literacy test and poll taxes
Civil Rights Sites
Change Makers in Civil Rights
Why should we know all these individuals name?
8.9, 8.11, 8.12-Great Society and Equal Rights Expands
AMSCO p. 604-605, 609-612
Great Society Created-War on Poverty
- Office of Economic Opportunity-Literacy and Poverty advocate
- Medicare-Federal funded health insurance over 65
- Medicaid-health insurance for those impoverished
- Getting rid of immigration quotas
- Ending Racial Discrimination
- Improving Education
- Children Nutrition
- Expanding Liberalism
- Warren Court
- Johnson's Great Society similar to FDR New Deal
Minority Groups in the 1960's
America Dreaming-1950's-1960's
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8.13, 8.14-Environment, Natural Resources, and Society in Transition
AMSCO p. 627-640
OpenStax p. 815-829
OpenStax p. 815-829
Unit 8 DBQ
- Explain the causes of the rise of a women's rights movement in the period 1940-1975?
- Evaluate the extent of which economic growth led to changes in United States society in the period of 1940-1970?
Review
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