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Prosperity and Cold War

Unit 9: Extraordinary Challenges
Cold War and Hot Domestic Turmoil: 1945-1980

Key Concepts:  Students should be able to
  1. Analyze the postwar policies of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. and how these contributed to the start of the Cold War.
  2. How did the Cold War reshape ideas of American freedom?
  3. What were the major initiatives of Truman's domestic policies?
  4. Explain the policy of containment and its implementation throughout the Cold War.
  5. What effects did the anti-communism of the Cold War have on American politics and culture?
  6. What were the main characteristics of the affluent society of the 1950s?
  7. How did economic growth, the “Baby Boom” and the rise of suburbia create the popular image of the 50s?
  8. Assess the validity of the notion that the 1950s were a period of conservatism and conformity.  Describe challenges to the homogenous mass culture and conservative efforts to maintain their ideal.
  9. List the main domestic and international factors leading to the postwar Red Scare and evaluate the American response to the fear of communism
  10. How were the 1950s a period of consensus in both domestic policies and foreign affairs?
  11. What was the significance of the presidential election of 1960?
  12. What were the major crises and policy initiatives of the Kennedy presidency?
  13. Discuss strategies used by minorities during the last half of the 20th century to gain greater equality and assess the level of success attained
  14. Cite major successes and failures of the Civil Rights movement prior to and following 1964
  15. Compare and contrast major civil rights leaders and organizations and analyze their approaches to equality for women, African Americans, and other groups.
  16. What were the purposes and strategies of Johnson's Great Society programs?
  17. How did the Vietnam War transform American politics and culture?
  18. Critique Liberalism, its proponents and its programs.  Explain presidential programs such as JFK’s New Frontier and LBJ’s Great Society and War on Poverty. 
  19. What were the sources and significance of the rights revolution of the late 1960s?
  20. In what ways was 1968 a climactic year for the sixties?
  21. What were the major policies of the Nixon administration on social and economic issues?
  22. How did Vietnam and the Watergate scandal affect popular trust in the government?
  23. To what degree were the environmental movements of the 60’s and 70’s successful?
  24. Explain the ways in which traditional family roles and values were challenged and chart the development of the counter-culture, the sexual revolution, and radical feminism.
  25. In what ways did the opportunities of most Americans diminish in the 1970s?
  26. What were the roots of the rise of conservatism in the 1970s?
  27. How did the Reagan presidency affect Americans both at home and abroad?​


Text Reading:
Chapter 23 The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953
Chapter 24 An Affluent Society, 1953-1960
Chapter 25 The Sixties, 1960-1968
Chapter 26 The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1988
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    • Early US Review Unit
    • Unit 1 Industry, Gilded Age, & Progressivism
    • Unit 2 Imperialism
    • Unit 3 WWI
    • Unit 4 The 20s and start of Great Depression
    • Unit 5 World War II
    • Unit 6: The Early Cold War
    • Unit 7 1960s
    • Unit 8 The Vietnam War
    • Unit 9 The Civil Rights Movement
    • Unit 10 Ford, Carter, Reagan
  • IB History HL
    • IB HotA Orientation
    • Internal Assessment
    • IB HotA Review Materials
    • HotA Reading Resources
    • Extended Essay
    • IB HotA Unit 1 Emergence of the Americas in global affairs (1880–1929)
    • IB HotA Unit 3 Cause and Effect of War: WWI
    • IB HotA Unit 4 Great Depression in Americas
    • IB HotA Unit 5 Authoritarian States (20th Century)
    • IB HotA Unit 6 The Move to Global War
    • IB HotA Unit 7 The Second World War and the Americas (1933-1945)
    • IB HotA Unit 8 The Cold War: Superpower tensions and rivalries (20th century)
    • IB HotA U.S. Civil War
  • APUSH
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    • APUSH Period 2
    • APUSH Period 3
    • APUSH Period 4
    • APUSH Period 5
    • APUSH Period 6
    • APUSH Period 7a - Progressivism, Imperialism, WWI
    • APUSH Period 7B 20s Depression WWII
    • APUSH Unit 9
    • Essay Materials
    • APUSH Review materials
  • World War Two Page