Study Guide - Unit Fourteen: The Fifties

Due Date	Assignment
Thurs., Apr. 20	1. Read p. 766 – 772 2. Answer questions 1 - 6
Fri., Apr. 21	1. Read p. 773 – 778 2. Answer questions 7
Mon., Apr. 24	1. Read p. 779 – 791 2. Answer questions 8 - 11
Tues., Apr. 25	1. Read p. 796 – 802 2. Answer questions 12 - 15
Weds., Apr. 26	1. Read p. 803 – 811 2. Answer questions 16 - 17
Thurs., Apr. 27	1. Read p. 812 – 819 2. Answer questions 18 - 21
Mon., May 1	1. Read p. 820 – 823 2. Answer questions 22 - 23
Tues., May 2	Test

Reading Questions

1.	What were the goals of US foreign policy during the Cold War?
2.	List the causes of tension between the US and the Soviet Union.
3.	Explain the Truman Doctrine and describe how Americans reacted to it.
4.	Identify the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift.
5.	What was the purpose of the NATO alliance?
6.	What did the US do to affect the outcome of the Civil War in China and what was the outcome?
7.	Make a flow chart of events of the Korean War. What was the outcome of the War?
8.	What reasons were there for fear of communism in this period?
9.	Explain what happened with the following: HUAC, Hollywood Ten, Alger Hiss, Rosenbergs
10.	Describe the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy.
11.	For each of the following events explain how the U.S. reacted and why.: Soviet atom bomb, Iranian crisis, Guatemalan crisis, Suez crisis, Soviet invasion of Hungary.
12.	What were the economic and social problems Americans faced after World War II?
13.	What were the causes and effects of social unrest in the postwar period?
14.	Summarize the actions in domestic affairs that Truman took during his presidency.
15.	What actions in domestic affairs did Eisenhower take in his presidency?
16.	Describe the “Organization Man.”
17.	Describe the suburban culture of the 1950s.
18.	Explain the increase in consumerism in the 1950s.
19.	Explain how television programs in the 1950s reflected middle-class values.
20.	How did the beat movement and rock ‘n’ roll music clash with middle-class values.
21.	How did African-American entertainers integrate culture in the 1950s?
22.	How did white migration to the suburbs create an urban crisis?
23.	Describe the attempts of minorities to relieve poverty and gain equal rights.

Identifications

1.	Harry S. Truman	22.	Yalu River	43.	GI Bill
2.	Joseph Stalin	23.	Loyalty Review Board	44.	Levittown
3.	Yalta	24.	HUAC	45.	1948 election
4.	Potsdam	25.	Hollywood Ten	46.	Dixiecrats
5.	Satellite Nations	26.	McCarran Internal Security Bill	47.	Strom Thurmond
6.	George F. Kennan	27.	Alger Hiss	48.	Fair Deal
7.	Containment	28.	The Rosenbergs	49.	Election of 1852
8.	Iron Curtain speech	29.	Joseph McCarthy	50.	Richard Nixon
9.	Cold War	30.	Army-McCarthy Hearings	51.	“Checkers speech”
10.	Truman Doctrine	31.	McCarthyism	52.	Dynamic Conservativism
11.	Marshall Plan	32.	Brinkmanship	53.	Brown v. Board of Educ.
12.	Berlin airlift	33.	H-Bomb	54.	The Organization Man
13.	NATO	34.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	55.	The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
14.	Mao Zedong	35.	John Foster Dulles	56.	Baby Boom
15.	Chiang Kai-shek	36.	Warsaw Pact	57.	Dr. Jonas Salk
16.	Formosa/Taiwan	37.	Spirit of Geneva	58.	Interstate Highway Act
17.	Chinese Civil War	38.	Suez Crisis	59.	Beat Movement
18.	Korean War	39.	Eisenhower Doctrine	60.	Jack Kerouac
19.	38^th Parallel	40.	Nikita Khrushchev	61.	Bracero program
20.	Gen. Douglas MacArthur	41.	Sputnik	62.	Termination Policy
21.	Inchon	42.	U-2 Incident

Themes for Unit Fourteen: The Cold War and The 1950s

o Truman’s domestic programs: what did he propose and how successful was he

o Sources of Cold War; Rationale behind the containment doctrine

o The consequences of the defense and foreign policy views, and actions of the Truman administration

o The origins of the Korean War, its outcome, and its impact on the United States in domestic and foreign policy

o Other tensions around the world during the Cold war

o Were the 1950s really an age of consensus and conformity? Why or why not

o Eisenhower’s domestic programs

o The civil rights movement during the 1950s and the reaction of white southerners; how successful were blacks in achieving their objectives in this period

o The sources and results of the postwar economic boom; the effect of the Baby Boom and growth of the suburbs on American life

o American culture in the 1950s: the influence of TV, advertising, movies, music, fads, and writers during this period