APUSH UNIT 08: Cold War and Post-Modern Era

APUSH UNIT 08: Cold War and Post-Modern Era

VOCABULARYRichard M. NixonAlger HissJoseph McCarthyJulius/Ethel RosenbergMcCarran Internal SecDixiecratsNSC-68ContainmentTaft-Hartley ActGI Bill of RightsFederal Housing AuthYalta ConferenceChiang Kai-shekUNESCONuremberg TrialsTruman DoctrineMarshall PlanNational Security ActNATOMao Tse-Tung

Chapter 25-26: Cold War A. Postwar Economic Anxieties1. Return to Depression

3. SFI1. Curbing labor

3. SFI1. Truman

2. Re-privatizes bus3. SFI

2. Employment Act of 1946

3. SFI2. Servicemen’s Readjus

Act3. SFI

B. Long Eco Boom, 1950-19701. GNP climbs – 1948

2. High consumer demand3. SFI

2. Employ incre – 25%3. SFI

2. Changed culture3. SFI

2. Agric prod increases3. SFI

C. The Smiling Sunbelt1. Pop redistrib

3. SFI D. The Rush to the Suburbs1. Suburbs

2. Gov/tech encour3. SFI

2. Levittown - NY 1940s3. SFI

2. Mid class + bus flight

3. SFI

E. The Postwar Baby Boom1. Social effects

3. SFI



F. Yalta: Bargain or Betrayal?1. Prob w/ Soviet Union

2. Eur and Asia3. SFI

1. Yalta Conference 19452. How to end war

3. SFI2. Dumbarton Oaks – UN

3. SFI2. Japan

3. SFI

G. The USA or the USSR1. Mutual suspicions

2. Philosophies3. SFI

2. Soviets angry3. SFI

2. US suspicious3. SFI

2. US denies aid3. SFI

1. Visions for postwar world2. Stalin = security

3. SFI2. FDR = open world

3. SFI1. Similarities

3. SFI H. Shaping the Postwar World1. FDR’s vision

2. Bretton Woods – 1944

3. SFI2. UN conference -

4/25/453. SFI

2. Initial success + failure

3. SFI

I. Germany1. Punish Nazis

3. SFI1. Destroy Ger?

3. SFI1. Ger divided

3. SFI



J. Crystallizing Cold War1. Stalin tests the West

2. Peacemeal attacks3. SFI

2. Tru responses3. SFI

1. Containment2. 1947 - Truman Doctrine

3. SFI2. Marshall Plan

3. SFI

K. America Begins to Rearm1. New nat sec apparatus

3. SFI1. Other Cold War tools

2. Voice of America – 19482. Selective Service

3. SFI1. Sov threat unites Euro nations

2. 4/4/49 NATO3. SFI

L. Revolution in Asia1. Recon in Japan

2. MacArthur3. SFI

1. China Civil war3. SFI

1. 1949 – Sov Atomic Bomb3. SFI

M. Ferreting Out Communists1. Domestic front

2. Fear of Comm3. SFI

2. Loyalty prog3. SFI

2. Smith Act3. SFI

2. HUAC3. SFI

2. McCarran Internal Security

3. SFI2. Rosenbergs

3. SFI



N. Democratic Divisions in 19481. 1946 - Demo lose cong

2. S demo wanted Eisenhower

3. SFI2. Dixiecrats

3. SFI1. “Fair Deal”

3. SFI

O. Korea 19501. Ominous

3. SFI1. 1949 US/USSR pull out

troops2. Acheson

3. SFI2. 1949 - N Kor crosses

38th

3. SFI1. Tru reacts

3. SFI1. Sov leaves UN

3. SFI2. Korean police action

3. SFI

P. Seesaw in Korea1. Mac’s amphibious attack

2. Inchon3. SFI

1. Tru stops Mac2. Restore S Kor

3. SFI1. Mac mad

2. Calls for China blockade

3. SFI2. UN and cong refuse

3. SFI2. Tru removes Mac

3. SFI


VOCABULARYJackie RobinsonRosa ParksThurgood MarshallMontgomery Bus BoycottEarl WarrenCentral High SchoolSCLCSNCCJohn Foster DullesMilitary-industrial complexHo Chi Minh Ngo Dinh DiemSEATOGeneva ConferenceNikita KhrushchevSuez CrisisEisenhower DoctrineJames R. HoffaSputnikNew FrontierElvis Presley

Chapter 27: Eisenhower Era

A. The Advent of Eisenhower1. Demos hurt by Korea

2. Truman v. Mac3. SFI

2. War-bred inflation3. SFI

1. Ike visits Korea3. SFI

B. “Ike” Takes Command1. Ike = Non-partisan

3. SFI1. Prob as Pres

2. Joseph R. McCarthy3. SFI

C. Desegregating the South1. Only 20% blacks - regis to vote

3. SFI2. TVs refused black prog

3. SFI

1. Jim Crow2. WWII vets murd

3. SFI2. Emmett Till

3. SFI 2. An American

Dilemma by Gunmar Mrydal

3. SFI1. Race progress

2. Jackie Robinson3. SFI

2. Brown Case3. SFI

1. Rosa Parks2. Montg Bus boycott -

1yr.3. SFI

D. Seeds of Civil Rights Rev1. Truman tackles race discrim

2. “To Secure These Rights”

3. SFI2. 1948 - deseg civ

services3. SFI



1. Eis - civ rights2. Leaves to judic branch

3. SFI1. Earl Warren

3. SFI

E. Crisis at Little Rock1. 1957 civil Rights Act

3. SFI1. Blacks protest

2. MLK3. SFI

2. Sit-ins3. SFI

2. SNCC3. SFI

F. Republicanism at Home1. Eis Dynamic conservatism

3. SFI1. Ike spreads socialism

3. SFI

G. Foreign Policy1. Massive Retaliation

2. Dulles3. SFI

1. Military-Industrial Complex2. Farewell address –

19603. SFI

H. The Vietnam Nightmare1. Europe – 1950s

2. Marshall Plan3. SFI

1. Vietnam2. Nat movement

3. SFI2. Ho chi Minh

3. SFI1. Geneva Conference – 1954

3. SFI



I. US Steps In1. US supports French

2. Reasons3. SFI

1. Eis = arms-control agreements

2. SU ends occup Austria3. SFI

2. Khrush denounces Stalin

3. SFI1. US errs

2. 1956 - Hungary revolts J. Middle East1.Sov in-roads

2. 1953 – Iran3. SFI

1. Suez Crisis2. Nasser

3. SFI1. US oil interests

2. Eisenhower Doctrine3. SFI

K. Round Two for “Ike”1. Ike in ill health

2. Weak reins on gov3. SFI

1. Ike shows interest2. labor legis

3. SFI2. Teamsters

3. SFI

M. Race with Russia into Space1. 1957 - Sov launch Sputnik I

3. SFI1. Space race

3. SFI

N. The Continuing Cold War1. Nuclear testing 1950s

3. SFI1. Cold War heats up

2. West Berlin 3. SFI

2. Khrus – NY summit 1959

3. SFI



O. Castroism Spells Communism1. Nix abroad

2. Goodwill tour - S Amer 3. SFI

1. Cuba2. 1959 - comm rev

3. SFI

P. Kennedy Challenges Nixon1. 1960 - Rep = slipping

2. Rep lost cong in 58 3. SFI

2. Recession in 57-58 3. SFI

1. New Nixon2. Not old opportunist

3. SFI1. Demos 1960

2. JFK wins 3. SFI

Q. The Presidential Issues of 1960

1. JFK = Catholic 3. SFI

1. JFK suff worst in south 3. SFI

1. TV played to JFK 3. SFI

1. JFK wins2. Prom a New Frontier

3. SFI

R. Eis Fades Away1. Pop until end

2. Alaska/Hawaii states 1959

3. SFI

S. Consumer Culture1. 1950s - Exp of mid class

2. Technology 3. SFI

2. Music rev 3. SFI

2. Sociological concerns 3. SFI


VOCABULARYDetenteJ. Edgar HooverRobert McNamaraNew FrontierFlexible responseViet CongAlliance for

ProgressBay of Pigs

incidentCuban Missile

CrisisJames MeredithMedgar EvarsBarry GoldwaterTonkin GulfHip-pocket

congressNational

EndowmentProject Head StartCivil Rights ActVoting Rights ActMalcolm XStokely CarmichaelPeace CorpsCredibility gapTet Offensive

Chapter 28-29: Crisis For America A. Kennedy’s New Frontier1. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

2. Personified vitality 3. SFI

2. New Frontier 3. SFI

B. The New Frontier At Home1. Tough successes at home

3. SFI1. Early challenges for Kenn

2. Big bus 3. SFI

2. Man on moon 3. SFI

C. Rumblings in Europe1. Russian relations

2. 6/61 - JFK meets Khrus 3. SFI

1. Renewed containment2. Western Europe

3. SFI2. European Market

3. SFI

D. Flexible Response1. Decolonization

2. Laos 3. SFI

1. Foreign Policy2. “Flexible response”

3. SFI E. Vietnam Quagmire1. Flex res no work in Viet

1950's2. Diem regime corr

3. SFI2. Viet - partitioned

1954 3. SFI



ProgressBay of Pigs



congressNational


F. Cuban Confrontations1. Alliance for Progress

3. SFI1. Bay of Pigs Invasion

3. SFI1. Cuban Missile Crisis

3. SFI

G. Struggle for Civil Rights1. JFK for AA

2. End housing discrim 3. SFI

2. Civil rights mov 3. SFI

H. The Killing of Kennedy1. 11/22/63 - JFK assass

3. SFI1. Lyndon Baines Johnson

3. SFI

I. LBJ Brand on the Presidency1. Honor JFK

3. SFI

2. LBJ – elected 19642. Great Society

3. SFI2. Harrington - The

Other Amer 3. SFI

J. Battling Goldwater in 19641. Goldwater attacks lib eco/war

3. SFI1. Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964

3. SFI1. LBJ wins

2. Honeymoon - Great Soc

3. SFI

K. The Great Society Congress1. LBJ ’s “hip-pocket cong”

2. Medicare 3. SFI

2. 2 cabinet posts 3. SFI

2. National End for Hum 3. SFI



ProgressBay of Pigs



congressNational


L. Black Revolution1. Desegregation

2. Civil Rights Act of 1964 3. SFI

2. 1964 - 24th amend 3. SFI

2. 1965 MLK regis in Selma

3. SFI

M. Black Rage1. New aggressive

2. Watts - LA 1965 3. SFI

2. New viol voices 3. SFI

1. MLK killed - 4/4/68 3. SFI

N. Communism in Two Hemis1. Foreign affairs threaten LBJ

2. Domin Rep 1965 3. SFI

2. Viet quagmire 3. SFI

O. Vietnam Vexations1. World reacting to Viet

3. SFI1. Domestic discontent

2. Antiwar demon 3. SFI

2. Senate Foreign Relations

3. SFI2. McNamara resigned

3. SFI

P. Vietnam Topples Johnson1. Amer loses faith

2. TET offensive - 1/68 3. SFI

1. LBJ challenged 3. SFI

1. 3/68 - LBJ resigns 3. SFI

Q. Pres Sweepstakes of 19681. Demo conven - Chicago 1968

2. Massive protest 3. SFI



ProgressBay of Pigs



congressNational


1. Rep nom Richard Nixon 3. SFI

1. 3rd party - Amer Indep Party2. Wallace - “Seg now; seg

tomor; seg forever” 3. SFI

R. Victory For Nixon1. Little choice

2. demos/rep - escal war 3. SFI

1. Nixon wins2. only 42 % of pop

3. SFI

S. Obituary of Lyndon Johnson1. Incred domes leadership

3. SFI1. LBJ’s demise

3. SFI

T. Cultural Upheaval of 1960's1. Consequences

2. Youth become jaded 3. SFI

2. Anti-authority attit 3. SFI

2. Sex attitudes 3. SFI


VOCABULARYMoratoriumHelsinki SummitMayaguezAnti-ballistic MissleJimmy CarterImpoundmentCamp David

AccordMenachem BeginLeonid BrezhnevSALT Executive PrivilegeAyatollah KhomeniLiberal

establishmentVietnamizationNixon DoctrineKent State

MassacreHenry KissingerWatergate

BurglaryPentagon PapersSpiro AgnewWar Powers ActOPEC

Chapter 28-29: Crisis For America A. The Economy Stagnates1. Post WWII boon slows

2. Prod falls 3. SFI

1. Causes of slump2. Lower skills hurt prod2. Less investment in bus2. High costs on gov

safety2. Shift from manuf to

service1. Reverbs of Viet war

2. War drained taxes 3. SFI

2. LBJ’s Great Society 3. SFI

1. 1970's - inflat 3. SFI

B. Nixon “Vietnamizes” the War1. Nixon elected

2. Could not stop Viet 3. SFI

2. Nixon Doctrine 3. SFI

2. Nix counteroffensive 3. SFI

1. 1/70 - Viet = longest US war

2. Draft = unpop 3. SFI

1. Domestic disgust2. 1970 - My Lai

incident 3. SFI

C. Cambodia1. Cambodia

3. SFI1. Massive protest

2.Kent State3. SFI

1. Nix withdraws2. Hawks v doves

3. SFI2. Cong limit Nix

3. SFI 2. Pentagon Papers

3. SFI







D. Nixon in Beijing and Moscow1. Appease USSR and China

2. Leninst v Maoist3. SFI

2. Force N. Viet to peace3. SFI

1. H. Kissinger - Sect. Of State2. Shuttle Dipl

3. SFI2. Nix in Beijing + Moscow

3. SFI2. Détente

3. SFI

E. A New Supreme Bench1. Nix angry at Earl Warren

court2. Judicial activism

3. SFI2. Civil rights cases

3. SFI

F. Nixon on the Home Front1. Nix Impoundment

3. SFI

2. Expanding Pres. Auth3. SFI

1. Cong against Nix2. Refus to pass Nix

legis3. SFI

2. “Revenue-sharing”3. SFI

1. Nix legacy2. Envir Protec Agen

3. SFI1. Other Nix accomp

2. Dollar off gold standard

2. Raised Soc Sec benefits

1. Election of 19722. Southern strategy

3. SFI

G. The Nixon Landslide of 19721. Viet resurges

2. NVA crosses DMV3. SFI

1. Nix argued2. “Peace at hand”







H. Bombing North Vietnam 1. After elec

2. Escal war to retreat3. SFI

I. Watergate Woes1. 6/17/72 – burglary

3. SFI1. Senate Hearings 1973-74

2. Sam Ervin 3. SFI

J. The Great Tape Controversy1. 1973- revealed bugging

3. SFI1. 10/73 - VP Spiro Agnew

2. Cong replaced3. SFI

1. “Saturday Night Massacre”2. Call for impeach

3. SFI

K. Secret Bombing of Cambodia1. Illeg bombing

3. SFI1. Cambodia hurt

2. Rise of Pol Pot3. SFI

1. Cong responds2. War Powers Act 1973

3. SFI2. Ends draft

3. SFI

L. The Arab Oil Embargo1. Prob in Middle East

2. Syria/Egypt attacks3. SFI

1. Arabs retaliate2. Oil embargo

3. SFI

M. Unmaking of a President1. 1974 - impeachment inquiries

2. No exec priv3. SFI







1. impeachment charges2. Obstruction of justice2. Abuse of Pres powers2. Contempt for cong

1. Used CIA to block FBI invest3. SFI

1. Nix resigns - 8/8/743. SFI

1. Constit works2. Peaceful removal

3. SFI

N. First Unelected President1. First Pres by cong – 1974

2. Serious handicaps3. SFI

2. Granted Nix pardon3. SFI

O. Ford’s Foreign Affairs1. Ford continues Detente

2. Helsinki accords 7/753. SFI

P. Victory for North Vietnam1. 1975 - NVA - massive push

3. SFI

Q. The Bicentennial Campaign1. 1976 Demos nom Carter

3. SFI 1. Demo maj in cong

2. Init success for Carter

3. SFI2. Prob

3. SFI

R. Humanitarian Diplomacy1. Concern for human rights

2. Panama Canal3. SFI

2. Camp David 1978 3. SFI

1. Foreign pol prob2. SALT II / Afghan

3. SFI2. Lacked vision

3. SFI







S. Carter Tackles the Economy1. Econ failing

2. Double-digit inflat3. SFI

2. Dollar loses value3. SFI

2. Yearly defic - $60 bil3. SFI

2. Shrinking incomes3. SFI

1. Carter prob - oil prices2. Malaise speech

3. SFI T. Carter’s Energy Woes1. Iran crisis

2. 1979 - Shah of Iran3. SFI

1. Alternative energy2. Opens US reserves

3. SFI

U. Iranian Imbroglio1. 1979 SALT II

2. Senate rejects SALT II3. SFI

2. Embargo on Russia3. SFI

2. USSR bogged in Afghan

3. SFI

V. Hostage Humiliation1. Hostages in Iran

3. SFI

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APUSH UNIT 08: Cold War and Post-Modern Era