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HOUSEKEEPING• CHECK THE WEBSITE
FOR SCHEDULE
• AP PRE REG– .Last name A-L
• Aux Café – Thu 4-22 (@7AM)
– Last name M-Z• Aux Café – Fri 4-23 (@7AM)
• See me if you have questions about Pres Pres
• FOR TOMORROW:– Policies leading up to
involvement in WWI and WWII (comparison)
– 1950’s culture
GI Bill of Rights (Serviceman’s Readjustment Act)
• 52-20• 17 weeks
• Education• SUNY• Postpone
“homecoming”
• Home loans• Suburbanization
• Rehabilitation
Cold War in action: Truman Doctrine (Containment)
• United Nations
• Yalta Conference– Poland
• Potsdam Conference– Reparations– 4 zones– War criminals
The Red Scare: The Hollywood 10
• 10 producers, writers, and directors who had been or were Communist Party members
• Refused to testify
• 1st amendment– Eventually went to prison
• Blacklist or name names
HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities)
• Whittaker Chambers (journalist) said Alger Hiss was passing secret documents
• Nixon
• Pumpkin papers
• “there was a need to clean house”
• Loyalty oaths– Anti-homosexual rules– Teachers
The Red Scare: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg• US was looking for suspects
• Soviet Union just detonated its first bomb – how quickly they did it though
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for spreading secrets
Joseph McCarthy(ism)
• Ever changing undisclosed list of communists working in the government (Wheeling WV)
• Part of the larger criticism of Truman’s government and reflected world happenings (China)
• Demagogue – people followed him
• Exemplifies how “broader executive authority was necessary to protect national security” (Gerstle)
• Army McCarthy Hearings– 4-5:30 mins– 7:30-9:40
Dwight D. Eisenhower• Progressive Moderation
• Federal Aid Highway Act– 40,000 miles of roads– Security (Panama Canal)
• Korea (Dulles)
• Indochina (Vietnam)– Supported Ngo Dinh Diem (against Ho Chi Minh)
• Middle East, Kruschev, Latin America, Dulles– Brinkmanship
• Sputnik– National Education Defense Act
IMPORTANT NOTES:• Tuesday April 28th
– TIMED DBQ• 2:30-3:30 or 6:30-7:30
• Monday / Tuesday May 4th or 5th
– TIMED MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION
• When works for you?
• SEE ME ABOUT CONFLICTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
• TEST ON THURSDAY– Chpts 27, 28, and 29– Don’t worry about Civil Rights
(on the next test)
• Friday (I will present on Civil Rights)– Review Quiz on (10, 11, and
12)
• Presidential Presentations– Remember the good habits
for presenting– Follow the directions– Plan ahead (it’s a full period)– Stay up on your reading
• Last test on 30 and 31 Wed May 6th
• AP Registration this week