Civil Rights and the Cold War: 1946-1991

A Changing World

The Cold War Begins:

A War of Ideology

Churchill,

Truman, and

Stalin at the

Potsdam

Conference, July

1945

Satellite Nations

The Cold War Begins

Iron Curtain

Political cartoon depicting Stalin and his satellite nations

Churchill coined the term “Iron Curtain” and is depicted

below

Containment Theory

Truman Doctrine

US Foreign Policy Response

Above: The Chicago Tribune went to press to early and predicted

wrongly that Dewey would defeat Truman

in 1948

Left: Truman Doctrine political cartoon. Can

you find all the symbolism?

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Q1. What was the containment theory and why was it necessary?

NATO, Warsaw Pact, 1949

Communism Spreads

Mao Zedong was the leader of communist China from 1943 to

1976

Communism Spreads: War with North Korea

The border between North and South was at the 38th parallel before the war, and

remained there afterwards

Civil Rights Movement

Jackie Robinson of the

Brooklyn Dodgers

Protesting the Little Rock Nine

Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus

seat to a white man

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Q2. Give an example of how desegregation led to violence.

The Cold War Heats Up

Kennedy

Becomes

President in the

Election of 1960

The election of 1960 saw the first ever televised debates. According to

the American public that watched the television,

JFK was the clear winner; for those who listened on the radio,

Nixon was the clear winner.

Kennedy Giving His Inaugural Speech

The Cold War Heats Up: Berlin Wall

Left: Berlin Wall

in front of the

Brandenburg

Gate in Berlin,

Germany

Bay of Pigs

Cold War Heats Up: JFK vs. Castro

Cuban Missile Crisis

The failed invasion was an embarrassment to JFK’s administration and led Castro to believe the US would attempt another take over of the island

Civil Rights Movement Continues

Freedom Riders

1963 March on Washington

Peaceful Protests Not the Only Way

Civil Rights Movement Continues

Malcolm X had a different ideology than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His ideology was to take power by force and reclaiming pride and masculinity.

Civil Rights Movement Continues

JFK Assassination

LBJ signs Civil

Rights Act of

1964

Civil Rights Movement Continues

Cesar Chavez and

the United Farm

Workers

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Q3. How were the ideologies of MLK and Malcolm X different?

The Cold War Space Race

Sputnik

NASA

A Tumulus Year: 1968

Dr. King and Robert Kennedy

Vietnam War and protests

Nixon wins the Presidency

The Space Program

Years of Hope?

Vietnam Ends

Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon, July 16,

1969. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for

mankind.”

Left: Singer and songwriter John Lennon

Below: Gravesites of Vietnam Vets

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Q4. Give 3 reasons why 1968 was a very tumultuous year.

Policy of Détente

Changes in American Foreign Policy

Scandal in the Presidency

Nixon was the first President to visit the Soviet Union since the iron curtain fell; pictured

here with Brezhnev

Ford is the only president to never be elected to the Vice-Presidency nor Presidency

Cold War Ends

Conservative

Agenda

Reagan Revolution

“Mr. Gorbachev,

tear down this

wall!”

Cold War Ends: Communism Falls in Europe

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Q5. What was the “Reagan Revolution”?

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