Unit I – The Settlement and Making of American Society
Period 8 – World War II and The Cold War
APUSH - Steiker
Questions to Consider
▪ To what extent was the United States neutral before the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
▪ Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
▪ How were American women’s lives changed by World War II?
▪ To what extent were Japanese internment during World War II justified?
▪ How did the Allies win the war?
▪ To what extent did the dropping of the atomic bomb on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki bring an end to the war
▪ in the Pacific?
▪ How did a meeting at Yalta shape the post-war world?
▪ Why did the United States help found the United Nations?
▪ What events shaped the beginning of the Cold War?
▪ How did the citizens of the United States and the Soviet Union view each other?
▪ How do communist dictatorships differ from capitalistic democracies?
▪ How did American respond to the Cold War?
▪ How do the Korean and Vietnam Wars compare?
▪ How did fear of the domino theory affect American foreign policy in Southeast Asia?
▪ How did the response at home shape the outcome of the Vietnam War?
▪ Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis considered the greatest threat to global was since the end of WWII?
▪ How did détente change the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union?
▪ Why did Nixon visit China?
▪ How did the U.S. respond to political changes in Latin America?
▪ How did the policies of perestroika and glasnost affect the relationship between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.?
▪ How has the U.S. responded to the New World Order?
Key Terms
|arms race |Korematsu v. United States |War Powers Act |
|Atlantic Charter |Lend-Lease |Yalta |
|Axis Powers |Loyalty Review Board |Significant Individuals |
|Bay of Pigs |Marshall Plan |Leonid Breshnev |
|Berlin Airlift |McCarran-Walter Act |Winston Churchill |
|Berlin Wall |McCarthyism |Mikhail Gorbachev |
|blitzkrieg |Midway |Emperor Hirohito |
|bomb shelter |Nagasaki |Alger Hiss |
|Collective Security |NATO |Adolf Hitler |
|communism |Neutrality Acts |Nikita Khrushchev |
|containment |Normandy |Henry Kissinger |
|Contras |Potsdam |Douglas MacArthur |
|détente |ration books |George Marshall |
|Dien Bien Phu |Red Scare |Joseph McCarthy |
|domino theory |Rosie the Riveter |Benito Mussolini |
|duck and cover |Sandinistas |Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
|Eisenhower Doctrine |SEATO |Ethel and Julius Rosenberg |
|fascism |Space race |Joseph Stalin |
|Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |Sputnik |Mao Zedong |
|Hiroshima |Stalingrad |Cold War Presidents |
|House on Un-American Activities |Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty |Harry S. Truman |
|Committee (HUAC) |(SALT I & SALT II) |Dwight D. Eisenhower |
|Interstate Highway System |Truman Doctrine |John F. Kennedy |
|internationalism |Tet Offensive |Lyndon B. Johnson |
|internment camps |U-2 |Richard M. Nixon |
|isolationism |United Nations |Gerald R. Ford |
|Korean War |Vietnam War |James (Jimmy) E. Carter |
| | |Ronald W. Reagan |
Truman
|Foreign: Atomic diplomacy, containment, Truman Doctrine, communist satellites, Iron Curtain, relations with the USSR including Potsdam, Marshall Plan, Berlin |
|Blockade, Berlin Airlift, NATO, relations with China, Korean War including the firing of General MacArthur, National Security Act, U.S. Japanese Security Treaty|
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|Domestic: Congressional relationship, Serviceman’s Readjustment Act, baby boom, Sunbelt, Employment Act 1946, Committee on Civil Rights, integration of the |
|Armed Forces, Taft-Hartley Act, Fair Deal, Red Scare, Progressive Party, Dixiecrats, Red Scare, McCarran Internal Security Act, HUAC, McCarthyism |
Eisenhower
|Domestic: Republicanism, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Highway Act, Interstate Highway System, economic prosperity, Central High School, National|
|Defense Education Act |
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|Foreign: military industrial complex, brinkmanship, Eisenhower Doctrine, massive retaliation, covert action, COINTELPRO, Relations with the USSR, Hungarian |
|Revolution, Korea, SEATO, Indochina; Suez Canal Crisis, U2 incident |
Kennedy
|Domestic: New Frontier, Alliance for Progress, Trade Expansion Act, Commission on Status of Act, Immigration Initiative, Women, Equal Opportunity Commission, |
|Equal Pay Act |
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|Foreign: Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Peace Corps, relations with USSR including Summit, Berlin Crisis, nuclear test ban, |
Johnson:
|Domestic: Great Society Legislation (Medicare/Medicaid, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, immigration, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities,|
|Department of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Development), The Other America, Warren Court, Silent Spring |
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|Foreign: Latin America, Middle East Vietnam (the full Chronology from December 1962 – January 1969 |
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|Warren Court |
|Mapp v. Ohio; Baker v. Carr; Engel v. Vitale; Gideon v. Wainwright; Escobedo v. Illinois; Tinker v. Des Moines; Miranda v. Arizona; Roe v. Wade; University of |
|California v. Bakke; New Jersey v. T.L.O |
Considerations for Johnson: Counter Culture Movement
Anti-establishmentarianism; feminism; double standard; Betty Friedan; "Tune in, turn on, drop out" ; Acid Tests (Ken Kesey); Antiwar Movement; Commune; Co-op (Cooperative business); Counterculture; Diggers Group; Environmental Defense Fund; Equal Rights Amendment; Free Love; Students for a Democratic Society; Free Speech Movement; Gay Liberation Movement; Hippies; N.O.W; Woodstock; Yippies; Kent State Protest
Nixon
|Domestic: price and wage freeze, stagflation, New Federalism, Nixon Shock, Breton Woods, southern strategy, Clean Air Act, Indian Self-Determination Act, |
|Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Water Act, Environmental Superfund, ERA amendment passes, Roe v. Wade, Silent Majority, Watergate, The Tapes, |
|Impeachment, War Powers Act |
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|Foreign: détente, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Relations with China, the USSR (reach back to Vice Presidency – Kitchen debate), October War and Oil Crisis –|
|OPEC, oil embargo, Nixon Doctrine, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kent State, Khmer Rouge, Laos, Pentagon Papers, Vietnamization, Paris Accords, Mai Lai, (take it to the |
|end of the War) |
Ford
|Domestic: WIN buttons, conservatism, bicentennial celebration, pardon of Nixon |
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|Foreign: Mayaguez, fall of Saigon, USSR including Helsinki Accords, CIA investigations |
Carter
|Domestic: stagflation/inflation, energy, education, superfund, deregulation, “national malaise” |
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|Foreign: Human Rights Diplomacy, Panama, Middle East, Oil Crisis, Camp David Accords, Iranian hostage crisis, SALT II, policies against Soviets in Afghanistan |
|(embargo, boycott of Olympics) |
Reagan
|Domestic: supply side economics, deregulation, neo-conservatism, religious fundamentalism, political action committees (PACs), Moral Majority, Professional Air |
|Traffic Controllers Association, Reaganomics, |
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|Foreign: military buildup –Strategic Defense Initiative, Relations with USSR including disarmament proposals, the Middle East, Central America, Grenada, |
|Iran-Contra, Intermediate Nuclear Force Agreement |
Bush
|Domestic: “Thousand Points of Light” speech, tax policies, “voodoo economics,” Americans with Disabilities Act, 27th Amendment, NAFTA proposal, Clarence Thomas |
|nomination, failed Savings and Loan, Immigration Act 1990 |
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|Foreign: Relations with China (Tiananmen Square), Soviet Breakup, Panama Invasion, Persian Gulf War |
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