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Postwar economic, demographic, and technological changes had a far-reaching impact on American society, politics, and the environment.

 

Long Lasting Effects:

  • optimism

  • private sector

  • Baby Boom

  • Sun Belt

  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

  • Homogeneous mass culture

  • Conformity

  • Juvenile delinquency

  • Urban unrest

  • Traditional family

  • prosperity

  • New immigration laws of 1965

  • Pollution

  • Traditional nuclear family

  • Counterculture of the 1960s

  • Sexual revolution

  • Informality into U.S. culture

  • Conservatives and Liberals 

  • Cold War Flashbacks

  • Modernisation and Industrialisation

  • Economic Nationalism

  • Nationalism

Resulting and Long Lasting Effect

Liberalism

Liberalism, based on anticommunism abroad and a firm belief in the efficacy of governmental and especially federal power to achieve social goals at home, reached its apex in the mid-1960s and generated a variety of political and cultural reponses. 

 

Important Events:

  • McCarthyism

  • Trials of Alger Hiss

  • Amry-McCarthy hearings

  • Rise of Beat Poetry and novels

  • Rise of Rock 'n’ Roll

  • Little Rock Nine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Sitt-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina

  • CIA covert operations

  • Freedom Riders

  • Free Speech Movement by SDS

  • Rise of Counterculture

  • Kent State University protests against Vietnam War

  • Summer of Love

  • "Turn on, tune in, drop out"

  • Second Wave of Feminism

 

Important Groups:

  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  • United Mine Workers (UMW)

  • New Look Army

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

  • Freedom Riders

  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

  • Black Power

  • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

 

Important People:

  • Alger Hiss

  • Joseph McCarthy

  • Edward R. Murrow

  • Jackie Robinson

  • Rosa Parks

  • Martin Luther King Jr

  • Malcom X

  • Kate Millet

 

Important Documents and Declaration:

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

  • Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by Kennedy

  • Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) by Johnson

  • Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by Johnson

  • Roe v. Wade

  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

 

Important Vocabulary:

  • McCarthysm

  • Hippies

Postwar World War II

The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and attempting to defend a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences.

 

Important Events:

  • The Cold War

  • Blockade of Berlin

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Berlin Wall

  • Chinese Revolution - Communist Party Wins

  • Reconstruction of Japan - Constitutional Monarchy and Modernisation

  • Republican control of the Eightieth Congress 1946

  • The Korean War

  • Brinkmanship on Quemoy and Matsu - China vs. Taiwan and USA

  • Builing of the Aswan Dam

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961

  • Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

  • Geneva Accords 1954

  • Vietname War 1964-1968

  • Gulf Tonkin & Gulf Tonkin Resolution

  • Tet Offensive

  • My Lai Massacre 

  • Vietnam War documents released from the Pentagon

  • War Powers Resolution 1973

  • Failure of Three Mile Island

  • Peace agreement between Israel and Egypt

  • Six Day War with Israel and Egypt

 

Important People:

  • Mao Zedong

  • Joseph Stalin

  • Nikita Khrushchev

  • Douglas McArthur

  • John Foster Dulles

  • Fidel Castro

  • Medgar Evers

  • Earl Warren - Warren Court

  • Betty Friedan

  • Ho Chi Minh

  • Ngo Dinh Diem

  • Robert Kennedy

  • Henry Kissinger

 

Important Groups: 

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Southeast Asian Treaty Organisation (SEATO)

  • National Security Council

  • Warren Court

  • Klu Klux Klan (1960s)

  • Nation of Islam

  • Vietminh

  • Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

  • Department of Energy

 

Important Documents and Declarations: 

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Policy of Containment (Long Telegram by Kennan)

  • Marshall Plan

  • Eightieth Congress

  • President's Committee on Civil Rights

  • Taft-Hartley Act

  • G.I. Bill of Rights

  • Interstate Highway System

  • Domino Theory

  • Brinkmanship

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

  • Kennedy's New Frontier

  • Peace Corps <- Nation Building

  • Women's rights by Kennedy

  • Equal Pay Act 1963

  • Civil Rights Act 1964

  • Voting Rights Act 1965

  • Project Head Start

  • Job Corps

  • Great Society - idea by Johnson

  • Miranda v. Arizona

  • Port Huron Statement by SDS 

  • New Left by SD

  • The Feminine Mystique by Friedan

  • Roe v. Wade

  • Griswold v. Connecticut. Roe v. Wade

  • War Powers Resolution 1973

  • Nixon Doctrine

  • Camp David Accord

 

Important Vocabulary:

  • Closed Shops

  • 17th Parallel

  • Conformity

  • Consensus of values

  • Consumerism

  • Termination for Native Americans

  • Massive retaliation

  • Liberation by Dulles

  • Deterrence

  • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

  • First World

  • Second World

  • Third World

  • War on Poverty

  • Counterculture

  • Americanization

  • Vietnamization

  • Detente

  • Presidental Pardon

  • Sandinista Government in Nicaragua

Powerpoint - Post WWII

Powerpoint - Domestic Policies Post WWII

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