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Advanced Placement United States History
Unit 9: Cold War America
Chapters 28, 29, and 30 in the Divine text and parts of Chapters 18 and 19 in Fast Track to a 5

The AP student’s primary responsibility is to read each assigned section of the textbook and add notes from the reading to the course notes.  To better understand the reading, students should focus on the “terms to identify” and “concepts to grasp” and be prepared for a quiz on any of these items.  The teacher’s role is to clarify the significance of the readings, terms, and learning targets, and to show the student how they fit into the “big picture” of American history.  If the student does not fully understand a term or concept, he/she must ask in class.

Monday, April 4:  “Cold War Begins”  (Ch. 28; pp. 808-823)

9-1 | Soviet “satellites,” Iron Curtain
9-2 | George Kennan; containment policy
9-3 | Truman Doctrine
9-4 | Marshall Plan
9-5 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Warsaw Pact
9-6 | Berlin Crisis, blockade, airlift
9-7 | National Security Act (1947): Defense Department, CIA, NSC
9-9 | fall of China, Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek), Mao Zedong
9-10 | Korean War, UN “police action”
9-11 | firing of MacArthur, stalemate in Korea

A | Summarize the causes of the Cold War (pp. 810-813)
B | How did the “fall of China” affect U.S. Cold War policy and domestic politics?
C | Was the Korean War a success or failure for the policy of containment?

Tuesday, April 5:  “Cold War Begins”
Wednesday, April 6:  “Cold War Begins”
Thursday, April 7:  “Eisenhower and the Cold War”  (Ch. 28; 830-836, 846-847)

9-12 | Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, massive retaliation
9-13 | Suez crisis, Beirut (Lebanon) crisis, Eisenhower Doctrine
9-14 | CIA covert actions: Iran, Guatemala
9-15 | Cuban revolution, Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro
9-16 | “atoms for peace” and “open skies” proposals
9-17 | Sputnik, American reaction (NDEA, NASA)
9-18 | Ike’s Farewell Address, “military-industrial complex”

D | What were Eisenhower’s foreign policy objectives? How successful was he in achieving his objectives?
E | Summarize Eisenhower’s Cold War legacy

Friday, April 8:  “Eisenhower and the Cold War”
Monday, April 11:  “Postwar America”  (Chs. 28 and 29; pp. 824-830, 838-851)

9-19 | Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
9-20 | Election of 1948: candidates, issues, results
9-21 | House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
9-22 | espionage, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs
9-23 | McCarthyism (see also McCarthy’s downfall on pp. 829-830)
9-24 | Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill)
9-25 | the Sunbelt vs. the Frostbelt/Rustbelt
9-26 | Levittown, “white flight” (see also pp. 838-840)
9-27 | baby boom, Dr. Spock’s Common Sense Baby & Child Care
9-28 | Fair Deal
9-29 | critics and criticisms of the 1950s consumer culture; beats (beatniks), Jack Kerouac
9-30 | Interstate Highway Act (1956)

F | Summarize Truman’s economic and political troubles
G | Describe the causes of the postwar economic boom
H | Describe life in the suburbs; the causes of suburban growth and its effects
I | Describe the role of women in the 1950s
J | Summarize Eisenhower’s actions/attitudes on New Deal programs

Tuesday, April 12:  “Postwar America”
Mid-Unit 9 Quiz
Wednesday, April 13:  “The Struggle over Civil Rights”  (Chs. 29 and 30; pp. 851-857, 868-870)

9-31 | Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Thurgood Marshall
9-32 | “Southern Manifesto,” Little Rock crisis, “Little Rock Nine”
9-33 | Rosa Parks, Montgomery bus boycott
9-34 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), passive resistance
9-35 | sit-ins, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
9-36 | Cong. of Racial Equality (CORE), freedom rides; James Meredith
9-37 | March on Washington, MLK’s “I have a dream” speech

K | Describe Truman’s actions on civil rights

Thursday, April 14:  “The Struggle over Civil Rights”
Friday, April 15:  “Kennedy’s New Frontier”  (Ch. 30; pp. 858-868, 870-871)

9-38 | Kennedy-Nixon televised debates
9-39 | Election of 1960: candidates, issues, debates, results
9-40 | Berlin Wall
9-41 | Peace Corps; Alliance for Progress
9-42 | domino theory
9-43 | Bay of Pigs invasion
9-44 | Cuban Missile Crisis, resolution of crisis, “hot line,” limited test ban treaty of 1963
9-45 | “Camelot”
9-46 | Chief Justice Earl Warren, Warren Court, Gideon v. Wainwright, Escobedo v. Ill., Miranda v. Ariz., Baker v. Carr, Engel v. Vitale

L | Describe JFK’s charisma, persona

Monday, April 18:  “Kennedy’s New Frontier”
Tuesday, April 19:  “Johnson’s Great Society”  (Ch. 30; pp. 871-875, 876-877)

9-47 | Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, Warren Commission Report
9-48 | “Johnson treatment” (see also p. 871)
9-49 | Civil Rights Act of 1964: key provisions
9-50 | Michael Harrington’s The Other America, “war on poverty”
9-51 | Election of 1964: candidates, issues, results
9-52 | Great Society: Job Corps, Project Head Start, Medicare/Medicaid, education acts, Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (see pp. 876-877)
9-53 | Voting Rights Act of 1965

M | Compare and contrast LBJ’s “Great Society” agenda with FDR’s “New Deal”

Wednesday, April 20:  “Johnson’s Great Society”
Thursday, April 21
Unit 9 Test (Cold War America)