What happened after World War II

U.S. HistoryThe next 10

weeks

Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

and Nagasaki• 1945• World War II ended

• Or did it?

Key Decision

• Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Consequences of the decision

Postwar America

Postwar America• problems • American Dream • Popular Culture • More Problems

Chapter 19, section 1 – 4 A. complete graphic organizer for each section B. CST practice 11.7.5 – 11.7.8 C. vocabulary words

Postwar America

PROBLEM• Vets thrown out of work• Housing shortage• Runaway inflation• Labor strikes• Discrimination and racial

violence

SOLUTION• ?• Levitt town• ?• ?• Civil Rights Movement

ENIAC, the giant brain, 1946

ENIAC, first electronic computer

1947, Development of the semiconductor

1901, first wireless trans-

Atlantic communication

Birth Control Pill developed, 1960

1909, Manufacture of nitrogen

fertilizer creates the means to

nourish several billion more human

beings

The Moon Landing, 1969

23Russia launches Sputnik in 1957

Mars landing1997

Apollo 11

• Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon

Cold War Begins, 1947

• Truman Doctrine

• Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech

• Marshall Plan

Berlin wall, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Warsaw Pact, 1955

The Cold War

The Cold War • Origins (containment,

Truman Doctrine, Berlin blockade and airlift, NATO, Marshall Plan)

• China and Korean War • McCarthy Era (HUAC,

blacklist, McCarthyism, Hollywood Ten)

Chapter 18, section 1, 2, 3Chapter 20, section 1 A. complete graphic organizer for each section B. CST practice 11.7.5 – 11.7.8 C. vocabulary words

• International involvement (CIA, Sputnik, Eisenhower Doctrine, Warsaw Pact,)

• Kennedy Era (Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev)

Short Answers

A. What was the Marshall Plan?

B. Why did the U.S. think it was important to rebuild Europe after WWII?

C. How would that help the U.S. economy?

Describe in your own words

• United Nations• International Declaration

of Human Rights• IMF• World Bank• GATT• NATO• SEATO

1947Palestine partitioned,

state of Israel created, war,

1967

6 Day

War

United

Nations

formed in

1946

Arab League

formed in

19451987

Intifada breaks out in Gaza strip

1957

Suez Crisis

The National Security Act of 1947

• the origin of the CIA• gathers foreign

intelligence• responsible for many

covert actions

Video Clip

• The Hollywood blacklist began in 1947 when the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) began to subpoena artists, producers and screenwriters to investigate communist sympathies in Hollywood

• It lasted thirteen years

McCarthy era

Korean War 1950 - 1953

Korean War

• Why were we there?

• 1950• North Korea

invaded South Korea

• US aided the South

• China aided the North

CIA overthrow in Iran

• 1953• First CIA covert operation• Mosaddeq nationalized the oil fields of Iran• John Foster Dulles (secretary of state) and

Alan Dulles (head of CIA) convinced Eisenhower to depose Mosaddeq

• the Shah of Iran was reinstated

Guatemala

• 1954 Coup d'état• President Arbenz instituted land reform• Secretary of State Dulles and United Fruit

Company went after the “communists” in Guatemala

• Algerian begins war for independence against France, 1954

• Sudan granted independence by Great Britain, 1956

• Ghana, first black African state to gain i independence in 1957

• Chad gains independence from France, 1960

• Kenya gains independence from Britain, 1963

1930 Gandhi’s

Salt march -

civil disobedience

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1976 Soweto riots in South Africa

Hungary

• 1956• Soviet tanks invade and fire on protesters

Sputnik

• 1957, the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into orbit

• This was the first artificial satellite in history.

Suez

• 1958• Britain, France, and Israel occupy Suez

Space Race

• The Space Race grew out of the Cold War

• each side sought to demonstrate its superiority through impressive feats in rocketry and spaceflight.

• Secret satellites kept a wary eye on the adversary.

Cuban Revolution, 1959

Cuba

• In 1959, Fidel Castro took control of Cuba by force and remained its dictatorial leader for nearly five decades.

Castro

• During 1959 and 1960, Castro made radical changes in Cuba, including nationalizing industry, collectivizing agriculture, and seizing American-owned businesses and farms.

• Castro established strong ties with the Soviet Union and transformed Cuba into a communist country.

U-2

• 1960• Soviet Union brings down American spy plane

the Bay of Pigs Invasion

• In 1961, the U.S. attempted to overthrow Castro with an invasion of Cuban-exiles

• The mission was a horrible failure

Cuban Missile Crisis

• In 1962, the U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missile construction sites in Cuba.

• The struggle that ensued between the U.S. and the Soviet Union brought the world close to nuclear war.

Covert actions continue

• 1964, Overthrow of Brazilian government• 1966, Overthrow of Ghanaian government

• At the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia agreed to build a space station and pursue other joint ventures in space.

• A contest that began in fear and enmity has become a partnership.

Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights• Segregation (Plessy,

Brown, Parks, Little Rock)• Challenges & Triumphs

(Freedom Rides, Birmingham, Freedom Summer, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act)

• Moving Beyond (Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, Black Panthers, Black Power)

Chapter 21, section 1 – 3 A. complete graphic organizer for each section B. CST practice 11.10.1 – 11.10.7 C. vocabulary words

Create a Timeline including these events:

• Passage of the 19th Amendment and the 24th Amendment

• President Roosevelt’s ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in 1941

• President Truman’s decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948

• Little Rock• Birmingham• 1964 Civil Rights Act • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • California Proposition 209• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

And these people:• Dred Scott v. Sandford• Plessy v. Ferguson• Brown v. Board of Education• African American service in World War II, Tuskegee

airmen• A. Philip Randolph• Martin Luther King, Jr.• Malcolm X• Thurgood Marshall• James Farmer• Rosa Parks

Civil Rights

• during the early sixties, Civil rights activists and students across the South challenged segregation, and the relatively new technology of television allowed Americans to witness the often brutal response to these protests.

Important Events

• In 1960, lunch counter sit ins begin• In 1961, integrated freedom rides begin• In 1962, riots erupt when James Meredith

integrates the University of Mississippi• In 1963, the march on Washington is held

Kennedy is assassinated

Lyndon Johnson pushed through the civil rights act of 1964

Other Disenfranchised

• Latinos Native • Americans Women• Counterculture • Environmental Activists

Chapter 23, section 1 – 3Chapter 24, section 4 A. complete graphic organizer for each section B. CST practice

Write a paragraph describing how African American resistance to segregation influenced American Indians, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Women in their quest for civil rights and equal opportunities.

U.S. sends troops to Vietnam, 1965 Pol Pot’s Khmer

Rouge takeover in

Cambodia, 1975

Colonial rule

ends in

Vietnam,

1954Gulf of

Tonkin, 1964

Vietnam• Toward conflict (Vietminh,

Vietnam, domino theory, Dien Bien Phu, Geneva Accords, Vietcong, Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Operation Rolling Thunder, Ho Chi Minh Trail)

• Escalation (Johnson, McNamara, Rusk, Westmoreland, Fulbright hearings)

• War at home (doves, hawks, conscientious objector, draft)

Chapter 22, section 1 – 5 A. complete graphic organizer for each section B. CST practice 11.9.1 – 11.9.4 C. 22 vocabulary words

• 1968 (TET offensive, DNC, Nixon, Humphrey)

• Legacy (Vietnamization, Mai Lai, Cambodia, Tonkin Gulf Resolution, War Powers Act, Pentagon Papers, Kissinger, Khmer Rouge)

Anti-war protests

Woodstock

Secret war in Cambodia

Killing fields in cambodia

Watergate

Watergate

• Nixon Administration (realpolitik, OPEC, stagflation)

• Watergate (Mitchell, Dean, Haldeman, Erlichman, impeachment)

Chapter 24, section 1 – 2 A. complete graphic organizer for each section B. CST practice C. 22 vocabulary words

Chilean Coup d'état, 1973• Allende, a socialist, is elected president of Chile• 1973, attempted Coup d'état• Allende appoints Pinochet • Allende assassinated• Pinochet installed as military dictator• Questionable U.S. involvement

Iran declared an Islamic republic by Ayatollah

Khomeini, 1979

USSR invades Afghanistan,

leads to the rise of the Taliban

Saddam Hussein becomes

president of Iraq

Iran Scam and foreign policy

• Ford and Carter ( )

• Reagan ( )

Chapter 24, section 3Chapter 25, section 1 - 2, 4 A. complete graphic organizer for each section B. CST practice C. vocabulary words

Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989

Prague spring,

1968

• symbolic barrier between democracy and communism falls

• end of the cold war

Breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991

War in Bosnia, 1992Mogadishu, 1993

Rwanda genocide, 1994

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Persian Gulf Wars

• Iraq invades Kuwait, 1990• Operation Desert Storm, 1991• 9/11 attack on World Trade

Center, 2001• Operation Iraqi freedom, U.S.

invades Iraq, 2003

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Embassy bombing in Kuwait, 1983

Lockerbie bombing, 1988

Did we replace the cold war with the war on terror?Are we fighting Islamist militants instead of

Communists?

What went well?What didn’t go so well?How can we do better?

This is why we study history!