Week+30+Reading

Ch 27 - Truman and the Early Cold War
Review: AMSCO Ch 26 [|APUSH Cold War outline.pdf]

__Mon 3/19__


 * pp. 1076-1082 **

Economic impact of demobilization, 1946 coal strike, 1946 midterm election, Harry S Truman bio, Taft-Hartley Act, 22nd Amendment, Henry Wallace and latest incarnation of Progressives, President's Committee on Civil Rights, __ To Secure These Rights __, Executive Order 9981, // Smith v. Allwright // , 1948 Democratic convention, Dixiecrats' walkout, Gov. Strom Thurmond (D-SC), 1948 presidential election, Truman's whistle stop campaign, "give 'em Hell Harry," "Dewey Defeats Truman," Truman's "Fair Deal," post-WWII American liberalism

__ Tues 3/20 __


 * pp. 1069-1076 **

Chinese Civil War, Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), Chinese Nationalists (Kuomintang), Mao Zedong, Communist Party of China (CPC), Marshall's mission to China, 1949 Nationalist retreat to Taiwan, Republic of China, Truman "loses China," China Lobby, Henry Luce, 1951 US-Japan "peace" treaty, 1949 Soviet nuclear test, hydrogen bomb debate, NSC-68 and military expansion

Korean War, Kim Il-sung, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Syngman Rhee, Republic of Korea, 38th Parallel, North Korean invasion of South, UN Security Council Resolution 84, MacArthur's amphibious landing at Inchon, US invasion of North Korea, Chinese counter-invasion, Truman fires MacArthur, consequences of the Korean War

Ch 28 - Eisenhower and the 1950s
Review: AMSCO Ch 27

__ Weds 3/21 __


 * pp. 1094-1103 **

Nixon-Khruschev "Kitchen Debates," postwar economic boom, Baby Boom, society's "procreation ethic," 1944 Serviceman's Readjustment Act/GI Bill, antibiotics and vaccines, consumer credit, Diner's Club charge card, suburbanization, William and Alfred Levitt, Levittown, Federal Housing Administration, residential segregation, corporate consolidation and overseas expansion, International Business Machines (IBM), [|Harvard Mark I computer], white collar vs blue collar, 1955 AFL-CIO merger, "consumer society" and "mass culture," TV as shared cultural experience, TV as industry (commercials and advertising), 1956 Interstate Highway Act, migration to the Sun Belt, California's boom, chain and franchise business models, Ray Kroc, Disneyland

__Thurs 3/22__


 * pp. 1121-1125**

Terms were provided on the whiteboard during class this day.

__Fri-Sun 3/23-25__


 * pp. 1108-1117**

1952 presidential election, Dwight D. Eisenhower, "I Like Ike," Sen. Richard Nixon (R-CA), Gov. Adlai Stevenson (D-IL), "the mess in Washington," "I shall go to Korea," Nixon's "Checkers speech," dynamic conservatism aka "modern Republicanism," Ike and New Deal programs, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1954 Communist Control Act, 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, "Have you no sense of decency?," 1956 presidential election, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, brinkmanship, New Look, Polaris SLBM (submarine launched ballistic missile), Strategic Air Command, Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles, Ikes goes to Korea, First Taiwan Strait Crisis, [|Quemoy and Matsu], Premier Nikita Khruschev, 1955 Geneva Summit, Open Skies, "the spirit of Geneva," 1956 Hungarian Revolution, third world nationalism/decolonization, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Aswan Dam, Suez Crisis, French Indochina, Ho Chi Minh, 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 1954 Geneva Accords, 17th Parallel, President Ngo Dinh Diem, Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO), CIA covert operations (against Guzman in Guatemala and Mohammed Mossaddegh in Iran), Shah Reza Pahlavi