Chapters 18 & 19 Review Topics

These are some of the things you need to go into your notes and highlight. You need to understand:

● What the event is ● Who is the person ● Why is it/he important ● How did it effect _______

Keep in mind this is not everything you can use. There are flashcards on the website too. If you have any questions, email me and I will get back to you with an answer. There will be multiple questions on each point, make sure you go over all of them!

● 1950s trends – housing,

population shifts . . . . . ● Baby Boom ● Beat Movement ● Benjamin Spock ● Civil War in China ● Commuting ● Conglomerate ● Containment ● Covert Operations in Middle East

and Latin America ● Dixiecrats ● East and West Germany ● Eisenhower and Civil Rights ● Eisenhower Doctrine ● Franchise ● GI Bill of Rights ● HUAC ● Interstate Highway Act ● Iron Curtain ● John Foster Dulles ● Jonas Salk ● Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

● Khrushchev ● Korean War ● Loyalty Review Board ● Marshall Plan ● Mass Media ● McCarthyism ● NATO ● Open Skies ● Potsdam Conference ● Sputnik ● Stalin ● Truman Doctrine ● Truman’s presidency ● U-2 Flights ● United Nations ● Warsaw Pact ● Yalta Conference ● NATO/Warsaw Map

Terms You Should Know

FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower's efforts and policies towards improving civil rights •Supreme Court cases that are linked towards civil rights •

Plessy v. Ferguson ◦Brown v. Board of Education ◦Etc. ◦

Communist satellite nations •Communist pressures on smaller outside nations •

Truman Doctrine ◦Mass media v. Mass culture •Civilian rights, Brown v. Board of Education, and the Little Rock challenge •

Eisenhower ◦Federal troops ◦Oral Fabius ◦Executive Order 10730 ◦

HUAC •Hollywood Ten ◦

Housing following WW2 •Baby Boom •A-Bomb v. H-Bomb •

Effects of the A-Bomb on international relations ◦Mexican immigration during WW2 ◦

Union conflicts, gains, and losses after the Great Depression and after WW2 •Braceros •

American G.I. Forum ◦Defense spending after WW2 •

How does the U.S. Avoid another depression after WW2, unlike it did with WW1? ◦Foreign policy after WW2 •

Marshall Plan ◦Truman Doctrine ◦Etc. ◦

Constitution as a living document •NATO •

North Atlantic Pact ◦Warsaw Pact ◦United Nations ◦

Supreme Court cases addressing the communist scare and the fear of national security •Schneck v. U.S. (1919)◦

Desegregation of . . . •Military ◦Schools ◦

Cold War origins •Life in the 1950's •

recreation ◦Family life ◦Suburban ◦Marketing ◦Poverty ◦Native Americans ◦Atomic scare ◦African-Americans ◦

2nd Great Migration ‣A. Randolph •Military segregation •

Interstate Highway Act •Towns ◦Motels ◦Commerce ◦5th Amendment (..."property shall not be taken for public use, without just compensation.") ◦

Aid to Europe after WW2 •Berlin Airlift ◦Lessons learned from the mistakes of the Versailles Treaty ◦

Iron Curtain •Churchill ◦

Sputnik •space race ◦NASA ◦

Women in the military •Truman ◦WAC ◦Executive order 9981 ◦

Marshall Plan •