The Beginning of the
Cold War
TAKE FIVE…
What does a “cold War” refer to ?
Soviet-American Tensions
Capitalism vs Communism
The Yalta Conference
The United Nations
Occupation of Poland
Lublin Poles vs. London Poles
Occupation of Germany
Atomic bomb
The “Big Three”
Containment
China’s fall to communism
Chiang vs. Mao Zedong
Revival of Japan
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Sec. of State George C. Marshall
Economic Cooperation
Administration
President Truman
Containment (con’t)
Preparedness
Selective Service System
Atomic Energy Commission
National Security Act
Department of Defense
National Security Council
CIA
Division of Germany
Federal Republic
Democratic Republic
Berlin Blockade
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Take Five…
 What does the Berlin Blockade refer
to?
APUSH Take Five…What is it?
(1) To maintain international peace and security; to
develop friendly relations among nations; to resolve
international conflict and promote human rights; and
to formulate policies on matters affecting all of us.
(2) “Europe’s requirements are so much greater than her
present ability to pay that she must have substantial
additional help or face economic, social and political
deterioration of a very grave character.”
(3) Regional defense alliance (could be 2 answers)
(4) “It must be the policy of the US support free peoples
who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed
minorities or by outside pressures.”
(5) “If these 2 states should fall, Communism would likely
spread south to Iran and as far east as India.—
Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson
U.S. Economy
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
Labor unrest
Strikes
Displaced workers
Truman’s “Fair Deal”
Social Security benefits
Fair Employment Practices Act
Conservatism
Taft-Hartley Act
The Election of 1948
Democrats divided
Dixiecrat Party
Strom Thurmond
Americans for Democratic Action
Thomas Dewey-Republican
Good for nothing Congress
Truman’s Fair Deal Revised
Minimum wage
Social Security
National Housing Act
Civil rights legislation
Fair Employment Practices
Committee
Discrimination and Segregation
The Korean War
38th Parallel
Communist north
Pro-western south
A Civil War
U.S. “defense perimeter”
UN Assistance
General Douglas MacArthur
Chinese involvement
The Martin Letter
Truman fires MacArthur
Korean war results
DMZ
General Douglas MacArthur
The U.S. During the Korean War
Economy
Office of Defense Mobilization
Anxiety grows regarding
communism
The Forgotten War
Subversion in America
House Un-American Activities Commission
The evils of Hollywood
The Hollywood Ten
“blacklist”
Federal Loyalty Program
Hoover Files
McCarran Internal Security Act
The Rosenberg Case
McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy
Senator Joe McCarthy
The Rosenbergs
Election of 1952
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Republican Victory
“We Like Ike”
Dwight Eisenhower
USA Test Prep
 SAZASORUYU (WWII test 5
questions)
 XOSUFEHABE (Cold War 1950's test
questions, 5 questions) Questions
#1, 4, 7, 8 & 9 do not count.
The Good “Ole 50’s
50’s Hair-The “Ducktail” or The
“Flip”
50’s Fashion
Don’t forget the men
50’s Fads
3D Glasses at the Movies
Coonskin Caps
Hula Hoops
Pink-everything-even cars!
Poodles (pink of course!)
Telephone booth cramming!
(U.S. record 22 at St. Mary’s college in
CA)
Don’t try this at home
George Burns and Gracie Allen (1950)
How sweet it is…
The Honeymooners first aired in 1952.
The 50’s was also a time for
westerns!
Davy Crockett “killed him a baer when
he was only 3”
Gunsmoke-One of the longest
running westerns aired in 1955
Hop-along-Cassidy (1947) Roy
Rogers (1951) Zorro (1957)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955-1965)
American Bandstand attracts
young viewers-and a young
Dick Clark (1956)
How old IS Dick Clark anyway?
Dick Clark was born Nov. 30, 1929
He is 78!
The 1950’s TV audience loved
games shows…
The $64,000 question
To tell the truth
The Price is right—not Bob Barker but in 1956Bill Cullen
21
What is my line?
This is your life
Queen for a day
“Queen for a day”
What a scandal!
At the game show peak there were 22
game shows on prime time tv! Until…
What? Game shows rigged? That’s
right folks in 1958 a Congressional
hearing determined that “winners”
had been supplied with the answers
in advance! Networks and sponsors
decided to pull the plug on game
shows for a while!
The Blue Mountain Boys
Who is that in the middle?
Early 1950’s musical artists:
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Patti Page
The Andrews Sisters
Nat King Cole
Guy Lombardo
Rosemary Clooney
Frank Sinatra
Doris Day
Marlene Dietrich
1955-The birth of rock and roll
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Dean Martin
* Fabian
Little Richard
* Frankie Avalon
The Platters
* Conway Twitty
Bill Haley and the Comets
* Ritchie
Valens
Pat Boone
* Buddy
Holley
Johnny Cash
* Connie Francis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Chuck Berry
Ricky Nelson
“Going to a garden party…”
Ricky Nelson
Elvis Presley-”The King”
Thank you, thank you very much
Elvis appears on the Ed Sullivan
show in 1956
The network wouldn’t show Elvis from
the waist down because of his “sexual
movements”—coined “the Elvis
Pelvis”
The Good Old 1950’sAn Age of Prosperity
“Rock-n-Roll is here to stay”
J. Edgar Hoover
The Economy of the 1950’s
Reasons for economic
growth
Government spending
American West
Military spending
Expansion of suburbs
The baby boom
A New Labor Force
The power of unionization
AFL-CIO
George Meany
Teamsters Union
David Beck
Jimmy Hoffa
White collar vs blue collar
Jimmy Hoffa (1913-1975?)
Poverty in America in the 50’s
The Other America
Michael Harrington
Elderly and minorities
Rural poverty
Declining farm prices
Technology
Pesticides
DDT
Paul Muller
Problems w/ DDT
Poverty Continued
Inner-city poverty
Ghettoes
Relocation of industry and jobs
Rise in juvenile crime
Women and the family
The Feminine Mystique
Renewed interest in religion
Billy Graham
Rock and roll culture
Elvis
The “Beatniks”
Michael Harrington
Science and Technology of the 1950’s
Medical Advances
Immunizations
Small pox
Polio
Polio Vaccination Act of
1955
Results
Infant mortality rates
Ave. life expectancy
Early Smallpox Vaccinations
Technological Innovations
Television
Color TV
RCA’s David Sarnoff Labs.
TV Networks
Transistors
Integrated circuits
Computer Technology
UNIVAC
Remington Rand Co.
1952 Election results
IBM
Dwight Eisenhower (19521960)
The Eisenhower Administration
Balancing the budget
Social security
Interstate Highway and Defense
System Act
The demise of McCarthyism
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Cold War Stalemate
“brinksmanship”
U-2 Crisis
A revised containment
policy
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Iran
Israel
Guatemala
Cuba
Vietnam
The Cold War Stalemate
“brinksmanship”
MAD-Mutually Assured Destruction
Effects of the Nuclear Arms Race
Military technology
Space race
Sputnik
NASA
National Defense Education Act
Bomb shelters
Sputnik
Apollo
Images from Space
“The Blue Marble”
Gemini
Advancements into Space…