Units 24 and 23 Topic Outline Sheet

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Unit 24: The 1950s (until 1964) [Please reference the text book and all
resources pertaining to Unit 24 on at www.socialstudiesguy.com]
• Impact of changes in science, technology, and medicine
Chapter 23, Section 2
[How did advances and innovations in science, technology and medicine improve
the quality of life of the average U.S. citizen?]
• Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels/Consensus and conformity:
suburbia and middle-class America
Chapter 23, Section 2
[How popular U.S. figures such as actors and writers challenge the prevailing
attitudes within U.S. society? What affect did social conformity have on the
attitudes of average U.S. citizens?]
• The affluent society and “the other America”
Chapter 23, Sections 2-3
[How did well-to-do [upper middle class] U.S. citizens benefit from the economic
prosperity of the 1950s? What was life like for Americans within inner-city urban
areas and the poor rural South?]
• Emergence of the modern civil rights movement
Chapter 25, Sections 1-3
[What factors led to the beginning of the civil rights movement especially in the South?]
Essential Vocabulary Unit 24 Terms [all fair game for next test]
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Suburbia
Levittown
The Baby Boom
G.I. Bill
White/Blue Collar jobs
Franchises
Transistors/calculators
ENIAC/UNIVAC
Antibiotics/chemotherapy
C.P.R.
Jonas Salk
I Love Lucy
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Father Knows Best
T.V. Quiz shows
3-D films
Rock-n-Roll
Elvis Presley
Edward R. Murrow
The Beat Movement
James Dean
The Poverty Line
Michael Harrington’s The Other America
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Urban Renewal
The Bracero Program
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
White Flight
Termination Policy
Poverty in Appalchia
Juvenile delinquency
Rosa Parks
NAACP
Thurgood Marshall
Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
C.O.R.E.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Little Rock School Crisis
Freedom Riders
James Meredith
Violence in Birmingham in 1963
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Unit 23: The U.S. and the Early Cold War [Please reference the text book and
all resources pertaining to Unit 24 on at www.socialstudiesguy.com]
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Impact of the Cold War on American
society
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Chapter 22, Section 3
[How did U.S. foreign policy toward the
U.S.S.R. impact the lives of Americans?]
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Chapter 22, Sections 2-3
[How effective were the Cold War policies
of Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy in
confronting crises related to communism
in Asia?]
The Red Scare and McCarthyism
Chapter 22, Section 3
[What affect did Senator McCarthy’s
hearings have on Americans’ view of the
Red Scare?]
Diplomatic strategies and policies of
the Eisenhower and Kennedy
administrations
Chapter 22, Section 4, Chapter 23, Section 1,
Chapter 24, Sections 1-2
[How effective were the foreign policies of
Eisenhower and Kennedy at maintaining
world peace? How effective were the
policies of Eisenhower and Kennedy and
advancing the strategic interests of the
United States?]
The Cold War in Asia: China, Korea,
Vietnam, and Japan
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Truman and containment
Chapter 22, Section 2
[How effective was the Truman
containment doctrine?]
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Origins of the Cold War
Chapter 22, Section 1
[What was the origin of the Cold War?]
Essential Vocabulary Unit 23 Terms [all fair game for next test]
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Cold War
Red Scare
Subversion
Loyalty review program
H.U.A.C.
J. Edgar Hoover
Alger Hiss
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
McCarthyism
McCarren Act
Watkins v. United States, 1957
ICBMs
Long range bombers
Brinkmanship
Korean War
Taiwan Crisis
Suez Crisis
C.I.A.
Eisenhower Doctrine
U-2 Incident
Sputnik
Military-industrial complex
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George Kenan
Space race
Apollo 13
NASA
Containment
S.E.A.T.O.
Truman firing of Gen. McArthur
Chinese Revolution
Berlin Airlift
Marshall Plan
N.A.T.O.
Warsaw Pact
The Long Telegram
Crisis in Iran
Bert the Turtle
Duck and Cover drills
Fall out shelters
The Kitchen Debate
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