Schedule of Readings for American History: A Survey
by Alan Brinkley
CHAPTER 29: THE COLD WAR (TUESDAY, APRIL 21)
Key Terms and Ideas
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How did you U.S. seek to stem the growth of communism?
Explain American ideology as it pertains to the Cold War
Why was the Fair Deal rejected?
Truman-McCarthy Controversy
Alger Hiss
Korean War
CHAPTER 30: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY (TUESDAY, APRIL 21)
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Hydrogen Bomb
Space Race – How did Sputnik impact the U.S.?
Massive Retaliation
How did economic and social change lead to an increasingly homogenous
society?
o Examine television, consumerism, or rock-n-roll as an example
o Note similarities to the 1920s
Identify the challenges to a homogenous society?
o The Beats
The Affluent Society
How did the federal government attempt to promote greater racial
justice
o Brown v. Board of Ed
How did Cold War and economic concerns shape U.S. involvement in the
Middle East and Latin America?
CHAPTER 31: CIVIL RIGHTS, VIETNAM, &
APRIL 24)
THE
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LIBERALISM (FRIDAY,
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Liberalism
How did the federal government attempt to address social and economic
inequality?
o Great Society, Voting Rights Act
Explain why there was so much opposition to the Vietnam
What was the conservative response to the liberalism of the 1960s?
What were the divisions within the Civil Rights Movement?
o Black Panthers, Malcom X