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Unit 9: Post-War America
Part 1: Truman & The Cold War
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Curriculum Map
Big Ideas & Guiding Questions;
3/2/1 – The Story of Us: Superpower
Vocabulary Walk pt. 1 & 2 Truman and the Post-War World
Vocabulary Walk pt. 3 & 4 Truman and the Post-War World
Post – War Economic Growth – Prezi
Truman’s Fair Deal and Civil Rights Initiative – Prezi
Cold War Introduction – Prezi
AVID – Storyboard – UN, Potsdam, Iron Curtain, TB p. 603-605
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan – Prezi
Divided Germany, Berlin Airlift, NATO, Warsaw Pact – Prezi
China and Korea – Prezi
National Security at Home – Prezi
Cornell Notes – Second Red Scare – Prezi
Cornell Notes – McCarthyism
Vocabulary Walk pt. 1 & 2 Cold War and the Red Scare
Vocabulary Walk pt. 3 & 4 Cold War and the Red Scare
Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
Post-War Domestic Affairs in the Truman Years
 Postwar Politics and Economic Growth 2 days
 Causes of Economic Growth
 Lower Taxes and Increased Affluence - Pent up Consumer Demand after WW II
 Government spending - GI Bill of Rights, Infrastructure projects (dams, roads, power stations), military spending
 Baby Boom
 Growth of Suburbs – Levittowns
 Rise of the Sunbelt
 The Fair Deal and Civil Rights
 The Fair Deal
 Employment Act of 1946, Increase in Minimum Wage, Expansion of Social Security, Civil Rights Legislation, Federal
Housing Program, Federal Aid to Education, National Health Care Insurance
 Congressional Opposition – Congressional bloc of Southern Democrats
 Taft-Hartley Act, 1947
 Fair Employment Practice Commission
 Truman’s Executive Orders and Civil Rights
 Created the Committee on Civil Rights, 1946
 Strengthened the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department
 End to discrimination in the hiring of government employees
 Desegregation of the Armed Forces
 Presidential Election of 1948
 Progressive Democrats – Henry Wallace
 Dixiecrats – Strom Thurmond
 Democrat Candidate – Harry Truman
 Republican – Thomas Dewey
 The Early Cold War (1945-1953) and the Second Red Scare 2 days
 Origins of the Cold War
 Legacy of Mistrust
 Russian Revolution – Differences in ideology, threat to capitalism
 WW II – the appeasement policy of the West (seen as a plot by Stalin to weaken the USSR), and US and Britain
slow to open a “real” 2nd front in Europe as Russia was fighting Germany for its survival
 Yalta Conference failures after the war – satellite states in Eastern Europe and Occupation zones in Germany
 Potsdam Conference – US did not tell Stalin we had an atomic weapon
 USSR presence in Iran, and meddling in Greece and Turkey – led to the Iron Curtain Speech
 US Response to Soviet Actions in Europe
 Containment Policy
 Truman Doctrine
 Marshall Plan
 Berlin Airlift Crisis
 NATO
 National Security Act, 1947 – NSC, CIA, NSA, JCS
 Nuclear Weapons – the H-bomb
 Expansion of the Cold War – Asia (1947-1953)
 The fall of China
 Korean War
 Truman v. MacArthur
 Significance of the Korean War
 Second Red Scare – McCarthyism - American Reaction at Home
 Causes of the Second Red Scare
 Loyalty Oaths, HUAC and the Hollywood 10, Hiss Case, Impact of the Fall of China, Rosenberg Case, Soviet
A-bomb
 Rise of Joseph McCarthy and his tactics
 Fall of McCarthy – US Army Hearings
-1Unit 9: The Post War Years, Truman and the Early Cold War
Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
“Big Ideas” - Post-War Domestic Affairs in the Truman Years:
1. WW II ended the Great Depression as the US emerged as the world’s strongest economic power transforming industry and
society, producing rapid demographic change at home, and increasing American commitments abroad.
2. Truman was the first president to attempt to alter the historic pattern of racial discrimination in the United States since
Reconstruction, however his efforts were stymied by Congress and the initial actions of the Cold War.
The Early Cold War and the Second Red Scare in the Truman Years:
3. At the end of WW II, a legacy of mistrust and conflicting postwar goals for the future of Europe led to a 50 year ideological struggle
between democracy and communism known as the Cold War.
4. The policy of containment and its supporting economic, political, and military strategies led to increasing US involvement in crises
around the world.
5. As the Cold War spread around the world, Americans suspected Communist infiltration of their own society and government in a
time of much fear and distrust.
“Guiding Questions” - Post-War Domestic Affairs in the Truman Years:
1. To what extent did each of the following developments transform American society in the immediate postwar years:
 Tax Cuts and Increased affluence
 GI Bill of Rights (The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944)
 The Baby Boom
 Entry of women into the workforce
 Growth of Suburbs
 Migration to the Sunbelt
2. What factors prevented the key programs and civil rights initiatives in Truman’s Fair Deal from being enacted, in what ways did
Truman respond, and what impact did his actions have on the Presidential election in 1948?
The Early Cold War and the Second Red Scare in the Truman Years:
3. In what ways did a legacy of mistrust between the US and USSR and the lessons of WW II affect postwar goals in Europe and
lead to post-war confrontation between the former Allied powers?
4. In what ways did the US achieve its postwar goals in Europe from 1945-1949 and to what degree were US policies, strategies, and
actions successful in effectively checking Soviet power?
5. Why were US efforts in Asia to “contain” the spread of communism not as successful as our efforts were in Europe and what
impact did the fall of China have on US politics?
6. In what ways was the Korean War different from earlier American wars, how did it challenge the Constitution, and what was its
long term significance?
7. What factors combined to create the Second Red Scare, in what ways did Senator Joseph McCarthy exploit the anti-communism
hysteria, and were his tactics and allegations justified?
America the Story of Us: Episode 11, Superpower 3/2/1
3 Facts
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2 Questions
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1 Summary (3 SENTENCES!!!)
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-2Unit 9: The Post War Years, Truman and the Early Cold War
Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
Truman: Post-War America Vocabulary
Part I
Part II
[work with a partner on both parts] DO NOT USE THE TEXTBOOK AT ALL! (38 answers)
___ 1. ________________________ – one sign of confidence in the postwar era was the soaring birthrate from 19451960 there were 50 million births.
___ 2. ________________________ – it was also known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944. It provided
financial & educational benefits so that 15 million WWII veterans could make the
transition to a peacetime economy.
___ 3. ________________________ – located in the suburbs on Long Island, New York. This project contained 17,000
mass-produced, low-priced family homes.
___ 4. ________________________ - residential town or community near a city
___ 5. ________________________ – what the Ohio Valley region was called because of the heavy industry that was
prevalent there.
___ 6. ________________________ – A 15 state area stretching in a smiling crescent from Virginia through Florida and
Texas to Arizona and California.
___ 7. ________________________ – President Truman’s economic & social program for the country. It called for
improving housing, full employment, a higher minimum wage, better farm price
supports, new TVAs, and an extension of Social Security.
___ 8. ________________________ – Southern Democrat who left the party in reaction to Truman’s support for civil
rights. Also known as the States’ Rights Party. It chose Strom Thurmond of
South Carolina as its presidential candidate in 1948.
___ 9. ________________________ – as he campaigned around the nation for the 1948 election, Truman labeled the
Republican-led 88th Congress as this for not accomplishing anything.
___ 10. ________________________ – Republican congressional law labeled as “slave-labor law” by Democrats for
attacking unions and requiring its leaders to take a noncommunist oath.
___ 11. ________________________ – addition to the Constitution that limited a president to a maximum of two full
terms in office.
___ 12. ________________________ – the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which different races,
groups, etc., are restricted to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods,
schools, organizations, or the like.
___ 13. ________________________ – established by President Truman in 1946, it was instructed to investigate the
status of minority rights in the country & propose measures to strengthen and
protect them.
___ 14. ________________________ – FDR created it during WWII to promote the fullest employment of all available
persons and to eliminate discriminatory employment practices
___ 15. ________________________ – This is a congressionally chartered Hispanic veterans and civil rights organization.
Its motto is "Education is Our Freedom and Freedom should be Everybody's
Business".
___ 16. ________________________ – This Hispanic GI was killed in action during WWII and was not allowed to be
buried in the 'white' section of his cemetery. Because of this, he became the first
Mexican-American to be interred in Arlington National Cemetery.
___ 17. ________________________ – federal court case that challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California
schools. It ruled that segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students
into separate "Mexican schools" was unconstitutional.
___ 18. ________________________ – made the segregation of children of Mexican descent in Texas illegal.
___ 19. ________________________ – was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that decided that Mexican
Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection
under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
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Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
Part III Organize the terms into 3-6 categories & give the categories a title (2 pts each = 38 pts) Work with your partner
Part IV (use a minimum of two complete sentences per answer) [work by yourself!!] (62 pts)
1. How is the Baby Boom related to the development of suburbs? (12pts)
2. What inference or conclusion can one draw about who controlled Congress, and why they passed the Taft-Hartley Act
overriding President Truman’s veto? (12pts)
3. What is the significance of Hernandez v. Texas (1954)? (12pts)
4. How could President Truman justify the Longoria Incident to white Americans? (12pts)
5. What would happen to the Armed Services today if Congress passed a new GI Bill? (14pts)
-4Unit 9: The Post War Years, Truman and the Early Cold War
Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Post-War Economic Growth - Prezi
-5Unit 9: The Post War Years, Truman and the Early Cold War
Date: _________________
Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
Truman’s Fair Deal and Civil Rights Initiative - Prezi
-6Unit 9: The Post War Years, Truman and the Early Cold War
Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
The Cold War: Introduction Prezi & Chart
Roots of the Cold War
Category
Soviet Communism
American Democracy
Political System One political party, the Communist Party.
A multi-party democracy.
Organization All labor groups and other associations are run by Unions and other organizations openly negotiate
the Communist Party.
with employers.
Economic
Industries and farms are owned by the state;
Free enterprise system; private ownership of
System
central planners determine the nation’s economic property; supply and demand determine prices;
needs; limited private property; education and
people meet their own needs with some limited
health care provided by the state.
government involvement.
Religion
Religion is discouraged.
Free exercise of religion.
Individual
Secret police arrest opponents; censorship; no
Freedom of the press and expression.
Rights
free exercise of belief.
Using the Chart, Why do you think that the United States and the Soviet Union would inevitably clash?
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Joseph Stalin
Yalta Conference
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Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
Storyboarding –
 Students sequence a series of events or concepts by writing summaries, creating illustrations, and posing questions that are not
directly answered in the text (higher-order).
 Students develop chronological and cause-and-effect relations between events.
Student Expectation – SE – (Framing the Lesson): _________________________________________________________
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Topic:
The United Nations, Potsdam Conference, and the Iron Curtain, p. 603-605
Subtitle: The United Nations & Truman Becomes President
Summary:
Subtitle: The Potsdam Conference & Bargaining at Potsdam
Summary:
Picture:
Picture:
Question:
Question:
Subtitle: Soviets Tighten their Grip on Eastern Europe
Summary:
Subtitle: United States Establishes a Policy of Containment
Summary:
Picture:
Picture:
Question:
Question:
How does the information on this page relate to the SE at the top? (Close out the Lesson):
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“A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory…From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain
has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe…All these famous
cities and the populations around them lie in…the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to
a very high and…increasing measure of control from Moscow.” – Winston Churchill - “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri
1) What does Churchill mean by the phrase “iron curtain”?
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Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
The Truman Doctrine
Act as an Amateur Historian
In the Truman Doctrine, President Truman promised to support any country fighting Communism:
“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted [conquest] by
armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I
believe our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid, which is essential to economic stability and orderly political
processes.”
1) Do you think the United States should have offered aid to all nations facing such threats?
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A historian, Stephen Ambrose, once wrote:
“Truman realized that he could never get the economy-minded Republicans – and the public that stood behind them – to
shell out tax dollars to support a rather shabby King in Greece. Truman had to describe the Greek situation in universal terms, good
versus evil, to get their support. In a single sentence, Truman defined American policy for the next twenty years. Whenever and
wherever an anti-Communist government was threatened by insurgents, foreign invasion, or even diplomatic pressure, the United
States would supply political, economic, and most of all military aid.”
2) What is Ambrose’s view of the Truman Doctrine?
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I have a plan to
help rebuild
Europe!
Aid under the Marshall Plan
Netherlands
8%
Great
Britain
24%
Others
13% Austria
5%
France
21%
Italy
11%
Turkey
2%
West
Greece
Germany
5%
11%
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Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
Divided Germany, The Berlin Airlift, NATO, & the Warsaw Pact - Prezi
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Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
THE COLD WAR HEATS UP
CHINA:
 For two decades, Chinese communists had struggled against the ____________ government
of ________________________
 The _______ supported Chiang and gave the Nationalist Party $3 billion in aid during WWII
 However, ______________________ Communist Party in China was strong, especially among
Chinese ________________
CHINESE CIVIL WAR: 1944-1947
 After Japan left China at the end of the War, Chinese Nationalists and Communists
fought a bloody _______________
 Despite the U.S. sending $ billions to the Nationalists, the Communists under Mao
won the war and ruled China
 Chiang and the Nationalists fled China to neighboring ______________________
 Mao established the ____________________________
AMERICA STUNNED
 The ___________________ was shocked that China had fallen to the Communists
 Many believed _____________________ had failed and communism was expanding
 American fear of communism and communist expansion was increasing
KOREAN WAR
 Japan had taken over Korea in ________ and ruled it until _____________________
 As WWII ended, Japanese troops _________ of the 38th parallel surrendered to the _____________
 Japanese soldiers ________ of the 38th surrendered to the ____________________
 As in Germany, ___________ developed, one ____________ (North Korea) and one ______________
(South Korea)
NORTH KOREA ATTACKS SOUTH KOREA
 On ________________, North Korean forces swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on
South Korea
 With only ____________________ in South Korea, the Soviets figured the Americans would not fight
to save South Korea
 Instead, America sent _______________________________ to South Korea
MACARTHUR’S COUNTERATTACK
 At first, North Korea seemed unstoppable
 However, General MacArthur launched a counterattack with
_________________________________________
 Many North Koreans surrendered; others retreated across the 38th parallel
CHINA JOINS THE FIGHT
 Just as it looked like the Americans were going to score a victory in the North, _____________________________ joined
the war on the side of the North Koreans
 The fight between North and South Korea had turned into a war in which the main opponents were
________________________ VS _________________________
MACARTHUR RECOMMENDS ATTACKING CHINA
 To halt the ______________________, General MacArthur called for an extension of the war into China
 Furthermore, MacArthur called for the U.S. to ________________________ on several Chinese cities
 President ____________ rejected the General’s requests
MACARTHUR VS. TRUMAN
 MacArthur continued to urge President Truman to attack China and tried to go behind Truman’s back – Truman was furious
with his general
 On ________________, Truman made the shocking announcement that he had
_________ MacArthur
 Americans were surprised and many still supported their fallen general
AN ARMISTICE IS SIGNED
 Negotiators began working on a settlement as early as the summer of 1951
 Finally, in July 1953, an agreement was signed that ended the war in a
_______________
 ____________________
 America’s cost: _______________________________
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National Security at Home
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Date: _________________
Name: _______________________________
Topic: The Second Red Scare
Questions/Main Ideas
Period: ______
SE:
Notes
Summary:
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Name: _______________________________
Topic: McCarthyism
Questions/Main Ideas
Period: ______
SE:
Notes
Summary:
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Date: _________________
Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
Truman: Cold War/Red Scare Vocabulary
Part I
Part II [work with a partner on both parts] DO NOT USE THE TEXTBOOK AT ALL! (40 answers)
___ 1. ________________________ – state of hostility between the USSR & USA after WWII that lasted over 4 decades but without
any direct military action between the 2 countries.
___ 2. ________________________ – the measures taken by the USA to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries
around the world
___ 3. ________________________ – US presidential policy right after WWII of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a
Communist takeover especially in Greece and Turkey
___ 4. ________________________ - the successful program under which the USA gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Europe to
keep it from communist takeover.
___ 5. ________________________ – defensive military alliance of the US, Canada, & 10 European nations for protecting all
members from outside attack.
___ 6. ________________________ – congressional law that created 1) Department of Defense, 2) National Security Council, & 3)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to employ spies to gather information on foreign
governments
___ 7. ________________________ – the CIA’s use of undercover intervention in the internal politics of other nations.
___ 8. ________________________ – smaller countries that are dominated by a larger country (the Soviet Union)
___ 9. ________________________ – military alliance of the USSR & its satellite nations
___ 10. _______________________ – the division of Europe (from the Baltic Sea in the north, all the way to the Adriatic Sea in the
south) between free & communist countries
___ 11. _______________________ – the re-supply of West Berlin by US & British planes during Soviet blockade of 1948
___ 12. _______________________ – The US Cold War policy after the Communists revolution in China forced the (1) Nationalists
Chinese to flee to Taiwan supported by the USA and (2) leaving the mainland as “Red” China.
___ 13. _______________________ – conflict started when Communist North Korea invaded US-backed South Korea. After 3 years
of fighting and 54,000 U.S. deaths all sides agreed to an Armistice or ceasefire that returned
to the status quo before the conflict had started.
___ 14. _______________________ – the United Nations Security Council called upon all U.N members to “render every assistance”
to restore peace in Korea. While many nations participated, the vast majority of troops were
from the USA.
___ 15. _______________________ – imaginary line that divides Korea between the communist North Korea and democratic South
Korea.
___ 16. _______________________ – conflict that France started when it tried to reclaim its former colony of Indochina after WWII.
It pitted the communists backed by China & the USSR against the French who received US
military support. When the French lost at Dien Bien Phu, Indochina was divided into
Cambodia, Laos, & Vietnam
___ 17. _______________________ – Post WWII Communist-led revolutions in Europe & Asia led many in the USA to fear that there
were Communist spies in the U.S. State Department, military, & all institutions in American
society.
___ 18. _______________________ – refers to a tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without producing evidence, named after the
U.S. Senator who accused people of being communists with out having any proof.
___ 19. _______________________ – a joint US & British operation that discovered Americans working as Soviet spies in the U.S.
government
___ 20. _______________________ – this group’s job was to look for Communists both inside & outside of the U.S. government. If
the accused refused to testify they were tried for contempt of Congress or Blacklisted from
working in their industry.
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Name: _______________________________
Period: ______
Date: _________________
Part III Organize the terms into 3-6 categories and give the categories a title (2 pts each = 40 pts) Work by yourself
Part IV (use a minimum of two complete sentences per answer) [work by yourself!!] (60 pts)
1. How is the Korean War related to the French-Indochina War? (12pts)
2. What inference or conclusion can one make about how the policy of containment would affect U.S. foreign policy
during the Cold War? (12pts)
3. What was the significance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to a country like Greece which borders Soviet
Controlled Eastern Europe? (12pts)
4. How could President Truman justify to the American public the use of mostly American forces in the United Nations’
police action to try to save South Korea? (12pts)
5. What would have happened if the US had a modern day version of McCarthyism after September 11, 2001? (12pts)
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