America in History – 6.0
Mr. Hammer
American Zenith, 1952-1963
Chapter 36 American Zenith
Objectives for class discussion…
- Describe the factors that drove the US Economy in the 1950’s
-Cite the different business models of the 1950’s
-Describe the challenges to the social conformity of the 1950’s
Affluence and Its Anxieties
1) What drove economic growth more than ever in the 1950’s?
2) What did IBM contribute to the information age?
3) How did the “nature of work” change in the 1950’s?
4.) What was the social impact of Friedan’s Feminine Mystique?
Consumer Culture in the 1950’s
5.) Cite three items that signaled the blossoming consumer culture.
6.) What was crucial to the development of consumerism in the 1950’s?
7.) How did Religion capitalize on the electronic pulpit?
8.) How did professional sports reflect the shift in American population?
9.) What was significant about the new music Rock n’ Roll?
10.) What three literary works were critical of 1950’s conformity?
The Advent of Eisenhower
11.) What was the formula utilized by Nixon to criticize the democrats?
12) I/E- The Checkers Speech
13) What leadership style did IKE project?
Desegregating American Society
Objectives - Describe the Jim Crow South
- Describe the legal efforts of the NAACP
- Identify the catalysts of the Civil Rights Revolution
14) Identify- The Jim Crow Laws
15.) Identify- Brown vs the Board of Education
16.) Why did Ike send Federal troops to Little Rock Arkansas?
17.) What the purpose and goal of SCLC?
18.) What was the origin and impact of the sit-in movement?
19.) Identify -SNCC
Ike Republicanism at Home & New Look in Foreign Policy Abroad
Objectives: - Explain IKE’s Middle of the Road Republicanism
- Describe the New Look in Foreign Policy
- Describe the Cold War Hot Spots of Vietnam and the Middle East
20.) Explain “dynamic conservatism?
21) Which New Deal programs were IKE forced to accept as political reality?
22.) Identify: Operation Wetback
23.) Identify: Federal Highway Act of 1956
New Look in Foreign Policy
24) I & E: Brinksmanship or “Policy of Boldness”
25) What sector of the military did IKE choose to build up?
26) I & E: The Hungarian uprising
27.) Identify: Nikita Khrushchev
The Vietnam Nightmare
28.) Identify: Ho Chi Minh
29) What was significant about the battle of Dien Bien Phu?
30) Why were the nation- wide elections for Vietnam never held in 1956?
31.) Identify: Ngo Dinh Diem
Cold War Crisis in the Middle East
32) Identify- Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
33) Identify- Gamal Abdel Nassar
34) Why did Great Britain, France, and Israel attack Egypt in 1956?
35) How was the Suez Crisis resolved? What did IKE do?
36) Identify- OPEC
Round Two for IKE
37) Who were the candidates for President in 1956? Who won?
38.) Identify- Sputnik
39.) What was American reaction to Sputnik?
40.) Identify The National Defense Education Act
The Continuing Cold War
41) Identify-U2- Incident
42) How did the incident impact the Paris Summit and Cold War relations?
43) Identify Fidel Castro
44.) Why did the US impose a trade embargo with Cuba?
JFK Challenges Nixon for the Presidency
Objective…- Describe the Presidential Election of 1960
- Explain the Military Industrial Complex
45) Identify – The Kitchen Debate
46) What did JFK have to overcome to become the Democratic candidate in 1960?
47) How did the televised debates help JFK?
48) Identify IKE’s warning – “The Military Industrial Complex”
49) How large was the JFK victory in the election on 1960?
A Cultural Renaissance
Objectives…
- Explain the American ascendency in the arts
- Define abstract expressionism
- Explain the International Style in Architecture
- Identify the other cultural voices of the decade
Cultural Renaissance
50) Identify & explain the style of Jackson Pollock
51) Identify & explain the style of Andy Warhol
52) Cite examples of the International style
53.) How do the portrayals of WWII differ in the works The Naked and the Dead (1948) &
Catch-22 ( 1961)?
54.) What was the message of the authors of the Beat Generation?
55) Identify- Jack Kerouac
New Cultural Voices
55) Identify –Richard Wright
56) What was the message of the Southern Resistance writers?
JFK- New Frontier Spirit
- Describe the programs and goals of JFK’s New Frontier
-Cite the continuing events of the Cold War under JFK
- Explain the tensions of the Cuban Missile Crisis
57) Identify- The Peace Corps
58.) What voting blocks in Congress bottled up JFK’s legislative agenda?
59.) What did JFK vow to do by the end of the 1960’s?
60.) I& E: The Berlin Wall
61.) Define JFK’s Flexible response
62.) What was JFK’s policy in Vietnam?
63.) Identify: Alliance for Progress
64.) Identify: Bay of Pigs Invasion
65.) What was JFK’s response to Soviet missiles in Cuba?
66.) What were the results of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Struggle for Civil Rights
Objective- Describe the efforts of the Freedom Riders
- Explain how the events of Ole Miss and Birmingham forced JFK to propose Civil
Rights legislation
- Explain the purpose and the outcome for the March on Washington in 1963
The Struggle for Civil Rights
67.) What happened when Civil Rights workers who attempted to end segregation in interstate
busing?
68) What was the response from the Kennedy administration?
69.) What did the Kennedy administration do in response to violence at Ole Miss? Birmingham?
70.) Identify- The March on Washington
The Killing of JFK in Dallas
Objective: Explain the tragic events surrounding the assassination of JFK
71.) Identify: Lee Harvey Oswald
72.) Identify: The Warren Commission