U.S. History
Unit 12-Foreign and Domestic Policy 1945-1975
P.A.S.S. Standard 6: The student will analyze the foreign and domestic policies of the U.S. since WWII.
***Analyze the origins, international alliances, and efforts at containment of Communism.
 Identify the origins of the Cold War and its foreign and domestic consequences, including
confrontations, with the Soviet Union in Berlin and Cuba.
 Evaluate the United States’ attempts at the containment of Communism including the Truman
Doctrine and the involvement of the UN in the Korean War.
 Describe the fear of communist influence within the U.S. including the McCarthy hearings.
***Describe events which changed domestic and foreign policies during the Cold War and its aftermath.
 Examine the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the arms race.
 Describe the role of the U.S. in the formation of the United Nations, NATO, and SEATO.
 Evaluate the causes and long term foreign and domestic consequences of the United States’
military commitments in Southeast Asia, including the Vietnam War.
***Analyze the economic, social, and political transformation within the U.S. since WWII.
 Describe de jure and de facto segregation policies, attempts at desegregation and integration, and
the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on society.
 Evaluate the success of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
 Identify the contributions of political leaders, political activist, civil rights leaders.
 Analyze how the principles and structures of the U.S. Constitution have changed through
amendment and judicial interpretation.
Who?
Who?
Rosenbergs
Little Rock 9
Harry S. Truman
What?
Cold War
NATO
Iron Curtain
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Post-war division of Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What?
Warsaw Pact
2nd Red Scare
arms race
Vietnam
Montgomery Bus Boycott
de jure segregation
desegregation
containment
United Nations
Truman Doctrine
Korean War
2nd Red Scare
22nd amendment
McCarthy hearings
proliferation
Sputnik
Brown v. Board of Ed
domino theory
de facto segregation
integration
Who?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Betty Friedan
Who?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Thurgood Marshall
Cesar Chavez
Who?
John F. Kennedy
What?
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Vietnam
Warsaw Pact
OKC lunch sit-ins
Gideon v. Wainwright
Lyndon B. Johnson
What?
Vietnam
Tet offensive
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
student protests
expanded TV war coverage Civil Rights Act 1964
Voting Rights Act 1965
25th amendment
Nat’l. Organization of Women Warren Court
Miranda v. Arizona
Richard M. Nixon
What?
SALT
Elections 1968, 1972
War Powers Act
Watergate
Vietnam War
student protests
Roe v. Wade