A.P. United States History
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Unit 9: World War II and the Cold War: Impacts
Home and Abroad
Unit Outline
1)
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Mushroom cloud rising over
Hiroshima, Japan, August, 1945
2)
Diplomacy in the 1930s
a) Good Neighbor Policy
b) London Economic Conference
c) Disarmament
d) Isolationism, neutrality legislation
e) Japan and Germany
f) Appeasement
g) Rearmament, Blitzkreig, Lend-Lease
h) Atlantic Charter
i) Pearl Harbor
World War II
Organizing for war
i)
Propaganda
ii) Japanese-American internment
b) War in Europe, Africa, Pacific
c) Diplomacy
i)
Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam
d) End of the war
i)
Atomic Weapons
ii) Transition to peace
iii) The rise of the Cold War
a)
Essential Questions
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5.
What political, social, economic, and
cultural events led to World War II?
Why was U.S. involvement in WWII
delayed?
What events led to the rise of the Cold War?
Why did the U.S. get involved in places like
Korea and Vietnam?
What was the social, economic, and political
impact of those wars?
Learning Objectives
At the end of this unit, students should be able
to:
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Identify key reasons the U.S. became
involved in overseas wars like WWII, Korea,
and Vietnam.
Evaluate the successes and failures of those
actions.
Explain the impact of the Cold War on
American culture and politics.
3)
Truman and the Cold War
Postwar domestic adjustments
The Taft-Hartley Act
Civil Rights and the election of 1948
Containment Policy
i)
Truman Doctrine
ii) Marshall Plan
iii) Berlin Crisis
iv) NATO
e) Chinese Communist Revolution
f) Korea
i)
MacArthur
a)
b)
c)
d)
a)
b)
c)
d)
Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism
McCarthyism
Civil Rights movement
John Foster Dulles’ foreign Policy
Space Race
a)
b)
c)
Kennedy and the New Frontier, Johnson and the Great Society
Vietnam
Cuba and the USSR
Civil Rights
a)
b)
c)
Kennedy and the New Frontier, Johnson and the Great Society
Vietnam
Cuba and the USSR
Civil Rights
4)
5)
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Unit 9: World War II and the Cold War: Impacts Home and Abroad
USS West Virginia Sinking in
Pearl Harbor during air raid,
December 7, 1941
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Terms, People
& Concepts
Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1937, 1939
Lend-Lease Act
Neutrality Act of 1941
Destroyer Deal
Atlantic Charter
Pearl Harbor
Appeasement
Conferences: Yalta, Potsdam
Operation Overlord (D-Day)
Island Hopping
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Manhattan Project
Japanese-American Internment
Congress of Racial Equality
“Rosie the Riviter”
Cold War
Containment
Brinksmanship
Massive retaliation
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
NATO
United Nations
John Foster Dulles
Satellites
Peaceful coexistence
Flexible response
Berlin Airlift
Warsaw Pact
Arms Race
Space Race
Central Intelligence Agency
Korean War (police action)
Suez Crisis
Sputnik
U-2 Incident
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Alliance for Progress
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
“hotline”
Vietnam War
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
Paris Peace Accords
Henry Kissinger
Domino Theory
Viet Minh
Viet Cong
Ho Chi Minh
My Lai Massacre
Fair Deal
Taft-Hartley Act
G.I. Bill
Full Employment Act
McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy
Alger Hiss
Rosenbergs
22nd Amendment
Military-Industrial Complex
Interstate Highway Act
Desegregation of Armed Forces
Brown v. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Little Rock Crisis, 1957
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Unit 9: World War II and the Cold War: Impacts Home and Abroad
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Unit 9: AP Exam Essay Questions/ ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
The following questions have been asked as AP Free Response (FRQ) and Document Based Questions (DBQ) on this
unit.
1.
Analyze the extent to which TWO of the following transformed American society in the 1960s and 1970s:
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The Civil Rights movement
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The antiwar movement
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The women’s movement
2.
Analyze the successes and failures of the United States Cold War policy of containment as it developed in TWO of the following
regions of the world during the period 1945 to 1975.
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East and Southeast Asia
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Europe
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Latin America
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Middle East
3.
Compare and contrast United States foreign policy after the First World War and after the Second World War. Consider the periods
1919-1928 and 1945-1950.
4.
What were Cold War fears of the American people in the aftermath of the Second World War? How successfully did the
administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower address these fears? Confine your answer to the years 1948-1961.
5.
Analyze the success of the United States policy of containment in Asia between 1945 and 1975.
6.
“1968 was a turning point for the United States.” To what extent is this an accurate assessment? In your answer, discuss TWO of the
following:
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National politics
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Vietnam War
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Civil Rights
7.
How do you account for the appeal of McCarthyism in the United States in the era following the Second World War?
8.
Analyze the influence of TWO of the following on American-Soviet relations in the decade following the Second World War.
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Yalta Conference
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Communist Revolution in China
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Korean War
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McCarthyism
9.
To what extent did the decades of the 1950s deserve its reputation as an age of political, social, and cultural conformity?
10. “The United States decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a diplomatic measure calculated to intimidate the Soviet
Union in the post-Second World War era rather than strictly a military measure designed to force Japan’s unconditional surrender.”
Confine your answer to the years 1939 through 1947.
11.
While the Unites States appeared to be dominated by consensus and conformity in the 1950s, some Americans reacted against the
status quo. Analyze the critiques of United States society made by TWO of the following.
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Youth
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Civil Rights Activists
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Intellectuals
12. Analyze the ways in which the Vietnam War heightened social, political, and economic tensions in the United States. Focus your
answer on the period 1964 to 1975.
13. How did the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s address the failures of the Reconstruction?
14. Analyze the extent to which TWO of the following transformed American society in the 1960s and 1970s:
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The Civil Rights movement
•
The antiwar movement
•
The women’s movement
A.P. United States History
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Unit 9: World War II and the Cold War: Impacts Home and Abroad
Assignments
It is expected that you will complete all reading assignments and homework thoroughly and carefully
before you come to class. “Norton” refers to the textbook, A People & A Nation.
Work to be completed by:
March 24 & 25
World War II and the Origins of the Cold War
Norton pp. 751-759, 766-793 (skim - do not worry about the military details)
March 26 & 27
Cold War Home and Abroad Part I - The New Atomic World, the Korean War and U.S. Soviet
Relations under Truman and Eisenhower; 1950s and Cold War Conformist Culture
Norton pp. 798-822, 827-849
Primary Source: Truman Doctrine
March 30 & 31
Cold War Home and Abroad Part II - Kennedy, Johnson and the Vietnam Quagmire; The
1960s Counterculture and the Protest Movements
Norton pp. 859-863, 872-877
Norton pp. 849-855, 877-883
Primary Source: Gulf of Tonkin Agreement
Video: Kennedy Speeches
April 1 & 2
The Civil Rights and the Great Society
Norton pp. 863-872
March 13 & 14
Seminar - Civil Rights
Readings TBD
April 15 & 16
Unit 11 Exam: DBQ
SPRING BREAK READING - Godfrey Hodgson’s America in Our Time
Spring Break Movie Assignment - Handout