AP US HISTORY
Reading Assignments
ROBERTSON
2011
POSTWAR AMERICA
Chapters 27, 28, part of 29
Due Friday 3/18:
Leader of the Free World
Due Monday 3/21:
World War II essay exam
Due Tuesday 3/22:
pages 757-765
Due Wednesday 3/23:
pages 765-772
Due Thursday 3/24:
pages 772-776, 779-782
Due Friday 3/25:
pages 782-787
Due Monday 4/4:
pages 787-799
Due Tuesday 4/5:
pages 799-807
Due Wednesday 4/6:
The Cold War Part Two, pages 25-28
Due Thursday 4/7:
pages 812, 823-827 (stop at From Aid to Intervention)
Due Friday 4/8:
The Cold War Part Two, pages 29-35
The multiple choice exam will be on Tuesday, April 12. The essay exam will be
given on Thursday, April 14.
Important Terms/Concepts: Postwar America
Chapter 27
Yalta Conference
United Nations / Security Council
Potsdam Conference
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
Containment
Turkey and Greece
George Kennan
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
mobilization for containment
National Security Act of 1947
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Taiwan
National Security Council Report 68
Reconversion issues and problems
GI Bill
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
The Fair Deal
Truman and the Republican Congress
Taft-Hartley Act
Election of 1948
Dixiecrats
Thomas Dewey
National Housing Act
Shelley v. Kraemer
mixed views of nuclear power
Syngman Rhee
38th parallel
cause of Korean War and U.S. response
Douglas MacArthur
China’s entrance into war
Truman / MacArthur conflict
House Un-American Activities Committee
Alger Hiss trial
federal loyalty program
McCarran Internal Security Act
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
McCarthyism
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Election of 1952
Chapter 28
baby boom
suburbanization
impact of economic growth on the west
Keynesian economics
corporate consolidation
labor’s “postwar contract”
AFL-CIO
union scandals
antibacterial drugs
penicillin
immunization
Salk vaccine
chemical pesticides
television
UNIVAC
hydrogen bomb
Sputnik
NASA and the space program
consumer culture
consumer credit
Disneyland
Federal Highway Act
fast food
Levittowns
gender roles
impact of television
Echo Park / Sierra Club
changes in education
social critics
Beat generation
James Dean
Rock-n-Roll
The Other America
rural poverty
ghettos
urban renewal
Brown v. Board of Education
massive resistance
Little Rock Nine
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King
civil disobedience
Jackie Robinson
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Eisenhower administration and philosophy
Election of 1956
Federal Highway Act of 1956
Army-McCarthy hearings
John Foster Dulles
massive retaliation
end of Korean War
Ho Chi Minh
Dien Bien Phu
Israeli independence
CIA sponsored coup in Iran
Guatemala 1954
Fidel Castro
Cuban Revolution and U.S. reaction
Hungary 1956
U-2 Crisis
military-industrial complex
Chapter 29 (partial)
campaign and election of 1960
New Frontier
Kennedy assassination
Warren Commission
Flexible Response
Special Forces / Green Berets
Alliance for Progress
Peace Corps
Bay of Pigs
JFK and Krushchev
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam’s colonial background
the Vietminh
France v. Vietminh
First Indochina War
Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Conference
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
the Vietcong
Buddhist demonstrations
overthrow of Diem