APUSH
Mrs. Banas
Name:______________________________
CHAPTER 37 – The Eisenhower Era
A. Checklist of Learning Objectives
After mastering this chapter, you should be able to: (not homework just a checklist)
1.
Describe the changes in the American consumer economy in the 1950s and their relationship to the rise of popular mass culture.
2.
Describe the Republicans’ return to power under Eisenhower and the rise and decline of McCarthyism.
3.
Trace the emergence of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and its initial impact on American race relations and the nation’s
image abroad.
4.
Describe the practice of Eisenhower Republicanism in the 1950s, including domestic consequences of the Cold War.
5.
Summarize the major changes in American culture in the 1950s, including the rise of Jewish, southern, and African American
writers and playwrights.
Chapter #37: The Eisenhower Era – Big Picture Themes
1. American enjoyed its new prosperity and bought up loads of consumer items to go along with new homes. The
“baby boom” also began.
2. “McCarthyism” played off of, and added to, America’s fears of communism.
3. Black—white segregation in the South became rigid. But, the foundation of the civil rights movement was laid
with events such as the Brown v. Board of Education case and Montgomery bus boycott.
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
Affluence and Its Anxieties
Know: IBM, Information Age, Ozzie and Harriet, The Feminine Mystique
1.
What was life like for women in the 1950's?
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Consumer Culture in the Fifties
Know: Diner's Club, McDonald's, Disneyland, Television, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Playboy, The Affluent Society
2.
How was popular culture changing and reflecting America?
The Advent of Eisenhower
Know: Adlai E. Stevenson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Checkers Speech
3.
Describe the 1952 presidential election.
The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
Know: Joseph McCarthy
4.
Joseph McCarthy may have been more dangerous to our form of government than any communists who might
have been in the country. Explain.
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Desegregating American Society
Know: Jim Crow Laws, Emmett Till, Jackie Robinson, NAACP, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott,
Martin Luther King Jr.
5.
What conditions in the South brought about the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement?
Seeds of the Civil Rights Revolution
Know: Earl Warren, Brown v. Board of Education, All Deliberate Speed, Little Rock Central High School, Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, Sit-ins, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
6.
Why was Brown v. Board of Education a landmark case?
Eisenhower Republicanism at Home
Know: Dynamic Conservatism, Creeping Socialism, Interstate Highway Act, AFL-CIO
7.
Did Eisenhower live up to his philosophy of dynamic conservatism?
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Round Two for "Ike"
Know: Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa, Landrum-Griffin Act , Missile Gap, National Defense and Education Act
8.
What labor problems became evident during Eisenhower's second term?
The Life of the Mind in Postwar America
Know: Catch-22, Arthur Miller, Catcher in the Rye, George Orwell
9.
What do the books and plays of the post-war period say about the times in which they were
produced?
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