Cultural/Social
This new technology helped create a national culture in 1950s America, and gave birth to a new age of advertising.
BONUS: What were some of the mass-produced items consumers began to purchase?
Television
Immediately following World War II, what happened to the US economy, and why?
BONUS: Name ONE government action or policy that contributed.
Economic boom
In the 1950s & 60s, the Supreme Court's focused shifted from protecting property rights to protecting these rights instead.
BONUS: Name one Supreme Court cases that illustrated this shift.
Individual Rights
This mutual defense pact was established between the US and Western European nations after WWII.
BONUS: What other mutual defense pact did the US later help to establish?
North
Atlantic
Treaty
Organization
This was ONE action taken by the federal government during World War II that expanded its power.
BONUS: Name ONE additional policy, program, or action.
War Production Board; Office of War Mobilization, Office of Price Administration; Rationing; Office of War Information; Japanese Internment
These were TWO other groups besides African Americans who experienced significant Civil Rights progress after World War II.
BONUS: Name two pieces of legislation that improved conditions for these groups.
Mexican & Mexican-American migrant workers; Latinx Americans; Native Americans; LGBTQ+ Americans; Women
By the end of the 1970s, many conservative Americans began to favor this policy, reversing the trend that began with the Progressive Era in the early 1900s.
Deregulation
These were two policies enacted as a result of the environmental movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
BONUS: Name two individuals who contributed to these movements.
Wilderness Act; Endangered Species Act; Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Environmental Protection Agency
This policy towards trade with Cuba was adopted as a response to the nation's cooperation and alliance with the USSR.
BONUS: What two conflicts of the Cold War were centered around this small island nation?
Embargo
These two Asian nations experienced similar processes of division and US-led interventions in the aftermath of WWII.
BONUS: Which FOUR Presidents were in office during these conflicts?
Korea (1950-1953), Vietnam (1963-1973)
These were THREE elements of "traditional" American society that the Counterculture movement of the 1960s opposed.
BONUS: Name THREE events that illustrated the growth of the counterculture.
"Patriotism" & support for the Vietnam War; Consumerism and mass-produced culture; conservative hair and clothing styles; monogamy; traditional gender roles; racial injustice; lack of democratic processes in higher education
These were THREE of the economic problems that plagued the US during the 1970s.
BONUS: What political realignment did these economic problems contribute to by the end of the decade?
Stagflation (rising inflation and rising unemployment); High interest rates; weakening labor unions; deregulation; rising federal deficit; outsourcing; loss of manufacturing jobs
This President's policies caused a major realignment of voters in support of the Republican Party.
BONUS: Name three strategies or policies that contributed to this realignment.
Richard Nixon (1968)
These were THREE Presidential foreign policy doctrines in the period 1945-1974.
BONUS: Name TWO nations where these doctrines were applied.
Truman Doctrine: Aid to democratic nations threatened by Communism
Eisenhower Doctrine: Aid to Middle Eastern nations threatened by Communism
Kennedy: Expanded above
Johnson: US will intervene in revolutions where Communist dictatorships may emerge
Nixon: Expand US partnership (arms and funds) but reduce direct responsibility for other nations' security
This fear (which later turned out to be unfounded) led the US to spend billions of dollars building up its defense and nuclear weapons systems in the period after WWII.
Soviet Missile Gap
These were FOUR significant events in the African American Civil Rights movement after World War II.
BONUS: These were FOUR individuals who helped advance Civil Rights causes.
Desegregation of Federal Government & Armed Forces; Committee on Civil Rights & Fair Employment Practices Commission; Brown v. Board of Education; Montgomery Bus Boycott; SCLC, SNCC; Little Rock Nine; James Meredith & UMiss; Freedom Riders; March on Washington; Civil Rights & Voting Rights Acts; 24th Amendment; Selma to Montgomery March; Black Muslim movement; Black Panther Party
These were TWO policies enacted by the Eisenhower Administration (1953-1961) that illustrated the idea of "Modern Republicanism"
Interstate Highway Act; new taxes to pay for interstate system; funding for infrastructure; expansion of Social Security and public housing; opposition to federal health insurance
These were TWO Supreme Court rulings in the period 1945-1975 that illustrated cultural change and/or tension within the US.
Brown v. Board (1954); Griswold v. Connecticut (1965); Roe v. Wade (1973); US v. Nixon (1974)
These were FOUR regions where US intervention grew after WWII, and why.
Asia: Containment
Middle East: Containment; access to oil, support for Israel
Latin America: Containment, Cuba
Africa: Containment; Economic aid
This resolution by Congress gave the President a blank check to do anything "necessary to protect US interests" in Vietnam, sparking a massive escalation of US troop presence in the region.
BONUS: What act of Congress later curbed this authority?
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
These were FIVE points of cultural disagreement, tension, controversy, or conflict that occurred 1945-1980.
BONUS: What long-term changes occurred as a result of TWO of these events?
NAACP & Early Civil Rights movements vs. white supremacy; WWII era Anti-Mexican attacks; Japanese Internment; White Flight & de facto segregation; Red Scare/McCarthyism; Changing gender roles; ERA; Opposition to Civil Rights movement(s); Kennedy's Assassination; Immigration Reform (1965); G. Wallace's Segregationist campaign (1968); Counterculture & Anti-Vietnam War movement; Growing distrust towards the Federal Government; the "New Left"; Critics of the Great Society; Watergate & Nixon's Resignation; Environmental Movement vs. Deregulation
These were FIVE of the programs/policies enacted during Johnson's "Great Society"
BONUS: What ultimately diverted Johnson's and the American public's attention away from solving social problems in the late 1960s?
War on Poverty; EEOC; Food Stamp Act; Medicare; Medicaid; Education funding; Rent subsidies; crime prevention; public transit funding; public housing; Department of Transportation; Department of Housing & Urban Development
These were the US Presidents (in order) between 1945 and 1980.
BONUS: Name one major political event during the term of each President.
FDR* (D); Truman (D); Eisenhower (R); Kennedy* (D); LBJ (D); Nixon (R); Ford^(R); Carter (D); Reagan (R)
These were FIVE nations where the US intervened with NON-military action between 1945-1980.
BONUS: What new international role did the US adopt after World War II?
Dominican Republic; Brazil; Germany/NATO; Cuba; Israel/Palestine; Egypt; Guatemala; Iran; Congo; Angola; Rhodesia; South Africa
These were FIVE events or conflicts (besides the major wars in Asia) that occurred during the Cold War.
BONUS: What were their outcomes?
Red Scare/McCarthyism; Turkey/Greece; Berlin Airlift/Wall; Eastern European "elections"; Chinese Civil War; Nuclear Tests & Hydrogen Bombs; U2 incident; Cuban Revolution; Bay of Pigs Invasion; Cuban Missile Crisis; Space Race; Arms Race; OPEC embargo; Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan