1. What attitudes and events eroded the American commitment to the "One World" concept? Whatt vision of world affairs replaced that ideal?

2. What was the American political reaction to the "loss" of China? What was the Truman loyalty program and its impact, and what did HUAC do and its impact during this period? How did concern about Communism affect ordinary Americans?

3. Explain how the Turman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, support for Chiang Kai-Shek, and the Korean War were based on the policy of containment. What did that policy concede to the Soviets? How did NSC-68 refine the doctrine?

4. "Balance and moderation characterized Eisenhower's domestic record. But his middle of the road policies pleased neither liberals nor conservatives." do you agree or disagree with this statement. Back up what you say with as many specific facts as posible.

5. What did President Eisenhower mean when he warned Americans to be wary of the military-industrial complex?

6. Discuss the other America . What and who does the term refer to? Why were they shut out of the unprecendented economic prosperity of that decade?
 
 
 
 
 

FACTS, figures, people, and places.   Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below.

1. G. I. Bill of Rights (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944)
2. Bretton Woods Agreement
3. International Monetary Fund
4. World Bank
5. Employment Act of 1946
6. Council of Economic Advisors
7. Yalta Declaration of Liberated Europe
8. George Frost Kennan
9. Containment Policy
10. James F. Byrnes
11. Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
12. Atomic Energy Act
13. Atomic Energy Commission
14. Truman Doctrine
15. George C. Marshall
16. The Marshall Plan
17. Berlin Blockade and Airlift
18. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
19. The Warsaw Pact
20. General Douglas MacArthur
21. National Security Council
22. NSC-68
23. Edward Teller
24. J. Robert Oppenheimer
25. Hydrogen Bomb
26. Taft-Hartley Act
27. To Secure These Rights
28. J. Strom Thurmond
29. The Dixiecrats
30. Henry A. Wallace
31. The Progressive Party
32. Thomas E. Dewey
33. The Conservative Coalition in Congress
34. House Un-American Activities Committee
35. Federal Employee Loyalty Program
36. The Smith Act
37. Dennis v. United States
38. Alger Hiss
39. Whittaker Chambers
40. Richard M. Nixon
41. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
42. Joseph R. McCarthy 
43. McCarthyism
44. McCarran Internal Security Act

45. McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act
46. Adlai Stevenson
47. "Dynamic Conservatism" 
48. "Modern Republicanism"
49. Interstate Highway Act, 1956
50. Adlai Stevenson
51. "New Conservatives"
52. Radical Right
53. Earl Warren
54. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
55. Orval E. Faubus 
56. Little Rock Desegregation Fight
57. Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
58. John Foster Dulles
59. "Brinksmanship"
60. "Peaceful Coexistence"
61. The "Spirit of Geneva"
62. The Third World
63. Allen Dulles
64. Central Intelligence Agency
65. Covert Action
66. Ho Chi Minh
67. The Vietminh
68. The National Liberation Front
69. The "Domino Theory" in Asia
70. Ngo Dinh Diem
71. Gamal Abdel Nasser
72. The Eisenhower Doctrine
73. Military-Industrial Complex
74. George Meany
75. Walter Reuther
76. AFL-CIO
77. The Sunbelt
78. The Baby Boom
79. Rosa Parks
80. Martin Luther King, Jr.
81. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
82. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
83. House Concurrent Resolution 108
84. Termination and Relocation
85. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
86. Elvis Presley
87. Rock-and-roll
 
 
 

1. Truman's background and the political situation he faced upon becoming president.
2. Why the United States economy prospered in the postwar period.
3. The postwar domestic problems that led to Republican victories in 1946.
4. Causes of the Cold War in Europe and Asia.
5. The reasons the United States adopted the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall  Plan, and what were the results.
6. Why the Russians imposed the Berlin blockade and how Truman responded to it.
7. How Europe came to be divided into rival armed camps by the 1950s.
8. Reasons for the Communist takeover in China, and American reactions to it.
9. Escalation of the nuclear and conventional arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
10. Causes of, controversies about, and outcome of the Korean War.
11. The achievements and failures of the Truman administration in the areas of civil rights and social justice.
12. Causes and results of the anticommunist hysteria in the United States in the late  1940s and 1950s.
13. Who supported Senator Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism and why.
14. Why Eisenhower and the Republicans won the election of 1952.
15. The beginnings of the civil-rights movement and the Vietnam conflict between 1945 and 1952.
16. President Eisenhower's style of leadership and domestic policies; why they suited the national mood and why they pleased neither conservatives nor liberals.
17. What brought about the downfall of Joseph McCarthy and whether his eclipse ended excessive fears of communist subversion.
18. The decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren; why conservatives attacked them and how President Eisenhower reacted to them.
19. President Eisenhower's foreign policy; attempts at easing tensions with Russia, spread of the Cold War to the Third World, growing power of the military-industrial complex, and Eisenhower's warning.
20. The roles in American foreign policy of secretary of state John Foster Dulles and  of Allen Dulles and the CIA.
21. Reasons for America's economic growth and prosperity in the 1950s.
22. Trends toward economic consolidation in industry and agriculture.
23. Reasons for decline in union membership and influence.
24. The causes and social and political impact of the move to the suburbs and other demographic changes. Attitudes about women, the family, religion, and education; trends in American literature at midcentury.
25. The impact of television on American life and values.
26. Which Americans continued to live in poverty and why.
27. The reasons for growing urban blight.
28. Developments in the civil-rights movement in the 1950s.
29. Signs of discontent with American society; who was showing them and why.