PERIOD 8: 1945 - 1980
(American Pageant CHS 24- 27)

World War II broke the back of the Great Depression in the United States and also ended the century-and-a-half-old American tradition of isolationism in foreign affairs. Alone among the warring powers, the United States managed to emerge from the great conflict physically unscarred, economically healthy, and diplomatically strengthened. Yet if Americans faced a world full of promise at the war’s end, it was also a world full of dangers, none more disconcerting than Soviet communism. These two themes of promise & menace mingled uneasily throughout the nearly five decades of the Cold War era, from the end of World War II in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.​

FRASER'S BY THE PEOPLE CHAPTER READINGS
​READ (pp. 729-860):  CHAPTERS

 CH 24 (pp. 730-760):  
     * The World the War Created
CH 25 (pp. 761-794): 
     * Complacency & Change
​CH 26 (pp. 795- 825):
     * Lives Change
CH 27 (pp. 826-860): 
      * Rights, Reaction & Limits
TEXTBOOK READING.  Please have read by the DUE DATE.  You are accountable for the textbook reading and subject for evaluation to demonstrate your proficiency of the content.

PERIOD 8 CONTENT OUTLINE ​HYPERLINK on the BUTTON (below) which takes you to an available CONTENT OUTLINE for PERIOD 8. 
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Physicists predict a nuclear arms race, 1945
WEIGHT: 45 PTS

HYPERLINK on the BUTTON (below) which takes you to selected passages.   Once you read the article/story,  complete the WORKSHEET FORM (BUTTON below) and turn it in by the deadline. 

NOTE: You are to ANALYZE & EVALUATE with knowledge you gained from reading the textbook, or from lecture in class, or from your independent research.  Most DOCUMENTS are short, or brief ...requiring effort om your part to address the WORKSHEET.

John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, 1961
WEIGHT: 45 PTS

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The Supreme Court Upholds National Prohibition, 1920
​WEIGHT: 45 PTS

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​Civil rights posters, 1968
WEIGHT: 45 PTS

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The Sixties
WEIGHT: 45 PTS
(Optional)

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“People Get Ready”: Music and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
WEIGHT: 45 PTS

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1945 - 1980S
WEIGHT: 45 PTS
(Optional)

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NOTE: You are to ANALYZE & EVALUATE with knowledge you gained from reading the textbook, or from lecture in class, or from your independent research.  Most DOCUMENTS are short, or brief ...requiring effort om your part to address the WORKSHEET.
PERIOD 8.1
(Optional)
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​“Growth expanded opportunity, while economic instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society and its economic system.” ​
PERIOD 8.2  
(Optional)
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​“Innovations in communications and technology contributed to the growth of mass culture, while significant changes occurred in internal and international migration patters.”

PERIOD 8.3
(Optional)

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“Participation in a series of global conflicts propelled the United States into a position of international power while renewing domestic debates over the nation’s proper role in the world.” ​
GILDER LEHRMAN
PERIOD 8
(Optional)
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