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
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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
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John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, 1961
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The Supreme Court Upholds National Prohibition, 1920
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Civil rights posters, 1968
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The Sixties
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“People Get Ready”: Music and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
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1945 - 1980S
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CHAPTERS 24 - 27 VOCABULARY
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PERIOD 8.1
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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
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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
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GILDER LEHRMAN
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