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- Learn About the United States Becomes a World Power
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/worldpower/index.cfm
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- Karen Anderson History 440/540 Powerpoints
http://www.gened.arizona.edu/anderson/class1.htm
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module20/index.html
Primary sources, learning tools, including lesson plans, visual aids, timelines and other resources
- Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/postwar/index.cfm
Maps, images, timelines, lesson plans and reccomended readings and films
• Origins of the Cold War ( PO 1) [assign ch. 4 of Present Tense ]
• Western fear of communist expansion
• Soviet fear of capitalist aggression
• Development of nuclear weapons and atomic diplomacy (use a timeline)
• Truman Doctrine
• Impact of the Cold War ( PO 2) [assign ch. 4 of Present Tense ]
• Creation of the CIA (1946)--Eisenhower's use of the CIA in Guatemala (1954) and Iran (1953)--use documents from Blanche Weisen Cook
• Arms Race (use a graphic)
• Space Race (1957 Soviet launch)
• Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
• Cold War and McCarthyism: The Politics of Fear ( PO 2, a.)
- Clips from videos of McCarthy--wildness of charges, political opportunism
- Extended beyond McCarthy era; used to discredit progressive movements from the labor movement to the Civil Rights Movement (anti-Semitism of attacks) [use visual]; those who dissented rendered suspect
- Duck and Cover clip and others from Atomic Café--children socialized to fear
- Bomb shelters
• Postwar Economy and Society ( PO 5)
• Uneven prosperity--urbanization of blacks resulting from changes in rural south (use table on minimum wage rates)
• Growth of suburbs (use visual)
• Housing segregation (use visual from Sugrue)
• Role of public policies--Federal Highway Act; urban renewal ( Tucson example); zoning
• Gender and Sexuality ( PO 5)
• Normative gender
• Changes from the past--going steady, early marriage, high birth rates (Baby Boom)
• Extreme suspicion of working women (use an article from Life or another document)
• Role of Mass Media
• Television
• Music: Folk Music and Rock and Roll
• 1960s Social Movements
• Women's Movement
• Civil Rights Movement
• Anti-War Movement
• Role of courts ( Warren Court )
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