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Chapter Objective
The student will understand how conflict developed between the democratic, capitalist United States and the authoritarian, Communist Soviet Union and how Americans reacted to the economic prosperity and rapid change of the postwar period.
SECTION 1 Peacetime Adjustments and the Cold War
- To describe how the economy changed after World War II
- To evaluate Truman's response to labor unrest and civil rights issues
- To analyze the origins of the Cold War and containment policies
- To explain how fear of communism affected international relations and domestic politics
SECTION 2 The Korean War and McCarthyism
- To explain how the Korean War began
- To trace the course of the Korean War through the cease-fire
- To evaluate the anticommunist campaign of Joseph McCarthy
- To describe the Cold War policies of President Eisenhower
SECTION 3 The Fifties
- To identify the groups that were left out of the prosperity of the 1950s
- To summarize changes in American life during the 1950s
- To analyze the American Dream and how pop culture and rock 'n' roll affected society
- To describe the outcome of the 1960 election
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