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Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Domino Theory
McCarthyism
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Tet Offensive
Baby Boom
Levittown
Interstate Highway Act
Sputnik
Little Rock Nine
Executive Order 9981
Civil Rights Act of
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Voting Rights Act of
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SNCC (Student…)
SCLC (Southern…)
Sit-in
Freedom Rides
SSUSH20 The student will analyze the domestic and international impact of the Cold War
on the United States
1. Describe the creation of the Marshall Plan, U.S. commitment to Europe, the Truman
Doctrine, and the origins and implications of the containment policy. (850, 848)
2. Explain the impact of the new communist regime in China, the outbreak of the Korean
War, and how these events contributed to the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy. (854,
855-857, 873-875)
3. Describe the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs, and the Cuban missile crisis. (956-958)
4. Describe the Vietnam War, the Tet offensive and growing opposition to the war. (984991, 995-996)
5. Explain the role of geography on the U.S. containment policy, the Korean War, the Bay of
Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Vietnam War.
SSUSH21 The student will explain the impact of technological development and economic
growth on the United States, 1945-1975.
6. Describe the baby boom and its impact as shown by Levittown and the Interstate
Highway Act. (883, 889, 890)
7. Describe the impact television has had on American culture; include the presidential
debates (Kennedy/ Nixon, 1960) (897, 900, 953)
8. Analyze the impact of technology on American life; include the development of the
personal computer and the expanded use of air conditioning. (1106-1107)
9. Describe the impact of competition with the USSR as evidenced by the launch of Sputnik
I and President Eisenhower’s actions. (865, 895)
SSUSH22 The student will identify dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1970.
10. Explain the importance of President Truman’ order to integrate the U.S. military and the
federal government. (918)
11. Identify Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball. (917)
12. Explain Brown v. Board of Education and efforts to resist the decision. (918-921)
13. Describe the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and
his I Have a Dream speech. (1188, 931)
14. Describe the causes and consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting
Rights Act of 1965. (932, 966, 938)
15. Describe the political impact of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including
the impact on Civil Rights legislation. (963, 966)
16. Compare and contrast the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) tactics; include sit-ins, freedom rides,
and changing composition. (926, 930, 936, 923, 929-930, 937)
Joseph McCarthy
Harry Truman
Nikita Khrushchev
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
PEOPLE
Dwight Eisenhower
Fidel Castro
Richard Nixon
Jackie Robinson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
USHS 20: Analyze the domestic and international impact of the Cold War on the U.S.
A. Describe the creation of the Marshall Plan, US commitment to Europe, the Truman Doctrine, and the origins and implications of the
containment policy (850, 848).
1. What is the Truman Doctrine? What events caused President Truman to propose the Truman Doctrine? Which nations were the first to
be aided through the Truman Doctrine?
2. What is containment? Why did George Kennan believe containment would work?
3. What was the goal of the Marshall Plan? What part of the world was it designed to aid? Why was the Marshall Plan important in postwar Europe?
B. Explain the impact of the new communist regime in China, the outbreak of the Korean War, and how these events contributed to the rise of
Senator Joseph McCarthy (854, 855-857, 873-875).
4. What nation became communist in 1949? What impact did this have on the U.S.?
5. What happened to the peninsula of Korea after WWII? What problem did this cause? Why? What happened on June 25, 1950? What
was the U.S. response? What was the outcome of the Korean War? What are the long-term effects of the Korean War on the U.S.?
What role did geography play in the Korean War?
6. Who was Joseph McCarthy? What kind of accusations did he make? What is the Red Scare? How was the Red Scare of the 1940s and
1950s different from the Red Scare in 1919?
C. Describe the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis (956-958).
7. What happened in Cuba in 1959? What actions did Fidel Castro take which angered many Americans? What was the Bay of Pigs
invasion? What role did geography play in the Bay of Pigs invasion? Was it successful? Who was embarrassed by the outcome? What
was the Cuban Missile Crisis? What nation came to the aid of Cuba? Why? How did President Kennedy try to prevent Soviet
intervention? What role did geography play in the Cuban Missile Crisis? What was the outcome of the Crisis? What did the Cuban
Missile Crisis lead to 1963?
D. Describe the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive and growing opposition to the war (984-991, 995-996).
8. What nation had colonized Vietnam in the 1800s? Who was Ho Chi Mihn? What nation was he able to convince to join him in freeing
Vietnam from French control? What is the domino theory? According to the Geneva Accords, what happened to the nation of Vietnam?
Which side did the U.S. support?
E. Explain the role of geography on the US containment policy, the Korean War, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Vietnam
War.
9. What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? What role did geography play in the Vietnam War? What was the Tet Offensive? Why did
Americans oppose the Vietnam War?
USHS21: Explain the impact of technological development and economic growth on the U.S.
F. Describe the baby boom and its impact as shown by Levittown and the Interstate Highway Act (883, 889, 890).
10. What was the Baby Boom? What was Levittown? What was the Interstate Highway Act? How are the three related?
G. Describe the impact television has had on American Culture; include the presidential debates (Kennedy/ Nixon, 1960) and news coverage of
the Civil Rights Movement (897-900)
11. What impact did television have on the American family in the 1950s? What impact did television have on the 1960 Presidential
election?
H. Analyze the impact of technology on American Life; include the development of the personal computer and the expanded use of air
conditioning (1106-1107)
15. How has the development of the personal computer and air conditioning changed American society?
I. Describe the impact of competition with the USSR as evidenced by the launch of Sputnik I and President Eisenhower’s actions (865, 895)
16. What was Sputnik? What impact did the launch of Sputnik have on Americans? What agency was created in response? What was the
purpose of the National Defense Education Act?
USHS22: Identify dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1970.
J. Explain the importance of President Truman’s order to integrate the US military and the federal government (918).
17. What did Executive Order 9981 do? How did this impact the country?
K. Identify Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball (917).
18. Who was Jackie Robinson? Why is he important? What did he face as a result of his integrating baseball?
L. Explain Brown v. Board of Education and efforts to resist the decision 9918-921).
19. What did Brown v. BOE do? What part of the country most strongly resisted the order? What happen in Little Rock, Arkansas?
M. Describe the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and his I have a Dream speech (1188-931).
20. What did MLK, Jr. say in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail and his I have a Dream speech? What impact did these have on the Civil Rights
movement?
N. Describe the causes and consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (932, 966, 938).
21. Why was the CRA of 1964 and VRA of 1965 necessary? What did the CRA of 1964 say? What did the VRA of 1965 do?
O. Describe the political impact of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including the impact on Civil Rights legislation (963, 966).
22. What impact did the assassination of JFK have on the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
P. Compare and contrast the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
tactics; include sit-ins, freedom rides, and changing composition (926, 930, 936, 923, 929-930, 937).
23. Who did SNCC rely on to help make decisions? Who helped found SCLC? What is a sit-in? What city is most frequently associated with
sit-ins? What was the goal of sit-ins? What were freedom rides? What was the goal of freedom rides? What happened to freedom
riders when they arrived in Alabama? What happened to the freedom riders when they reached Jackson, Mississippi?