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Period 8:  1945-1980

 

Chapter 35- The Cold War Begins (1945-1952)

           -Ch. 35 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course:  The Cold War

           -Harry Truman presidential chart

           -Harry Truman presidential chart- answers

           -Cold War Timeline

           -Ch. 33-35 Test Review

 

           Documents

           -George C. Marshall, The Marshall Plan, 1947

           -George F. Kennan, "Long Telegram," 1946

           -George Kennan, "The United States and Russia"

           -Iron Curtain Speech (1946) Winston Churchill

           -James F. Schnabel, from United States Army in the Korean War

           -The Truman Doctrine (1947) Harry S. Truman

 

Chapter 36- American Zenith (1952-1963)

           -Chapter 36 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course:  Civil Rights and the 1950s

           -Dwight Eisenhower presidential chart

           -Dwight Eisenhower presidential chart- answers

           -John Kennedy presidential chart

           -John Kennedy presidential chart- answers

           -Cuban Missile Crisis lesson/questions

           -Ch. 36 Eisenhower Quiz

 

           Documents

           -Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

           -Separate is Not Equal/Selected Jim Crow Laws Handout

           -Describing My Arrest- Rosa Parks (1955)

           -Cold War Foreign Policy- John Foster Dulles (1958)

           -The Kitchen Debate (1959) Richard M. Nixon and Nikita S. Khrushchev

           -The Television Presidential Debates (1960)

           -Farewell Address of Eisenhower (1961)

           -JFK Inaugural Address (1961)

           -John F. Kennedy, Address Before the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1961

           -John F. Kennedy and Cuba (1961) John F. Kennedy

 

Chapter 37- The Stormy Sixties (1963-1972)

           -Chapter 37 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course:  The 1960s

           -Crash Course:  The Cold War In Asia

           -LBJ presidential chart

           -LBJ presidential chart- answers

           -Richard Nixon presidential chart

           -Richard Nixon presidential chart- answers

           -A Brief Chronology of the Vietnam War

           -Vietnam Veterans Memorial Handout

           -A Brief Chronology of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

           -Ch. 37 Documents

 

           Documents

           -Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963

           -John F. Kennedy, Address Before the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1961

           -James B. Stockdale, excerpt from A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection

           -Black Nationalism (1964)

           -The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)

           -The Splendid Little War (1965)

           -Vietnamization and the Nixon Doctrine (1969)

           -The Invasion of Cambodia (1970)

           -Watergate:  Taped White House Conversations (1972)

           -LBJ/Nixon article (2013)

 

Chapter 38- Challenges to the Postwar Order (1973-1980)

           -Chapter 38 Reading Questions

           -Crash Course  Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise

           -Gerald Ford presidential chart

           -Gerald Ford presidential chart- answers

           -Jimmy Carter presidential chart

           -Jimmy Carter presidential chart- answers

 

           Documents

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