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Chapter 13: 1945-1960 Inquiry Organizer
How did anti-communist foreign policy, the liberal welfare state, and American cultural values shape the postwar world from 1945 to 1960?
In this organizer
- Lesson2
- Narrative15
- Primary Source9
- Point-Counterpoint2
- Decision Point3
Compelling question
How did anti-communist foreign policy, the liberal welfare state, and American cultural values shape the postwar world from 1945 to 1960?
Chapter objectives
- Students will explore the causes and effects of the Cold War and U.S. internationalist foreign policy.
- Students will analyze how the civil rights movement gained momentum after World War II.
- Students will analyze vast economic, demographic, technological, cultural, and social changes in the postwar United States.
Supporting questions and resources
The filter narrows the resources under every question. Each card opens the resource.
Supporting question 1
What were the causes and effects of the Cold War and U.S. internationalist foreign policy?
- LessonMcCarthyism DBQ
- Primary SourceGeorge Kennan (“Mr. X”), “Sources of Soviet Conduct,” July 1947
- Primary SourceHarry S. Truman, “Truman Doctrine” Address, March 1947
- Primary SourceWinston Churchill, “Sinews of Peace,” March 1946
- Primary SourceRichard Nixon, “Checkers” Speech, September 1952
- Primary SourceDwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 1961
- Point-CounterpointWho Was Responsible for Starting the Cold War?
- Decision PointTruman Intervenes in Korea
- Decision PointTruman Fires General Douglas MacArthur
- Decision PointEisenhower and the Suez Canal Crisis
- NarrativeThe Berlin Airlift
- NarrativeThe Postwar Red Scare
- NarrativeCold War Spy Cases
- NarrativeThe Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate
- NarrativeThe Korean War and the Battle of Chosin Reservoir
Supporting question 2
How did the civil rights movement gain momentum after World War II?
Supporting question 3
What were the economic, demographic, technological, cultural, and social changes taking place in the postwar United States?
- NarrativeThe G.I. Bill
- NarrativeDr. Benjamin Spock and the Baby Boom
- LessonThe Sound of the Suburbs
- Primary SourceLevittown Videos, 1947-1957
- Primary SourceCritics of Postwar Culture: Jack Kerouac,On the Road(Excerpts), 1957
- NarrativeThe National Highway Act
- Primary SourceNam Paik,Electronic Superhighway, 1995
- NarrativeWilliam F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement
- NarrativeSputnik and NASA
- Point-CounterpointWas Federal Spending on the Space Race Justified?
- Kennedy vs. Nixon: TV and Politics Lesson
- Chapter 13 Introductory Essay: 1945-1960
- NarrativeEleanor Roosevelt and the United Nations
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