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• AP PRE REG– .Last name A-L

• Aux Café – Thu 4-22 (@7AM)

– Last name M-Z• Aux Café – Fri 4-23 (@7AM)

• See me if you have questions about Pres Pres

• FOR TOMORROW:– Policies leading up to

involvement in WWI and WWII (comparison)

– 1950’s culture

GI Bill of Rights (Serviceman’s Readjustment Act)

• 52-20• 17 weeks

• Education• SUNY• Postpone

“homecoming”

• Home loans• Suburbanization

• Rehabilitation

Levittowns

• Doughnut cities

• White Flight

• Urban Blight

Major Social Changes of 1950’s

Daily Impact of Cold War on American life

Cold War in action: Truman Doctrine (Containment)

• United Nations

• Yalta Conference– Poland

• Potsdam Conference– Reparations– 4 zones– War criminals

Cold War in action: Marshall Plan

Cold War in action: Berlin Airlift

Truman and Foreign Policy

• China (lost)

• NATO (Warsaw Pact)

• Hydrogen Bomb

• NSC 68

• Korea

The Red Scare: The Hollywood 10

• 10 producers, writers, and directors who had been or were Communist Party members

• Refused to testify

• 1st amendment– Eventually went to prison

• Blacklist or name names

HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities)

• Whittaker Chambers (journalist) said Alger Hiss was passing secret documents

• Nixon

• Pumpkin papers

• “there was a need to clean house”

• Loyalty oaths– Anti-homosexual rules– Teachers

The Red Scare: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg• US was looking for suspects

• Soviet Union just detonated its first bomb – how quickly they did it though

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for spreading secrets

Joseph McCarthy(ism)

• Ever changing undisclosed list of communists working in the government (Wheeling WV)

• Part of the larger criticism of Truman’s government and reflected world happenings (China)

• Demagogue – people followed him

• Exemplifies how “broader executive authority was necessary to protect national security” (Gerstle)

• Army McCarthy Hearings– 4-5:30 mins– 7:30-9:40

Dwight D. Eisenhower• Progressive Moderation

• Federal Aid Highway Act– 40,000 miles of roads– Security (Panama Canal)

• Korea (Dulles)

• Indochina (Vietnam)– Supported Ngo Dinh Diem (against Ho Chi Minh)

• Middle East, Kruschev, Latin America, Dulles– Brinkmanship

• Sputnik– National Education Defense Act

IMPORTANT NOTES:• Tuesday April 28th

– TIMED DBQ• 2:30-3:30 or 6:30-7:30

• Monday / Tuesday May 4th or 5th

– TIMED MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION

• When works for you?

• SEE ME ABOUT CONFLICTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

• TEST ON THURSDAY– Chpts 27, 28, and 29– Don’t worry about Civil Rights

(on the next test)

• Friday (I will present on Civil Rights)– Review Quiz on (10, 11, and

12)

• Presidential Presentations– Remember the good habits

for presenting– Follow the directions– Plan ahead (it’s a full period)– Stay up on your reading

• Last test on 30 and 31 Wed May 6th

• AP Registration this week