Image Source - Resisting HUAC – A Grassroots Success Story
1940s-1950s
Post-World War II America
Primary Skill
Multiple Perspectives
Compelling Question
What was it like to live in America during the 1940s and 1950s?
Post-World War II America
Primary Skill
Multiple Perspectives
Compelling Question
What was it like to live in America during the 1940s and 1950s?
Essential Lessons
Post-World War II America
Essential Lessons will help you with specific information about the impacts of Post-World War II American Relations.
We are engaging in this complex thinking of connecting different topics to show our deeper understandings.
We are engaging in this complex thinking of connecting different topics to show our deeper understandings.
Growing Our Vocabulary
Directions: These words need to be added to your personal glossary with definitions.
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containment
baby boom suburbia brinkmanship McCarthyism/Red Scare |
desegregation
ideologies affluent proxy war |
cold war
hot war domino theory HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) |
Add words that you came across throughout these Essential Lessons that you learned and add them to your glossary.
Post-WWII America
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Active Reading:
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Newsela: 10 Things You Should Know about Brown v. Board |
Pick Two:
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Pick Two
Choose Two Topics from Below
These may be articles/videos/podcasts about our topics and there may or may not be specific instructions to do something with them other than read/watch/listen and see how it can add meaning to your understanding.
Guided Notes - should be stated for each Lesson. If it is not present, write down 5 details you learned about this topic.
SELECTION - pick a Lesson from different Categories indicated by the different color titles.
Guided Notes - should be stated for each Lesson. If it is not present, write down 5 details you learned about this topic.
SELECTION - pick a Lesson from different Categories indicated by the different color titles.
Culture - Music, Gender Roles, Arts, Propaganda, Culture Wars
Origins of the Cold War |
Gender Roles:
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Music of the 1940s & 1950s |
What Paul Robeson Said |
Watch a Movie:
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Iconic American Foods in the 1950s |
Science: Space Race, Nuclear Testing, Medicine
Camp Confidential:
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Duck and Cover (1951)
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Space Race |
The Human Cost to Nuclear Testing |
Video: How America Won the Space Race Against the Soviets |
Rodney
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Labor Fights
Reducing the Power of Unions:
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Film:
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Government: Politics, Laws, Foreign Interactions
Truman Doctrine (1947)
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Multiple Perspectives:
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The Korean War
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The Red Scare:
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CNN Documentary:
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Creation of Isreal:
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Arizona (State Forty-Eight) History
Arizona Cities in Pictures
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Internment camps & high-tech firms
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Arizona Memories from PBS
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Major Supreme Court Decisions
Addressing Racism in Transportation:
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Addressing Racism in Housing Contracts:
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The Supreme Court:
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Ending Racism in Public Schools:
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Addressing Racism in Public School Funding: Hernandez v. United States (1954) |
Addressing Classism in Public School Funding: Hernandez v. Driscoll ISD (1956) |
People Fighting Against Racism/Exploitation/Oppression
(Immigrants and Immigration, Indigenous Peoples)
Uprooted: US Plans for Erasing Indian Country |
The Murder of Emmett Till (1955) |
The Braceros Program:
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Environmental Movement
1940s-1950s:
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The Great Beaver Drop of 1948 |
The Environmental Movement Begins |
Protest of Nuclear Attack Drills |
125 Year History of the Sierra Club |
Rachel Carson and Silent Spring |
Additional Sources
Textbook Chapters (McGraw Hill: United States History and Geography)
- Chapter 22 - The Cold War Begins, 1945-1960
- Chapter 23 - Postwar America, 1945-1960
- Chapter 24 - The New Frontier and the Great Society, 1960-1968
- Chapter 25 - The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968