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.
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.
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
Science: Space Race, Nuclear Testing, Medicine
Labor Fights
Government: Politics, Laws, Foreign Interactions
Arizona (State Forty-Eight) History
Major Supreme Court Decisions
People Fighting Against Racism/Exploitation/Oppression
(Immigrants and Immigration, Indigenous Peoples)
Environmental Movement
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