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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?
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Post-World War II America
Primary Skill
Multiple Perspectives
Compelling Question
What was it like to live in America during the 1940s and 1950s?
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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.
Use these Essential Lessons to help you answer the Compelling Question above.
We are engaging in this complex thinking of connecting different topics to show our deeper understandings.
Use these Essential Lessons to help you answer the Compelling Question above.
Origins of the Cold War |
A People's History of the US:
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Camp Confidential:
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The Korean War
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CNN Documentary:
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The Red Scare:
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Uprooted: US Plans for Erasing Indian Country |
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) |
The Murder of Emmett Till (1955) |
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956) |
Dive Deeper
Post-World War II America
These lessons can help you better understand different aspects of Post-World War II American Relations.
These Lessons are not mandatory but would add to your learning about this time period.
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.
These Lessons are not mandatory but would add to your learning about this time period.
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.
Gender Roles:
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Multiple Perspectives:
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Truman Doctrine(1947)
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Duck and Cover (1951)
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Salt of the Earth
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What Paul Robeson Said |
Space Race |
Music of the 1940s & 1950s |
The Supreme Court:
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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