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Unit 6 –The Cold War and Life in the 50's (1945-1960)

Overview of Unit: The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) emerged as the two strongest powers in international affairs. Ideologically opposed, they challenged one another in a series of confrontations known as the Cold War. The Cold War had social and political implications in the United States. As America continues to grow, a new view of American lifestyles emerge. A strong focus on the automobile makes America mobile and Eisenhower creates the Highway Act of 1956.  

 

Objectives for Unit:

• Analyze how the United States followed and implemented a policy of containment during the Cold War in response to the spread of communism.

• Review and understand the impacts of The Second Red Scare and McCarthyism and their contribution towards Cold War fears in American society.

• Identify the Cold War and conflicts in Korea and how these conflicts influenced domestic and international policies.

• Examine how following WWII, the United States experienced a struggle for racial and gender equality.

• Identify how postwar economic boom, greatly affected by advances in science, produced epic changed in American Life