monday march 17, 2014 us history

8/12/2019 Monday March 17, 2014 US History

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/monday-march-17-2014-us-history 1/11

Monday March 17, 2014

Cold War- Korean War

Bell Ringer:

What was theMarshall Plan? Pg.

841



Berlin Airlift

• June 24, 1948- Soviets blocked all access to Berlin. could make it in.

• Cut off shipments of food, fuel, and crucial supplie

• Next 10 months, western leaders airlifted supplies

• US and Britain planes carried more than 2 million tand supplies

• Led to the formation of the Federal Republic of GerGermany

• Soviets set up the German Democratic Republic- Ea



CHINA

• Civil War in the 1920’s

•Chiang Kai-shek: leader of theNationalist Party

• Mao Zedong: Communist Party:Gained control of most of Chinaby 1949

• Chiang retreated to Taiwan

• People’s Republic of China

established under Mao Zedong



Korean War

• 1948: North and South

Korean set up separategovernments

• Communist North Leader:Kim Il Sung

•

Democratic South Leader:Syngman Rhee

• Division Line: 38th Parallel

• UN Cease-fire: June 1950



Election of 1952

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, WWII Hero, Republican

•President Truman not competing

• Democratic nomination: Governor AdaliStevenson

• Eisenhower WON

• Senator Richard Nixon: Vice President forEisenhower

• Campaign Slogan ‘I Like Ike’

• Received 55 % of vote and 442-89 electoral votes



Tuesday March 18, 2014

Bell Ringer:The USA believes that it must constantly sdemocracy. What are some reasons that tUSA might have been involved in the Kore

War?



End of Korean War

• President Eisenhower wanted to end the war

•

Stepped up bombing raids in 1953• Hinted that he would use a nuclear weapon to end

• July 27, 1953- Armistice

• North and South Korea created: 38th Parallel remain

border• By end of war:

• 54,000 Americans died and 103,000 wounded• 1.5 million Koreans and Chinese died



Suez Crisis• 1956 USA withdrew offer to finance construction of a

dam

• Egypt refused to allow ships bound for Israel

• Soviet Union and Arab world closer allies after this inc

Red Scare

•

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg-atomic energy secrets to U• Senator Joe McCarthy- feared communists in the USA

• Evangelist Billy Graham- urged Americans to turn to G

• Families and businesses built Fall-Out Shelters

• Sputnik- 1st satellite: USSR sent in October 1957



Chapter 29: Society After World War II

• Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944- GI Bill of pensions and government loans to help veterans

•

Taft-Hartley Act: 1947 bill to reduce the strength oOrganized Labor

• In 1950’s, automation in workplace: machines tha

performed tasks

•George Meany: 1st President of the AFL-CIO, a merthe two largest unions in the USA forming a mega-

• Suburban Migration- 60 million (1/3 of all) Americlived in the suburbs

• Highway Act of 1956 added to suburban growth



• Baby Boom- 1950’s saw some 30 million people add

the US total population

• Social Life- Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs), Littl

League sports, religious activities.• ‘Golden Age of Television”- By the end of 1950’s, 46

households owned at least one TV

• Kids: Comic Books & Adult Literature: The Catcher i

Rye• Music- Rock & Roll…Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chu

Berry, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis



Voices of Dissent

•

Brown v. Board of Education: Racial segregatioin Public Schools

• NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall

monday march 17, 2014 us history

Documents