1. HOUSEKEEPING CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR SCHEDULE AP PRE REG –.Last name A-L Aux Café – Thu 4-22 (@7AM) –Last name M-Z Aux Café – Fri 4-23 (@7AM) See me if you have questions about Pres Pres FOR TOMORROW: –Policies leading up to involvement in WWI and WWII (comparison) –1950’s culture

2. GI Bill of Rights (Serviceman’s Readjustment Act) 52-20 17 weeks Education SUNY Postpone “homecoming” Home loans Suburbanization Rehabilitation

3. Levittowns Doughnut cities White Flight Urban Blight

4. Major Social Changes of 1950’s

5. Daily Impact of Cold War on American life

6. Cold War in action: Truman Doctrine (Containment) United Nations Yalta Conference –Poland Potsdam Conference –Reparations –4 zones –War criminals

7. Cold War in action: Marshall Plan

8. Cold War in action: Berlin Airlift

9. Truman and Foreign Policy China (lost) NATO (Warsaw Pact) Hydrogen Bomb NSC 68 Korea

10. The Red Scare: The Hollywood 10 10 producers, writers, and directors who had been or were Communist Party members Refused to testify 1 st amendment –Eventually went to prison Blacklist or name names

11. HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities) Whittaker Chambers (journalist) said Alger Hiss was passing secret documents Nixon Pumpkin papers “there was a need to clean house” Loyalty oaths –Anti-homosexual rules –Teachers

12. The Red Scare: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg US was looking for suspects Soviet Union just detonated its first bomb – how quickly they did it though Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for spreading secrets

13. Joseph McCarthy(ism) Ever changing undisclosed list of communists working in the government (Wheeling WV) Part of the larger criticism of Truman’s government and reflected world happenings (China) Demagogue – people followed him Exemplifies how “broader executive authority was necessary to protect national security” (Gerstle) Army McCarthy Hearings –4-5:30 mins –7:30-9:40

14. Dwight D. Eisenhower Progressive Moderation Federal Aid Highway Act –40,000 miles of roads –Security (Panama Canal) Korea (Dulles) Indochina (Vietnam) –Supported Ngo Dinh Diem (against Ho Chi Minh) Middle East, Kruschev, Latin America, Dulles –Brinkmanship Sputnik –National Education Defense Act

15. IMPORTANT NOTES: Tuesday April 28 th –TIMED DBQ 2:30-3:30 or 6:30-7:30 Monday / Tuesday May 4 th or 5 th –TIMED MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION When works for you? SEE ME ABOUT CONFLICTS!!!!!!!!!!!! TEST ON THURSDAY –Chpts 27, 28, and 29 –Don’t worry about Civil Rights (on the next test) Friday (I will present on Civil Rights) –Review Quiz on (10, 11, and 12) Presidential Presentations –Remember the good habits for presenting –Follow the directions –Plan ahead (it’s a full period) –Stay up on your reading Last test on 30 and 31 Wed May 6 th AP Registration this week