| A. | Background to Cold War | ||
| 1. | Soviet control of Eastern Europe | ||
| a. | Origins of an Eastern and Western bloc | ||
| b. | Consequences | ||
| 2. | U.S. frustration over Soviet policies | ||
| a. | U.S. demands for a non-Communist Greece | ||
| b. | Consequences | ||
| B. | Truman Doctrine and containment | ||
| 1. | Kennan and Mr. X | ||
| a. | Containment and halt to Soviet aggression | ||
| b. | Implications | ||
| 2. | Marshall Plan | ||
| a. | Aid to Western Europe | ||
| b. | Exclusion of the Soviets | ||
| C. | Points of conflict: 1948-1950 | ||
| 1. | Berlin and the blockade (1948) | ||
| 2. | Soviets and the bomb (1949) | ||
| 3. | China and Communism (1949) | ||
| 4. | Korean War | ||
| a. | United Nations forces, primarily composed of U.S. troops, engaged in a bloody, often confusing struggle | ||
| b. | Containment policy tested | ||
| A. | Background to Fair Deal | ||
| 1. | Slow disintegration of the momentum of FDR's New Deal | ||
| a. | Major New Deal reforms remained popular | ||
| b. | General decline of reform fervor | ||
| B. | Fair Deal | ||
| 1. | Continuation of popular New Deal programs | ||
| a. | Social Security | ||
| b. | Minimum-wage laws | ||
| 2. | Proposals for civil rights and health-care legislation | ||
| 3. | Goal of repealing Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 | ||
| C. | Success of Fair Deal | ||
| 1. | Short term: only limited success | ||
| a. | Congress continued New Deal reforms | ||
| b. | Congress rejected civil rights and health care | ||
| 2. | Long-term: more successful | ||
| a. | Truman's Fair Deal became the blueprint of 1960s liberal policies | ||
| b. | Implications | ||
| A. | Background to McCarthyism | ||
| 1. | Truman and anticommunism | ||
| a. | Demand for loyalty and suspicion of left-leaning organizations | ||
| b. | House Un-American Activities Committee | ||
| 2. | Democrats seen as "soft" on communism | ||
| a. | McCarran Security Act (1950) | ||
| b. | Foreign policy | ||
| 3. | Republicans seize the anti-Communist issue | ||
| a. | HUAC hearings on Hollywood | ||
| b. | Nixon and Hiss-Chambers controversy | ||
| B. | Joseph McCarthy | ||
| 1. | Accused Truman administration of being controlled by Communists | ||
| a. | Named Alger Hiss and George Marshall as "traitors" | ||
| b. | Vast conspiracy | ||
| 2. | Allegations were broad, indiscriminate, and flimsy | ||
| a. | Claimed hundreds of Communists were on staff at the State Department | ||
| b. | Charged U.S. Army was controlled by subversives | ||
| c. | 1954: McCarthy censured by Senate | ||
| C. | Implications of McCarthyism | ||
| 1. | Both reflected and intensified sense of anxiety and fear that pervaded postwar America | ||
| 2. | Ruined reputations of hundreds of innocent Americans | ||
| 3. | Set stage for future politics of distrust | ||
| A. | Race relations, stagnation, and progress | ||
| 1. | Integration of Major League Baseball | ||
| a. | Jackie Robinson breaks the color line | ||
| b. | Resistance to change | ||
| 2. | Segregation in housing | ||
| a. | White flight | ||
| b. | Discriminatory loan policies | ||
| B. | Growth of suburbs | ||
| 1. | Postwar construction boom | ||
| 2. | Federal Housing Administration | ||
| 3. | Advantages of suburban life | ||
| 4. | Psychological implications of suburbia | ||
| C. | Working women | ||
| 1. | Opportunities and wages | ||
| 2. | Position of black women | ||
| 3. | Positive media images | ||