TUESDAY--MAY 5

Honors US History
EQ:
How did the Cold War impact American life in the 1940s and 1950s?

CW:
notes: The Great Fear
GREAT LINK FOR COLD WAR AT HOME
1947-48:
Truman established Loyalty Review Boards
HUAC investigates Hollywood
Red Channels
video clip: HUAC and the Hollywood Ten
Alger Hiss case
video clip: He May be a Communist
Who's the Commie??
rise and fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1946-57)
handout: McCarthy's speech in Wheeling, WV
Truman's response to McCarthy's telegram
video clip from Cold War from above on McCarthy and the US Army hearings
video clip: Edward R. Murrow's commentary on McCarthy

HW:
Text pp. 794-95 (Eisenhower to Collective Security heading)
              807-12
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US History
EQ:
What was American life like in the 1950s?


CW:
return Unit 5 exam
preview Unit 6
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1950s ppt
1950s: A Transformative Decade in American Life
growth of suburbia
Baby Boom
conformity
Rock and Roll comes of age in the 1950s
top movies of the 1950s
rise of TV--popular TV shows
conspicuous consumption

HW:
Civil Rights overview reading: read the sections on the lunch counter sit-ins and the Freedom Rides
DUE THURSDAY