Course Description
Advanced Placement US is a survey of American History from the age of exploration and discovery to the present. This course is taught at the college level. The major differences between a high school and college history course are the amount of reading and the focus. Your previous history courses may have stressed “What happened?” intending to provide enough background knowledge to ensure good citizenship. This course stresses “why and how” things happen as well as the consequences of actions. Great attention is paid to a student's ability to read and digest materials and analyze them critically in order to make sensible judgments while writing analytical essays. In addition to the text book we will read journal articles from leading scholars and will familiarize ourselves with writing DBQ's - document based questions.
Unit 9: The Age of Cold War Liberalism, 1945 - 1980
Unit Outline
1) Cold War America (1945 -1960) Ch. 26 pp. 801-829(4/12)
a) Origins of the Cold War
b) Containment Strategy
i) Truman Doctrine
ii) Marshall Plan
iii) Berlin Crisis
iv) NATO
c) Containment in Asia
d) The Truman Era
i) The Fair Deal
e) Modern Republicanism
f) McCarthyism
g) John Foster Dulles’ Foreign Policy
2) The Age of Affluence (1945 – 1960) Ch. 27, pp. 831-859 (4/17)
a) Economic Powerhouse
b) The Affluent Society
i) Suburban explosion
c) The Other America
i) Emerging Civil Rights Struggle
3) The Liberal Consensus (1960-1968) Ch. 28, pp. 861-893 (4/26)
a) Kennedy and the New Frontier
b) Johnson and the Great Society
i) Momentum for Civil Rights
c) Vietnam Conflict
d) The Counterculture
e) 1968
4) Toward a Conservative America (1970s), Ch. 29, pp. 895-923(5/3)
a) The Nixon Years
i) Domestic Agenda
ii) Détente
iii) 1972 Election
b) Battling for Civil Rights
c) Lean Years
d) Politics in the Wake of Watergate
i) Jimmy Carter
Unit Outline
1) Cold War America (1945 -1960) Ch. 26 pp. 801-829(4/12)
a) Origins of the Cold War
b) Containment Strategy
i) Truman Doctrine
ii) Marshall Plan
iii) Berlin Crisis
iv) NATO
c) Containment in Asia
d) The Truman Era
i) The Fair Deal
e) Modern Republicanism
f) McCarthyism
g) John Foster Dulles’ Foreign Policy
2) The Age of Affluence (1945 – 1960) Ch. 27, pp. 831-859 (4/17)
a) Economic Powerhouse
b) The Affluent Society
i) Suburban explosion
c) The Other America
i) Emerging Civil Rights Struggle
3) The Liberal Consensus (1960-1968) Ch. 28, pp. 861-893 (4/26)
a) Kennedy and the New Frontier
b) Johnson and the Great Society
i) Momentum for Civil Rights
c) Vietnam Conflict
d) The Counterculture
e) 1968
4) Toward a Conservative America (1970s), Ch. 29, pp. 895-923(5/3)
a) The Nixon Years
i) Domestic Agenda
ii) Détente
iii) 1972 Election
b) Battling for Civil Rights
c) Lean Years
d) Politics in the Wake of Watergate
i) Jimmy Carter