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CHAPTER 24

1945–1953. CHAPTER 24. COLD WAR. Vacuums of Power after the War. Socialists, communists, and radicals fill the vacuum Labor party in Britain Socialist and communist parties in France, Italy, Belgium, and Scandinavia Soviet Union & China. Labor Party in England. Class Conflict in the U.S.

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CHAPTER 24

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  1. 1945–1953 CHAPTER 24 COLD WAR

  2. Vacuums of Power after the War • Socialists, communists, and radicals fill the vacuum • Labor party in Britain • Socialist and communist parties in France, Italy, Belgium, and Scandinavia • Soviet Union & China

  3. Labor Party in England

  4. Class Conflict in the U.S. • Labor unions suffer blows • Major railroad workers and miners strikes crushed • CIO’s attempt to organize a diverse group of southern workers fails

  5. Socialist Labor Party

  6. The Government’s Portrayal

  7. Redefining National Security • The United States primary goal: • The creation and preservation of a free-trading capitalist world order

  8. Conflict with theSoviet Union Germany Eastern Europe Turkey

  9. The Division between East and West Germany

  10. Berlin Wall

  11. The Policy of Containment • The Truman Doctrine • The Marshall Plan • The rebuilding of Germany and Japan

  12. Military Alliance • NATO: colonial powers of Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, and Portugal • Warsaw Pact: Soviet Union & The Eastern Europe

  13. Europe Divided by the Cold War

  14. The Impact of Nuclear Weapons • Bikini Islanders, Utah, and Nevada • Navajo uranium miners • Weapon plans leak radioactivity into groundwater

  15. The First A-Bomb in Soviet Union

  16. Nuclear Bomb test in Bikini Island (Atoll)

  17. Bikini Islanders

  18. The Cold War at Home • Internal Security Act of 1950: requires Communist party members to register with government and allows emergency incarceration • Un-American Activities Committee • McCarthyism

  19. Joseph McCarthy

  20. Reagan’s testimony in Congress

  21. Loyalty Tested • Family life becomes primary and religion grows • W.E.B. Du Bois • Asian Americans after the Revolution in China • McCarran-Walter Act of 1952

  22. The Chinese Civil War • China: missionaries and America’s market • Chinese Communist Party and Mao Zedong • October 1, 1949: China becomes the People’s Republic of China • Nationalists retreat to Taiwan

  23. Cultural Revolution in China

  24. Korean War: Domino Effect? • June 25, 1950: Communist North Korea crosses the 38th parallel into South Korea • Late June 1950, U.S. forces arrive in Korea

  25. The Korean War

  26. Family Lives • Suburbia • Levittown • 1950: housing construction at 1.7 million • Segregation by moves to suburbia

  27. The Growth of the South and the West • The Sunbelt in the South and West • Rust Belt in the North East • California’s agricultural boom

  28. Harry Truman and the Limits of Liberal Reform • National health care program stopped by conservatives calling it communist policy

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