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Additional Class Topics

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Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins, 1945 - 1952

  • Contrast the economic, social, and cultural life of a typical family of the 1940s and 1950s and a similar family of the 1990s.

  • Examine the significance of divided Germany and the captive nations of Eastern Europe in the Cold War.

  • Analyze one or more of the key subversion casesfor example, the Hiss or Rosenberg cases. Consider how they became decades-long symbols of Cold War divisiveness.

  • Discuss the frustrations of Korea as a limited and stalemated war. Special emphasis could be placed on the firing of MacArthur.

  • Conduct a class debate over the following topics: e.g., America Should Seek Peace with the Soviet Union and Communist Subversives Threaten America; primary source readings will come from the following book: Opposing Viewpoints in American History Volume II: From Reconstruction to the Present, San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Another good source of debate topics is Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle, Taking Sides Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Volume II: Reconstruction to the Present, Connecticut: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

  • Show students the following video: The Century Americas Time (ABC Video in association with The History Channel), Volume III: 1946-1952: Best Years. Exhausted but victorious, American GIs return home to a changed nation. The enormous task of rebuilding Europe falls to the only capable country the U.S. But after four grueling years of battle, would we be up to the job?

  • Have the students read Hannah Arendts Ideology and Terror (1953) in David A. Hollinger and Charles Cappers (Editors) The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II 1865 to the Present, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  • Have the students read selections from Erik H. Eriksons Childhood and Society (1950) in David A. Hollinger and Charles Cappers (Editors) The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II 1865 to the Present, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.



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