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On the Board: Truman Doctrine & its implications for future Presidents Containment and its application NSC-68 -1950 Korea, Latin America, Vietnam, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba ABC (Anything But Communism) Eisenhower/Dulles (Secretary of State) New Look Massive retaliations “Rollback” Frontiermanship JFK- Flexible Response 1960′s- M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) Nixon & Ford -> Détente ABM Treaty & SALT I Carter – SALT II Reagan START Client State National Security Act 1947 – Creates National Security Council/NSA Department of Defense (Department of War, Pentagon) CIA- Overt & Covert Military Containment Joint Chiefs  

Essay (3-4 pages) due Monday Compare and contrast the Containment policies of President Eisenhower to those of JFK. What events in each administration reflected the basic elements of their respective policies concerning Asia and Latin America? You can choose one country in each area. Research: Kennan’s Containment Doctrine (1947) Truman Doctrine (1947) NSC 68 (1950) Documents: Truman Doctrine George Kennan Formulates “Containment” Policy

Cold War Handout PDF

Reading: Chapter 27 Chapter 28 pages 802-807 Chapter 29 pages 823-838 Chapter 30 pages 858-862  

The Atlantic Charter

World War II Timeline

The Quarantine Speech

On the Board -Development of Labor Reform- Sec 7A NRA LaGuardia Act Wagner Act- Magna Carta of Labor Fair Labor Standards Act CIO (a union, the Congress of industrial organization) Many strikes in the 30s, Michigan Rexford Tugwell and the Resettlement Administration Harold Ickes and the Public Works Administration -The West- Henry Wallace- Soil Conservation Service Bureau of Reclamation Boulder Dam (1935), All American Canal –> Colorado River CVP (Central Valley Project) – Sacramento River Grand Coulee Dam – Columbia River

March 28, 2012

Document 1 (FDR) Document 2 (Hoover)

March 26, 2012

On the Board: Government and Corporate Capitalism expansion of investment abroad Labor and Welfare Capitalism and its effect on unions -A New National Culture- consumer desire advertising nativism mass culture: jazz celebrity movies radio auto

On the Board: Normalcy -> republican orthodoxy and all it entails Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon corporate capitalism, labor and welfare capitalism

On the Board: Repudiation of Wilson’s foreign policy ideals or not? Washington Naval Conference 1921 Kellogg’s-Briand Pact 1928 Curbing dissent on the domestic front -> CPI (George Creel) Espionage and Sedition Acts 1917 + 1918 Schenck v US 1919 Abrams v US 1919 Read Chapter 22: pages 634-639, 653-655 Chapter 23: pages 660-666, 673-End Chapter 24

Lodge Reservations Compare and contrast the two views of Wilson that each historian presents. How did Wilson confront the political debate over the league?  What particular concepts of the League’s Charter did the republicans find objectionable?