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Norton Lecture Slides Give Me Liberty! AN AMERICAN HISTORY FOURTH EDITION by Eric Foner Chapter 23 Lecture Preview • • • • Origins of the Cold War The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom The Truman Presidency The Anticommunist Crusade The Cold War led to widespread fears of a Communist takeover in the United States. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Origins of the Cold War Focus Question: What series of events and ideological conflicts prompted the Cold War? Origins of the Cold War: United States and ussr • • The Two Powers The Roots of Containment Freedom Train Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Origins of the Cold War: Containment • • The Iron Curtain The Truman Doctrine President Harry S. Truman Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company A page from a Dutch pamphlet promoting the Marshall Plan Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Origins of the Cold War: economic reconstruction • • The Marshall Plan The Reconstruction of Japan Bales of American cotton in a warehouse at the French port of Le Havre, 1949 Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Origins of the Cold War: checking communist aggression • • The Berlin Blockade and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) The Growing Communist Challenge Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Map 23.1 Cold War Europe, 1956 Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Children in Berlin celebrate the arrival of a plane bringing supplies. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Origins of the Cold War: korea • The Korean War Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Map 23.2 The Korean War, 1950–1953 Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Chinese communists carrying portraits of Mao Zedong Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition A photograph of a street battle in Seoul Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Origins of the Cold War: Criticism • • Cold War Critics Imperialism and Decolonization The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom Focus Question: How did the Cold War reshape the ideas of American freedom? The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom: american culture • • The Cultural Cold War Freedom and Totalitarianism Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition A poster for The Red Menace Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City contemplate a work by Jackson Pollock. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom: human rights • • The Rise of Human Rights Ambiguities of Human Rights Human Rights, 1947 Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company The Truman Presidency Focus Question: What were the major initiatives of Truman’s domestic policies? The Truman Presidency: economics • The Fair Deal The Truman Presidency: strikes and republicans • • The Postwar Strike Wave The Republican Resurgence A few of the numerous World War II veterans who attended college after the war, thanks to the GI Bill Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company The Truman Presidency: civil rights • • Postwar Civil Rights To Secure These Rights NAACP Youth March Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Jackie Robinson sliding into third base, 1949 Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company The Truman Presidency: election of 1948 • • The Dixiecrat and Wallace Revolts The 1948 Campaign Map 23.3 The Presidential Election of 1948 Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company The Anticommunist Crusade Focus Question: What effects did the anticommunism of the Cold War have on American politics and culture? The Anticommunist Crusade: American life • Loyalty and Disloyalty Las Vegas Tourism Postcard Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Movie stars led by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company The Anticommunist Crusade: communist spies • The Spy Trials Demonstrators at a 1953 rally in Washington, D.C., demanding the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company The Anticommunist Crusade: fear of communism in america • • McCarthy and McCarthyism An Atmosphere of Fear Senator Joseph R. McCarthy at the ArmyMcCarthy hearings of 1954 Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Fire! Cartoonist Herbert Block comments on the danger to American freedom posed by the anticommunist crusade. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company The Anticommunist Crusade: conformity • The Uses of Anticommunism The Anticommunist Crusade: politics • Anticommunist Politics The Anticommunist Crusade: labor and civil rights • • The Cold War and Organized Labor Cold War Civil Rights Blacks picketing 1948 DNC, led by A Philip Randolph Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Review • Origins of the Cold War Focus Question: What series of events and ideological conflicts prompted the Cold War? • The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom Focus Question: How did the Cold War reshape the ideas of American freedom? • The Truman Presidency Focus Question: What were the major initiatives of Truman’s domestic policies? • The Anticommunist Crusade Focus Question: What effects did the anticommunism of the Cold War have on American politics and culture? MEDIA LINKS —— Title Chapter 23 —— Media link Eric Foner on the Freedom Train http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/fo ner4/mp4/&f=question115 Eric Foner on the Cold War, pt 1: effects on American freedom http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/fo ner4/mp4/&f=question116 Eric Foner on the civil rights movement before Brown http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/fo ner4/&f=2013_civil_rights_before_brown Eric Foner on the Cold War, pt 2: McCarthyism http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/fo ner4/mp4/&f=question122 Next Lecture PREVIEW: —— Chapter 24 —— An Affluent Society, 1953–1960 • • • • The Golden Age The Eisenhower Era The Freedom Movement The Election of 1960 Norton Lecture Slides Independent and Employee-Owned This concludes the Norton Lecture Slides Slide Set for Chapter 23 Give Me Liberty! AN AMERICAN HISTORY FOURTH EDITION http://wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty4/ by Eric Foner