Outlines           


America and the World in the 20th Century

    World Power and Globalization
          Trade, Investment, "Dollar Diplomacy"
           Bretton Woods, the IMF, and the World Bank
           Agression Abroad

    Liberalism
          Reform and Modernization
             Stability and the New Deal

    Race, Class and US Society
          American Apartheid
           Labor and Democracy



Roots of the Cold War
   
    World War II
       US Involvement and Goals
             Replacing the British Empire
       The Soviet Contribution and Soviet Goals

    Yalta and Potsdam
        Poland and Germany

    The Bomb and "atomic diplomacy"

    Strategies for Hegemony
       Bretton Woods and the United Nations

     Life During Wartime
       Labor
       Civil Rights
        "Reds" 


The Alliance Breaks Apart

 U.S. and Soviet Goals--trade and security
    Acheson's prescription, Keynes's realization, and Soviet Analysis

Containment: Economic, Military and Political  [Kennan]
<>   Bretton Woods, Loans and the Marshall Plan
               "The Soviets can go to Hell" and "the Iron Curtain"
              Iran (maps) and Nukes
        The Truman Doctrine  and the Marshall Plan
        Berlin Blockade

    The National Security Act
        The Pentagon and the CIA
        "The Garrison State"
        Robert Taft's Warning

    Military Keynesianism and NSC-68
       




    Cold War/Hot War in the "Third World"

    ASIA
        Chinese Civil War: Mao Zedong [CCP] vs. Jiang Jieshi [Guomindang]
        The "China Lobby"

        The Cold War Turns Hot:  Korea  (map)  
        NSC-68 and Military Keynesianism

    "Ducks" Everywhere
        Iran, 1953: The Fall of Mossadegh   (map)  
        Guatemala, 1954: Ousting Arbenz    (Map) 
        Cuba, 1959-present: Contesting Castro
        Chile, 1973: The Allende "Threat"

   1945-Present: The Spectres of Nationalism and Neutralism
        Indonesia, Egypt, India  [Sukarno, Nasser, Nehru]
 


Containment–at Home

Red Scare, Again

   McCarthyism
   "Who Lost China?"
   Labor/Taft-Hartley
   The Rosenbergs
    "God Bless America"

 African Americans/Civil Rights
  Robeson, DuBois, Haywood, King

 Women

      Back to the Kitchen
      Baby Booming
     June and Ward

 Hollywood/Culture
      TV/Education/Comics, etc.
      Blacklists
      Suburbanization

Terms:
Roy Cohn
"Lavender Scare"

Joseph Welch ["Sir, have you no sense of decency"]
"Hollywood Ten"


American Life in the 1950s

    Consumption and Culture
        Economic Growth [Military-Industrial Complex
        Organization Men in Gray Flannel Suits   
        Education and Conformity
        "Little Boxes"       

    The "Other" '50s
        "Birth of the Cool"   [Miles]   [Thelonious Monk]      [Charlie "Bird" Parker]     
             ["In the Mood"]    ["A Night in Tunisia"]    ["So What"]  
        Hep Cats, Jazz, and Dope
        The Beat Life  [Ginsberg]  [Kerouac]  [Burroughs]
        Rebels without Causes and JDs
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    Terms:
        America   (lyrics)
        Howl
        Mad Magazine    [Alfred E. Newman]   [Bill Gaines]   [Alfred E. Newman] 
        Playboy [Hugh Hefner] 

The Modern Civil Rights Era

The Modern Civil Rights Era <>    World War II and the Northern Migration
    The Legal Challenge to Apartheid
         Brown v. Board    (Linda Brown)   (The Decision)  
         Emmett Till and the Conscience of America   (Image)   (Image) 
     Montgomery and the Emergence of
            Martin Luther King  (The Bus Boycott) 
     Little Rock
    "I Have  a Dream"    
    Legislative Triumph: Civil and Voting Rights Acts

 Liberal Backlash, post 1965
    Northern Rage: Malcolm X   (Don't Sit In, Stand Up)      
    Black Power/Black Panthers  (Image)     (Image)  
    Poor People's Campaign
    The Assassination of King
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Terms:
    Rosa Parks, 12/55
    Emmit Till
    Little Rock, AK
    Sit-Ins [SNCC]
    Freedom Rides
    Freedom Summer
    Birmingham Boycott--"Bull" Connor
    States' Rights



VIET NAM   (map)  


Why Viet Nam?
 Anti-Communism/-Nationalism
 Cold War Context
 Economics [rebuilding Asia]

The War
 Attrition War
 Divisions over Strategy
 Air War

Why the U.S. Lost?
 Guerrilla Warfare
 Politics in Viet Nam
 The U.S. Context
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Terms:
    French Indochina
    Ho Chi Minh
    Viet Minh
    Domino Theory
    Viet Cong
    Ngo Dinh Diem


The 1960s: Questioning Authority and Commodifying an Era

    The New Left and Antiwar Movement
            "participatory democracy"

    Countercultures: Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

    "La Raza Unida"--The Chicano Movement

    Women's Liberation
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Terms:
    C. Wright Mills 
    SDS [Students for a Democratic Society]
    Port Huron Statement
    Hippies [image]  
    Haight-Asbury    [Jerry Garcia]         [The Airplane]  
    The Pill
    LSD--Timothy Leary ["tune in, turn on, drop out"]
    "Summer of Love" 
    Woodstock  [Jimi]  [Janis]
    Bob Dylan
    The Beatles
    Cesar Chavez--UFW
    Reyes Tijerina [New Mexico]
    Brown Berets
    Betty Friedan--The Feminine Mystique
    Miss America 1968--"freedom trash can"
    SCUM

The 1970s

 The Legacy
    The Imperial President
    The Last Liberal?

Race and Culture
    Punk and Hip Hop

The 1980s--the Backlash Continues
    October Surprise?
Killing Hope
<>        The New Cold War
        "Star Wars" [SDI] and Military Keynesianism
        Slaughters in Central America
            Aftermath of Detente
       Committee on the Present Danger and "Team B"

Brzezinski in Charge/Carter's Cold  War--Afghanistan and the Olympics

The Gorbachev Alternative

Reverse Robin Hood Economics
      The Poor Get Poorer [chart on page 305]
             Reagan's Economic Policies 
        Cutting the Safety Net
        Clarence Thomas
        Rodney King and the L.A. Uprising of '92

End (?) of the Cold War
The Bloc Crumbles
Looking for Enemies
    Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws
Saddam to the Rescue



Terms:
    "The Evil Empire"
    Nuclear Freeze Movement
          (Three Mile Island/China Syndrome)
      Liberation Theology and the Pope
   El Salvador--FMLN vs. the Death Squads /the Murder of Romero  
    Guatemala--the Horror Continues
    Nicaragua--Sandinistas vs. the Contras
    Contra-Cocaine connection
    Domestic surveillance--the CISPES case
    Anita Hill

I'd like to make an appeal in a special way to the men in the army. Brothers, each one of you is one of us. We are the same People.  The farmers and peasants that you kill are your own brothers and sisters.  When you hear the words of a man telling you to kill, think instead in the words of God, "Thou shalt not kill!" No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the Law of God. In His name and in the name of our tormented people who have suffered so much, and whose laments cry out to heaven: I implore you! I beg you! I ORDER you!! STOP THE REPRESSION!!!