Civil Rights and Cold War
Directions: To formulate your answer to the questions (see below) for the original post you need to use the resources I provided for you in this course (lectures, primary sources, book readings, (Eric Fontner, V2) Then address ONE or more of the questions below.
2 Lectures may be found at: https://youtu.be/8QHIvkXJTZ4 and https://youtu.be/VFnEglSARMM
Questions: How did the Second World War led to the Cold War? How did the Cold War change race relations in the United States? How did civil rights activists see themselves during the Cold War? How did the process of de-colonization and the independence of the “third World” change U.S. policy domestically and internationally? What were the differences between non-violent civil rights and Black Nationalism? Which, non-violent civil rights and/or Black Nationalism, served best the Cold War diplomatic needs of the United States?
Key Terms:
Joseph McCarthy
Iron Curtain
The GI Bill
Anticommunism
The Manhattan Project
The Cold War
Harry S. Truman
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Congress of Racial Equality
Black Panthers
Black nationalists
Cuban missile crisis
Dwight D. Eisenhower
NATO
Sputnik
Neo-Isolationists
European Defense Community (EDC)
NSC 68
Domino Theory
Taiwan Straits Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Fidel Castro
John Kennedy
Freedom Riders
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Long Telegram
George Kennan
Atomic Bomb
Containment
Truman Doctrine
House Committee of Un-American Activities
New Look
McCarthyism
Brown vs. Education
McCarren-Walter Act (1952)
Ethel and Julius Rosenburg
