STEP 3: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

CHAPTER 27 STUDY GUIDE

PUT IT ALL TOGETHER Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.
THE COLD WAR

  • What was the “New Look” in American foreign policy under President Eisenhower?

  • How did the United States use military intervention or CIA covert activities as a tool of foreign policy in the 1950s?

 CULTURAL CURRENTS

  • How did prosperity shape living patterns in the 1950s?

  • What developments challenged the dominant norms regarding consumer culture in the 1950s?
CIVIL RIGHTS

  • Why was Brown v. Board of Education such a pivotal case in the history of the civil rights movement?

  • Why did the Montgomery bus boycott succeed?

 LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD

  • Compare and contrast the culture and society of the 1920s with that of the 1950s.

  • What tensions in 1950s America suggest defining aspects of the 1960s?

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