Period 8: 1945 – 1980 (10-17% of the Curriculum)

• Containment (Including the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan)
• Korean War
• Military Industrial Complex
• Baby Boom
• Suburbanization (Make the connection to Levittown and the Interstate Highway System, as well as automobiles)
• Civil Rights Activists (Videos on the 1950s and 1960s)
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Sunbelt
• Great Society
• Immigration Laws of 1965 (It ended the restrictive quota systems of the 1920s and favored Asian and Latin American immigrants)
• Vietnam War
• Counterculture
• Detente
• Environmental Problems (Think Rachel Carson and Silent Spring)

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