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Cold War Origins
Learn how the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and containment strategy shaped America's confrontation with the Soviet Union.
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Korea and McCarthyism
Examine the Korean War as a test case for containment and McCarthyism as the domestic face of Cold War anxiety.
Civil Rights Movement
Trace the movement from Brown v. Board through the sit-ins, marches, and legislative victories of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
The Great Society
Analyze JFK's New Frontier and LBJ's Great Society programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the War on Poverty.
Vietnam War
Examine the escalation from the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution through the Tet Offensive and the antiwar movement.
Counterculture and Social Movements
Explore how women's liberation, environmentalism, the Chicano movement, and AIM broadened the definition of civil rights.
Nixon and Watergate
Analyze Nixon's foreign policy achievements, the Watergate scandal, and the resulting crisis of public trust in government.
Synthesis and Review
Connect the threads of Cold War foreign policy, domestic reform, social upheaval, and institutional crisis into a coherent understanding of the period.
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