POINTS TO KNOW Chp. 28
AP History Students should be able to explain:
1. The economic problems associated with reconversion and why the American economy weathered the process of reconversion with relative ease.
2. The containment policy and its origins.
3. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.
4. Why American policy was successful in Japan and a failure in China.
5. The outcome of the election of 1948.
6. The development of NATO.
7. The origins of the anticommunist hysteria of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
8. The reasons for McCarthy’s success in using the issue of communist subversion and the reasons for his fall.
9. Eisenhower’s approach to the presidency.
10. The contours of the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy.
11. The “New Look.”
12. The sources of troubled relations with countries in Latin America.
13. The significance of Brown v. Board of Education.
14. The reasons for Kennedy’s victory in 1960.
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