《PP-US19 USafter WWII》.ppt

US After World War II Panhong English Department Fuzhou University US After the War The war resulted in important technological strides in the late 40s toward development of jet aircraft engines, mainframe computers, nuclear missiles and space exploration The war generation touched off the baby boom. disillusion after the war US in 1950s (Square Decade)A time of complacency The beginning of the Cold War Period Major sources of Cold War tensions : the fate of eastern Europe (the Domino Theory ) control of nuclear weapons post-war economic development assistance The Containment Policy and The Marshall Plan the Korean War 1950-53. the Korean War 1950-53. the 38th parallel. Chinese People’s Volunteers Gen. Douglas MacArthur armistice agreement signed in July 1953. Gen. Douglas MacArthur Anti-Communism During the Early 1950s McCarthyism Red Scare investigations by Sen. Joseph McCarthy intensified anxiety over domestic communism the U.S. Communists U.S. Communists 1954, the Senate voted to condemn McCarthy for conduct unbecoming to his office launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1957 Soviet space successes: 1957 : the two Sputnik in 1959:the first rockets to circle the moon 1961:the first manned space ship into orbit(piloted by Yuri Gagarin) 1966:the first to land an unmanned vehicle on the moon. The U.S. space program US in 1960s John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 Winning by a narrow margin over the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon in 1961 His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II. took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. new efforts in outer space The first televised debate The Youngest President J.F.Kennedy:35th President of the US The Bay of Pigs The Cuban Crisis The Castro government Foreign Relations National Issues Assassination in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald, ex-Marine Inaugural Address: Ask not what your