Lesson 1 "The Search for Peace"

Turn to Page 542 analyze the timeline at the bottom of the page and read the introduction to the chapter.

Scan Pages 543-546; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 543-546 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 543-546.

Read Pages 543-546 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 546? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 1 "The Search for Peace" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 1 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Genocide - the execution of a group based on its race or political views

Organization - a group of people working together for a common cause.

Section Review Answers

1. Over fifty-five million people were killed in World War II.
2. The United Nations was set up in 1945.
3. The new nation of Israel was established in 1948.
4. President Truman proposed the Fair Deal.
5. Harry Truman was elected president in 1948.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you describe the effects of World War II on the world?

Are you able to describe the purposes for forming the United Nations?

Can you identify the elements of Truman's Fair Deal program?

Are you able to describe Truman's defeat of Thomas Dewey in the 1948 election?

Lesson 2 "The Cold War Begins"

Scan Pages 547-551; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 547-551 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 547-551.

Read Pages 547-551 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 551? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 2 "The Cold War Begins" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 2 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Cold War - the disagreements between communist and noncommunist nations over economics and politics that caused tensions following World War II.

Descent - to lower upon.

Domination - complete control.

Containment policy - thee policy of using strength or threat of force to prevent the spread of communism.

Airlift - using planes to deliver food and supplies.

Section Review Answers

1. Democratic countries tried to limit communism during the Cold War
2. NATO considers an attack on one member of its organization to be an attack on all members.
3. The Soviet Union was a communist country.
4. The containment policy was an attempt to keep communism from spreading in areas where there was little resistance.
5. The Marshall Plan was a plan to help Europe after the war.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you explain how the Cold War grew out of America's mistrust of the Soviet Union's actions.

Are you able to describe how the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan helped European countries fight communism

Are you able to describe the American airlift to Berlin after it was blockaded by the Soviet Union.

Can you describe the formation of NATO?

Lesson 3 "War in Korea"

Scan Pages 552-554; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 552-554 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 552-554.

Read Pages 552-554 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 554? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 3 "War in Korea" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 3 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Offensive - attacking rather than defending

Section Review Answers

1. North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, true.
2. The goal of the Korean War was to force North Korean troops to return to their own territory, true.
3. China helped the North Koreans during the war.
4. President Truman fired General Mac Arthur, true.
5. The United States gave aid to South Korea after the war.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you explain why the United States got involved in the war between North and South Korea?

Are you able to describe how the Korean War was fought?

Can you describe how the Korean War ended?

Lesson 4 "Challenge and Change in the 1950's"

Scan Pages 555-559; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 555-559 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles and questions in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 555-559.

Read Pages 555-559 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 559? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 4 "Challenge and Change in the 1950s" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 4 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Nuclear war - war that uses atomic weapons

accusation - a charge of wrongdoing.

McCarthyism - senator Joseph McCarthy's campaign to use fear of communism for his own gains.

Reputation - how a person is judged by others.

Automation - the use of machines to do work.

National Guard - a state's military force.

Technology - the use of science to crate new machines or other advances.

Artificial satellite - a human-made object that travels in outer space and sends signals back to earth.

Section Review Answers

1. Americans build bomb shelters, cities set up air raid warning signals, schoolchildren were taught to get under their desks quickly when they heard air raid sirens.
2. McCarthyism was Senator Joseph McCarthy's campaign to use fear of communism for his own gains. He got many people fired and damaged many people's reputation with his accusations.
3. Rosa Parks helped the civil rights movement by protesting segregation on buses.
4. Road building programs provided highways connecting most cities wit populations over 50,000.
5. The Russians started the space race by launching Sputnik.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you describe Joseph McCarthy's campaign against communism in America?

Are you able to describe the beginnings of the civil rights movement?

Can you describe television programs, music, and other popular culture of the 1950s.

Can you describe the beginnings of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

 Preparing for Chapter 27 Test

Turn to Page 560 and read the article, "The Crisis at Central high School ".

Turn to Page 561 and read the Chapter 27 summary.

On page 562-563 you will find the Chapter 27 review, complete the review.

Check your answers with those in the Key Points.

Take the Chapter 27 Test "A Time of Challenge and Change"

Review the answers then print the results for your records.

Chapter 27 Review answers

1. Israel
2. Fair Deal
3. United Nations
4. Taft-Hartley Act
5. Iron Curtain
6. segregation
7. Joseph Stalin
8. West Berlin
9. Korea
10. Douglas Mac Arthur
11. Joseph McCarthy
12. Rosa Parks
13. Sputnik

The Comprehension: Understanding Main Ideas

1. Early events in the civil rights movement included Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the declaration by the Supreme Court that separate schools for whites and Africans Americans was unconstitutional; Rosa Parks being arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus; the bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Alabama; the Civil Rights Law of 1957; federal troops being sent to Little Rock, Arkansas, to help African-american students attend a white school.
2. Amount the results of World War II were the Marshall Plan, the United nations, millions of People killed, European and Asian countries demolished, the Cold War, the division of Europe between communism and democracy, and American emerging as a superpower.
3. During the 1950s the United States was affluent, there was a great fear of communism, there was a burst of new housing, Eisenhower became President, television come to most homes, the civil rights movement began.
4. The United States contributed the largest percentage of troops of all the United Nations countries that were involved with the war. American General Douglas Mac Arthur led the forces.
5. America was involved in the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism to small or weak countries that supported democracy.

Congratulations you finished the Chapter 27!!