The New Deal (1933-1940s?)

a. Deficit Spending

b. Agricultural Adjustment Act

c. National Recovery Act

d. Social Security

The "Cold War": 1940s to 1989?

a. Defined: Ideological, Low intensity warfare

b. The background: Wilson & Russia, Red Scare,

c. US Policies: Containment, Massive Retaliation, "Spheres of influence": NATO, SEATO,

OAS

Conforming America and those Rebellious Sixties

a. The WASP Syndrome

b. Social Discontent: White, Black, Brown, and Women's Civil Rights Movement.

c. Kennedy: Bay of Pigs – 1961

d. Kennedy: Cuban Missile Crisis – 1962 (Class discussion)