I. Introduction: World War II as a Watershed

science, technology, and economy
race relations
women and women's rights
labor
politics

II. From World War II to an Undeclared World War III

III. Case Study of the Early Cold War: The Hollywood Blacklist (discussion and film)

Executive Order 9066; Japanese Internment; Korematsu v. United States; Manhattan Project; Enola Gay; Fat Man; Bretton Woods (July 1944); World Bank; International Monetary Fund (IMF); Yalta Conference (February 1945); Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (March 1946); George F. Kennan; "The Sources of Soviet Conduct"; "containment"; Truman Doctrine (1947); Marshall Plan; National Security Act (1947) [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cwr/17603.htm]; CIA; McCaRadio Free Europe; FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Commissions); Henry Wallace; Progressive Party; Robert J. Oppenheimer; HUAC; Alger Hiss; Whittaker Chambers; NSC-68; Hollywood Blacklist; Hollywood Ten; McCarran Act or Internal Security Act (1950).