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USA 1945-68: Uneven prosperity — Syllabus

ICSE · Class 12 · History

What USA 1945-68: Uneven prosperity covers in ICSE Class 12 History: 4 topics, for the 2026-27 session. Part of the ICSE Class 12 History syllabus.

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4 Topics · ICSE Class 12 History · 2026-27

Topics in USA 1945-68: Uneven prosperity

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1. Truman and the post-war settlement

  • Roosevelt and Truman won the 1944 election with more than 25.6 million popular votes against Dewey's 22 million.
  • Truman became President in April 1945 after Roosevelt's death.
  • Truman personally signed the order to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.
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2. Eisenhower, affluence, and limited reform

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Texas in 1890 and graduated from West Point in 1915.
  • He became Supreme Commander of Operation Overlord and was associated with the D-Day landings of June 1944.
  • Eisenhower won the 1952 election with 55.1 per cent of the total ballot, taking all but nine states.
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3. Brown v. Board and the civil rights movement

  • The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in May 1954 was unanimous and argued by the NAACP.
  • Chief Justice Earl Warren led the ruling.
  • Brown declared that separate educational facilities are inherently inferior.
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4. Kennedy, the New Frontier, and unfinished business

  • John F. Kennedy was a Democratic Senator from Massachusetts and had Addison's disease.
  • He won the 1960 election by a margin of only 0.1 per cent, receiving 34,226,731 votes to Nixon's 34,108,157.
  • He proclaimed the New Frontier in his 1960 acceptance speech.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Post-war America developed strong economic growth and global power, but poverty and racial inequality remained deep and persistent

Truman's presidencyCold War anti-communismEisenhower's presidencyCivil rights movementKennedy's New FrontierJohnson's Great SocietyRacial tension and Black PowerUneven prosperity

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