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=Unit X=



READING FOR UNIT X: The American World (Coca Cola in charge).

The Eisenhower Era: “I Like Ike” chapter 37 Week of April 20 Checkers Speech John Foster Dulles Jim Crow Laws Ho Chi Minh Emmett Till Sputnik Thurgood Marshall Fidel Castro Rosa Parks Kitchen Debate Earl Warren Pres debate of 1960 Brown v Board Betty Friedan Orval Faubus

1. Read “Makers” on pp. 892-3. How did this migration set the stage for the success of the civil rights movement? 2. What was Eisenhower’s stand on integration? 3. What were the major economic changes in the 1950’s? 4. Review pages 882 ff, (Read pages 911-5). Be prepared to argue what you see to be the “quintessence” of the culture of the time.

The Stormy Sixties: Nixon loses; Nixon wins chapter 38 Week of April 27 Flexible Response Sammy Black Power Sarah The Diem Coup domino theory Cassandra Bay of Pigs AJ hawks vs doves Nicole Freedom Riders Katie Tet offensive Danae Medgar Evers Eugene McCarthy Shelly Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Amber Chicago Convention The Great Society Arienne George C Wallace Civil Rights Act, 1964 Erin Free speech movement Janice Voting Rights Act, 1965 Gabby “sexual revolution” Watts Mel Stonewall Inn (riot)

1. Compare JFK’s stand on integration to that of Eisenhower in Q3 above 2. LBJ has been called “the last of the New Dealers.” How does the Great Society mirror the New Deal? 3. Why would LBJ be stupefied by the riots in Watts and in other places? 4. How did the Vietnam War split the Democratic party in 1968? 5. Read the “Varying Viewpoints” on 936-7 (944-5). What is your opinion? Stalemated Seventies chapter 39 Week of May 4s Inflation OPEC //Sarah // “Vietnamization” //Sammy// Nixon resigns Kent State //AJ// defeat in Vietnam Détente //Katie// ERA //Cassandra// SALT __Amber__ Roe v Wade //Nicole// EPA //Arienne// Affirmative action //Erin// Milliken v Bradley //Danae// “southern strategy” //Gabby// U.S. v Wheeler “peace with honor” SALT II //Shelly// Watergate //Mel// Jimmy Carter Watergate tapes “oil shocks” //Janice// bombing Cambodia Iranian hostages

1. What point of view does your text take concerning Watergate? 2. What were the causes and effects of the energy crisis? 3. Why did the US boycott the 1980 Olympic games in Moscow? Was the boycott justified?

Resurgence of Conservatism chapter 40 week of May 111

Ronald Reagan George H.W. Bush “tax revolt” //Sammy// Berlin Wall falls //Mel// supply-side econ. //AJ// Desert Storm //Sarah// “evil in the world..” Clarence Thomas __Cassandra__ SDI/star wars //__Katie__// Bill Clinton //Nicole// Mikhail Gorbachev //Amber// Newt Gingrich //Danae// Iran-Contra //Arienne// NAFTA __Shelly__ deficits __Erin__ impeachment __Janice__ “religious right” __Gabby__ Bush v Gore

1. Identify the forces which brought Ronald Reagan to power. 2. Why did the Cold War end? 3. How did Bill Clinton re-shape the Democratic Party? 4. How was the election George W Bush as president unique? 5. “Americans had rarely been as divided as they were in the first years of the twenty-first century”, according to our text (page 1007). What do you think divided them? united them? To what extent do you agree with our text?

America Faces a New Century chapter 41-s42 week of May 18 (Junior Retreat)

1. Describe how the United States changed from an “industrial age” to an “information age”. 2. How did changes in income distribution, women’s roles, the family and new immigrant groups affect American society?