sixties and Seventies: The Last Unit
1960-1980
UNIT XV: APUSH
(2
weeks)
OK, check it out, splendid students of mine: for the FINAL unit of the year, weıre going to study the Civil Rights movement and a few other things. Iım sorry, (mea culpa, ad infinitum)for not placing these terms in the order that they appear in the chapters. Brace yourselves. Anyway, have fun. Iıll see you Monday after break.
Affectionately
yours,
Mr.
Gnass
Essential
Questions (EQ)
Should
foreign policy be dictated by realistic or idealistic goals?
What
role should a world-power play during peace-time?
Reading
Assignments
Date
--reading completed
American History The Ordeal of
Liberalism
American History, The
Crisis of Authority
From
the Age of Limits to the Age of Reagan (pp.894-903)
The
Civil Rights movement was a success. AVS.
What
were the central elements of the New Frontier and the Great Society? Why was Johnson able to succeed where
Kennedy failed? What were the long-term results of the liberal legislation?
Major
Assignments/Projects and Assessment (There will also be minor homework assignments and
quizzes that are not mentioned on this sheet.)
Date
to be completed
Unit
test
Study
terms for American History
1 The
Ordeal of Liberalism
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Describe
JFKıs background and his conception of the role of the president. How did his
New Frontier fare? |
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How
did LBJ differ from Kennedy in personality and in ability to influence
Congress? |
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What
were the purposes of Medicare and Medicaid? What limits and problems kept
government health programs
controversial? |
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What
agency was the ³centerpiece² of the Great Society? What programs did the War
on poverty entail? Accomplishments? Why was this war not successful? OEO?
Controversy? |
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HUD? |
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Who
opposed federal aid to education?
Why? How did ohnsonıs leg. Circumvent the opposition? |
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Legacy
of the Great Society. Tax cut. Failures and achievements of the Great Society |
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How
did the effort to fund both the Great Society and a great military establishment
affect federal budget? |
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SNCC
Freedom rides, Birmingham, march
on Washington; freedom summer |
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Know
all about the civil rights act of 1964; ideas behind it; opposition; how it
was passed |
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Know
all about the Civil Rights act of 1965 (voting rights act): what did it do?
Constitutional amendment? |
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Shift
in black pop from 1910 to 1966 |
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Official
(dejure) and unofficial (defacto) segregation? Why affirmative action? |
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Causes
and effects of race riots |
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Black power |
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Divided
civil rights movement. Malcolm x |
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Flexible
response; reasons |
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³missile
gap² |
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Causes
and effects of Bay of Pigs |
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Causes
and resolution of Cuban Missile crisis |
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Johnson
and the Domin. Repub? Roosevelt corollary? |
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Ngo
dinh diem? Why did the us help him? |
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Vietminh,
etc. pressure for intervention |
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Detail
ohnsonıs escalation of the VN war.
1967? |
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Gulf
of Tonkin incident and resolution |
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What
caused military frustrations in VN? Reasons for viet congıs and viet minhıs
successes |
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What
was johnsonıs ³trap² in VN? |
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Origins
of war opposition? Antiwar arguments? |
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VN
warıs effect on American economy? War-induced inflation |
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Tet
offensive |
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1968
election; rfk; democratic
national convention of 1968 |
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Assassination
of MLK and nationıs response? |
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Nixon
catering to conservative concerns? Explain. End results of the election |
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³silent
majority² |
Know
all of this stuff too:
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John F. Kennedy v. Nixon Bay of Pigs Oswald Goldwater NEA and NEH Sit-Ins Freedom Riders SNCC CORE MLKıs speech Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Poll tax 24th amendment Black panthes Malcolm X Robert F. Kennedy Robert S. McNamara Charles de Gaulle Martin Luther King, Jr. Lee Harvey Oswald Lyndon B. Johnson Barry Goldwater Stokely Carmichael J. William Fulbright |
Eugene McCarthy Huber H. Humphrey Richard M. Nixon ³silent majority² George Wallace credibility gap Alliance for Progress Viet Cong Berlin Wall and Krushsev. New
Frontier Peace
Corps Trade
Expansion Act War
on Poverty Great
Society Tonkin
Gulf Resolution Civil
Rights Act of 1964 Cuban
missile crisis nuclear
test-ban treaty March
on Washington Twenty-fourth
Amendment Voting
Rights Act Pueblo incident counterculture |
The Crisis of Authority
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Rise
of New Left. Causes and results. |
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Draft
dodgers. How? Results? |
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Counterculture.
Impact on society. |
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Indian
civil rights movement (AIM) wounded knee; cesar chavez |
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Economic
status of Hispanic-americans. Compare to other groups |
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Challenge
to ³melting pot² ethic |
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Goals
of NOW. Betty friedan? |
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Gains
made by women in various fields |
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Roe
v. wade |
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Environmental
movement; Rachel Carson and silent spring; earth day; |
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EPA |
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Failure
of the ERA |
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Richard
Nixon and vietnamization; daft lottery as way to defuse war opposition. |
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Nixon
and Cambodia bombing. Why a secret?
An abuse of power? |
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Pentagon
papers |
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³Peace
with honor² |
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Bombings
and negotiations in 1972-73; stumbling block to final agreement |
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Costs
of war to us and vietnam |
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Fall
of aigon |
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Subsequent
events in VN and Cambodia as refutation of assumption that the fall of South
viet nam would lead to communist hegemony in se asia? |
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Nixon
Doctrine; |
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Six-day
war and arab oil embargo |
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Court
cases on pp. 884-885 |
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Reasons
for nixonıs and kissengerıs rapprochement with China. Results of visits |
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Soviets
and detente |
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SALT
I, Moscow summit and Washington visit. results |
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Dilemma
of American FP in middle east made clear by Tom Kippur war. |
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Nixonıs
new federalism; goals and results; what constituency was he appealing to? |
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Warren
court decisions. Why conservative outrage? |
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Nixon
and the supreme court. How did he try to reshape it? Did he succeed? |
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Nixon
and Mcgovern in 1972; issues and platforms |
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Causes
for inflation in 1970s. single most important factor. |
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Nixonıs
economic policy. Consistent? |
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Nixonıs
personality |
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Resignation
of Spiro Agnew |
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Watergate
scandaldetails; Saturday night massacre, etc. |
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On
what charges would ixonıs probable impeachment and conviction have been
basead? Why did he finally resign? |
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Nixonıs
pardon and Fordıs standing |
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Fordıs
policies and the recession of 74-75 |
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Energy
crisis |
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Jimmy
carterıs themes 1976; platform |
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Human
rights as influence on Carterıs foreign policy |
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High
interest rates |
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Carte
and peace between Israel and Egypt; camp david accords |
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Causes
of Iranian hostage crisis; political effects on carter. How was the crisis
resolved? |
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Carterıs
response to soviet invasion of afghanistan |
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Rise
of the sunbelt |
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Religious
right |
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Reagan
and 1980 election |
Also
know the following:
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SDS Berkley
Free Speech movement AIM Barrios Cesar
Chavez Stonewall
Riot Betty
Friedan and femine mystique Roe v.
wade Gulf
of Tonkin Resolution MY Lai
massacre and William Calley, the bastard Bipolar
and multipolar world ICBM
and AMBMIRVS Leonid
Brezhnev PLO Miranda
v. Arizona Baker
v. Carr OPEC Ford Nixon and foreign affairs (his talent?) Nixon Doctrine Kent State Tragedy Twenty-sixth Amendment Pentagon Papers Henry Kissenger Nixon and China Warren Court Escobedo and Miranda cases Engel
v. Vitale and School
Dist. of Abington Township v. Schempp Burger
Court EPA |
Rachel
Carson and Silent Spring US off
the Gold Standard ³southern
policy² Election
of 1972 Senator
George McGovern Watergate
Scandals CREEP ³enemies
list² John
Dean III White
House tapes ³Saturday
Night Massacre² New
Isolationism Energy
Crisis OPEC More
tapes and Nixonıs resignation Gerald
Ford Helsinki
Accords Jimmy
Carter Carterıs
humanitarianism Camp
David Accords 1978 Panama
canal treaties double-digit
inflation Iran
and the oil crisis Energy
Security Corporation Hostages
in Iran Ayatollah
Khomeini Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan Carterıs
response to the Soviet Union Salt
II Panama
Canal Treaty |