Unit VIII Homework Guide
The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945-1980
Unit VIII—Ch. 25 Cold War America, 1945-1963; Ch. 26 Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963; Ch. 27 Walking into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973; Ch. 28 Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis & Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972; Ch. 29 Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980
March
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Ch. 25—Cold War
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Ch. 25 Vocab Test
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11
Ch. 26—Middle Class
Ch. 25 S-H & Online
See Google Classroom--
1950's assignment
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12
Presidential Bracketology research
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Presidential Madness
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Ch. 26 Vocab Test
Finish Presidential Final 4
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Ch. 27 –Civil Rights
Registration
Ch. 26 S-H & Online
Test Deposit due
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Civil Rts Case Categorization
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Ch. 27 Vocab Test
Civil Rts--chronicling the civil rts. movement
1963 Letters from Birmingham Jail, Fem. Mystique Docs
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Selma--defend/refute "most imp. event of civ. rts movement" debate
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Ch. 28 War/Liberalism/
Contextualization--what happens in the 1960's prior to Nixon's election?
Nixon
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DBQ
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Ch. 28 Vocab Test
Ch. 28 S-H & Online
Vietnam war--Google Classroom
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26
Ch. 29—1970s
Watergate & Congressional Hearings--see Google Classroom
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27
Unit VIII SAQ (at least 1 question will be review from earlier unit)
AP Test Review Plan--Google Classroom HW
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28
LEQ
AP Test Review Plan--Google Classroom Due
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Ch. 29 S-H Online
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Republican Presidents--Lincoln to Trump
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Rep. party platforms 1860-1980
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(Note: 2018-19 condensed this unit b/c 1 week missed w/ snow)
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Concept Outline for Unit 8
PERIOD 8 (1945-1980)
After WWII, the US grappled with prosperity and unfamiliar international responsibilities while struggle to live up to its ideals.
Key Concept 8.1 –The US responded to an uncertain & unstable postwar world by asserting & working to maintain a position of global leadership, w/ far-reaching domestic & international consequences.
Key Concept 8.2 –New movements for civil rights and liberal efforts to expand the role of government generated a range of political and cultural responses
Key Concept 8.3 – Postwar economic and demographic changes had far-reaching consequences on American society, politics, and culture.
Unit VIII Vocabulary
You do not have vocabulary “assignments” but you will have a vocab tests.
Ch. 25
Key Concepts & Events
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Taft-Hartley Act
Fair Deal
HUAC
Domino theory
Eisenhower Doctrine
Bay of Pigs
Cuban missile crisis
Peace Corps
Key People
Joseph Stalin
Joseph McCarthy
Nikita Khrushchev
John F. Kennedy
Ch. 26
Key concepts & events
Kitchen debate
Bretton Woods
IMF
Military-industrial complex
Sputnik
National Defense Education Act
The Affluent Society
The Other America
Veterans Administration
Collective bargaining
Beats
Baby boom
Shelley v. Kraemer
National Interstate & Defense Highways Act
Sunbelt
Key People
Eisenhower
Miles Davis
Jack Kerouac
Billy Graham
Dr. Spock
William J. Levitt
Ch. 27
Key concepts & events
CORE
Jim Crow
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
American GI Forum
Brown v. Board of Ed
SCLC
SNCC
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Black nationalism
Nation of Islam
Black Panther Party
UFW
AIM
Key People
Philip Randolph
Cesar Chavez
Thurgood Marshall
Malcom X
Stokely Carmichael
Ch. 28
Key concepts & events
Great Society
Economic Opportunity Act
Medicare
Medicaid
Feminine Mystique
NOW
Gulf of Tonkin Revolution
Operation Rolling Thunder
SDS
New Left
YAF
Counterculture
Tet offensive
1968 Dem. National Conv.
Women’s liberation
Title IX
Silent majority
Vietnamization
My Lai
Détente
Warren Court
Key People
Barry Goldwater
Lyndon Johnson
Betty Friedan
Robert Kennedy
Richard Nixon
George Wallace
Henry Kissinger
Ch. 29
Key concepts & events
OPEC
Energy crisis
Environmentalism
Silent Spring
Earth Day
EPA
Three Mile Island
Rust Belt
Proposition 13
Watergate
War Powers Act
Freedom of Information Act
Deregulation
Affirmative action
Bakke v. Univ. of California
ERA
Roe v. Wade
Key People
Rachel Carson
Gerald Ford
Howard Jarvis
Jimmy Carter
Phyllis Schlafly
Harvey Milk
Billy Graham