Unit VIII Schedule

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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8

Ch. 25 Vocab Test

 

11

Ch. 26—Middle Class

Ch. 25 S-H & Online

See Google Classroom--

1950's assignment


 

12

Presidential Bracketology research 

13


Presidential Madness 

14


Ch. 26 Vocab Test

Finish Presidential Final 4


15
Ch. 27 –Civil Rights


Registration

Ch. 26 S-H & Online


Test Deposit due

18

 Civil Rts Case Categorization




19

Ch. 27 Vocab Test

Civil Rts--chronicling the civil rts. movement 

1963  Letters from Birmingham Jail, Fem. Mystique Docs

20

Selma--defend/refute "most imp. event of civ. rts movement" debate

Ch. 27 S-H & Online

21

 Ch. 28 War/Liberalism/

Contextualization--what happens in the 1960's prior to Nixon's election?

Nixon

22

DBQ

 

25

Ch. 28 Vocab Test

Ch. 28 S-H & Online

Vietnam war--Google Classroom

26

Ch. 29—1970s

Watergate & Congressional Hearings--see Google Classroom


 

27

Unit VIII SAQ (at least 1 question will be review from earlier unit)


AP Test Review Plan--Google Classroom HW 

28


LEQ

AP Test Review Plan--Google Classroom Due

29

 Ch. 29 S-H Online

Unit VIII MC Final


 


Republican Presidents--Lincoln to Trump



 

 

 

Rep. party platforms 1860-1980

 

 

 

 

 




 



(Note:  2018-19 condensed this unit b/c 1 week missed w/ snow)

 


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

LEQ

LEQ