APUS HISTORY / ASSIGNMENTS / CHAPTERS 36-40
Instead of creating SQRRR’s for this unit on Post WWII in America, I am providing you with the key aspects for the time period of 1945 to 1980 along with the terms that are associated with them. Your assignment is to describe how each of the terms listed below the key aspect, as well as the facts surrounding them, helped to shape the key aspect. I stress to you that your work for each chapter should only be done AFTER you have read the chapters and the Remini book pages 245-304. It is anticipated that your work for each chapter will be no more than 4-5 pages in length. The assignments are due on the dates set forth below. If they are late you will lose 25% for the first day late and 50% if 2 days late. After that no credit will be given for that assignment. All work shall be submitted to turnitin.com. Some of these dates are over vacation, nevertheless you are responsible for the assignment on the dates indicated.
Pageant Chapter 36: Remini pages 245-261 {Due Sunday, March 27, 2016)
1. Domestic Life in America following the war (key aspect)
-Taft-Hartley Act
-GI Bill
-Suburban Growth
-Interstate Highway System
-HUAC
-Election of 1948
-Post War Optimism
-Red Scare
2. The start of the Cold War (key aspect)
-large peace time army
-Yalta
-sphere of influence
-Berlin
-Long Telegram
-Domino effect
-NSA
-NATO
-Marshall Plan
-Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (nuclear arsenal)
-NSC 68 and the increase in military spending
-Communism
-containment theory
-Decolonization
-Korean Conflict
Pageant Chapter 37: Remini pages 261-271 {Due Friday, April 1st, 2016}
1. Civil Rights Era begins and the McCarthy witch hunt era ends (key aspect)
- Economic Prosperity
- Ike
-McCarthy
-Emmet Till
-Truman desegregation
-Brown v. Board; Little Rock
-Sit ins
-Hemingway, Steinbeck, Wright, Baldwin (authors)
2. The Cold War heats up (key aspect)
-Latin America (Latinos)
-More Bang for the Buck
-Hungary; Vietnam; Cuba
-Eisenhower Doctrine
-Warsaw Pact
-Sputnik; NASA
-Kitchen debate
-Military-Industrial Complex
Pageant Chapter 38: 271-283 Remini pages {Due Wednesday, April 6, 2016 }
1. The impact of the JFK and Johnson Presidency’s on international issues (key aspect)
-Best and the brightest
-Berlin Wall
-Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs
-Vietnam (TonkinGulf and Tet Offensive)
-Middle East
2. The impact of the JFK and Johnson Presidency’s on domestic issues (key aspect)
- Freedom Riders
-James Meredith
-MLK and the march
-Birmingham
-War on Poverty and the Great Society (4 components)
-Watts
-Malcolm X
-Counterculture movement (3 P’s: population; protests; prosperity)
-Sunbelt
-Liberalism
-Immigration Act of 1965
-Civil Rights Act of 1964
***The History of the 1960s focuses on 4 major issues and so should you
{Civil Rights struggle; Great society war on poverty; Vietnam and Anti-War movement and the
emergence of the counter-culture movement} ***
Pageant Chapter 39: Remini pages 283-292{Due Monday, April 11th, 2016}
1. The impact of Nixon in America (key aspect)
-economy
-Vietnam
-détente
-War Powers Act (1973)
-OPEC (embargo)
-Watergate and its aftermath
2. The impact of the Supreme Court in America (key aspect)
-Rights of criminal defendants
-Affirmative Action (Bakke)
-School busing
-Abortion (Griswold and Roe)
3. The Carter years in America (key aspect)
-Human rights
-Inflation
-Camp David Accords
-Iran
-Carter doctrine (oil crisis)
Pageant Chapter 40: Remini pages 292-304 {Due Friday, April 15, 2016}
1. Ronald Reagan and the re-birth of conservatism (key aspect)
-election of 1980 and the mandate to change
-Supply Side economics
-Reaganomics
-Sandra Day O’Connor
-Moral Majority
-bank bailouts
-Black Monday
2. Ronald Reagan and the end of the cold war (key aspect)
- Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) aka “star wars”
-Contra’s (Nicaragua)
- Iranian Hostages
-Glasnost and Perestroika
-Mikhail Gorbachev
-Collapse of the Soviet Union
-China and Tiananmen Square
-Boris Yeltsin
-OperationDesert Storm
In addition to the above work, you will be responsible for submitting a separate document on Monday, April 18th, 2016 in which you provide a 3 sentence answer for each term below. The sentences should be in the form of WHW. That is, your first sentence shall state whatthe term refers to. The second sentence describes how it works, and the third sentence explains why it developed.
Beat Movement, Black Panthers, Braceros Program, Rachel Carson, China Trade, Clean Air Act, Department of the Interior, Feminine Mystique, Fannie Lou Hamer, Inflation of the 1970s, Stagflation, Luisa Moreno, Thurgood Marshall, Massive Retaliation, Medicare, Medicaid, Miranda v. Arizona, Rock and Roll, Space Race, Gloria Steinem, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Suez Canal, Sun Belt, Start I, SALT, Tennessee Valley Authority, The Affluent Society, Baby Boom, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights Movement, Counterculture, demographic changes, , NATO, middle-class suburbanization, Mexican-Americans, Social Justice, Social Safety Net, EPA, Woodstock, Marshall Plan, Black Power Movement, , 24th Amendment (1964)