Unit 8, 9 and 10:

SS.912.A.6.8 Analyze the effects of the Red Scare on domestic United States policy.

  1. What did the House Un-American Activities Committee do?
  2. What is McCarthyism (Sen. Joe McCarthy)?
  3. Who were the Rosenbergs?

SS.912.A.6.10 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the early years of the Cold War

  1. What was the Truman Doctrine?
  2. What was the Marshall Plan?
  3. What were NATO and the Warsaw Pact?

SS.912.A.6.11 Examine the controversy surrounding the proliferation of nuclear technology in the United States and the world.

SS.912.A.6.12 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Korean War.

  1. What is the significance of the 38th parallel in the Korean War?
  2. Why was Gen. Douglas McArthur fired?

SS.912.A.6.13 Analyze significant foreign policy events during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

  1. What is the Domino Theory?
  2. What was Sputnik and what was its effect on the US?
  3. Why did the US get involved in Korea and what was the outcome?
  4. Why did the US get involved in the Vietnam Conflict and what was the outcome?
  5. What was the U-2 incident and how did it change US Soviet relations?
  6. What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs invasion and why did it fail?
  7. What was the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
  8. Who was responsible for Ping Pong Diplomacy and what was the outcome?

SS.912.A.6.14 Analyze causes, course, and consequences of the Vietnam War.

  1. What were the Geneva Accords?
  2. What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and what was its effect on the Vietnam War?
  3. What are two specific examples of escalating protests at home during the Vietnam War?
  4. What was Vietnamization?
  5. What was the War Powers Act?

SS.912.A.7.1 Identify causes for Post-World War II prosperity and its effects on American society.

  1. What was the G.I. Bill and how did it lead to prosperity in America?
  2. What was the Baby Boom?
  3. What was the Beatnik movement?
  4. What was the youth culture of the 50s? (think: Elvis and Rock and Roll)
  5. What was religious revivalism in the 50s?

SS.912.A.7.3 Examine the changing status of women in the United States from post-World War II to present.

  1. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and how did it effect women?
  2. What was The Feminine Mystique and what did it advocate?
  3. What was the National Organization for Women?
  4. What was Roe v. Wade?
  5. What was the Equal Rights Amendment and was it a success?
  6. What is Title IX and how did it effect women?
  7. Describe how each of the following people impacted the second-wave feminist movement: Betty Freidan, Phyllis Schlafly, and Billie Jean King.

SS.912.A.7.4: Evaluate the success of 1960s era presidents’ foreign and domestic policies.

  1. List and describe 4 pieces of civil rights legislation.
  2. What was Johnson’s idea of a Great Society, and what legislation did he put in place to create it?

SS.912.A.7.5: Compare nonviolent and violent approaches utilized by groups (African Americans, women, Native Americans, Hispanics) to achieve civil rights.

  1. Describe what these kinds of protests did, and list a specific one for at least two of them: (be sure to say whether it was successful or not) sit-ins, Freedom Rides, boycotts, riots, protest marches.

SS.912.A.7.6: Assess key figures and organizations in shaping the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement.

  1. What was the NAACP?
  2. What was the National Urban League?
  3. What were SNCC and CORE and what were they known for?
  4. What was their impact on the civil rights movement/black power movement: Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, the Little Rock Nine, A. Philip Randolph, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, [El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz], Stokley Carmichael [Kwame Ture], Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale.

SS.912.A.7.8: Analyze significant Supreme Court decisions relating to integration, busing, affirmative action, the rights of the accused, and reproductive rights.

  1. Describe the outcome of the three of the following cases: (what did the court decide?) Plessy v. Ferguson [1896], Brown v. Board of Education [1954], regents of the University of California v. Bakke [1978], Miranda v. Arizona [1966], Gideon v. Wainright [1963], Mapp v. Ohio [1961], and Roe v. Wade [1973].

SS.912.A.7.9: Examine the similarities of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

SS.912.A.7.10: Analyze the significance of Vietnam and Watergate on the government and people of the United States.

  1. How did Watergate and Vietnam lead to a mistrust of government?
  2. How did Vietnam and Watergate reaffirm the checks and balances system? (think: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to War Powers Act, and impeachment process)
  3. What was the outcome in New York Times v. Nixon?

SS.912.A.7.11: Analyze the foreign policy of the United States as it relates to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.

  1. What was the Iran-Contra Affair?
  2. Why did the US fight in the Persian Gulf-War and what was the outcome?
  3. What were the terms of the Camp David Accords?
  4. What caused the Iran Hostage Crisis?

SS.912.A.7.13: Analyze the attempts to extend New Deal legislation through the Great Society and the success and failures of these programs to promote social and economic stability.

  1. What are the following programs and why were they created: Medicare, Medicaid, Headstart?

SS.912.A.7.17: Examine key events and key people in Florida history as they relate to United States history.

  1. What were Florida’s two biggest industries before Disney?
  2. What happened in Florida in the Election of 2000 and what was the outcome?

SS.912.A.7.12: Analyze political, economic, and social concerns that emerged at the end of the 20th century and into the 21st century.

  1. How did the government react to the AIDS epidemic?

SS.912.A.7.14: Review the role of the United States as a participant in the global economy (trade agreements, international competition, impact on American labor, environmental concerns).

  1. What is NAFTA and why was it created?
  2. What is the World Trade Organization and why was it created?

SS.912.A.7.15: Analyze the effects of foreign and domestic terrorism on the American people.

  1. What were specific foreign and domestic policies adopted after the Oklahoma City bombing and the attack of September 11, 2001?
  2. What was PATRIOT Act, and why was it so controversial?
  3. Why did US begin fighting in Afghanistan? In Iraq?