Unit 12:Post-War Domestic Issues: 1945-1989 (2 weeks)

Readings:Carnes and Garraty, Chap 29: 761-5,771-2,775-9,782-5; Chap 30: 789-90,795-804 (no Vietnam War),809-13; Chap 31; Chap 32: 843-9,851-62

Themes:Continued impact of New Deal in government’s role in society.

Struggle for civil liberties and civil rights.

Checks and balances at work in American politics.

Content:Truman Administration

.Fair Deal

.GI Bill of Rights

.Taft-Hartley

.22nd Amendment

.1948 Election

.Loyalty Program

Eisenhower Administration

.McCarthyism

.Modern Republicanism

.Highway Construction

.Brown v Board of Education of Topeka

.Earl Warren Court

Kennedy/Johnson Administration

.Civil Rights: Popular and Government Response

.War on Poverty and Great Society

.Counterculture and Anti-Establishment Movements

Nixon/Ford Administration

.Law and Order Campaign

.Energy issues

.Watergate

Carter Administration

.National malaise

Reagan Administration

.Confidence Restored

.Reaganomics

.Challenges during Reagan Administration

Expansion of and challenges to Civil Rights

Assignments: Read and outline text material. Complete skills exercises. Read and summarize supplemental material. Research and present special topic.

Timeline:Monday, March 30Pages in Chapter 29

Wednesday, April 1Chapter 30 up to p. 804

Monday, April 13Presentations 1 and 2

Tuesday,April 14809-813, Presentations 3 and 4

Wednesday, April 15Presentations 5 and 6, Chapter 31

Thursday, April 16pages in Chapter 32, Presentations 7 and 8

Friday, April 17Presentations 9 and 10, pages in Chapter 33

Monday, April 20Presentation 11

Tuesday April 21DBQ Practice: Civil Rights

Thursday, April 23Unit 12 Test

Project Topics: Your job is to lead a discussion and presentation of the following topics on your assigned date. You must use a HISTORICAL video clip of an event in your topic (1-2 minutes), at least 1 political cartoon, and 7-10 historical pictures. If you have an election year, you MUST find one campaign commercial OR a televised debate. Show evaluation and analysis in your presentation, and not simply rote recital of facts. Create your presentation on Google Apps and share with as well as your group member(s).

  1. The Election of 1960 and Kennedy’s New Frontier
  2. The Kennedy Assassination
  3. The Election of 1964, Johnson’s War on Poverty, Johnson’s Great Society: its programs and legacy
  4. Election of 1968, Robert Kennedy Assassination,
  5. Election of 1972 and the downfall of Spiro Agnew
  6. Richard Nixon’s Domestic issues including Watergate
  7. The Warren Court Years and various court cases
  8. The Counterculture and Woodstock
  9. The Oil Crisis, “National Malaise” under Ford/Carter and the Election of 1976
  10. The Elections of 1980 and 1984 and the “Reagan Revolution,” Reaganomics, successes and failures of the Reagan domestic programs
  11. New demands for civil rights: Women’s rights and the ERA, Cesar Chavez and rights for Hispanic Americans, The American Indian Movement, and Stonewall Riots

Chapter 29

After reading selected pages in Chapter 29, I can…

  1. Identify changes in American lifestyle that surfaced after WWII.
  2. Evaluate the anticommunist crusade of Senator Joseph McCarthy and its impact on civil liberties.
  3. Explain how civil rights emerged in the political arena of the 1950s and 1960s.

People, Places, and Things to Understand:

GI Bill of Rights:

Brown v. Board of Education:

Taft-Hartley Act:

J. Strom Thurmond:

Whittaker Chambers:

HUAC:

The “Hollywood Ten:”

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg:

Adlai Stevenson:

Earl Warren:

Chapter 30: After reading selected pages in Chapter 30, I can…

  1. Show how the civil rights movement changed American life.
  2. Evaluate the successes and shortcomings of Great Society social programs.
  3. Analyze the causes and effects of the Watergate scandal upon the Nixon Administration and the nation as a whole.

People, Places, and Things to Understand:

Sit-in:

Freedom Rides:

Emmitt Till:

“expletive deleted:”

C.R.E.E.P.

Warren Commission:

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail:”

Head Start:

Medicare/Medicaid:

March on Washington, 1963:

Malcolm X:

Barry M. Goldwater:

Robert F. Kennedy:

Hubert H. Humphrey:

Eugene McCarthy:

George C. Wallace:

Chapter 31: After reading ALL of Chapter 31, I can…

  1. Evaluate the impact of religion on mid-twentieth century American life.
  2. Analyze the racial turmoil of the 1950s-1970s and who how the ways African Americans pursued civil rights were similar to and different from other minorities who sought a redress of grievances.
  3. Evaluate the educational developments of the postwar years and explain the rationale of the student revolt.
  4. What did the student revolt and the counterculture of the 1960s have in common? How were they different?
  5. Explain the appearance of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and identify the connection(s) between that revolution and the rise of a new women’s liberation movement.

People, Places, and Things to Understand:

“vast wasteland:”

Black power:

Chicanos:

Cesar Chavez:

Hippies:

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring:

SNCC:

American Indian Movement:

Port Huron Statement:

Jack Kerouac:

Jackson Pollock:

Andy Warhol:

Stokely Carmichael:

Allen Ginsburg:

Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior of the Human Male:

Kate Millett:

Betty Friedan:

Gloria Steinem:

Stonewall Riot:

Chapter 32: After reading selected pages in Chapter 32, I can…

  1. Explain how economic problems, particularly inflation, unemployment, recession, and deficits, have persisted at one time or another since 1974.
  2. Explain how the “Reagan Revolution” changed America in reference to domestic policy and the emergence of a “bi-polar” economy and society.

People, Places, and Things to Understand:

“malaise speech:”

Stagflation:

WIN:

Human immunodeficiency virus:

“junk bonds:”

“rust belt:”

Challenger:

Geraldine Ferraro:

Jerry Falwell:

Sandra Day O’Connor:

ERA: