Winter Break

20CII Extra Credit Project: * Research a person, place or thing that is important to the time period 1946-1995. After researching, for 30 pts. you may do one of the following: A. Write a two-three page paper explaining what this topic is about. Explain why knowledge of this topic is important to understanding the period 1946-1995. B. Do a 15 slide PPT. C. Make a poster or diorama of the topic. A bibliography is necessary to validate your research. (2 Sources Minimum) An informal presentation to the class on the date which we return For 15 pts. you may do one of the following: 1. Watch a historical movie or documentary from the time period 1945-1995 and write up a review (1-2 pages typed). 2. Read an article from a newspaper or periodical that is historically significant and write up a summary (with article attached)---1 to 2 pages typed.

12/17-18 Intro to Civil Rights Unit

12/6-14 1950s Paper

Write a formal paper on one of the following prompts from our study of the 1950s. A. Describe the American economy during the 1950s. What factors contributed to the economic situation? B. What was the baby boom? Describe what life was like for children during the baby boom. C. What was the role of the majority of women in the 1950s? Explain how society encouraged them to fill that role. D. Who were the invisible poor? Describe some of their problems and explain some of the reasons for their poverty. E. What assumption did President Truman make about what the American people wanted when he introduced his Fair Deal in late 1945 and early 1946? F. Why was there a resurgence in religion in the U.S. in the 1950s? G. Explain who the Beats were and why they were controversial in the 1950s. H. How did the Suburbs and the Building of the Interstates change the lifestyles and the landscape of America?

12/3-5 Review and 1950s EXAM

1950s Political Scene. Eisenhower Years. Review 1950s EXAM

11/26-28 Voices of Discontent

Voices of Discontent with the 1950s came from Teens/Rock n Roll and the Beat Movement 20CII--Rock n Roll p. 678 --5 in 5 1.?Whose program was named the “Moondog Rock ‘n’ Roll Party”? ?When did it start? 2.?Why was the DJ from question #1 such a good representative for ?enhancing Rock n Roll’s appeal to youth? 3.?Who were early African-American stars of Rock n Roll? Who were ?the early white performers? 4.?Why did people fall in love with Elvis? What were his early hits? 5.?Why were adults and “The Establishment” against Rock n Roll? ?What was dangerous about it?

11/19 Gender Issues in the 1950s

Gender Issues---Donna Reed vs. Modern Ideas about gender equality. Writing Prompt: How did Men and Women Embrace their roles in the 1950s? Did everybody enjoy and buy in to the traditional roles?

11/13-16 1950s America

Surburbs Wkst. / Designing a Tract Home Interstate Prompt---Was the building of the interstates a good thing for America? Gender Issues Ch. 20 Sec 2 RG 1. Young people of the 1950s were sometimes known as the “silent generation” because: 2. During the 1950s teenagers were more likely to remain in school than go to work because: 3. A religious resurgence occurred in the 1950s because: 4. Some women chose not to give up their jobs because: 5. In her book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan charged that many women were frustrated because: 6. Young people of the 1950s challenged the norms of society because: 7. Many adults disliked rock-and-roll music because: Define the following: 8. rock-and-roll 9. beatnik 10. Catcher in the Rye

11/7-9 Intro to 1950s

Ch. 20 S1 --Set up Cornell Notes Halberstam's ---Let's Play House and Selling the American Way

11/6 Election Worksheet

Election posters walkthrough with worksheet for extra credit

11/5 Cold War Follow Up

Cold War 1945-75 Wkst. ---Due 11/13 Physical Geography----Due 11/13

11/2 Cold War Exam

10/31 Science and the Cold War

Arms Race---Nuclear proliferation Satellites and Science

10/30-31 1950s Cold War

Geography of Containment Ike and the Cold War Cornell Notes Cold War Formative Quiz

10/22-29 Reds Under the Bed

HUAC Hollywood 10 Alger Hiss FELP McCarran-Walter Act The Rosenbergs Joseph McCarthy Edward R. Murrow

10/16-10/19 Cold War in Asia

Fall of China Korean War Truman vs. MacArthur

10/8-11 Cold War in Europe

Topics/Wksts in Class Leaders Meet UN Iron Curtain Containment Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Berlin Airlift

10/3 WWII EXAM

9/27 U.S. Homefront

ABC Video and Ch. 18 S1 are supporting materials. Entrance Ticket for 9/28: 1. How did rationing help the war effort? 2.Explain why inflation occurred during the war and how the government tried to fight it. 3. How did the War Productions Board meet the challenge of supplying the Allies as the Arsenal of Democracy? 4.What are some of the advantages and disadvantages that society experienced as a result of having women enter the work force during WWII? 5. Why was information controlled about the war and allied troop movements? 6. How did the U.S. pay for the war? Summary---Try to put yourselves in the shoes of a teenager during the war. Your father is overseas and your mother just took a job in a defense factory. How would your life be affected by the war effort?

9/26--Course of War

WWII---How the war progressed for the NAZIs. The Allied response. The U.S. is pulled into the war. Supporting material in Ch. 17 and 18.

9/24-25 Beginning of WWII/American Neutrality

First moves in WWII. American Neutrality

9/17-21 Early Stages of WWII

Countries have to deal with the Great Depression. Some countries gave up individual liberties in order to better themselves. Totalitarian states rise in historically repressive societies.

9/10-14 Geography/Steps to WWII

Steps to WWII Geography--Population Pyramid. Climagraphs

9/5-7 Intro Week--Geography

5 Themes of Geography Worksheet. Intro to Class

4/26-30 Intro to Ford

Ford's pardon of Nixon Ford as President America in the 1970s

4/13-25 Nixon Years

Nixon as the President Watergate Ch. 25 S1-3 Watergate Video Nixon Exam

4/11-12 1960s Skits

4/9 VIETNAM EXAM

4/3-6 NIXON AND THE WAR

NIXON AND VIETNAMIZATION.

LEGACIES OF THE WAR.

ABC VIDEO.

4/2 STUDENT PROTEST AND THE WAR

CH. 24 S3 RG.
STUDENT PROTEST AND THE WAR.

3/19-23 SOLDIERS IN THE WAR

WAR FOR THE U.S. SOLDIERS IN VIETNAM

3/12-16 SE ASIA MAP/RATIONALE FOR WAR

SE ASIA MAP ASSIGNMENT.

RATIONALE FOR THE WAR / SOLDIERS IN THE WAR.

CH. 24 S2 RG.

3/5-8 PATH TO WAR

CH. 24 S1 RG.

PATH TO WAR VIDEO

3/2 INTRO TO VIETNAM

3/1-SNOW DAY

2/27-29 1960s Ch. 22 & 23 EXAM

2/23-24 Other 60s Movements

Ethnic and Minority Movements
Ch. 23 S2&3 RG


ABC Video---Overview of the late 1960s

2/21-23 Women's Movement

Ch. 23 S1 RG

Women's Movement Video and Discussion


Women's Movement Quiz

2/14-17 Kennedy and Johnson Years

New Frontier and Great Society:

Group Projects---Warren Court/ JFK Assassination/ New Frontier / Great Society / Bay of Pigs--Cuban Missile Crisis / Crisis over Berlin

Ch. 22 Quiz

2/9-10 LBJ and Warren Court

LBJ and Warren Court Lectures

LBJ Wkst.--In Class Only

2/6-8 JFK Years

JFK Years---JFK lectures and Notes

ABC Video

JFK Wkst--In Class Only

2/6-8 JFK Reading Guide

JFK Presidency Ch. 22 Sec 1 p. 736-741 & Sec 3. p. 751-758

I.Short Answer Questions (2 pts. each)

1. How did perception influence the debates between JFK and Nixon?
2. How close was the 1960 election? What state would have made the difference? What did the Republicans claim?
3. What was Kennedy’s proposal to spur the economy? What were two of Kennedy’s executive orders? Why did he use executive orders rather than getting legislation passed?
4. What did Kennedy commit the nation to doing on May 25, 1961?
5. Why did the Bay of Pigs Invasion fail?
6. What did Kennedy do after his first meeting in Vienna with Krushchev in June 1961? What was the Soviet response in respect to Berlin? How does this calm down Cold War relations in Europe?
7. What were Kennedy’s four options in the Cuban Missile Crisis? What did he choose?
8. What demands did Krushchev have for ending the crisis in Cuba? What was Kennedy’s response?
9. Why did the Alliance for Progress never live up to Kennedy’s expectations? What did Latin Americans think of it? What was a Cold War reason for the Peace Corps?
10. Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? What did he do? How did he die?
11. What was the Warren Commission Report? Why do some people not agree with the Warren Commission’s Report?
12. What are the main legacies of John F. Kennedy’s presidency?

1/31-2/3 Intro to 1960s & 2nd Sem

1. 2nd Semester Syllabus
2. U.S. Geography Packet
3. Intro the 1960s