VIDEO – excerpts from: The Fabulous 50’s

American Diversity, American Identity, Culture, Demographic Changes, Economic Transformations, Environment, Globalization, Politics and Citizenship, Reform, War and Diplomacy

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  (1945-1952) The Cold War
  
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    Global Insecurities as war’s end – financing the future, division of Europe, the United Nations, collective security. Policy of Containment – the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, Berlin Crisis, NATO, atomic diplomacy. Cold War liberalism – the 1948 election, the Fair Deal. Cold War at Home – National Security Act of 1947, Loyalty-Security Program, Red Scare, spy cases, McCarthyism. Cold war culture – anxieties, military-industrial communities in the West. The Korean War, price of national security, Election of 1952 – “I Like Ike”.
    
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  (1952-1953) America at Mid-Century
  
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    The Eisenhower Presidency, suburban life, organized labor and the AFL-CIO, expansion of higher education, health and medicine. Youth Culture – rock and roll, deviance and delinquency. Mass Culture and its discontents – television and politics, culture critics. The Cold War continued – the new look on foreign affairs, intervening around the world, Ike’s Warning: the military-industrial complex. John F. Kennedy and the New Frontier – the election of 1960, new frontier liberalism, Kennedy and the Cold War, the Cuban Revolution and the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, assassination of President Kennedy.
    

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  (1945-1966) The Civil Rights Movement
  
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    Origins of the movement – civil rights after WWII, the segregated South, Brown V. Bd. of Education, Crisis in Little Rock. 1957-1962: Martin Luther King Jr., SCLC, Sit-ins: Greensboro, Nashville, Atlanta, SNCC and “Beloved Community”, the election of 1960 and civil rights, Freedom Rides, the Albany Movement: the Limits of Protest. 1963-65: Birmingham, JFK and the March on Washington,, LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Freedom Summer, Malcolm X and black consciousness, Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Civil Rights beyond black and white – Mexican-Americans and Mexican immigrants, Puerto Ricans, Japanese Americans, Indian Peoples, Remaking the Golden Door: Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
    

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  How did atomic power shape the development of the Cold War? To what extent were cold war fears grounded in reality? What role did government propaganda play in shaping American attitudes about the cold war?
  
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  How did the containment of Soviet power become the cornerstone of American foreign policy from 1945 to 1989?
  
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  In what ways did Presidents Truman, Kennedy and Johnson operate in the political shadow of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
  
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  How did the United States and the Soviet Union go from World War II allies to World War II adversaries?
  
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  How and why did America drift into a new Red Scare in the 1950’s?
  
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  How do you account for the appeal of McCarthyism in the United States in the era following the Second World War?
  
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  How did President Eisenhower establish “modern Republicanism” in the 1950’s as an answer to the New Deal?
  
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  To what extent did the decade of the 1950’s deserve its reputation as an age of political, social and cultural conformity?
  
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  To what extent were the Soviet Union and the United States equally responsible for bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?
  
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  Although the 1960’s are usually considered the decade of greatest achievement for Black civil rights, the 1940’s and 1950’s were periods of equally important gains. Assess the validity of this statement.
  
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  How did the Civil Rights Movement gain political and social momentum from 1948-1968?
  
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  Assess the impact of individuals and organized groups in bring about change in society and government policy during the Civil Rights era. What role did larger social forces play in helping or hurting these efforts?
  

*Addressing the Free Response Essay Question: (including thesis writing, organization, and incorporating factual knowledge and critical thinking and interpretation)

Progressivism and the New Deal

Women’s suffrage and post-Second World War Feminism

The New Deal and the Great Society

70 Multiple Choice/2 FRQ Essay/1 DBQ Essay

War at home and abroad, the Conservative ascendancy, and America since 1988

Out of Many – Chapters 29 -31

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  (Supp) A People’s History: chapters 18 - 25
  
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  (Primary) Paul Potter on the Antiwar Movement (1965)
  
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  (Primary) National Organization for Women Statement of Purpose (1966)
  
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  (Primary) Donald Wheeldin, “The Situation in Watts Today” (1967)
  
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  (Primary) Redstockings Manifesto (1969)
  
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  (Primary) Cesar Chavez, “Letter from Delano” (1969)
  
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  (Primary) The Gay Liberation Front, Come Out (1970)
  
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  (Primary) Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle (1971)
  
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  (Primary) Phyllis, Schlafly, “The Fraud of the Equal Rights Amendment” (1972)
  
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  (Primary) Jimmy Carter on Human Rights (1977)
  
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  (Primary) James Watt, “Environmentalists: A Threat to the Ecology of the West: (1978)
  
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  (Primary) Jerry Falwell, Listen America (1980)
  
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  (Primary) Ronald Reagan’s Inaugural Address (1981)
  
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  (Primary) The Freedom Revolution (1995)
  
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  (Primary) Declaration for a Global Democracy (1999)
  
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  (Primary) Bill Clinton, Remarks at the “America’s Millennium” Celebration (1999)
  
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  (Primary) The National Security Strategy of the United States (2002)
  
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  (Primary) Robert Byrd on the War in Iraq (2003)
  
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  (Primary) Anthony Kennedy, Opinion of the Court in Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
  
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  (Primary) Sandra Day O’Connor, Opinion of the Court in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
  
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  (Primary) Archbishop, Roger Mahoney, “Called by God to Help” (2006)
  
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  VIDEO – excerpts from: 1968, with Tom Brokaw – The History Channel
  

American Diversity, American Identity, Culture, Demographic changes, Economic transformations, Environment, Globalization, Politics and Citizenship, Reform, Religion, War and Diplomacy

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  (1965-1974) War Abroad, War at Home
  
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    Vietnam- America’s longest War- Johnson’s war, the credibility gap. Generation in conflict – campus protest and mass mobilization, teenage soldiers. Wars on poverty – the Great Society, cities in crisis, urban uprisings. 1968 – Tet Offensive, King, the War, and the Assassination, the democratic campaign, “the whole world is watching”. Politics of Identity – black power, women’s liberation movement, gay liberation movement, Chicano Rebellion, Red power, Asian American movement. Roe v. Wade, Kent State, The Nixon Presidency – the Southern strategy, Kissinger, Nixon’s war, Detente, China and the Soviet Union, domestic policy. Watergate – Foreign policy as a conspiracy, the age of dirty tricks, and fall of the executive.
    
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  (1974-1991) The Conservative Ascendancy
  
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    The overextended society – troubled economy, sunbelt/snowbelt communities, Ford Presidency, Carter Presidency, new urban policies, endangered environment. New Conservatism – the new right, the “me” decade, anti-ERA, anti-abortion. Adjusting to a new world – Cold War thaw, foreign policy and “Moral Principles”, Iran Hostage Crisis, the 1980 election. Reagan Revolution – the great communicator, Reaganomics, election of 1984, Recession, recovery, and fiscal crisis. The celebration f wealth, two-tiered society, feminization of poverty, drugs, AIDS, homelessness. Reagan’s foreign policy – the Reagan doctrine and central America, Iran-Contra scandal, the collapse of communism.
    
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  (Since 1988) Toward a Transnational America
  
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    Reagan’s successor: George H.W. Bush, the Persian Gulf War, the Economy and the election of 1992. The Clinton Presidency – Clinton’s internationalism, presiding over the boom, silicon valley, new electronic culture, new immigrants and their communities. A New Age of Anxiety – the racial divide, the forces of fear, culture wars, high crimes and misdemeanors. The New Millennium – election of 2000, Global warming, a global community. War on Terror – terrorist attack on America, reshaping U.S. foreign policy, invasion of Iraq, the election of 2004.
    

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  How did the social and political upheavals make the 1960’s the most tumultuous decade of the 20^th century for the American people?
  
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  Foreign affairs rather than domestic issues shaped presidential politics in the election year of 1968. Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to foreign and domestic issues.
  
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  How was containment modified from 1945 to 1989 to fit presidential philosophies and changing world events?
  
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  How did the Vietnam conflict become America’s greatest failure of the Cold War?
  
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  How did Middle Eastern conflicts complicate America’s attempt to contain Communism and maintain peace in the region?
  
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  How was America’s Latin American policy part of the larger containment effort from 1945-1989?
  
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  Presidents who have been notably successful in either foreign affairs or domestic affairs have seldom been notably successful in both. Assess this statement with reference to TWO presidents, one in the 19^th century and the other in the 20^th century, giving reasons for success or failure in each case.
  

*Addressing the Free Response Essay Question: (including thesis writing, organization, and

incorporating factual knowledge and critical thinking and interpretation)
(from 1998) 1968 was a turning point for the United States. To what extent is this an assessment? In your answer, discuss TWO of the following: National Politics, the Vietnam War, Civil Rights.
(Possible FRQ) Americans developed an increasingly negative view of the Vietnam War, especially after 1968. Discuss the various factors that contributed to this trend, including the role of TV, the nature of the military campaign and strategies, anti-war demonstrators, and the policies of the Johnson and Nixon administrations.
(from 1999) Assess the success of the United States policy of containment in Asia between 1945 and 1975.
*Addressing the Document Based Essay Question:
(from 2008) Analyze the ways in which the Vietnam War heightened social, political, and economic tensions in the United States. Focus your answer on the period 1964 – 1975.
UNIT 8 AP FORMAT EXAM

80 Multiple Choice/2 FRQ Essay/1 DBQ Essay