Explain the civil rights movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s by describing the ideas and actions of federal and state leaders, grassroots movements, and central organizations that were active in the movement.
Videos:
Interview with Representative John Lewis (GL)
The Dark Lens
The Fight for Civil Rights (GL)
Milestones of the Civil Rights Movement (GL)
The Civil Rights Movement (GL)
Justice Delayed
Elements of a Social Movement
The Road From Brown (GL)
The Civil Rights Movement: The Role of Youth in the Struggle (GL)
The Urban League, the NAACP, and the Black Muslims (GL)
Vernon Dahmer (GL)
Medgar Evers(GL)
Teacher's Salary Cases (GL)
Stories of the Civil Rights Movement (GL)
Remembering a Dream (King & Civil Rights Part 1) (GL)
Trial (GL)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Joins the Memphis Sanitation Workers (Speeches from Dr. King and activists)
I Am a Man: The Sanitation Workers' Strike Becomes a Movement(GL—Dr. King’s speech to the sanitation workers)
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Last Days (GL—Dr. King’s final speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”)
Justice for the Memphis Sanitation Workers (GL)
The Formation of a Separate State(GL)
Personal and Societal Relationships with the White Community(GL)
Society Disrupted
Rough Years in Harlem: Malcolm's Life of Crime and Discovery of the Nation of Islam(GL)
The Controversy of Black Nationalist Groups: Malcolm X Becomes a Leader of the Nation of Islam (GL)
Malcolm X Becomes Alienated from the Nation of Islam (GL)
The Assassination and Legacy of Malcolm X (GL)
Malcolm Becomes an Orthodox Muslim and Renounces His Hatred of White People (GL)
Medgar Evers(GL)
1957: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Non-Violent Resistance
Civil Rights Martyrs (GL)
Meridian, Mississippi
Strikes, Protests, and Anti-Government Demonstrations (GL)
Identify the issues at stake in the various protests and events.
State the goals and actions taken by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
Analyze the reasons for a change of ideology with SNCC.
Describe the attitudes and actions of White Southern leaders when faced with demands for racial equality.
Explain the reason why the Federal government took action to combat attempts of White Southern leaders to stop desegration.
Analyze the relationship between Civil Right leaders (King, Malcolm X and others) and officials of the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations.
INDICATOR USH 7.5
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL VOCABULARY
SKILLS
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Identify and describe United States foreign policy issues during the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Videos:
Overview of 1961
Nixon and Kennedy (GL)
Kennedy in Europe: Berlin Wall and the Cold War (GL)
Causes of the War
The Cuban Revolution (1959)
The Cuban Missile Crisis (GL)
Cuban Missile Crisis
A Legacy of Mistrust (GL)
Controversies of the 1960s: Espionage and the Berlin Wall (GL)
Nixon Addresses the Nation on His Vietnam Policy (GL)
Showdown: The Cuban Missile Crisis (GL)
A Changed Man: Kennedy's First Encounter with Khrushchev (GL)
Cuba and Operation Mongoose (GL)
Viet Victories: Twin Offensives Rock Vietcong (GL)
Invasion Scare: Castro Masses Troops, Claims U.S. "Aggression"
JFK Pledges Help to Those Suffering Under Communism
Berlin Escape: Easterner Scales Cemetery Wall
More Troops Arrive: 101st Airborne Lands in Vietnam
The Fall of South Vietnamese President Diem
Vietnam Today: Politically Communist and Economically Capitalist (GL)
Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy Addresses Fears of Communist Espionage (GL)
Bombing Resumes in Vietnam
OPEC Agreements (GL)
Gulf of Tonkin (GL)
South Vietnam Troops Counter Rebel Attacks
The War Spins Out of Control: Tet and Walter Cronkite
The Vietnam War
Introduction: The Foreign Correspondent
Television and the War: Morley Safer at Cam Ne
Images:
Fidel Castro (b. 1926).
Checkpoint Charlie, West Berlin, 1966.
Khruschev and Kennedy, 1961.
A Soviet missile base in Cuba.
A graphic map of world oil reserves.
Lyndon B. Johnson.
Articles:
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Audio:
Cuban Missile Crisis October 22, 1962 (Audio Only)
Concepts
Containment
Proxy War
Protection from Nuclear Attack
Mutually Assured Destruction
Nuclear War
Military Advisors (Kennedy and Vietnam)
Roman Catholic/Buddhist Conflict
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Seven Days War
OPEC Oil Embargo
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
President Diem
Walter Cronkite
Relations with Newly Independent African Nations
Relations with China
Foreign Policy
Diplomacy
Anti-war Sentiment
Military Build Up
Escalation
Analyze the effect of the discovery of Soviet medium range nuclear missiles in Cuba on American National Defense Policy.
Identify reasons for South Vietnam’s President Diem’s unpopularity with the South Vietnamese people.
Describe the purpose for the creation of OPEC by the Arab oil producing countries.
Describe Congress’ response to an a supposed attack on an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Compose a short summary explaining why LBJ went from a highly successful election victory in 1964 to declaring he would not run for re-election in 1968.
INDICATOR USH 7.6
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL VOCABULARY
SKILLS
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Explain and analyze changing relations between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1960 to 1980 as demonstrated by the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Crisis in Berlin, the U-2 incident, the Space Race, and the SALT agreements.
Videos:
A Historic Event: The Signing of the Atomic Test Ban Treaty (1963)
U.S.-Cuba Relations After the Missile Crisis (GL)
A Possibility of Friendship (A Secret Truce: Kennedy and Castro Part Two) (GL)
As World Watched: Spaceman Hailed after U.S. Triumph
Ich Bin Ein Berliner (GL)
The First Woman in Space (GL)
Space Triumph: Discoverer Capsule Recovered from Orbit
Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 Rocket Flight (GL)
Astronaut Gus Grissom's Role in the Space Race (GL)
The First Man in Earth Orbit: John Glenn and the Atlas (GL)
The Space Race: America and the Soviet Union Compete to Send a Man Into Space (GL)
The U-2 Spy Plane Incident (GL)
The Spy Exchange (GL)
Soviet Advancements in Science, Space, and Technology (GL)
Political Dilemma (GL)
Project Mercury Begins
The Space Race: America and the Soviet Union Compete to Send a Man Into Space
Describe the Allied (United Kingdom, France, United States) response to Stalin’s blocking off all rail traffic to and from West Berlin.
Explain how the success of the Berlin Air Lift forced Stalin to reopen the rail line to Berlin.
Evaluate the American Government’s response to the discovery of Soviet Missiles in Cuba.
Analyze how the United States and the Soviet Union perceived each other in military and ideological terms after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Describe the role of military intelligence in determining US military and diplomatic national security policies.
Analyze the impact of the Soviets’ successful launch of Sputnik and the American response.
Explain how the Space Race became a symbolic and technological battle between the Communist System of the USSR and the Capitalist System of the United States.
Explain how the Soviet’s successful bringing down of Francis Gary Power’s U-2 spy plane changed the practices of American spying on the Soviet Union.
