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American History Date April 6th/7th April 8th/9th April 10th/13th April 14th/15th Term 4 2014-2014 Lessons & Assignments Topic: America Enters the War (1) Japanese Aggression in Asia (2) The Bombing of Pearl Harbor (3) The United States Declares War (4) General Douglas McArthur (5) Bataan Death March Text: United States History, pgs. 452-459 Study Guide: Chapter 14:3 Topic: World War II (1) America Mobilizes for Defense (2) Island Hopping (3) The Manhattan Project (4) The Battle of Midway (5) The A-Bomb (6) Japan Surrenders Text: United States History, pgs. 466-491 Study Guide: Chapter 15:1 & 15:3 Topic: World War II and the Home front (1) GI Bill of Rights (2) Executive Order 9066 (3) Japanese Internment Camps (4) Koremastsu v. The United States (1944) (5) Japanese American Citizens League Text: United States History, pgs. 473-479 Study Guide: Chapter 15:2 Topic: The Cold War Begins (1) satellite nations (2) Truman Doctrine (3) containment (4) Marshall Plan (5) The Berlin Airlift (6) NATO Text: United States History, pgs. 510-516 Study Guide: Chapter 16:1 Class Activity: “WW2 Conferences” Video Activity: “The Berlin Airlift” April 16th/17th Ch. 14 & 15 Study Guide Due Quiz #1 Topic: The Korean War (1) Communist China (2) 38th Parallel (3) limited war (4) command economy v. capitalist economy (5) SEATO (6) ceasefire Text: United States History, pgs. 518-523 Supplemental Reading: Melanie Kirkpatrick-“The Bible in the Birds Nest” Study Guide: Chapter 16:2 Map Activity: “Four Stages of the Korean War” Supreme Court Briefing a Case Choose one of the following cases, read the case, and then complete the assignment using the briefing a case template. 1. Roe v. Wade (1973) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade 2. Miranda v. Arizona (1966) American History Term 4 2014-2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona 3. Mapp v. Ohio (1961) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapp_v._Ohio 4. District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller 5. Texas v. Johnson (1989) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson April 20th/21st Topic: The Cold War Expands (1) arms race (2) mutually assured destruction (3) John Foster Dulles (4) brinkmanship (5) Suez Canal Crisis (6) Iron Curtain (7) The Eisenhower Doctrine (8) Central Intelligence Agency (9) NASA Text: United States History, pgs. 524-529 Study Guide: Chapter 16:3 April 22nd/23rd Class Activity: The Butter Battle Book Topic: The 1950’s (1) GI Bill of Rights (2) baby boom (3) Taft-Hartley Act (4) The Fair Deal (5) suburbs (6) car culture (7) The Interstate Highway Act (8) The Sunbelt (9) nuclear family (10) rock-in-roll (11) Dr. Spock Text: United States History, pgs. 546-565 Supplemental Reading: Study Guide: Chapter 17:1-3 April 24th/27th April 28th/29th April 30th-May 1st Ch. 16 Study Guide Due Quiz #2 Topic: Civil Rights (1) urban renewal (2) de jure v. de facto segregation (3) Thurgood Marshall (4) Brown v. The Board of Education (5) The Little Rock Nine (6) Montgomery Bus Boycott (7) Rosa Parks (8) Martin Luther King Jr. Text: United States History, pgs. 567-587 Supplemental Reading: Study Guide: Chapter 17:4 & 18:1 Topic: The Civil Rights Movement (1) sit-in’s (2) freedom riders (3) James Meredith (4) The March on Washington (5) I Have a Dream (6) Civil Rights Act of 1964 Text: United States History, pgs. 589-599 Supplemental Reading: Study Guide: Chapter 18:2 Topic: Challenges of Civil Rights (1) Freedom Summer (2) Voting Rights Act of 1965 (3) 24th Amendment (4) Malcolm X (5) Black Panthers (6) Nation of Islam Text: United States History, pgs. 600-609 American History Term 4 2014-2014 Supplemental Reading: Study Guide: Chapter 18:3 May 4th/5th Presidential Issues Paper Topic: The Kennedy Administration (1) The Election of 1960 (2) Fidel Castro (3) “flexible response” (4) The Peace Corps (5) Alliance Progress (6) The Bay of Pigs Invasion (7) Cuban Missile Crisis (8) The Berlin Wall Text: United States History, pgs. 616-622 Supplemental Reading: Study Guide: Chapter 19:1 Video Activity: Thirteen Days May 6th/7th May 8th/11th Ch. 17 & 18 Study Guide Due Quiz #3 Topic: The New Frontier (1) deficit spending (2) The Space Race (3) The Kennedy Assassination (4) The Warren Commission (5) Apollo 11 Text: United States History, pgs. 623-628 Supplemental Reading: Study Guide: Chapter 19:2 Topic: Johnson’s Great Society (1) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (2) The War on Poverty (3) The Election of 1964 (4) Medicare and Medicaid (5) Rachel Carson (6) Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 Text: United States History, pgs. 629-637 Supplemental Reading: Robert Rector- “How the War on Poverty was Lost” Study Guide: Chapter 19:3 May 12th/13th Class Activity: 1965 Alabama Literacy Test Topic: Origins of Vietnam War (1) Ho Chi Minh (2) French Indochina (3) domino theory (4) SEATO (5) Vietcong (6) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (7) napalm (8) hawks v. doves Text: United States History, pgs. 644-655 Supplemental Reading: Mark Moyar- “JFK and the Seeds of Disaster in Vietnam” & Margie Mason-“AP Napalm Girl Turns 40” Study Guide: Chapter 20:1 & 20:2 May 14th/15th Congressional Bill/Resolution Topic: American Opposition to the War (1) “The Living Room War” (2) credibility gap (3) The Tet Offensive (4) The Election of 1968 (5) SDS (6) President Richard Nixon (7) Vietnamization (8) The My Lai Massacre (9) Kent State (10) The Paris Peace Accords (11) The War Powers Act American History May 18th/19th Term 4 2014-2014 Text: United States History, pgs. 656-671 Supplemental Reading: Study Guide: Chapter 20:3 & 20:4 Topic: Nixon and the Cold War (1) realpolitik (2) Henry Kissinger (3) Zhou Enlai (4) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (5) détente Text: United States History, pgs. 672-675 Supplemental Reading: Study Guide: Chapter 20:5 May 20th/21st May 22nd/26th Ch. 19 & 20 Study Guide Due Quiz #4 Topic: The Counterculture (1) generation gap (2) communes (3) The Beatles (4) The Hippy Movement (5) Woodstock (6) Timothy O’Leary and LSD (7)The ERA (8) Cesar Chavez (9) American Indian Movement (8) Earth Day (9) The Clean Air Act (10) The EPA Text: United States History, pgs. 682-703 Supplemental Reading: Damien Schiff-“The Endangered Species Act Turns Forty” & Nigel Holmes-“Nuclear Nation” Study Guide: Chapter 21 Topic: Watergate (1) stagflation (2) OPEC (3) affirmative action (4) 25th Amendment (5) executive privilege (6) Nixon resigns (7) Presidential Impeachment Text: United States History, pgs. 710-718 Supplemental Reading: Study Guide: Chapter 22:1 Supplemental Reading Assignment May 27th/28th May 29th-June 1st Topic: The Ford & Carter Years (1) pardon (2) amnesty (3) Christian Fundamentalists (4) The “Me” Generation (5) televangelists (6) Helsinki Accords (7) SALT II (8) Iran (9) Camp David Accords Text: United States History, pgs. 719-731 Supplemental Reading: Study Guide: Chapter 22:2 & 22:3 Topic: Conservatism (1) Ronald Reagan (2) liberalism v. conservatism (3) New Right (4) Moral Majority (5) supply-side economics (6) budget deficits (7) Keynesian Economics (8) AIDS (9) The Rehnquist Court Text: United States History, pgs. 740-749 Supplemental Reading: William Galston-“Reagan and the Roots of US Conservatism” American History Term 4 2014-2014 Study Guide: Chapter 23:1 Ch. 21 & 22 Study Guide Due Quiz #5 Term Assignments 1. Presidential Issue Paper- Choose a president of the United States who served during the 20th or 21st century and write a two page paper organized in the following way: a. Biography-Write a short four to five sentence summary of their political service prior to becoming president of the United States. Include their party affiliation and an accomplishment they achieved while serving in political office before they became president. b. Domestic Issue-Chose a domestic issue the person promoted or made into law during their presidency. Make sure to state the name of the legislation, a short explanation of what the issue was, how the issue influenced people living in the country, and the impacts of the issue on the future of the country. Your summary of the issue must include a quote about the issue from the president you chose. c. Foreign Issue- Chose a foreign issue the person promoted during their presidency. Make sure to state the name of the issue, a short explanation of what the issue was and why the president took the stance he did, how the issue influenced people living in the country the issue dealt with, the impacts of the issue on the future of the country, and how the issue influenced life in the United States. Your summary of the issue must include a quote about the issue from the president you chose. 2. Congressional Legislation-Pretend you are a member of the United States Congress and want a social, economic, or political change to happen in the United States. Using the examples given in class write a bill or resolution that would fix the problem. Include a one page, typed paper that explains why you choose that particular issue, how your proposed change will improve life in the United States, what individual changes people will have to make in their personal lives in order to be a part of the solution to the problem. 3. Supreme Court Briefing Case-Choose a Supreme Court case and complete the briefing a case form. 4. Supplemental Reading Assignment-Chose three of the supplemental readings provided in the term and respond to each in an 8-12 sentence paragraph.