Study Guide - Unit Fifteen: The Sixties and Seventies

 

Due Date

Assignment

Weds., May 3

1. Read p. 830 - 842

2. Do worksheet on Chapter 28, Sections 1 and 2

Thurs., May 4

1. Read p. 842 - 851

2. Do worksheets for Chapter 28, section 3

Fri., May 5

1. Read p. 856 – 863

2. Do worksheets for Chapter 29, Section 1

Mon., May 8

1. Read p. 864 – 877

2. Do worksheet for Chapter 29, Sections 2 and 3

Tues., May 9

1. Read MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech AND your assigned handout from a 1960s black leader

2. Fill out the MLK column and your assigned column on the 1960s Civil Rights chart.  You will be sharing your info with your group and they will HATE you if you don’t do your assigned task.

Weds., May 10

Work on homework for Thursday.

Thurs., May 11

1. Read p. 884 – 894

2. Do worksheets for Chapter 30, Sections 1 - 2

Fri., May 12

1. Read 895 – 913

2. Do worksheets for Chapter 30, Sections 3 - 5

Mon., May 15

1. Read p. 920 – 937

2. Do worksheets for Chapter 31, Sections 1 through 3

3. Read the excerpt from Betty Friedan and Phyllis Schlafly and be prepared to discuss both views of feminism. 

Tues., May 16

1. Read p. 946 – 957

2. Do worksheets for Chapter 32, Sections 1 and 2

Weds., May 17

1. Read p. 960 – 967

2. Do worksheet for Chapter 32, Section 3

Thurs., May 18

Make a chart for the 1960s and 1970s.

Mon., May 22

Test on the Sixties and Seventies

Tues., May 23

Presentations on Research Papers

Weds., May 24

Finish presentations on Research Papers

Identifications – The Sixties

 

1.

Election of 1960

43.

Freedom riders

85.

Pentagon Papers

2.

Election debates

44.

James Meredith

86.

War Powers Act

3.

Flexible Response

45.

Birmingham

87.

Henry Kissinger

4.

Fidel Castro

46.

Bull Connor

88.

Khmer Rouge

5.

Bay of Pigs

47.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

89.

Attica

6.

Cuban Missile Crisis

48.

March on Washington

90.

Cesar Chavez

7.

Nikita Khrushchev

49.

Freedom Summer

91.

United Farm Workers Movement

8.

Berlin crisis

50.

Selma

92.

La Raza

9.

Hot line

51.

De facto and De jure segregation

93.

American Indian Movement

10.

Limited Test Ban Treaty

52.

“Long Hot Summers”

94.

Wounded Knee

11.

New Frontier

53.

Malcolm X

95.

Feminism

12.

Kennedy’s economic plans

54.

Black Muslims

96.

Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique

13.

Alliance for Progress

55.

Stokely Carmichael “Black Power”

97.

Equal Rights Amendment

14.

Space Program

56.

Black Panthers

98.

Phyllis Schlafly

15.

The Other America by Michael Harrington

57.

Assassination of MLK

99.

Counterculture

16.

Kennedy assassination

58.

Kerner Commission

100.

Woodstock

17.

Warren Commision

59.

Civil Rights Act of 1968

101.

New Federalism

18.

Lyndon B. Johnson

60.

Ho Cchi Minh

102.

Revenue Sharing

19.

War on Poverty

61.

Vietminh

103.

Impoundment

20.

Economic Opportunity Act

62.

Dien Bien Phu

104.

Spiro Agnew

21.

1964 Election

63.

Domino Theory

105.

Southern strategy

22.

Barry Goldwater

64.

Ngo Dinh Diem

106.

Warren Burger

23.

Great Society

65.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

107.

Stagflation

24.

Medicare and Medicare

66.

Agent Orange

108.

Yom Kippur War

25.

Immigration Act of 1965

67.

Napalm

109.

OPEC

26.

Silent Spring Rachel Carson

68.

Credibility Gap

110.

Henry Kissinger

27.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

69.

Draft

111.

Détente

28.

24th Amendment

70.

New Left

112.

China trip

29.

Voting Rights Act (1965)

71.

Students for a Democratic Society

113.

SALT II

30.

Warren Court

72.

Port Huron Statement

114.

Watergate

31.

Baker v. Carr

73.

Free Speech Movement

115.

Imperial Presidency

32.

Gideon v. Wainwright

74.

Tet offensive

116.

Judge John Sirica

33.

Miranda v. Arizona

75.

Election of 1968

117.

Senator Sam Ervin

34.

NAACP legal strategy

76.

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

118.

Saturday Night Massacre

35.

Brown v. Board of Education

77.

Democratic Convention in Chicago

119.

Gerald Ford

36.

Little Rock Central High School

78.

Richard Nixon

120.

Mayaguez incident

37.

Rosa Parks

79.

George Wallace

121.

Jimmy Carter

38.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

80.

Silent Majority

122.

Panama Canal

39.

Martin Luther King

81.

Vietnamization

123.

Camp David

40.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

82.

My Lai Massacre

124.

Ayatollah Khomeini

41.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

83.

Invasion of Cambodia

125.

Iranian hostage crisis

42.

Greensboro sit-ins

84.

Kent State

 

 

 

Questions and Themes for Unit Fifteen: The Sixties and Seventies

 

o       The goals and accomplishments of JFK’s presidency

o       The Cold War in this period

o       How we got involved in Vietnam and the escalation of our involvement

o       LBJ’s domestic goals and accomplishments

o       Civil Rights accomplishments and failures in the 1960s

o       How the Civil Rights movement transformed itself into the black power movement

o       The impact of the New Left and the counterculture on American life

o       The nature of the Vietnam War and its impact on American life

o       What were the achievements and failures of Nixon’s presidency?

o       How did Nixon’s presidency change the country?

o       How successful were Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in dealing with the challenges of their presidencies?