APUSH Reading Schedule & Essential Questions – to the end of the textbook!
Chapter 31
Date
April 11
Pages
831-836
April 12
April 13
836-841
841-849
April 14
849-857
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Topics
JFK and LBJ domestic
policies
Civil Rights Movement
JFK and LBJ’s foreign
policy
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War cont.
The Crisis of 1968
The Conservative Response
and Election of Nixon
To what extent did the Presidents of the 20th century adopt the domestic programs of
their immediate presidential predecessor? (Wilson, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Nixon)
The 1960’s represented a period of profound cultural change. Discuss with respect to two
of the following: Education, Gender Roles, Music, Race relations
Discuss the Civil Rights Movement under the various Presidents’ administrations
(Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, and LBJ)
Chapter 32
April 15
859-865
The New Left and the
Counterculture
(compare/contrast them)
April 16
865-871
Indian Civil Rts. Movement
Cesar Chavez and Latino
Activism
Gay Liberation
April 17
871-878
Rebirth of the Women’s
Rights Movement - NOW
The Feminine Mystique
The ERA
Roe v. Wade
Birth of Environmentalism
April 18
879-883
Foreign Policy under
Richard Nixon
(Achievements & Failures)
April 19
884-891
Domestic Policy &
Economics under Nixon
The Watergate Scandal
 Evaluate the role of each president in Vietnam in terms of their objectives, policies,
strategies, and outcomes.
 Assess the success of the US’s policy of containment in Asia between 1945 and 1975.
Chapter 33
April 20
894-900
April 21
901-905
President Ford – foreign
and domestic polices
(Achievements and
Failures)
President Carter – foreign
and domestic policies
(Achievements &
Failures)
The Rise of the New Right
Ronald Reagan’s Domestic
Policies
April 22
906-910
Reagan’s Fiscal Crisis
Reagan’s Foreign Policy
(Achievements & Failures)
April 23
910-915
Reagan’s Foreign Policy
George H.W. Bush’s
Presidency
Election of 1992 – Clinton
 Why was Jimmy Carter considered one of the “leat popular presidents of the century?”
 What are the various factors, economic, social, and political that led to the so-called
“Reagan Revolution?”
Chapter 34
April 24
920-924
April 25
April 26
924-929
929-932
Clinton’s 1st & 2nd Terms –
(Successes and Failures)
Contract With America
George W. Bush Presidency
Culture Wars
Perils of Globalization
Rise of Terrorism