Unit 6 Homework Assignment Sheet
Due Tuesday, April 14
1. Read and outline pages 807-811 and 817-819
a. Be sure in your notes to Answer the following questions. Your notes should not be limited to the
following questions.
i. List the The goals and accomplishments of JFK’s presidency
ii. Describe The Cold War under Kennedy
iii. Describe Our relations with Cuba
iv. Describe LBJs domestic goals and accomplishments
b. Also in your notes: Make a list of the Great Society programs. Make sure you know what each one did.
How can we assess Johnson’s domestic program.
2. Answer Chapter 29 Recall and Reflect question #1
Due Wednesday, April 15
1. Read and outline pages 819-827
a. In your notes be sure to answer the following questions. Your notes should not be limited to the
following questions.
i. How did we get involved in Vietnam
ii. How did our involvement escalate
iii. What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
iv. Describe the nature of the Vietnam conflict and its impact on American life
2. Read and answer the questions in Debating the Past pages 820-821
Due Thursday, April 16
Vocabulary Quiz Today
1. Read and outline pages 827-831 and 850-853
a. In your notes, be sure to answer the following questions. Your notes should not be limited to the
following questions
i. How did the conduct of the Vietnam War affect American domestic affairs and how did
American domestic affairs affect the conduct of the war?
ii. What was the impact of the Tet offensive on American morale and politics
iii. What policies were adopted by the Nixon administration to extricate the U.S. from the Vietnam
War?
b. Be able to compare the domestic opposition of the Korean War to that of Vietnam
2. Answer Chapter 29 Recall and Reflect #s 3,4 and 5
Due Friday, April 17
1. Read and outline pages 796-798 and 811-817
a. In your notes, be sure to answer the following questions. Your notes should not be limited to the
following questions
i. Describe the Civil Rights accomplishments and failures in the 1960s
ii. How the Civil Rights movement transformed itself into the black power movement
iii. The impact of the New Left and the counterculture on American life
iv. The emergence of the feminist movement; its successes and failures
v. Briefly take notes on the following: SNCC, freedom rides, Birmingham protests and Bull
Connor, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Medgar Evers, March on Washington, Civil Rights
Act of 1964, Freedom Summer, Selma, Voting Rights Act of 1965.
vi. How did the civil rights movement change in this period? Why did racial and civil unrest
turn violent? Make sure you include Malcolm X, Black Muslims, Stokely Carmichael, Black
Panthers,
2. Complete Chapter 29 Recall and Reflect #2
Nothing due on Monday, April 20
Due Tuesday, April 21
1. Read and outline pages 835-850
a. In your notes, be sure to answer these questions. Do not limit your notes to this information
i. The impact of the New Left and the counterculture on American life
ii. The emergence of the feminist movement; its successes and failures
iii. How did the civil rights movement inspire other groups such as Puerto Ricans,
Mexican Americans, and American Indians?
iv. How were issues for feminists changing in the early 1960s and what was the
political response?
v. What aspects of the counterculture reflected the idealism of the age? What was
the reality?
vi. Make a bullet-point list of developments in the women’s movement after 1968.
vii. Summarize the information on the birth of the gay rights movement
2. Complete Chapter 30 Recall and Reflect questions 1,2 and 3
Due by 11:59 pm Wednesday, April 22
Learn Smart Chapters 7-12, 29 and 30
Your Unit Test will be on Thursday, April 23