Homework Sheet Unit 16:
Political Changes in America During the Cold War – 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s
Date
Class Activities
Homework Due In Class Today
Mon
 Kennedy
 Chapter 41 Part 1: 936-946
4/08
 Split Doc 3
 Documents 1,4 and 7
Tues
 Johnson and the 60’s
4/09
 Presentations of Doc 3
Block
4/10
Mon
4/15
Tues
 Nixon, Ford, and the End of Vietnam
 Chapter 41 Part 2: 947-962
 Documents 2,3, and 5
 My part of Doc 3 is:_______
 Chapter 42 Part 1: 964-980
 Chapter 42 Part 2 and Chapter 43 Part 1:
 Carter + the Conservative Revolution
980-996
 Documents 6 and 9
 Reagan, Bush I, and the End of the Cold War  Chapter 43 Part 2: 996-1009
 Document 8
4/16
Block
 Go over old tests
 Work on your review!!!
4/17
 DBQ Practice
 Bring DBQ supplies
Friday
4/19
 Unit 15 + 16 Test
 Receive Unit 17 HW
 Unit 15 + 16 Review
Sources Used this Unit:
 Pageant (Your Textbook): Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American
Pageant: A History of the Republic. Boston: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin. 11th Edition.
Unit 16: Political Changes in America During the Cold War – 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s
Content Covered
Politics and Foreign Policy of the “Stormy Sixties”:
The New Frontier; Berlin Wall; flexible response; Vietnam; Bay of Pigs; Cuban Missile Crisis;
Kennedy assassinated; Johnson; War on Poverty; Great Society; Election of 1964; DOT, HUD,
and NEA; Medicare and Medicaid; Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965; Dominican
Republic; Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam; escalation in Vietnam; Trouble in the Middle
East – 6 Day War; Anti-War Demonstrations; Tet Offensive; Summer of 1968; Election of 1968
and Nixon; Effects of LBJ; Vietnamization; Cambodia
Politics and Foreign Policy in the “Stalemated Seventies”:
Détente with China and Moscow; Changes on the Court; Philadelphia Plan; EPA and OSHA;
Nixon in 1972; “Peace” in Vietnam; Watergate; War Powers Act; Impeachment and Resignation;
Ford; Fall of Saigon; 1976 and Carter; Camp David Accord of 1978; China; SALT II; Iranian
Hostage Crisis; Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan;
Politics and Foreign Policy in the Conservative Eighties:
Conservative Revolution of 1980; Judicial Attacks on Desegregation and Affirmative Action;
Election of Reagan; Cutting Social Services and Taxes; Refueling the Cold War; Star Wars;
Nicaragua; Election of 1984 and a Woman VP for Mondale!; Libya; Iran-Contra Fiasco;
Democratic win in 1986; 1988 and Bush I; Tiananmen Square; Fall of the Soviet Union and the
Cold War
Economics:
Kennedy’s attempts to revitalize the economy; Trade Expansion Act of 1962; Stagnation in the
1970’s; Oil Embargo and Energy Crisis; Federal Deficit; Reaganomics; Supply-Side; Economic
Resurgence in the 80’s or income gap?; Economic Effects of Reagan; Black Monday;
Civil Rights:
Freedom Riders; Ole Miss; Birmingham; March on Washington; Civil Rights Act of 1964;
EEOC; affirmative action; Voting Rights Act of 1965; 24th Amendment; Selma; Change from
nonviolence to Black Power; Watts; Malcolm X; Black Panther Party; MLK shot; dejure and
defacto segregation;
Social Change:
Cultural Consequences of the Struggles of the 1960’s; Free Speech Movement; Sexual
Revolution; Roe v. Wade; Silent Spring; Yuppies;
Primary Reading
 American Pageant; Chapters 41-42 &43 through page 1009
Secondary Reading
Civil Rights:
1. Mississippi Freedom Summer: Student Workers – Section 34 AF V2
2. The Young Lords: Pablo Guzman – Section 35 AF V2
3. The Black Revolution Erupts – Documents 42-C-1,2,3,4,&5 (497-517) - split
Social and Political Change:
4. Michael Harrington Discovers Another America (1962) – Document 42-B-1 TAS V2 (490-494)
5. Students for Democratic Society Issues A Manifesto (1962) – Document 42-E-1 (531-533)
6. Editor Irving Kristol Defines Neoconservatism (1983) – Document 44-D-1 (629-632)
7. Rachel Carson: Silent Spring (1962)
Economics:
8. The Supply-Side Gospel (1984) – Document 44-A-1 TAS V2 (586-588)
Crises:
9. An American Hostage in Tehran: Barry Rosen – Section 36 AF V2
Chapter 41: The Stormy Sixties, 196-1968
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Robert S. McNamara
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Barry Goldwater
Malcolm X
II.
Define and state the historical significance of the following:
9.
flexible response
III.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
New Frontier
Viet Cong
Bay of Pigs
War on Poverty
Great Society
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Cuban missile crisis
IV.
Essay Questions:
26.
What success and failures did Kennedy’s New Frontier experienced at home and abroad?
5.
6.
7.
8.
10.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Stokely Carmichael
Eugene McCarthy
Hubert H. Humphrey
George Wallace
peaceful coexistence
nuclear test-ban treaty
Twenty-fourth amendment
Voting Rights Act
Operation Rolling Thunder
Pueblo Incident
Tet offensive
counterculture
27.
How did the civil rights movement progress from difficult beginnings to great success in
1964-1965 and then encounter increasing opposition from both black militants ad “white backlash”
after 1965?
28.
What were Johnson’s major domestic achievements, and why did they come to be
overshadowed?
29.
Why did the Vietnam War, and the domestic opposition to it, come to dominate American
politics in the late 1960s?
30.
How was the cultural upheaval of the 1960s related to the political and social changes of the
decade? Is the “youth rebellion” best seen as a response to immediate events, or as a consequence of
such longer-term forces as the population bulge and economic prosperity? What were the long-term
results of the counterculture in all its varieties?
Chapter 42: The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
Henry Kissinger
Earl Warren
Warren Burger
II.
Define and state the historical significance of the following:
6.
détente
III.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
9.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Vietnamization
Nixon doctrine
My Lai massacre
Cambodian incursion
Kent State killings
Twenty-sixth amendment
Pentagon Papers
ABM treaty
SALT
IV.
Essay Questions:
4.
5.
7.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
George McGovern
shah of Iran
executive privilege
southern strategy
Watergate scandal
CREEP
Saturday Night Massacre
War Powers Act
energy crisis
Helsinki accords
OPEC
Iranian hostage crisis
26.
What policies did Nixon pursue with Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and China, and what were the
consequences of those policies?
27.
In what ways did Nixon’s domestic policies appeal to Americans’ racial and economic fears,
and in what ways did he positively address problems like inflation, discrimination, and pollution?
28.
How did Nixon fall from the political heights of 1972 to his forced resignation in 1974?
What were the political consequences of Watergate?
29.
How did the administration of the 1970s attempt to cope with the interrelated problems of
energy, economics, and the Middle East?
30.
Why can the 1970s be characterized as a “decade of stalemate”? What caused the apparent
inability of the federal government to cope with the new problems of the time?
Chapter 43: The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1996
IV.
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Jimmy Carter
Edward Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
John Anderson
Walter Mondale
Gary Hart
Jesse Jackson
II.
Define and state the historical significance of the following:
14.
15.
“supply side” economics
affirmative action
III.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
NAFTA
Moral Majority
Chappaquiddick
Reaganomics
Solidarity
10.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
16.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Geraldine Ferraro
Sandra Day O’Connor
Mikhail Gorbachev
H. Ross Perot
Newt Gingrich
Clarence Thomas
reverse discrimination
Grenada invasion
Strategic Defense Initiative
Roe v. Wade
boll weevils
Essay Questions:
26.
What caused the rise of Reagan and the “new right” in the eighties, and how did their conservative
movement affect American politics?
27.
What were the goals of Reagan’s “supply-side” economic policies, and what were their
short-term and long-term effects?
28.
What led to the revival of the Cold War in the early 1980s and to its decline and disappearance
by 1991?
29.
What were the successes and failures of George H.W. Bush’s administration? Was Bill Clinton’s
election a positive mandate for change, or was it primarily a repudiation of the Bush record?
30.
How did the antigovernment mood of the late 1990s affect both Bill Clinton and his Republican
opponents? What were its larger consequences for U.S. society?