MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA
Unit 10 Week 3, May 19-23
Monday, May 19th
• HOT ROC
• Domestic Policy at the turn of the century
• Venn Diagram
• Check in on projects
• Reminders:
• Friday 5/23 vocab card quiz, collect completed
glossaries
• Tuesday 5/27 Last day for late work
New Vocab
• Globalization and
computer revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-K19rVDxoM
#10 Contemporary Presidents Venn Diagram
(p.758-767)
Find and explain top 3
domestic events/
policies during their
term.
George
H.W. Bush
Bill
Clinton
George
W. Bush
Work time
• Work on projects
• Work on test corrections
Agenda, Tuesday, 5/20
• Quick review
• HOT ROC: US foreign policies debate
• Chart: How well have U.S. foreign policy decisions met
the challenges of the global age?
• HW: Finish chart from class
Reminders:
• Friday 5/23 vocab card quiz, collect completed glossaries
• Tuesday 5/27 Last day for late work
• Test corrections today and tomorrow
Quick Review:
can you match each president with his goal?
Goal
1. landing a man on the
2.
3.
4.
5.
moon
deregulating
businesses
freeing the slaves
ending the Great
Depression
preserving the
environment by
establishing national
parks
President
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
B. John F. Kennedy
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Ronald Reagan
E. Theodore Roosevelt
answer
• 1-b
• 2-d
• 3-c
• 4-a
• 5-e
Quick review: can you match each
president with the domestic event?
Domestic policy
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Attempted universal health
care
Savings and Loans Crisis
(president ends up breaking
no tax pledge)
Supreme court decides
presidential election
Dot-com boom (first budget
surplus)
Rodney King (police
brutality) riots
President
A. George H.W. Bush (Sr.)
B. Bill Clinton
C. George W. Bush (Jr.)
answers
• 1-b
• 2-a
• 3-c
• 4-b
• 5-a
End of Cold War
The end of the Cold War created an opportunity
for the United States to chart a new course in
foreign affairs.
• Option 1: Peace out. The United States has
HOT ROC
fixed world problems long enough. It should
severely cut back its foreign commitments and use
the savings to make positive changes at home. The
rest of the world can take care of itself.
Read the four options
and select which is the • Option 2: World’s mightiest hero. The United
States is now the wealthiest, most powerful nation
best course for the US on earth. It should use its power and wealth to make
to take in their foreign
positive changes in the world—to stop wars,
eliminate disease, and defeat corrupt or harsh
affairs (Post-Cold
governments. If the United States does not promote
War). Explain why.
its ideals and stop evil, who will?
• Option 3: League of heroes. The United States
should take this opportunity to strengthen
international organizations like the United Nations.
International cooperation is the key to solving global
issues.
• Option 4: Greed is good. The United States
should selectively use its power only when it wants
to promote its own economic and security interests.
It should be a global player but should only look out
Debate 1: How should the United States
deal with ethnic cleansing and genocide?
1.
Let someone else deal with it.
Ethnic cleansing or genocide
happening outside the United
States is not an American
problem.
3.
Work with the UN to place
pressure on the perpetrators.
Send troops when necessary,
but only under UN leadership
or approval.
2.
Authorize military action when
genocide or ethnic cleansing
are identified. It should never
happen; the United States is
powerful enough to stop it.
4.
Only get involved in trying to
stop ethnic cleansing or
genocide if it has a negative
affect on the U.S. economy or
security.
Debate 2: How should the United States deal with
human suffering caused by great catastrophes such as
floods, famines, earthquakes, or disease?
1.
2.
Let nations closer to the
problem deal with it. The
United States cannot
solve the whole world’s
problems.
Only supply help to
nations or people who
are allied with the
United States.
3.
Work with the UN to fix
these problems. That will
encourage international
solutions to international
problems.
4.
Work on our own and with
others to eliminate all
human suffering. People
living in a wealthy country
like the United States
should do at least this
Debate 3: How should the United States deal
with terrorism?
1.
Invest heavily in the Department
of Homeland Security, increase
protection of our borders and find
terrorist cells operating in the
United States.
2.
Do more to reduce the root
causes of terrorism. The United
States should invest in
humanitarian relief in poorer
nations and work to promote
freedom.
3.
Join an international effort
coordinated and led by the UN.
The United States should be a
big player on an international
team but should not try to
shoulder most of the
responsibility itself.
4.
Invest in building up the
American military and
intelligence operations. Find
terrorists in their own countries
and defeat them there.
Section
U.S. Actions,
Motives
Results Grade and Reason
for Grade
Confronting
Dictators
(59.3)
•
B- Persian Gulf War removed Hussein from Kuwait (because
of the western need for oil), but not from power. 100,000
civilians dead & environmental damage. End of “Vietnam
Syndrome” Era
Responding
to Ethnic
Conflicts &
Genocide
(59.4)
• Ending Ethnic cleansing
in Yugoslavia
Supplying
Humanitaria
n Aid
(59.5)
• Countering Famine in
North Korea
Fighting
Terrorism
(59.7)
•
Halting Iraqi Aggression
• Failing to Halt Genocide
in Africa
• Dealing with AIDS in
Africa
Terrorists Strike the United
States
• Ending Taliban Rule in
Afghanistan
•
Toppling the Iraqi Regime
Block Day Agenda, 5/21-22
1. HOT ROC
A. Take out your chart from yesterday and share/compare your
grades with your partner’s.
B. Which was the best action? Worst?
2. Ch. 60 and 9/11
Reminder:
• Friday 5/23 vocab card quiz, collect completed
glossaries
• Tuesday 5/27 Last day for late work
• Test corrections today
What do you remember about 9/11?
• Do you remember when you first learned of
the attacks?
• Tell a story that you have heard about the events of
9/11. You may have heard the story from a family
member, a friend, the news, or a documentary.
• Do you, or does anyone you know, think the country
has changed because of the events of 9/11? How?
September 11, 2001
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSpvU0W1vBc
• Essential question:
• Did the 9/11 attacks change the way the US preserves
(keeps) its founding ideals (equality, opportunity, liberty,
rights, and democracy)?
Inquiry activity
• Read 6 documents in your group
• One document at a time
• Discuss 3 questions + essential question (has US preserved its
ideals? <- discussion only; no need to write down)
• Each person write down answers
Once completed, write a paragraphs on how founding
ideals (use 3 from equality, opportunity, liberty, rights,
democracy)–were influenced and how (evidence, at
least 2).
Agenda, Friday, 5/23
1. Collect glossaries
2. Collecting projects
3. Last vocab card quiz
4. Handout checklists
5. End of Cold War (Century)
HW: Checklist for Unit 10 due on Tuesday, 5/27