US HISTORY
Unit 9 Week 1
Monday 3/25
• Essays
• Shout-outs
Tuesday 3/26
• Agenda
• HOT ROC
• Introduce Unit 9: Vietnam War and the 1960s
• What do you already know about John F. Kennedy?
• Was he a good president? T-chart
• Homework:
• Cornell Notes on p.634-635
• Finish the t-chart and thesis statements on Kennedy
Place the following Presidents in
chronological order:
• Franklin D.
• Lyndon B. Johnson
Roosevelt
• Taft
• Eisenhower
• Truman
• Hoover
• Nixon
• Kennedy
• Coolidge
• Harding
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
Presidents in chronological order:
1. Teddy Roosevelt
8. Truman
2. Taft
9. Eisenhower
3. Woodrow Wilson
10. Kennedy
4. Harding
11. Lyndon B. Johnson
5. Coolidge
12. Nixon
6. Hoover
7. Franklin D.
Roosevelt
What do you already know about JFK?
• Share info with people
around you. Groups of
2~4
Presidential Rankings: Best to Worst
• Abraham Lincoln
• FDR
• George Wash.
• T. Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• Woodrow Wilson
• T. Jefferson
• Eisenhower
• LBJ
• Ronald Reagan
90.0
87.6
84.2
81.0
75.3
72.3
71.1
69.9
65.5
63.4
• James Madison
• John Quincy Adams
• Warren G. Harding
• Franklin Pierce
• Andrew Johnson
• James Buchanan
56.7
56.4
32.6
28.6
28.0
25.9
• C-SPAN historian ratings
• …
• *Does not include George W Bush
• …
or Barack Obama
• *We will decide where to place JFK
• …
Characteristics of great presidents
• Administrative skills
• Credibility
• Management of:
• Crisis
• Economy
• Foreign affairs
• Public persuasion
• Pursuit of equality/justice
• Relation with congress
• Vision
T-chart #1: Was Kennedy a Successful President?
Successes
Failures
Kennedy was a great
president because______
Kennedy was not a great
president because_____
Domestic policy
(pg. 626-629): 3-5
examples with
explanations for each
Foreign policy
(pg. 630-633):
3-5 examples with
explanations for each
Thesis statement
T-chart #1 Kennedy: Differing Viewpoints
Historian
Ronald Steel (pg.636)
William O’Neill (pg. 636637)
Robert Dallek (pg.637)
Claim: according to
this historian, was JFK
a great president?
Evidence: Provide one
quotation from the
historian to support
the claim
Block Day 3/27 & 3/28
• Add vocabs to glossary
• President Johnson and the Great Society
• Primary source activity (speech)
• Reactions (pros/cons) to his Great Society
• Graphic organizer (liberal gov)
• Homework: Read and notes on p.646-647
Vocabs to add to glossary
*share your paraphrase/own definition with partner
• Conservative
• Liberal
• Environmentalism
• Welfare state
Liberal vs. Conservative
• Liberals
• Conservatives
• believe in government action to • believe in personal responsibility,
achieve equal opportunity and
equality for all.
• Government’s duty is to
alleviate social ills and to protect
civil liberties/rights.
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• Role of the government should be
to guarantee that no one is in
need.
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• Liberal policies generally
emphasize the need for the
government to solve problems.
limited government, free
markets, individual liberty,
traditional American values and a
strong national defense.
Role of government should be to
provide people the freedom to
pursue their own goals.
Conservative policies generally
emphasize empowerment of the
individual to solve problems.
War on Poverty Ad by LBJ's presidential campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1aA8lLA5Mg
Johnson’s Great Society
1. Read Johnson’s speech and answer the
questions (#3) *individual work
2. Analyze pro and con opinions (back of #3) *may
work in pairs
3. Complete graphic organizer (#4) using textbook
p.642-645. *may work in groups of 3~4
Very short list of author tones
• Arrogant
• Apologetic=sorry
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• Apathetic= doesn’t care
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• Critical= finding fault
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• Direct=straightforward,
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honest
Disdainful= scorning,
hateful
Enthusiastic=energetic
Happy
Inspiring= encouraging,
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reassuring
Objective=without prejudice
Optimistic-cheerful, hopeful
Sarcastic= sneering
Sincere/earnest= honest,
truthful, intense
Urgent= something has to
be done soon
Pro/Con activity
1. Define source before reading the whole document
2. Summarize main argument (thesis)
3. Evidence**
A. Do the topics prove the authors’ thesis?
E.g., students were given educational aid.
-> what does that have to do with success of Great Society?
e.g., after the Great Society money, teenage pregnancy increased
-> how is that related to Great Society money?
B. Do the authors have numbers to back it up?
#4 Graphic Organizer : What is the proper role of government
in shaping American Society? (Chapter 49.3)
1. Answer what role gov plays.
What did it try to accomplish?
Approach to
Healthcare:
____________
_____________
____________
Approach to
Consumers:
____________
_____________
____________
Approach to
The
Environment:
____________
_____________
____________
2. List important actions by gov
Approach to
Racism:
____________
_____________
____________
Johnson’s Liberal
View of
Government:
____________
_____________
____________
Approach to
Education:
____________
_____________
____________
Approach to
Immigrants:
____________
_____________
____________
Video links (if time)
CBS news
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/is-america-losing-the-waron-poverty/
200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes by Hans Rosling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
Friday, 3/29
• Mini vocab quiz
• Vietnam Timeline
• Why did the US get involved?
• HW: Finish the timeline
Vietnam Timeline
Individually, make a timeline with explanations of events
below. Use p.658-661
You must include:
• French Indochina
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Ho Chi Minh/Viet Minh
(becomes president)
• Viet Cong/NLF
• Diem Assassinated
• Vietnamese
independence
• 1st Indochina War
• Dien Bien Phu (battle)
• Geneva Accords
Cause of Vietnam War
In groups of 2-3, write a paragraph each to answer
question #1 and #2.
1. What were the conflicts in
Vietnam? Include the terms
below in your answer.
2. How was the US involved in it?
Why? Include the terms below in
your answer.
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French control of Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Viet Minh
Vietnamese Independence
1st Indochina War
Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Accords
Domino Theory
Ngo Dinh Diem
Viet Cong/NLF
US military support
Diem Assassinated
Helpful videos
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0t-YBemwzs
Vietnam War Simplified
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd8wKKfN7sM
• Causes of the Vietnam War