Final Review Unit 4-6
Unit 4 EQ:In a postwar, affluent America, conflicts regarding old and new ideas about society, politics, and economic equality erupted throughout the country. Between 1945 and 1969, how did clashes of ideology impact the federal government’s foreign and domestic goals, and the people’s pursuit of the “American Dream”?
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Evidence:
Policy of Containment
Kitchen Debate
Domino Theory
Vietnam War
Berlin Wall
Communism vs Democracy / Free market
4.2 How were Cold War tensions intensified by McCarthyism and the fear of communism?
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Evidence:
Implicit and explicit fears
4.3 What was the “American Dream” in the 1950s and how did different groups experience this quality of life?
Context:
Policy of containment
Red Scare
McCarthyism
Post WW2 society
Evidence:
Kitchen Debate - consumer choice / capitalism vs communism, Nixon
Commercials and consumer culture
Redlining (Black neighborhoods not getting help from Home Owners Loan Corporation, segregation, racism / inequality)
4.4 How did the Vietnam War increase political and social tensions in the U.S.?
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Evidence:
Protests against war and draft
Media expose / Pentagon papers
US citizens losing trust in gov
4.5 What were the Johnson Administration’s goals of the Great Society programs and policies, and how do they compare to the Roosevelt Administration’s goals of the New Deal programs and policies?
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Evidence:
New Deal - focused more on economic reform, relief and recovery to fix the depression and help prevent another depression.
ex: Work Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, Tennessee Valley Act, Homeowners Loan Corporation
Great Society - reforms to better American Society,
ex: Housing and Urban Development Act, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Higher Education Act, Medicare Medicaid, Social Security, Civil Rights act, Economic Opportunity Act
4.6 Nearly 400,000 people attended the first Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969. How did the event represent a counterculture movement, and in what ways did it clash with more conventional ideas of the time period?
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Evidence:
Protested through song
Protested Vietnam war, black rights, land equality
Challenging tradition / societal norms
Hippies
Unit 5 EQ: The modern civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1950s and took decades of effort to transform the United States. Who were the participants and what were their goals? What was achieved and what work remains to be done in the effort to create a just and equitable society?
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Evidence:
Freedom Riders
MLK
Caesar Chavez / Dolores Huerta / Farm Workers
Mexican Americans
Black Panther Party
Students
5.1
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Evidence:
5.2Why did protest become more prevalent in the 1960s?
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Evidence:
Gained awareness
Spread Awareness
Easy to participate in
Media
Severitiy of the situation and how hypocritical it is
5.3Which strategy—litigation, executive action, legislation, or activism—is most effective for changing oppressive structures and norms, and why?
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Evidence:
Litigation - Court cases, brown v board of education
executive - executive orders, President Eisenhower Little Rock 9
legislation - civil rights acts, amendments
activism - bus boycott, sit ins, march on Washington, labor unions, freedom rides
5.4 How do the stories of unsung heroes deepen our understanding of the civil rights movement's complexity?
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Evidence:
Malcom Xs mom Louise Little - legacy / heritage of rebellion, tagugt feminism from young age, family escaped slavery, claimed her blackness even tho she was born looking white
Malcom X - founded OAAU which had the 3 main ideas of Establishment, Self Defense, and Education
MLKs mom Alberta KIng - faithful to god, born into era peak racial injustice, Georgia was famous for leading civil rights movements and where black people had lots of power, she was educated, black churches important to movement
James Baldwins mom Emma Berdis - expressed her pain thru writing and poetry instead of letting it define her, Black Jacks symbols of liberty and opportunity
Family values
Heritage
Environment they were grown in
5.5What defining characteristics of "Chicano identity" were expressed by leaders and artists of the Chicano Movement?
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Evidence:
Unity
Culture
Murals
Creation of new identity
Grape Strike
School Walkouts
Unit 6 EQ:
In the United States, political power shifts back and forth between the two major parties, creating a “political pendulum.” From the 1970s into the early 2000s, five out of eight presidents were Republicans. The political conservatism of the 1980s and ’90s was matched by the social conservatism of the period. How did conservative groups influence American politics and society in the later decades of the 20th century?
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Evidence:
The New Right - Evangelical Christians, Middle Class that hated gov growth, opposed abortions, sex ed, feminism (general definition)
Heritage Foundation - conservative “think tank”, supported and encouraged conservative stuff that got Regan in office, glorified traditional ideas that were threated by expansion of gov / personal freedoms
Moral Majority - evangelical Christians that participated more in politics and society, saw abortions, drugs, homosexuality, pre marital sex as threats to society and cause of decline in family values
6.2To what extent did President Richard Nixon positively impact foreign diplomacy, domestic issues, and the executive branch?
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Evidence:
Title 9 - helped desegregate schools, women had more educational opprutinity and sports
26th Amendment - lowered voting age to 18
Environmental Reforms
Ended US involvement in Vietnam War
Arms Treaties - SALT, ABM treaty
improved cold war tensions
Improved relations with China
6.3To what extent would the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment have impacted Americans in the 1970s, and what were the key opposing viewpoints?
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Evidence:
Women would get drafted
Men fearing change
Legal Complications
6.4 To what degree were President Ronald Reagan’s policies effective in achieving his economic objectives?
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Evidence:
Not very effective
Trickle Down economics - lower taxes for top, less bussiness regulation
increased fedral spending
rich richer, poor poorer
6.5 To what degree should the balance between ensuring national security and protecting civil liberties shift in the aftermath of a terrorist attack?
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Evidence:
9/11
US Patriot Act
Civil Liberites - freedom of religion, press, pettition, assembly; privacy; due process of law
Expansion of gov power vs protection of individual rights