Civil Rights

• Hispanics

  • Hernandez v. Texas (1954)

    • Chicano Movement

  • Cesar Chavez

  • Bilingual Education

    • Coral Way Elementary

    • Bilingugal Education Act

• Natives

  • American Indian Movement

    • Civil rights organization for native property rights and cultural preservation and restoration

  • Indian Self-Determination Acts (1975)

• LGBTQ

  • Gay Liberation Movement

    • Stonewall Riots

      • 1969

  • AIDS

  • Setbacks

    • Anita Bryant and Save Our Children

      • 1977

    • Bowers v. Hardwick

      • 1986

    • Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

      • 1993

    • Defense of Marriage Act

      • 1996

  • Achievements

    • Lawrence v. Texas

1990s Television

• Comedic Escapism

  • Seinfeld

  • Friends

• Dramas Pushing the Line

  • Twin Peaks

  • NYPD Blue

  • X-Files

• Animation

  • Batman: TAS

  • Beavis and Butt-head

  • South Park

• Teen Dramas

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  • Beverly Hills 90210

Contemporary Labor Developments

• Taft-Hartley Act

  • AFL-CIO

    • United Farm Workers

      • Cesar Chavez

      • Dolores Huerta

• Labor Unions Weaken

  • PATCO Strike

    • 1981

  • NAFTA

    • 1994

  • Right-to-Work States

  • Outsourcing

Election of 2000

• Al Gore

  • Democratic

• George W. Bush

  • Republican

• Ralph Nader

  • Green Party

George W. Bush

• Conservative Agenda

  • Bush Tax Cuts

  • NCLB

• 9/11

  • USA Patriot Act

• Hurricane Katrina

  • 2005

• Great Recession

  • 2007-2009

  • Troubled Assets Relief Program

• Foreign Developments

  • 9/11

  • War on Terror

  • Afghanistan

  • Iraq

• War on Terror

  • 9/11

  • Bush Doctrine

    • Afghanistan

    • Iraq

  • Homeland Security

  • USA Patriot Act

Why do people hate the United States?

• Alliance with Israel

• America’s involvement in the Middle East

  • The way the U.S. and its allies treat the Muslim World

• Stationing of troops in Saudi Arabia

  • Near Mecca and Medina

• Globalization

• Culture of Triviality and Decadence

• Sexual Shamelessness

• Culture of Individualism vs. Community

Why did the U.S. invade Afghanistan

• U.S. uses military

• U.S. ordered the Taliban in Afghanistan to:

  • Deliver Al-Qaeda leaders to the USA

  • Release all U.S. citizens in jails

  • Protect foreigners in Afghanistan

  • Close terrorist facilities

• The Taliban refused and the United States invaded

Thanks, USA

• US supplies Afghan fighters with weapons to fight Soviets

Afghanistan

• Operation Enduring Freedom with Coalition

  • Step 1

    • Drive Taliban out of the country using Northern Alliance

      • Rebels allied with U.S.

  • Step 2

    • Capture senior Al-Qaeda members

      • Especially Osama Bin-Laden

  • Step 3

    • Rebuild Afghanistan into stable democracy

How is the War in Iraq Connected?

• Goals/Justification

  • Topple Saddam Hussein

    • Bad dictator

  • Rid Iraq of weapons with mass destruction

  • Stop Iraq’s harboring and supporting of Al-Qaeda terrorists

  • Establish Iraq as a healthy democracy to bring stability to the region

Sectarian Tensions

• Sunnis

• Shias

• Kurds

Iraq War

• Operation Iraqi Freedom

  • March 2003 - December 2011

    • U.S.

    • U.K.

    • Australia

      • Easily defeated Iraqi army

      • Army and security forces disbanded

      • Sectarian tension and fighting

• 4486 U.S. soldiers killed

Election of 2004

• George W. Bush

  • Republican

• John Kerry

  • Democratic

  • Howard Dean

    • Democratic Caucus in Iowa

Election of 2008

• Democrat

  • Barack Obama

    • Primary vs. Hilary Clinton

• Republican

  • John McCain

    • Sarah Palin

Barack Obama

• Great Recession

  • 2007-2009

    • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

  • 2010

  • “Obamacare”

• Tea Party and 2010 Mid-Term Elections

• Social and Cultural Development

  • Gay rights

    • Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

    • Same-sex marriage and DOMA

• Foreign Developments

  • Arab Spring

  • Crimea

  • ISIL

Election of 2012

• Barack Obama

  • Democratic

• Mitt Romney

  • Republican

Obama and Foreign Developments

• Death of Osama Bin Laden

• Iraq

  • Ended occupation

• Afghanistan

  • Taliban resurgence

• Arab Spring

  • Egypt

  • Libya

  • Syria

• Ukraine

Contemporary Immigration

• Pushes

  • Escape communism

  • Violence

• Pulls

  • Seeking the American Dream

• Immigration Policies

  • Immigration Act of 1965

    • Eliminated 1920s quota laws

  • Immigration Reform and Control Act

    • Penalties for illegal immigration employment

    • Illegal immigrants before 1982 granted residency

Multiculturalism

• Melting Pot

  • Americanization and assimilation of diverse cultures

• Salad Bowl

  • Cultural mosaic

  • Promotion of cultural diversity

• Contemporary nativism

  • American exceptionalism

  • English Language Amendment

Environmental Movement

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Earth Day

  • April 22

• Fossil Fuels

  • Oil

  • Natural gas

  • Cal

• Alternative Fuel Sources

  • Nuclear

    • Three Mile Island

    • Chernobyl

    • Fukushima

  • Solar

  • Electric Hybrids

• Global Warming/Climate Change

  • Human impact on CO2 levels

Health

• Medical Breakthroughs

  • Polio Vaccine and Jonas Salk

    • 1955

  • CAT Scan

    • 1971

  • MRI

    • 1971

  • Stem Cell Therapy

    • 1998

• Epidemics

  • HIV

  • AIDS

  • Cancer

  • Obesity

American Family and Lifestyle

• Graying of America

  • ⅛ of Americans are 65 or older

  • Life expectancy is 78 years old

  • Baby boomers retiring and impact of Social Security

• American Family

  • Nearly 50% divorce rates

  • Single parenthood

  • Different forms of family

• Education

  • ¼ of 23-34 year olds are a 4-year college graduate

  • Internet

Technology and the Future

• Automation

• Internet

  • World Wide Web

• Genetics

  • DNA Structure

    • 1953

  • Human Genome Project