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America was at war with itself over many issues. The war in Vietnam had split American public opinion and the protests were becoming increasingly violent. The Civil Right movement also continued on with increasing violence and significant legislation is passed. American's optimism and trust in government is shattered by the Watergate scandal and the seemingly never-ending Vietnam war. America and the Soviet Union ease tensions during the seventies but Reagan rides a roller-coaster of diplomatic relations during the eighties. The escalated arms race of the eighties is just one of the factors that will lead to the collapse of international communism.
The specific focus of this unit will be on:
A. From the New Frontier to the Great Society
B. Expanding movements for civil rights
C. Cold War confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe
D. Beginning of Détente
E. The antiwar movement and the counterculture
F. The election of 1968 and the “Silent Majority”
G. Nixon’s challenges: Vietnam, China, and Watergate
H. Changes in the American economy: the energy crisis, de-industrialization, and the service economy
Reading Assignments:
Unfinished Nation Chapters 29 Pgs. 698-700, [up to but not including Johnson and the World] 708-710, 717
Part 1 - Ideas/themes to know and include in your notes:
Chapter 29
1. “Great Society”
2. Medicare / Medicaid (1965)
3. Community Action Program
4. Immigration & Nationality Act (1965)
5. Bay of Pigs Invasion
6. Cuban Missile Crisis
7. King and RFK Assassinations
Chapter 30
8. New Feminism
9. NOW
10. Failure of ERA
11. Roe v. Wade
12. Watergate informants
13. US v. Richard Nixon (1974)
Part 2 - Vocabulary: These words are from the chapter, class readings, or discussion and will be used in context or need to be defined on the weekly chapter quiz.https://www.merriam-webster.com
alleviate
backlash
beleaguer
bureaucratic
concerted
coup
deferment
expenditure
gubernatorial
hawkish
iconoclast
litany
metropolitan
ouster
outpace
Definitions: Fill in the correct word that matches the definition listed.
1.___________________(adj.) mutually contrived or agreed on; performed in unison
2.___________________(v.) to trouble or harass
3.___________________(adj.) having the characteristics of a large organization or government agency
4.___________________(n.) a brilliant, sudden, and usually highly successful stroke or act; overthrow of a gov’t
5.___________________(n.) a strong adverse reaction (as to a recent political or social development)
6.___________________(n.) one who lives in a city or displays urban manners or customs
7.___________________(v.) to make (something, such as pain or suffering) more bearable
8.___________________(n.) the act of delaying or postponing; official postponement of military duty
9.___________________(v.) to surpass in speed or ability
10.__________________(adj.) having a militant attitude; supporting war or warlike policies
11.__________________(n.) costs or expenses
12.__________________(n.) a repetitive chant or list of ideas
13.__________________(n.) a person who attacks established beliefs or institutions
14._________________(adj.) relating to a governor_
15.__________________(n.) a judgment removing an officer or expelling someone officially
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