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C30 Crisis of Authority

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Chapter 30 - The 1970s - Crisis of Authority

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:

D. Beginning of Détente

E. The antiwar movement and the counterculture

A. The election of 1968 and the “Silent Majority”

B. Nixon’s challenges: Vietnam, China, and Watergate

C. Changes in the American economy: the energy crisis, de-industrialization, and the service economy

 

Reading Assignments:

Friday -3/24 RA Brinkley pp. 807-813 and 813-818

  • Chapter 29 Reading Quiz & Homework Due

Monday -3/27 RA Brinkley pp. 818-821 and 821-823

  • Vietnam

Tuesday -3/28 RA Brinkley pp. 818-821 and 821-823

  • EPA

Wednesday -3/29 RA Brinkley pp. 824-826 and 827-828

  • The New Left

Thursday -3/30 RA Brinkley pp. 828-832 and 832-836

  • Nixon and Watergate

Friday -3/31

  • Chapter 30 Reading Quiz & Homework Due

 

Saturday- 4/01 Enrichment is Due  

 

AP Review for 1st Tri Final.pdf

AP Review for 2nd Tri Final.pdf

AP Review for 3rd Tri Final.pdf 

 

C30 Crisis of Authority Class Notes.pdf

 

Actual Audio from the White House- the "Watergate Tapes"

http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Audio_-_Watergate

The Washington Post Investigates.pdf

A Chronology of the Watergate Crisis.pdf 

 

 

Homework Assignments: 

Part 1 - Terms: All terms should be used in context, underlined, and identified in your textbook notes.

  1. Liberation
  2. "New Left"
  3. SDS
  4. Counterculture
  5. American Indian Movement [A.I.M.]
  6. Latino Activism
  7. Stonewall Riot
  8. NOW
  9. Failure of ERA
  10. Roe v. Wade
  11. Silent Spring
  12. EPA
  13. Henry Kissinger
  14. Vietnamization
  15. Kent State Massacre
  16. Paris Accords (1973)
  17. Fall of Saigon
  18. SALT I
  19. Nixon Doctrine
  20. 1973 Arab oil embargo
  21. Bakke v. Board of Regents, Univ. of CA (1978)
  22. George McGovern
  23. Stagflation
  24. Watergate informants
  25. US v. Richard Nixon (1974) 

 

Part 2 - Questions: All questions should be answered in full, typically 2+ sentences.

  1. Pages 810-811 Questions #1-#3
  2. Pages 824-825 Questions #1-#3
  3. What forces led to the Rise of the "New Left" and campus radicalism?  How did the Civil Rights Movement help give rise to the movement?
  4. How did Hispanics, blacks, Indians, and other ethnic groups challenge the "melting pot" ethic?
  5. What did the Pentagon Papers reveal about the true nature of the Vietnam War?
  6. What advantages did Nixon have going into the 1972 election?  What were George McGovern's liabilities?
  7. What role did President Nixon's key advisors play in the Watergate scandal?  What steps did the Nixon White House make to cover-up its involvement in the Watergate break-in?

 

Part 3- ****Essay Outline****

Outline the following essay prompts.  Write a full introductory paragraph with strong thesis statement, and then outline the body paragraphs.  Be sure to use at least three supporting ideas/details to support your argument in each body paragraph.

 

Analyze the extent to which TWO of the following transformed American society in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

  • The Civil Rights movement
  • The antiwar movement
  • The women’s movement

 

 

 

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