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Powerpoint--1970s & 1980s:



Here's the preparation document for Tuesday's Socratic Seminar:

Unit 12 Terms and Questions AMSCO Chapter 28
 * 1) Richard Nixon
 * 2) Kitchen debates
 * 3) John F. Kennedy
 * 4) Candidates’ advantages/disadvantages
 * 5) Election results
 * 6) Robert McNamara
 * 7) Robert Kennedy
 * 8) Jackie Kennedy
 * 9) New Frontier programs
 * 10) Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
 * 11) Berlin Wall creation
 * 12) Berlin Wall speech
 * 13) Cuban missile crisis (1962)
 * 14) Kennedy assassination
 * 15) Lyndon Johnson
 * 16) War on Poverty
 * 17) Election of 1964
 * 18) Great Society reforms
 * 19) Critique of Great Society
 * 20) Civil Rights Acts of 1964 & 1965
 * 21) Martin Luther King
 * 22) March on Washington
 * 23) March to Montgomery
 * 24) Malcolm X
 * 25) Black Panthers
 * 26) King’s assassination
 * 27) Warren Court decisions, trends
 * 28) Students for a Democratic Society
 * 29) counterculture
 * 30) sexual revolution
 * 31) Betty Friedan/The Feminine Mystique
 * 32) Women’s Movement goals
 * 33) Vietnam War—beginnings
 * 34) Gulf of Tonkin resolution
 * 35) Vietnam War—pros/cons, supporters, opponents
 * 36) Tet offensive
 * 37) 1968 assassinations
 * 38) Election of 1968
 * 39) George Wallace

Questions – Enduring Vision, Chapter 28, “The Liberal Era”
 * 1) Briefly explain the roles played by television in the election of 1960 and in John F. Kennedy's thousand-day presidency.
 * 2) President Kennedy remarked in 1963, "The civil-rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln." Explain the meaning of this statement.
 * 3) How and why did President Kennedy deepen U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
 * 4) Describe four major pieces of legislation or programs that made up President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and war on poverty initiatives.
 * 5) Why in his second term did President Johnson go from electoral triumph to widespread rejection by the American people?
 * 6) According to the Kerner Commission report, what caused the wave of race riots in the late sixties?
 * 7) How did President Johnson convince Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? What did LBJ mean when he compared the resolution to "grandma's nightshirt--it covered everything"?

AMSCO Terms—Chapter 29 “Limits of a Superpower”
 * 1) Nixon’s foreign policy/Sec. of State
 * 2) “Vietnamization”
 * 3) My Lai massacre
 * 4) détente
 * 5) Nixon’s visit to China
 * 6) Arms control
 * 7) Nixon’s domestic policy
 * 8) Nixon’s economic policies
 * 9) Nixon’s southern strategy
 * 10) Supreme court changes
 * 11) Election of 1972
 * 12) Watergate scandal
 * 13) CREEP
 * 14) Crimes of Nixon administration
 * 15) War Powers Act
 * 16) oil embargo
 * 17) articles of impeachment
 * 18) resignation
 * 19) Gerald Ford
 * 20) Nixon pardon
 * 21) Fall of Saigon
 * 22) Cambodia
 * 23) WIN
 * 24) Election of 1976
 * 25) Jimmy Carter
 * 26) Carter’s foreign policy events
 * 27) Carter’s domestic policy
 * 28) Mexican-Americans in the 1970s
 * 29) Native American movement
 * 30) Gay liberation movement
 * 31) Environmental movement

Enduring Vision Chapter 29, A Time of Upheaval 1968-1974 Enduring Vision Chapter 30: “Society, Politics, and World Events from Ford to Reagan, 1974-1989”
 * 1) Briefly explain the roles played by television in the election of 1960 and in John F. Kennedy's thousand-day presidency.
 * 2) President Kennedy remarked in 1963, "The civil-rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln." Explain the meaning of this statement.
 * 3) How and why did President Kennedy deepen U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
 * 4) Describe four major pieces of legislation or programs that made up President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and war on poverty initiatives.
 * 5) Why in his second term did President Johnson go from electoral triumph to widespread rejection by the American people?
 * 6) According to the Kerner Commission report, what caused the wave of race riots in the late sixties?
 * 7) How did President Johnson convince Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? What did LBJ mean when he compared the resolution to "grandma's nightshirt--it covered everything"?


 * 1) Describe the new patterns of immigration into the United States that set in after 1965.
 * 2) Which social activist movement of the 1960s continued strongly in the 1970s and 1980s? Why?
 * 3) What was the //Roe// v. //Wade// decision? Why did it prove to be politically divisive throughout the 1980s and early 1990s?
 * 4) How did prospects for Native Americans improve in the late 1960s and 1970s? What significant problems continued to plague American Indians?
 * 5) In what ways did religious faith play a more decisive cultural and political role in the 1970s and 1980s?
 * 6) What were the troubles that overwhelmed the Carter administration and prevented Carter's reelection?
 * 7) Explain the Iran-contra affair.
 * 8) Discuss briefly the record of the Reagan and Bush administrations on environmental issues.