Transcript Tumultuous 60s

Tumultuous 60s Present
Domestic
Foreign
Truman
Fair Deal
McCarthyism
Korea
Eisenho
wer
Military Industrial Complex
National Highway Act
*civil rights – B vs B
Truce in Korea
JFK
New Frontier
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
LBJ
Great Society
Medicaid/Medicare
Environmental protection
Civil Rights legislation
-Increased troops in Vietnam
-Gulf of Tonkin
Nixon
New Federalism
-Watergate
EPA (environmental protection
agency)
-fixed relationship with China
-Paris Peace Accords
-détente
-SALT I
Ford
WIN – whip inflation now
-Helsinki Accords
Carter
Environmental Policies
SALT II
Camp David Accords
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Reagan
Reaganomics
Conservatism
“New Right”
Evil Empire - Increased military spending
SDI – strategic defense initiative
INF treaty
Iran Contra Scandal
Lebanon
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• Vietnam War
– key events
– effects
– Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
– the Tet offensive
– the protests and opposition to the war
– Presidential Policies
• John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, & Richard Nixon.
Vietnam War
• When:
1955-1975
• Who:
North Vietnam (USSR) vs South Vietnam (USA)
• Why:
Vietnam divided at Geneva Accords
-North (communist) attacked South
-US fear of domino theory – wanted to contain
• Impact:
-US withdrew because of causalities and public opinion
-War Powers Act
-Vietnam united under Communist rule
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Civil Rights
– racial & gender equity (fairness)
– initial strategies
– landmark court cases & legislation
– the roles of key civil rights advocates
– other groups seeking ethnic & gender equity
– Hispanics, Native Americans…..
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US foreign policy events
• Bush - Obama
– including changes to Middle East policy
– the impact of US involvement in the Persian
Gulf
– rise of global terrorism.
Foreign Policy
George H Bush
Berlin Wall Falls
Gulf War – free Kuwait
Bill Clinton
Clinton “New Democrat”
NAFTA
Al-Qaeda attacked USS Cole and embassy in Tanzania
George W Bush
9/11
War on Terror
Axis of Evil
Operation Enduring Freedom
War in Iraq – Saddam Hussein
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US economic issues since the fall of communism
– recession
– the national debt & deficit
– Laws  organized labor & labor unions, immigration,
& increases in economic disparity.
Gulf War
• When:
1991
• Who:
United Nations vs Iraq
• Why:
Iraq (Saddam Hussein) invaded Kuwait
• Impact:
-UN regulation of Iraq
-Kuwait liberated
War on Terror
• When:
2001 - present
• Who:
US vs Afghanistan, Iraq …
• Why:
-Terrorist Attacks on US (9/11)
-Dismantle governments in support of terrorism
• Impacts:
-Bush Doctrine – preemptive strike policy
-Department of Homeland Security created
-Patriot Act
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-Key People:
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
George H Bush
Bill Clinton
George W Bush
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Saddam Hussein
Osama Bin Laden
-Documents:
-GI Bill
-Brown vs Board of Education
-Paris Peace Accords
-SALT I and II
-INF Treaty
-Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
-War Powers Act
-Patriot Act
-24 amendment (poll tax)
-26 amendment (18+ to vote)
-Roe v Wade
-Heart of Atlanta Motel vs US
Multiple Choice
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A major long-term effect of the Vietnam War has
been
A. an end to communist governments in Asia
B. a change in United States foreign policy from
containment to imperialism
C. a reluctance to commit United States troops for
extended military action abroad
D. a continued boycott of trade with Asia
C
The US experience in Vietnam was one that left lasting
changes to society’s expectations and tolerance for
war. The widespread protests against the Vietnam
conflict, fueled by video and images of the conflict on
the nightly news, left an indelible mark. As a result,
the US has been reluctant to send troops into a
ground conflict. The US military has instead
increased its capacity to make war from the air and
from a distance. Developments such as the stealth
fighter, stealth bomber and long-range cruise missiles
have taken over the roles once filled by American
fighting men on the front lines. The nearly all long
distance air wars in the Persian Gulf and Kosovo
serve as examples of this new approach to combat.
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The United States experience in the Vietnam War supports
the idea that the outcome of a war
A. is determined mainly by technological superiority
B. is dependent on using the greatest number of soldiers
c. is assured to countries dedicated to democratic ideals
D. can be strongly affected by public opinion
D.
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One reason the United States became involved in
the Vietnam War was to
A. prevent the spread of communism in Indochina
B. reduce French influence in Vietnam
C. stop China from seizing Vietnam
D. support the government of North Vietnam
A.
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The Great Society programs of the 1960’s
used the power of the Federal
Government to bring about
A. an all-volunteer military
B. antipoverty reforms
C. deregulation of business
D. reduced defense spending
B.
Johnson helped back the 1964 Civil Rights Act
which was the most significant civil rights
legislation of the ear, it protected voting rights,
desegregated all public facilities and created the
Equal Opportunity Commission to protect job
opportunities. Johnson’s “war on poverty” also
sought to provide assistance to the poorest in
the nation and created Medicaid benefits to
assist with medial care.
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Which initiative was part of President Lyndon
Johnson’s Great Society program?
A. providing medical care to the poor and elderly
B. reducing federal aid to education
C. increasing foreign aid to the Soviet Union
D. opposing civil rights legislation
A
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The Peace Corps was established by President
John F. Kennedy in an effort to provide
A. support to developing nations of the world
B. job training for the unemployed
C. markets for consumer goods
D. teachers for inner-city areas
A.
What is the main idea of this
cartoon from the Watergate era?
A. The Supreme Court
presides over a
presidential
impeachment trial.
B. Congress has to obey the
Constitution.
C. The president has the final
word involving
constitutional issues.
D. No person or group is
above the law.
• D
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The abolitionist movement, the women’s
suffrage movement, and the 1960’s civil
rights movement are all examples of reform
efforts that
A. succeeded without causing major
controversy
B. developed significant popular support
C. achieved their goals without government
action
D. failed to affect the nation as a whole
B.
The abolitionist movement gained popular support prior
to and during the Civil War, fueled in part by exposes
on the conditions of slavery like Harriet Beecher
Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin . The women’s
suffrage movement gained popular support due to
the efforts of women advocates like Lucrecia Mott,
Elizabeth Caty Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The
woman’s suffrage movement culminated with the
successful passage of the 19th amendment (also
known as the Anthony amendment) in 1919. Finally,
the 1960’s civil rights movement gained popular
support in the 1950’s and 60’s due in part to efforts
such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as well as
leadership from Martin Luther King jr. and the
NAACP.
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Which generalization can most accurately be drawn from a
study of Supreme Court cases Plessy v. Ferguson and
Brown v. Board of Education?
A. The Supreme Court has issued consistent decisions in
cases involving rights of the accused.
B. Supreme Court decisions are accepted without public
controversy.
C. The Justices believe that social issues are best left for
state courts to decide.
D. The Supreme Court has helped to determine public
policy.
D.
The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
established that “separate but equal”
facilities were legal (thereby upholding the
Jim Crow laws of Southern states) and
was later overturned in the Supreme
Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education
of Topeka Kansas ruling.
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The major goal of the civil rights movement of the
1960’s was to
A. establish a separate political state for African
Americans
B. gain passage of an equal rights amendment to
the Constitution
C. end segregation based on race
D. permit unlimited immigration to the United
States
C.
Jim Crow laws were legalized segregation.
Upheld as legal in the Plessy v. Ferguson
case of 1896, Jim Crow laws would persist
in the South up until the culmination of the
black civil rights movement in the 1950s
and 60’s.
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Unlike the Camp David Accords in 1978, the Camp
David Accords of 2000
A) succeeded in establishing peace between Libya
and Egypt.
B) failed to bring about a plan for peace in the
Middle East.
C) were protested by the United States for its
political overtones.
D) allowed the U.S. to gain valuable allies in the
War on Terrorism.
B
• Regardless of political opinions, the current war
in Iraq has nothing to do with restoring self-rule
to Kuwait. As is often the case, the
establishment of a democratic, free state
involves war (though this was not the case with
the “Velvet Revolutions” following the fall of the
Soviet Union).
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The primary cause of the first Gulf War (19901991) was
A) the Iraqi army's sudden invasion of Kuwait.
B) Iraqi possession of weapons of mass
destruction.
C) repeated attacks by the Iraqi navy on civilian
targets within Israel.
D) Iraq’s testing of a nuclear device as part of a
test of its weapons program.
A.
Months after the Iraqi army's sudden invasion of
Kuwait in 1990, the US- and allied forcesinvaded Kuwait to drive out the Iraqi army. The
fear was that Hussein would next invade Saudi
Arabia, affecting regional alliances with the
United States. There was never, at that time,
any talk of Hussein’s support of terrorism or his
alleged possession of weapons of mass
destruction.
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In the mid-1980s, the United States was involved
in an illegal shipment of arms, illegal funding of
Central American anti-revolutionaries, and
illegal negotiations with hostage-takers. This is
generally referred to as the
A) Triangular Trade.
B) Iran-Contra Affair.
C) Eisenhower Doctrine.
D) North American Free Trade Agreement.
• B
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Strong economic growth led to federal
budget surpluses during the Clinton
administration. During those years, the
national debt
A) was eliminated.
B) remained stable.
C) increased due to budget surplus.
D) decreased due to budget surplus.
D
During the Clinton administration, the
national debt decreased due to budget
surplus. Of course, these years were not
marked by an ongoing war and economic
"downturns."
What is the main idea of this 1997
cartoon?
A. Investors believe the
stock market may crash
in the near future.
B. Illegal aliens are trying to
come to the United
States in record
numbers.
C. Workers still suffer from
dangerous conditions
on the job.
D. Workers are being laid
off to keep corporate
profits high.
D.
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President Bill Clinton’s decision to send troops to
Bosnia in 1995 and to participate in the bombing
of Kosovo in 1999 were both in response to
international concern over
A. trade agreement violations
B. access to world oil reserves
C. human rights violations
D. monetary policies
C.
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President Bill Clinton supported the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
primarily as a way to
A. normalize trade relations with Cuba
B. stimulate economic growth in the United States
C. restrict the flow of drugs into the United States
D. increase the United States trade deficit
B
Political Cartoon # 1
• Identify the time
period.
• Significant
people/person
or documents.
• Explain the
cartoon?
Political Cartoon # 2
• Identify the
time period.
• Significant
people/person
or documents.
• Explain the
cartoon?