Transcript Unit I: Beginnings Through Reconstruction

Units VII-IX: The Rest
of The Story
Chapter 27 and
Onward
Postwar Boom
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A Short Slump, A Great Spike
• Why doesn’t the US have a postwar recession
like it did after WWI?
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Truman’s Civil Rights
• Why can Truman get his way in the Armed
Forces but not anywhere else?
Elections
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Truman Defeats Dewey (1948)
• The Dixiecrats
• Why are they upset with Truman?
• How does Truman overcome the split?
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Eisenhower’s Victory (1952)
• Why is it easy for Ike to win?
• Vice-President Richard Nixon
Baby and Other Booms
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The Baby Boom
• What causes the population spike of the 1950s?
• How does it affect us now?
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The Car Boom
• What industries do Eisenhower’s Interstate system
help?
• What industries are hurt?
• Other effects?
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The Media Boom
• Movies, TV
• Elvis Presley and Rock’n’Roll
Kennedy’s War
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The Televised Election of 1960
• Why does television help Kennedy and hurt
Nixon?
• How does Kennedy attract African-American
voters?
• Why is there a “Camelot?”
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Kennedy’s Foreign Affairs
• Why is Kennedy weak here?
• Flexible Response
Castro and Cuba
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The Rise of Castro
• Why is America frightened of Castro?
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The Bay of Pigs
• Why does this make the U.S. look bad?
• Why does it encourage the Soviets?
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The Missile Crisis
• Why do the Soviets back down?
U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.
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The Berlin Wall
• Why is this such a bad move for the Soviets?
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Easing the Tension
• What measures do the superpowers take to
lessen the danger of nuclear war?
Kennedy at Home
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Fighting Recession
• What did Kennedy do and where did he learn
it?
• Where does Kennedy invest?
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Assassination In Dallas
• The Zapruder Film
• Conspiracy
• The Warren Commission
All the Way with LBJ
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Lyndon Johnson
• Challenges Johnson faces in replacing Kennedy?
• How does Johnson convince the American people to
support him anyway?
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The Great Society
• Education
• Effects today?
• Medicare and Medicaid
• Immigration, Environment, Consumer Protection
Civil Rights
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Brown v Board of Education (1954)
• The NAACP
• How do they challenge “Separate but Equal?”
• Eisenhower
• Why doesn’t he back the court at first?
• What changes his mind?
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Montgomery, Parks, and Dr. King
• Why is nonviolence so effective?
• Why is King’s status as a minister important?
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Birmingham
• Why is this a victory for activists?
Civil Rights Laws
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
• What type of discrimination does this ban?
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
• What does this outlaw?
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
• How did people enforce “housing
discrimination?”
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Affirmative Action
• What is this and how does it affect us?
Segregation and Separatism
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De Facto Segregation
• What is this? Why is it harder to fight than de
jure segregation?
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Malcolm X and Black Separatism
• What leads to this idea?
• How is it expressed legally? Illegally?
Vietnam
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French Indochina
• What are the Vietnamese fighting for?
• The French?
• Why does America support the French after
WWII?
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Eisenhower’s Dominos (Domino Theory)
• Where did Eisenhower get this idea?
• Why is Vietnam divided and for how long?
Civil War
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Ho Chi Minh vs Ngo Dinh Diem
• Why does Diem cancel elections?
• Why is he disliked by his people?
• Who are the Vietcong?
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Kennedy and Diem
• Why does Kennedy send advisers?
• Why does he support a coup?
Escalation
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President Johnson, the Hawk
• Why is Johnson convinced he must escalate?
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The Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• Why is this important in the conduct of the
Vietnam War?
• What does the public think?
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The South Vietnamese
• Why can’t they fight the North?
• Why don’t they like the U.S.?
A Nation Divided
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Political Games
• What does Johnson have to give up to get
support for the war?
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The Political Draft
• Why is the draft seen as unfair?
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The Protestors
• Why does public opinion change?
• Hawks vs Doves
• Why are some of the poorest on the hawks’
side?
1968: Year of Chaos
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The Tet Offensive
• How does the Tet Offensive show the power of
television?
• What’s the difference between a tactical and a
strategic victory?
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The Election
• Why does Johnson choose not to run?
• Why are the Democrats in chaos?
Nixon’s Plans
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Nixon and Kissinger
• Vietnamization
• Why does Nixon increase the bombing of North
Vietnam in the middle of peace talks?
• The Pentagon Papers
• What did this leak do to public opinion?
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The End of the War
• Results?
• The War Powers Act
• Cambodia
Nixon At Home
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Law and Order
• What is Nixon’s appeal in 1968?
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Civil Rights
• Who is Nixon trying to appeal to in delaying
Civil Rights?
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Stagflation
• Why is this hard to fight?
Nixon Abroad
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Henry Kissinger and Realpolitik
• Détente
• Why does Nixon go to China?
• Mainland China Recognized
• What does his trip to the Soviet Union accomplish?
Watergate
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The Imperial Presidency
• What has led to the Presidency’s great power?
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The Election of 1972
• Why is Nixon afraid he will lose?
• Why does he win so easily?
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The Leaks
• How does Nixon eventually get caught?
• Why can’t Nixon refuse to cooperate?
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Nixon Resigns
President Ford
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The Nixon Pardon
• Was Ford right to pardon Nixon?
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WIN loses big
• Why is this a very bad idea?
• Why is it so hard for Ford to get anything
done?
President Carter
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Jimmy Carter in Washington
• What is Carter’s appeal?
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The Energy Crisis
• What’s causing this?
• Why can’t Carter solve it?
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Jobs
• What jobs are disappearing from America and
why?
Carter Abroad
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Soviet Troubles
• Why is Carter’s human rights advocacy a problem
here?
• SALT II
• Why do a lot of people feel uneasy about this?
• Afghanistan
• Olympic boycott and Grain embargo
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The Camp David Accords
Iran Hostage Crisis
• Chickens coming home to roost
• The Islamic Republic. Why no military action?
The Reagan Years
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Governor Reagan
• What issues make Reagan look like a good
alternative to Carter?
• How does Reagan manage to look good to the
American people?
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Reaganomics
• Theory of Reaganomics?
• Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI vs MAD)
• Does it work?
Reagan Returns
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Conservative Theory
• Supply-side Economics
• Deregulation
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Mondale and Ferraro (1984)
• Why is Mondale’s warning about the budget
not taken seriously?
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George H.W. Bush
• Why are voters content with Bush’s
continuation of Reagan’s policies
The Cold War Ends
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Last Premier of the USSR
• The Shaky Soviet Economy
• Why isn’t Communism living up to its promises?
• Why does it collapse now?
• Glasnost’- Perestroika
• The Satellites Fall
• The Wall Comes Down (1989)
• Wiedervereinigung: Germany Reunifies (1990)
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Boris Yeltsin and The Secession
• The Baltic Republics Leave
Relics of the Cold War
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China
• Tiananmen Square
• Why is China willing to crush its dissidents, but the
Soviet Union was not?
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Central America
• From Somoza to Sandinistas
• Why is Reagan anti-Sandinista?
• Who are the Contras?
• Why do the Sandinistas allow free elections?
The Middle East
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The Iran-Iraq War
• Why did the United States support Iraq in the
1980s?
• Why did Reagan promise not to sell arms to
Iran (while selling them to Iraq?)
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The Iran-Contra Scandal
• Why didn’t President Reagan face charges for
violating the Boland Amendment?
• What was the result of the arms sales?
The Gulf War
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Iraq Invades Kuwait
• What danger to the world exists here?
• Why is the UN willing to back the United
States?
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The United States Invades Iraq
• Why does President Bush allow Saddam
Hussein to retain his power?
The Clinton Years
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Clinton vs Bush vs Perot
• Why can’t the President who “won” the Cold
War hold the Presidency?
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Balancing the Budget
• How did Clinton and the Republicans agree to
do this?
• Why can’t we today?
• Where does the prosperity come from?
Reelecting Clinton
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The Republican Congress
• Why did Americans send Republicans to
Congress in 1994?
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Clinton Reelected
• How could Clinton carry the nation two years
later?
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Clinton Impeached
• How could such a popular president be
impeached?
• Why isn’t he convicted?
George W. Bush v. Al Gore
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Too Close To Call
• Why is this election so close?
• Why does this go to the Supreme Court?
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09/11/2001
• The Towers Fall
• Afghanistan
• Iraq