Goal 11 - Recovery, Prosperity, and Turmoil
Recovery, Prosperity, and Turmoil (1945-1980) - The learner will trace economic, political, and social developments and assess their significance for the lives of Americans during this time period.
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Objective 11.01
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Objective 11.03
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Objective 11.04
Objective 11.05
Objective 11.06
11.01 Describe the effects of the Cold War on economic, political, and social life in America. 11.02 Trace major events of the Civil Rights Movement and evaluate its impact. 11.03 Identify major social movements including, but not limited to, those involving women, young people, and the environment, and evaluate the impact of these movements on the United States' society. 11.04 Identify the causes of United States' involvement in Vietnam and examine how this involvement affected society. 11.05 Examine the impact of technological innovations that have impacted American life. 11.06 Identify political events and the actions and reactions of the government officials and citizens, and assess the social and political consequences.
- Effects of Cold War On America�s Home life - Domino Theory and geopolitics - McCarthyism - Spread of Suburbia - Effects of Nixon�s visits to China and Moscow - Carter�s Human Rights, Foreign policy and the collapse of detente - The Military Industrial Complex
* �Duck and cover� * Fallout Shelters * National Security Act, 1947 * House on Un-American Activities Committee * Alger Hiss * Julius and Ethel Rosenberg * Hollywood Blacklist * The National Highway Act * Selective Service System * New Left * D�tente * S.A.L.T. I and II
- The Civil Rights Movement �De jure and �De facto Segregation � Affirmative Action � Turning points - Changes in state and federal Legislation - Executive actions � Harry S. Truman � Dwight D. � Eisenhower � John F. Kennedy � Lyndon Johnson
* Montgomery bus boycotts * Rosa Parks * Martin Luther King, Jr. * Malcolm X * Black Panthers * Black Power Movement * Stokley Carmichael * C.O.R.E. * S.N.C.C. * March on Washington * James Meredith * Little Rock Nine * George Wallace * Brown v Board of Education,Topeka, Kansas, 1954 * Thurgood Marshall * Earl Warren * 24th amendment * Civil Rights Act of 1964 * Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Cultural Movements � Feminists � Indian � Latino - Labor Movements - Environmental Movements - Social Movements � Pop Culture � Counter Culture - Socio-economic Status: Jobs: � White collar � Blue collar � Pink collar
* Women�s Liberation * National Organization for Women (NOW) * Gloria Steinem * Phyllis Schafly * The Feminine Mystique * Equal Rights Amendment * Roe v. Wade, 1973 * British Invasion-Beatles * Elvis Presley * Haight-Ashbury * Woodstock * Cesar Chavez * American Indian Movement * Clean Air Act * Clean Water Act * Environmental Protection Agency * Betty Friedan
- Significance of the domino theory - U. S. Involvement in Vietnam: * Eisenhower * Kennedy * Johnson * Nixon * Ford - Vietnam�s effect on U. S. politics and society - Vietnamization - Role of the media
* Tet Offensive * Robert McNamara * Gulf of Tonkin Resolution * War Powers Act 1973 * Ho Chi Minh * My Lai Incident * Agent Orange * Napalm * Vietcong * Pentagon Papers * 26th Amendment * General William Westmoreland * Kent State * Cambodia/Laos * Fall of Saigon, 1975 * Paris Peace Accords * Operation Rolling Thunder
- The Impact of the Space Race on education - Technological Changes: � Mass media � Communication � Military � Science � Medicine � Electronics � Data storage � Transportation � Energy - Connection of population shifts to technological changes in society
* Radio in 1950�s * Sputnik * NASA * National Defense * Education Act * Space Programs * Neil Armstrong * John Glenn * Computers * Calculators * Silicon Valley * ICBMs * Hydrogen bombs * Color television * Microwave technology * Nuclear power * Commercial jet travel
- Actions and reactions to political platforms: �New Frontier �Great Society �Law &Order - Voter Apathy - 1968 � Election � Tet Offensive � Robert Kennedy � Martin Luther King, Jr - Watergate Scandal - Changing relationship of the federal government - Urban renewal programs
* HUD * Head Start * VISTA * Medicare * Peace Corps * National Endowment for the Humanities * New York Times v U.S. 1971 * United States v Nixon 1974 * Sam Ervin/Senate * Watergate Committee * John Dean * Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein * Democratic National Convention 1968 * 25th Amendment * Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)