Transcript April 13, 2015

April 13, 2015
• Please sit quietly and begin the warm-up.
Homework: Read p. 670-679, Study Guide p. 1
Today’s Agenda & Objective
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Warm-up
Election of 1960
New Frontier Speech
Notes
Primary Source
Analysis
• To what extent was
Kennedy’s New
Frontier effective?
http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=QazmVHAO0os
I. Nixon v. Kennedy Debates and the
Election of 1960
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
1. Vice President to
1. Massachusetts Senator
Eisenhower
2. Tanned, relaxed, smiling
2. Recently hospitalized
3. Young, handsome
3. Underweight
4. Looks into camera
4. No makeup for tv
Surveys showed that 70 million viewers thought
Kennedy won. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazmVHAO0os
Kennedy’s Inauguration Speech
As you analyze the following text, please complete
the following:
•Write at least 2 questions that were raised while you
read.
•Identify at least 1 allusion to the years prior to
Kennedy’s Administration
•Annotate what you think Kennedy’s main ideas mean.
•What are some ideas discussed in Kennedy’s
Inauguration Speech?
•What is the significance of the speech?
II. Nation on the Edge and a New
Frontier
A. Economy
1. Declining
– The Other America, Michael Harrington; 1/5 of
Americans lived below the poverty line
– Kennedy wanted to provide direct federal aid to
Americans
2. Kennedy’s solution: large tax cuts to decrease
government income but put money in Americans’
wallets (stimulate the economy)
B. Space Program
Following the launching of Sputnik, the US’s goal
was to get to space first.
1. Soviets announced Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth
as the first human to travel space
Americans feared our technology was falling behind
2. Sent man to space (short distance)
3. February 20, 1962: John Glenn completed 3 orbits
around Earth
III. Camelot
• Youngest candidate elected as president
• Roman Catholic
• Represented the idealistic image of the Kennedy
White House: royal and romantic
• Stage for high culture
• Wife Jacqueline (Jacky) intelligent, fashionable,
poised,
• Children: Caroline and John
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6blTDv0hs
Task:
☐ Take notes on your topic from the textbook.
☐ Read and analyze the primary sources for your topic.
KNOW YOUR TOPIC AND DECIDE IF IT SHOWS THE
NEW FRONTIER WAS EFFECTIVE OR NOT. FIGURE OUT
WHY.
☐ Either create a mini-poster (2 students) and present,
Comic Strip, or newspaper based on your topic.
☐ On the back of the comic strip or newspaper, write
CEL paragraph answering the following prompt:
To what extent was Kennedy’s New Frontier effective?
April 15, 2015
Please sit quietly and begin working on the
Warm-up.
Homework: Read p. 686-695, Study Guide p. 1-2
Today’s Agenda
• Lecture
• Primary Source
Analysis & BCR
• Begin Homework
Vietnam Memorial
Today-April 19th
Free!
8150 Knott Avenue
Buena Park
• Analyze documents to
evaluate the
effectiveness of JFK’s
New Frontier when
tackling the Cold War.
A. Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Eisenhower cut off relations with Cuba due to
Communist gov. and Soviet aid
• American companies were terrorized by Castro’s
regime
• 10% of the Cuban population were exiled
• Eisenhower trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and
overthrow Castro
• Kennedy learned of operation 9 days into presidency
• April 17, 1961: Exiles died or imprisoned by 25,000
Cubans
• Embarrassment for JFK
B. Berlin Wall
• 20% of East Berliners fled to West Berlin to
escape Communism
• Khrushchev wanted to close off access to
West Berlin and JFK refused
• “I want peace. But, if you want war, that is
your problem”
• Berlin wall constructed on August 13, 1961.
C. Cuban Missile Crisis
• Soviet weapons sent to Cuba in 1962
• JFK sent a warning he wouldn’t tolerate
nuclear weapons in Cuba
• Oct. 14, 1962 photographs revealed missile
bases in Cuba
• Brinkmanship- brink of nuclear war
• US Navy quarantined Cuba to block Soviet
Union
http://www.history.com/topics/coldwar/cuban-missile-crisis
D. Eased Tensions?
• Hot line between White House and Soviet
Union in 1963
• Phone communications immediately
• Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963) barred
nuclear testing in the atmosphere
Was JFK’s New Frontier effective at tackling the Cold War? Analyze
the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis and Berlin Crisis.
Determine effects and other possible outcomes.
• What is the Main Idea of the Document?
• What parts of PERSIA are effected?
• Does this show the New Frontier was
effective at tackling the Cold War? Yes/No
April 17, 2015
• Please sit quietly and begin the Warm-up.
Homework: Read p. 700-716, Study Guide p.
2-4, Quia Quiz #10
Today’s Agenda & Objective
1. Warm-up/Lecture
2. Primary Source
Discussion
3. Concept Map
4. Letter to LBJ
5. Begin Homework
• Analyze sources and
create a concept map
to analyze the
successes and
challenges of the Great
Society.
JFK Assassination
• November 22, 1963 in Dallas, TX
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson takes oath of
office on Air Force One
Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
•Used the “Johnson Treatment” to persuade
senators to support his bills
•5 days after JFK’s death, promised to fulfill
JFK’s New Frontier on the home front
•Great Society, Vietnam War, and Civil Rights
Movement
•Election of 1964- needed to be elected as
president
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBns
qxZ3k
What is the Great Society?
May 22, 1964
Analyze Documents A and B and
determine
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDeBd
1j7sCM
• Use p. 686-691 and 714 in your textbook to locate
information about each Great Society program.
• Create a concept map of at least 10 Great Society
Programs.
• There must be one program from each area of reform:
Education, Health, War on Poverty, Civil Rights,
Environment, Immigration, Culture.
• Include the name of each program, the year it was
established, and its purpose.
• Place a “+” if program was successful or a “-“ if the
program was not successful.
April 22, 2015
Homework: Complete Primary Source Packet
Today’s Agenda & Objective
1. Warm-up &
Discussion
2. Lecture
3. Primary Source
Analysis
4. Documentary
• How effective were
nonviolent protests
from 1955-1961?
A. The Spark
• The Story of a Young Boy in Money,
Mississippi (1955)
• Emmett Till from Chicago, Illinois
• Till was lynched for not abiding Jim Crow
Laws of the South
• Till’s Mother put his body on display to
show the ugliness of the South.
B. Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Started with Rosa Parks
• What it was:
• Significance:
C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Reverend from Atlanta, GA
D. SCLC
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Ministers and civil rights leaders met to
repeat strategies of Montgomery Bus
Boycott
• Raised money in churches to gain
community support
• President- MLK
E. SNCC
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZE0a
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Please read Documents A and B
• Please analyze Documents A and B.
• Identify P/S/E of the document.
• Answer the questions.
April 27, 2015
Homework: Read p. 717-723, Study Guide p. 4
Today’s Agenda & Objective
1. Warm-up
2. Lecture
3. Primary Source
Analysis
• What is the true story
of the March on
Washington?
A. Freedom Summer
• CORE members rode buses across southern states to
challenge segregation
• Buses were met with lynch mobs, KKK, attacked, arrested
• Freedom Summer- integrated buses rode through the south
and saw same reactions.
• Supported by attorney general Robert Kennedy who sent
federal marshals
• ICC banned segregation in travel facilities, waiting rooms,
restrooms, and lunch counters.
B. Protests in Birmingham, AL
• Tested the power of nonviolence in most segregated city of
the US
• SCLC & MLK organized peaceful protests in April 1963
• May 2, 1963- 1,000 African American children marched the
streets and were met with police who swept them away
with fire hoses
• Activity caught on tape
• Led to city ending segregation
April 28, 2015
• Please sit quietly and begin the Warm-up.
Homework: No Homework
Today’s Agenda & Objective
1. Malcolm X’s
Philosophy
2. Eyes on the Prize
Video
3. Black Panther Party
Platform
• Which strategy was
more effective: MLK’s
non-violence,
Malcolm X’s Black
Nationalism or Black
Panther Party?
Please read “The Ballot or the
Bullet” by Malcolm X (1964)
• How is Malcolm X’s philosophy similar to
and different than the philosophy of MLK?
• What is the economic and political
philosophy of black nationalism?
I. After the “Dream”
• Two weeks after the March on Washington 4 girls were
killed in a church bombing in Birmingham, AL
• Two months after the March on Washington, JFK was
assassinated
• President LBJ Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964prohibited discrimination and ended de jure segregation
(by law)
• 24th Amendment- prohibited poll taxes
• The US still experienced de facto segregation- segregation
by custom. (Literacy Tests)
• Attempts to register voters in the South resulted in
Klansmen and police murdering volunteers
II. Selma Campaign
• SCLC Voting Rights Campaign in Selma, AL
to support SNCC
• Met with protests/violence
• 50 mile protest from Selma to Montgomery
with 25,000 marchers
• Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of
1965 eliminating literacy tests
III. Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 to
help African American communities gain power.
•Identify specific ways African Americans will achieve
power as stated in the Black Panther platform.
•Then, write which strategy you think was more effective
for African Americans in the 1960s: MLK’s, Malcolm X’s or
the Black Panthers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGi2ET3sW5M
April 29, 2015
• Please take out your Study Guide packet and
write your name on it.
Homework: Read p. 781-785
April 30, 2015
Homework: Read p. 730-735, Study Guide p.
5
Today’s Agenda & Objective
1. Warm-up
2. Lecture
3. Primary Source
Analysis
4. CEL Paragraph
• Was the US planning
to go to war with
Vietnam before 1964?
Vietnam War
September 2, 1945 - Ho Chi Minh declares an independent
Vietnam called the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
July 1950 - The United States pledges $15 million worth of
military aid to France to help them fight in Vietnam.
(Eisenhower’s Presidency)
May 7, 1954 - The French are defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien
Phu. (Loss for Democracy)
July 21, 1954 - The Geneva Accords declares a cease-fire for the
withdrawal of the French from Vietnam and creates a temporary
boundary between North and South Vietnam at the 17th
parallel. Divided N= Communist/ S= Non-Communist
October 26, 1955 - South Vietnam declares itself the Republic of
Vietnam (GVN).
December 20, 1960 - The National Liberation Front (NLF), a.k.a.
the Viet Cong, is est. in South Vietnam. (US provides increased
economic aid)
November 2, 1963 – During a coup, South Vietnamese President
Ngo Dinh Diem is executed.
North Vietnamese fire at USS Maddox, shots fired!
August 2 and 4, 1964 - North Vietnamese attack two U.S.
destroyers in international waters, which becomes known as the
Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
August 7, 1964 - The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Was the U.S. planning to go to war in Vietnam
before August 1964?
Please analyze documents B-D
and answer the questions.
• What evidence do the documents offer that the U.S. was
planning to go to war with North Vietnam before the
Gulf of Tonkin incident?
• Is this strong evidence that the U.S. was planning an
attack?
• What were some of the reasons why the U.S. was
hesitant about attacking North Vietnam?
• Is there evidence that the U.S. was planning a full-scale
war?
May 1, 2015
• Please sit quietly and wait for further
instructions.
Homework: Read p. 736-741, Study Guide p.
5-6 Quia Quiz #11
Vietnam War
• Johnson opposed sending troops though
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution
• Johnson increased US involvement in
Vietnam
• Americans supported Johnson’s
determination to contain communism with
sending troops
A. Election of 1964
• Johnson wins election based on promise to
not send troops
• March 1964 LBJ dispatched thousands to
Vietnam
• 61% of Americans support the war
• Government officials stressed escalation to
protect US future
• General Westmoreland requests more
troops (1965) because ARVN cannot
support itself
B. From High to Low Morale
US enters war with superior complex (victory?)
Assumption: War will end quickly
Vietcong used hit and run/guerrilla war tactics
American morale declines
Americans believe in containing Communism
Declined support for Johnson- Increased taxes for
war and decreased funding for Great Society
Programs
• Napalm
• Agent Orange
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May 4, 2015
• Please sit quietly and begin the Warm-up
Activity.
Homework: Read p. 742-747, Study Guide p. 6
Today’s Agenda & Objectives
1. Primary Source
Analysis
2. Lecture
3. Video Notes
4. HW packet
Please read the Student for a
Democratic Society Manifesto
• Identify how the American Youth describe
themselves.
• Identify the “troubling” events that disturb
them.
• Identify the paradoxes in the US and world
that bother them.
• Think about the above compare/contrast to
your life today.
A. Living Room War
• Combat Footage shown daily
• Johnson Administration lost credibility
B. Draft
• Escalation- increased number of troops
needed for draft
• Young men looked to deferment- college!
• White affluent men attended college
• Most drafted were low-class minorities
C. Students Are Proactive
• Want political and social changes
• New Left= demanded change
• Students for a Democratic Society & Free Speech
Movement
– Protested school issues
– Hosted teach-ins to protest war
• Believed:
– US had no business in Vietnam
– Neither Northern or Southern Vietnamese governments
were good
– US needs to stop being world police
– unjust
• 1965 organized a march on Washington
with 20,000 protesters
• Johnson Administration required students
to be in good academic standing to avoid
draft
• Increased student protests and anti-war
movement
May 5, 2015
• Please sit quietly and wait for further
instructions.
Homework: Read p. 748-753, Study Guide p.
6
Today’s Agenda & Objectives
• Primary Source
Analysis
• Vietnam in HD
• Essential Questionss
May 6, 2015
Please sit quietly and begin the Warm-up.
Homework: Read p. 754-761, Study Guide p. 7
http://www.biography.com/people/richard-nixon-9424076#synopsis
I. “Peace With Honor”
• Campaigned on a promise of peace and end war in Vietnam
• Adviser Henry Kissinger
• Vietnamization- gradual withdrawal of troops to allow S.
Vietnamese to fight. 25,000 soldiers returned home
• Ordered the increased bombing campaign of Cambodia and
Laos
A. Kent State University Shootings
•Student protesters reacted to increased bombings
•National Guard shot at crowd after students threw
rocks at officers
•Four students killed
B. Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
•Prevents president from increasing involvement in
Vietnam
•Pentagon Papers showed LBJ lied and never planned to
end the war
C. Foreign Policy Triumphs
1. realpolitik- foreign policy based on consideration of
power, not ideals or morals. (Opposite of containment)
2. détente- aimed to ease Cold War tensions by visiting
Communist China and Soviet Union
3. War Powers Act- President must notify Congress within 48
hours that he has sent troops. Forbids remaining in a state of
conflict for more than 60 days.
4. Ping Pong Diplomacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJ4wh1kwR8
5. SALT I Treaty (1972)- Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty, 5
year agreement limiting number of missiles
D. Domestic Policy Triumphs
1.Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
ignites awareness over pesticides
a. Earth Day April 20, 1970
2. Environmental Protection Agency (1970)
set and enforces pollution standards
3. Clean Air Act
4. Endangered Species Act
II. Watergate
• Break in of Democratic Party’s room at
Watergate Hotel
• Leaked by Woodward and Bernstein of
Washington Post
• Nixon denied knowing about incident
• “Nixon Tapes”
May 7, 2015
**1920s vs. 1960s
Homework: Read p. 768-780, Study Guide p. 7
The Counterculture
• Please use the handout on “The
Counterculture” to answer the questions on
your handout.
• Then, create a visual representation about
the counterculture.
May 8, 2015
• Please sit quietly and read through the Dear
Reader Letter Instructions.
Homework: Work on Project
Portfolio Task
• Please put together the following assignments
together with a paper clip:
– Reconstruction Performance Task
– New Deal Performance Task
– Final Essay
– Project Essay
– BCRs
– Scan Sheet
• You MUST choose 3-4 points to brainstorm for
your letter
May 11, 2015
Please sit quietly and begin working on the Warm-up.
Homework:
1. Catch up on Study Guide packet & Quia Quizzes
Today’s Agenda & Objectives
1. Do Now
2. Lecture
3. HW packet p. 7
• Explain how the
African American fight
for civil rights
influenced civil rights
movements by
analyzing the goals,
strategies and support
of 2 new aspects of
civil rights in the
1960s.
I. Chicanos
A. History
• Largest group of Latinos in the United States
• Less educated and found it harder to succeed
• Chicano Movement Claim: Whites undermined Mexican
Americans and controlled their lives
1. economic pressure
2. media
3. schools
Chicano Movement Solution: organize against discrimination
in education, employment and the legal system.
B. Results
• Conditions of barrios- schools overcrowded
and run down, high drop out rates, students
tracked
• Response: East LA Walkouts
C. United Farm Workers
• Improve conditions for farm workers
(California and Southwest)
• Farmers were most exploited- long hours
doing back-breaking work for low pay
• Children had little educational opportunities
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFRpgjGLgxs
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1. Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
organized and created the UFW
increased membership
practiced collective bargaining
nonviolence protests
fought for higher pay, better working conditions
and union recognition
• Boycott on Grapes from nonunion farms
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II. Japanese American Citizens
League
• Interned Japanese south compensation for
losses of farms, homes and businesses
during WWII
– $20,000 apology payment for internment
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZUZKtko
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III. Gay Rights Movement
• Stonewall Riots (1969)
• Gay and lesbians fought openly for civil
rights through nonviolent protests
• Faced discrimination/backlash during AIDS
crisis in late 1980s and early 1990s
IV. Women’s Rights Movement
A. Feminism
•Political, economic and social equality of men and
women.
•Fight the 1950s housewife stereotype! (Many really
had to work)
•Increased number of women attend college and
receive a BA.
•Employers do not hire qualified women (they will
leave to have children!)
•Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystiquehousewives are dissatisfied with home life
B. National Organization for Women
•Take actions for women
•Attacked false image of women
•Fought for better job opportunities, childcare facilities and
shelters for women
•Result: increased number of women in politics
C. Higher Education Act- admittance of women in universities
D. Roe v. Wade- (1973) legalized abortion. Gave women the
right to personal privacy. Allowed states to restrict abortions
during later stages of pregnancy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81NrWq3p5Ag
E. Equal Rights Amendment- (1972)- discrimination based on
a person’s sex is illegal.
Guarantees rights for women