2nd Semester Units

US History 2nd Semester 

Unit Schedule

Unit 5: The Cold War and the 1950s (5 Weeks)

• • The Cold War: Political, Military, and Economics

  • Military Buildup

  • Space Race and Technological Advances

  • Red Scare and McCarthyism

  • Liberal Anticommunism

  • Kennedy & Cuba                                             

Unit 6: Civil Rights and the Era of Protest (5 Weeks)

• • The Civil Rights Movement

  • Culture and Activism

  • Beyond Civil Rights

  • Cultural Anxieties

  • The Politics of Love, Sex, and Gender

Unit 7: Vietnam & the Stalemated Seventies (6 Weeks)

• • Johnson's Great Society 

  • Origins of the Vietnam War

  • The Strain of Vietnam

  • The Crisis of 1968

  • The Rise and Fall of Nixon

  • Deindustrialization and the Sunbelt

  • The Misery Index

Unit 8:  The Conservative Revolution & Modern America (4 Weeks)      

• • Conservatism Ascendance 

  • The Election of 1980

  • The New Right & Morning in America

  • African American Life in Reagan's America

  • Bad Times and Good Times

  • Culture Wars of the 1980s

  • The New Right Abroad

  • American Politics Before 9-11

  • 9-11 and the War on Terror

  • Political Partisanship in the 21st Century