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Unit Overview: Change, Continuity, and Conflict
This unit covers the 1950's through the present era. Significant events/themes from the era:
Segregation and the Civil Rights Movement
Social unrest and protest in the 1960's
Vietnam War Protest movement and Counter Culture
Conservative Revolution, 1968
The 1970's
The 1980's
The 1990's and post Millenium
Unit Essay: Cultural Revolution
In order to get credit for this project you must write an essay on the following topic:
Cultural Revolution
The 1960's was a decade of revolution: the civil rights movement was in full swing during the 1960's, protests against the Vietnam War became mainstream in the late 60's, the women's rights' movement gained momentum, and a counter culture that questioned traditional values and lifestyle showed themselves to the world during 1967's Summer of Love. The revolutionary movements and events of the 1960's had so transformed American society that cultural norms in the 1970's in the US would be hardly recognizable to someone from the 1950's. Using the knowledge you have gained from your lessons in this unit, pick three significant events or movements of the 1960's and write an essay of 600 words or more explaining how America underwent a cultural revolution during this time.
Helpful links:
Rosa Parks, 1955, after refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus for a white patron.
Unit Essay: A Decade of Crisis
In order to get credit for this project you must write an essay on the following topic:
A Decade of Crisis
While the 1960's could appropriately be described as a decade of Revolution, the next decade, the 1970's could appropriately be described as a decade of crisis. Beginning with the Watergate Scandal in 1972 that forced Nixon to resign, 1973 saw an oil shortage, in 1975 the South Vietnamese government fell, and later came the Iran Hostage Crisis and "stagflation". With calamities and major problems seemingly appearing each year, America could barely get over one crisis before the next appeared. Using three events from the 1970's, write an essay of 600 words or more that explains why the 1970's could appropriately be called a decade of crisis.
Burning of the American Flag at the embassy in Iran, 1979
Some events that you should consider for your essay:
Unit Videos:
The Century Part 8, The Best Years (45:02)
Eyes on the Prize Part 1, (54:35)
Eyes on the Prize Part 2, (56:36)
American Experience: Freedom Riders (1:51:48)
Vietnam, a Televised History Part 7 (55:42)
Vietnam, a Televised History Part 10 (55:41)
Vietnam, a Televised History Part 11 (55:41)
Commanding Heights Episode 1 (1:55:31)
20th Century History Unit 5 Key Terms
For this project you must define the terms listed below and explain each term's significance to the unit/era being studied. Your definition should be 2-3 sentences long and may be copied and pasted from a source like Wikipedia, but the significance of the term must be in your own words and based on your own understanding. To fill out a term's significance, ask yourself, "Why is this item included in my study of this unit? Why is this term in a history book?" The answer to this question is your term's significance.
Unit Primary Sources:
Unit 5 Key Terms:
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Watergate
Persian Gulf War
Brown v Board of Education
American Indian Movement
Affirmative Action
Globalization
Little Rock Nine
UFWA
stagflation
Global Warming
Martin Luther King Jr.
"New Frontier"
Reaganomics
Green Revolution
Freedom Rides
Great Society
Perestroika
War on Terror
Below is an example of a key term done with the proper format:
William the Conqueror: William I (c. 1028[2] – 9 September 1087), also known as William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquérant), was the first Norman King of England from Christmas 1066 until his death. He was also Duke of Normandy from 3 July 1035 until his death, under the name William II. Before his conquest of England, he was known as William the Bastard because of the illegitimacy of his birth.To press his claim to the English crown, William invaded England in 1066, leading an army of Normans, Bretons, Flemings, and Frenchmen (from Paris andÎle-de-France) to victory over the English forces of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest.[3] (I copied and pasted this definition from Wikipedia)
Significance: William the Conqueror is significant because his conquest of England created the first nation state in Europe. His rearrangement of English feudal territories to give himself dramatically more power than the the barons and nobles around him caused him to be the most powerful monarch in Europe and eventually led to the rise of other nation states over the next few centuries. (These are my words based on my knowledge of English and European history.)
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