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Unit Overview: Monumental Changes
This unit covers the years 1954 to 1970. Important events/themes in this unit:
The Brown v Board of Education decision, 1954
An overview of the Jim Crow South
The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1964
Assassination of JFK and involvement in Vietnam
Summer of Love and the Vietnam Protest movement
The Women's Rights Movement
1960's counter-culture
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 Documentaries:
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)
Short Videos:
Unit Lectures:
Unit Primary Sources:
US History Recon B Unit 2 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 2 Key Terms:
Silent Spring
My Lai Massacre
Joan Baez/Pete Seeger
VVAW
Decolonization
fragging
Chicago Seven
Election of 1968
Sino-Soviet Split
1968 Democratic Convention
Apollo Program
Kent State Shootings
Summer of Love
Black Power Movement
The Feminine Mystique
Green Revolution
Tet Offensive
1960's Race Riots
James Earl Ray
Woodstock Festival
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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