Troubled Years & New Challenges

Below is our quick write for Wednesday.  Most students are on Chapter 21.  Please make sure you will have your interactive notebook ready for the 21st.  I will be grading it the day we take the Final.  If you have noticed I am making the same informational statements in class that are on the blogs.  By next Wednesday you might want to have the textbook notes finished.  Please spend time on your output.  Keep reading your book and power-points that you deem interesting and important.  Reading is best but you could use Professor T. Young's way of reading.  This technique does work at times for many students trying to assimilate massive amounts of information.
​Best wishes,
 Mr.C

11.11 Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society. 

1. Discuss the reasons for the nation's changing immigration policy, with emphasis on how the Immigration Act of 1965 and successor acts have transformed American society. 
2. Discuss the significant domestic policy speeches of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton (e.g., with regard to education, civil rights, economic policy, environmental policy). 
3. Describe the changing roles of women in society as reflected in the entry of more women into the labor force and the changing family structure. 
4. Explain the constitutional crisis originating from the Watergate scandal. 
5. Trace the impact of, need for, and controversies associated with environmental conservation, expansion of the national park system, and the development of environmental protection laws, with particular attention to the interaction between environmental protection advocates and property rights advocates. 
6. Analyze the persistence of poverty and how different analyses of this issue influence welfare reform, health insurance reform, and other social policies. 
7. Explain how the federal, state, and local governments have responded to demographic and social changes such as population shifts to the suburbs, racial concentrations in the cities, Frostbelt-to-Sunbelt migration, international migration, decline of family farms, increases in out-of-wedlock births, and drug abuse. ​

11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II. 

1. Discuss the establishment of the United Nations and International Declaration of Human Rights, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and their importance in shaping modern Europe and maintaining peace and international order. 
2. Understand the role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring communist aggression and maintaining security during the Cold War. 
3. Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment policy, including the following: 
   • The era of McCarthyism, instances of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and blacklisting 
   • The Truman Doctrine 
   • The Berlin Blockade 
   • The Korean War 
   • The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis 
   • Atomic testing in the American West, the "mutual assured destruction" doctrine, and disarmament policies 
   • The Vietnam War 
   • Latin American policy 
4. List the effects of foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa (e.g., protests during the war in Vietnam, the "nuclear freeze" movement). 
5. Analyze the role of the Reagan administration and other factors in the victory of the West in the Cold War. 
6. Describe U.S. Middle East policy and its strategic, political, and economic interests, including those related to the Gulf War. 
7. Examine relations between the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century, including key economic, political, immigration, and environmental issues. 

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