American Studies Homework:

American Studies Agenda 

merican Studies Agenda 

Monday, May 8

Peer Editing                                                    Assignment: Read ch 33 sec. 1

Vocab: Check CTRW & VC                                 Fallen Angels: finish for Friday

HST: Vietnam War Clip

Tuesday, May 9

Vocab Review (the first 5 groups of 2-3            Assignment: 

  to show me their correct answers Wed.             Vocab: study for test

  morning will be able to draw free-point

  passes)

HST: prepare Debate

HST: GROUP ACTIVITY

Divide class into 6 groups Pro/Con

US won/lost why

Nixon secrecy in Foreign Policy

Student Protest of War

Calley and My Lai

Wednesday, May 10

Vocab Test Unit 8

Clip 60’s domestic                                            Assignment:

Peer Editing

HST: prepare debate

Thursday, May 11

     HST: DEBATE iSSUES                                       Assignment : Study test

Friday, May 12

Fallen Angels due                                                     Assignment:

Fallen Angels / Cold War Test

Peer Editing                                     

Group Preparation

Papers are due Monday!

Presentations begin Monday!

 COLD WAR STUDY GUIDE

Key Terms

1. World Bank                                                                                 21. Bay of Pigs

2. containment & domino theory                                             22. Cuban Missile Crises

3. George Kennan                                                                        23. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

4. John Foster Dulles                                                                   24. Ho Chi Minh

5. International Money Fund( IMF)                                        25. Search & Destroy Mission

6. Warsaw Pact                                                                               26. Rolling Thunder

7. NATO                                                                                          27. My Lai Massacre

8. “ Iron Curtain”                                                                            28. Vietnamization

9. “Bamboo Curtain”                                                                   29. Paris Peace Accords 1973

10.National Security Act 1947                                                  30. detente

11. Berlin Blockade and Airlift                                                 31. Henry Kissinger

12. NSC-68                                                                                       32. SALT I

13. Korean War                                                                              33. Arab Oil Embargo 1973

14. Inchon                                                                                       34. Camp David Accords

15. 38th Parallel                                                                                35. Panama Canal treaty 1978

16. Syngmen Rhee                                                                       36. perestroika

17. CIA                                                                                               37. SDI ( Star Wars)

18. Alger Hiss                                                                                 38. glasnost

19. “ McCarthyism”                                                                     39. “ Evil Empire”

20. Ethel and Julius Rosenbergs                                              40. Iran Hostage

Key Questions

• What was the policy of "containment?"  What were President Truman's goals in establishing this foreign policy?
• Identify the main objectives of the Truman Doctrine.
• In what ways was the Marshall Plan the economic component of containment?  How well did it work?
• Why did the U. S. go to war in Korean in 1950?  What was the role of the United Nations in this conflict?
•   Why did President Truman fire General MacArthur?  What was the initial reaction of most Americans to this decision?
• What were the terms of the peace treaty that ended the Korean War?
• What was the significance of the Korean War in terms of American military effectiveness, its prediction of future US involvement in Asia, and its impact on the American commitment to fighting the Cold War?
• How was this 1950s "Red Scare" era similar to the one at the end of and immediately following World War I?  How was it different?
• What differing opinions did President Johnson's advisors have about Vietnam?
• Why did the American public overwhelmingly support the Vietnam War in 1965?
• Why did the United States forces have difficulty fighting the Vietcong?  What tactics did the Vietcong use that made them hard to beat?