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AP U.S. History Name: ______________________________

Mr. Briscoe Third/Fourth Quarter

UNIT OVERVIEW: RISE TO GLOBALISM

The unit title borrows its name from the book, Rise to Globalism, by historians Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley, which traces the evolution of America's emergence as a superpower in the mid- to late-twentieth century. The threat of fascism in the 1930s forced Americans to reassess their traditional preference for isolationism. The shock of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 awakened the U.S. out of its neutrality and set it on a path toward increasing global responsibility and activism. By 1945, the combination of American industrial power and military might, which had been crucial to the defeat of the Axis, confirmed U.S. leadership of the Western world. Ideological and strategic conflict with Stalin’s Soviet Union compelled the nation to move quickly from victory in World War II into a forty-year-long Cold War that challenged America to fulfill its new role as a global policeman. Even as most Americans enjoyed unparalleled prosperity at home, the demands of international leadership strained the country’s physical and psychological resources. By the 1960s, the civil rights movement and Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” culminated in sweeping social reforms that promised a brighter future ahead. However, the combination of the Vietnam War, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and the Watergate scandal called into question America’s ability to preserve its ideals in the face of hard international and domestic realities. The Reagan Era of the 1980s witnessed a revived economy and the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the USSR in 1991 left America standing as the world’s only remaining superpower.

Essential Questions

How and why did the United States emerge as a global superpower in the twentieth century?

How and why did the United States experience a cultural/social revolution in the post-war period?

Schedule of Topics/Activities

W Mar 21 (A) New Deal & Unit Review; Introduction to the Unit & AP Exam Review

TH Mar 22 (B)

F Mar 23 (A) Quiz: Boom, Bust, & New Deal & FRQ Essay Test

M Mar 26 (B) DUE: New Deal DBQ Essay Summaries/Outline (moved back from March 19/20)

T Mar 27 (A) Focus: U.S. Presidents, 1933-Present; The Threat of Totalitarianism

W Mar 28 (B)

TH Mar 30(A) World War II; Focus: Dropping the Bomb

F Mar 30 (B) READ: The Enduring Vision: Ch. 25

DUE: Ch. 25 Identifications and Short Essays (distributed 3-21/22)

SPRING BREAK

T Apr 10 (A) DBQ Outline Discussion; Focus Quiz: 1940s; The Cold War (Overview)

W Apr 11 (B) DUE: “Dropping the Bomb” DBQ Summaries/Outline (distributed 3-23/26)

TH Apr 12 (A) The Civil Rights Movement

F Apr 13 (B)

M Apr 16 (A) DBQ Writing Lab: The Civil Rights Movement

T Apr 17 (B) *includes preparation and writing in one class period*

DUE: All materials for 1950s decades presentations (see guidelines)

W Apr 18 (A) The 1950s (includes decade presentation)

TH Apr 19 (B) DUE: All materials for 1960s decades presentations (see guidelines)

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F Apr 20 (A) The 1960s (includes decade presentation)

M Apr 23 (B) DUE: All materials for 1970s decades presentations (see guidelines)

T Apr 24 (A) The 1970s (includes decade presentation)

W Apr 25 (B) DUE: All materials for 1980s decades presentations (see guidelines)

TH Apr 26 (A) The 1980s (includes decade presentation)

F Apr 27 (B)

M Apr 30 (A) America & the “New World Order”; Unit Review

T May 1 (B) DUE: 1. Decade/Top Ten Summary Paper for AP Review (see guidelines)

2. Thematic Connections Sheets (see AP review guidelines)

W May 2 (A) Unit Test: Rise to Globalism; AP Exam Review

TH May 3 (B)

F May 4 (A) AP Exam Review

M May 7 (B) *bring summary packet and all AP review materials*

T May 8 (A) AP Exam Review

W May 9 (B) *bring summary packet and all AP review materials*

TH May 10 (A) AP Exam Review

*bring summary packet and all AP review materials*

Friday, May 11 (8:00 A.M.) - AP EXAM – bring pencil, pens, watch, and photo ID

F May 11(B) AP Exam Discussion/Evaluation; SOL Practice Test

M May 14 (B)

T May 15 (A) SOL Test for United States & Virginia History

W May 16 (B) (schedule to be determined)

Changes in Grade Structure for 4th Quarter

Unlike previous quarters, fourth quarter will have a different grading structure as follows:

Decades Presentations & DBQ Essay Test (30%) – replaces essay test grade for the quarter (15% for each).

Unit Test & AP Review Materials (20%) – replaces quiz grade for the quarter (10% for each).

4th Quarter Exhibit: Meeting of the Minds or Debate (20%) – following the AP exam on May 11 and SOL tests on May 15/16, you will be given the option of working on a Meeting of the Minds discussion or a formal debate on topics that we will develop together in class. Both activities follow the same format that we used with exhibits earlier in the year, although the focus will be on modern American history (1945-2001). Seminars and debates will be presented during the last two weeks of school starting on May 29/30 and will also constitute 50% of your second semester exam grade.

Homework/Class Focus (30%) – as in previous quarters.

Unit Test

The unit test will take the first 45 minutes of the class period on Wednesday/Thursday May 2/3 and will constitute 10% of your fourth quarter grade. Unlike previous unit tests, this test will consist of 45 multiple-choice questions covering content from throughout the unit.

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Decades Presentations

Students will work in teams to prepare and present on one of four decades in the late 1900s. Guidelines will be provided separately in class on March 22/22. The assignment constitutes 15% of the overall grade for fourth quarter.

AP Exam Review & AP Exam

We will spend a significant portion of the unit reviewing for the AP Exam, which is scheduled for the morning of Friday, May 11. Information on the AP Exam itself (including what to bring, forms to complete, etc.) will be made available in late April.

Additional review sessions will be offered before and after school for students who want to have additional review prior to the exam. See additional details on the separate handout that provides the review session schedule. Extra credit (up to 5% for the overall fourth quarter grade) is available.

Note on Homework Reading Assignments for “The Rise to Globalism”

To help alleviate some of the pressure prior to the AP Exam, you are not expected to do written work for most of the textbook assignments (chps. 26-31), especially since there is a great deal of material to cover and you will also be working on a long-term AP reviewassignment. You are expected to read the material and be familiar with the terms listed for each chapter. The Decades Presentations in April will help fill us in on important details from the reading. Ch. 25 homework (due March 29/30) is required.

Read Boyer, Ch. 26, “The Cold War Abroad and at Home, 1945-1952," and

Ch. 27, “America at Midcentury, 1952-1960”

Key Terms:

Demobilization/GI Bill of Rights

Bretton Woods Agreement/IMF/World Bank/GATT

Employment Act of 1946/Council of Economic Advisers

George F. Kennan/containment/Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift/North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)/Warsaw Pact

Chinese Revolution/hydrogen bomb/NSC-68/National Security Council

Korean War/Douglas MacArthur

Taft-Hartley Act/President’s Committee on Civil Rights/Fair Deal

Election of 1948/Dixiecrats/Strom Thurmond/Henry A. Wallace/Thomas Dewey

House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)/Federal Employeee Loyalty Program

Alger Hiss/Whittaker Chambers/Klaus Fuchs/Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Joseph R. McCarthy/McCarthyism/McCarran Internal Security Act

Election of 1952/Adlai Stevenson/Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dynamic conservatism/Interstate Highway Act/Army-McCarthy hearings

Earl Warren/Warren Court/Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Southern Manifesto/Little Rock Central High School/Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960

John Foster Dulles/brinkmanship/atoms for peace/new look defense program

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)/Allen Dulles/covert action/Iran/Guatemala

Vietminh/Ho Chi Minh/Dienbienphu/domino theory

Gamal Abdel Nasser/Suez Crisis/Eisenhower Doctrine

Fidel Castro/U-2 incident/military-industrial complex

John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society

International Business Machines (IBM)/computers

David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd/credit cards/consumerism/suburbia/Sun Belt/Levittown

Baby boom/Dr. Benjamin Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Domesticity/Billy Graham/religious revival/television culture/rock and roll/Beats

Rosa Parks/Martin Luther King, Jr./Montgomery bus boycott/civil disobedience/SCLC

Sputnik/NASA/National Defense Education Act

Read Boyer, Ch. 28, “The Liberal Era, 1960-1968” and Ch. 29,

“A Time of Upheaval, 1968-1974”

Key Terms:

John F. Kennedy/Richard Nixon/Election of 1960

New Frontier/Robert McNamara/Robert Kennedy

Rachel Carson/Silent Spring/Clean Air Act

Peace Corps/Laos/Bay of Pigs/Nikita Khrushchev/Berlin Wall/Cuban Missile Crisis

Lyndon B. Johnson

War on Poverty/Economic Opportunity Act/VISTA/Project Head Start/Great Society

Election of 1964/Barry Goldwater

Eighty-Ninth Congress/Medicaid/Medicare/Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Thurgood Marshall/Baker v. Carr/Miranda v. Arizona

Freedom riders/SNCC/James Meredith

Bull Connor/George Wallace/March on Washington/Civil Rights Act of 1964/EEOC

Mississippi Freedom Summer Project/Voting Rights Act of 1965/Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Race riots/Kerner Commission/Black Power/Malcolm X/Nation of Islam/Black Panthers

Cesar Chavez/La Causa/chicanos

National Organization for Women (NOW)/Betty Friedan/The Feminine Mystique/women’s lib

Ngo Dien Diem/Vietcong

Vietnam War/Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/Operation Rolling Thunder/hawks and doves

New Left/Students for a Democratic Society/Port Huron Statement

Berkeley Free Speech Movement/New Mobilization/Kent State

Counter culture/hippies/Timothy Leary/Ken Kesey/Woodstock/Haight-Ashbury

Sexual revolution/Roe v. Wade/gay liberation

Eugene McCarthy/Tet Offensive/Robert Kennedy/James Earl Ray

Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968/Yippies/Hubert Humphrey

Richard Nixon/Henry Kissinger/Nixon Doctrine

My Lai massacre/William Calley/Vietnamization

1972 Christmas bombing/Paris Accords

détente/opening to China/SALT I

Six-Day War/Palestinian Liberation Organization

Yom Kippur War/Arab oil embargo/shuttle diplomacy/Chile/Salvador Allende

Apollo 11/Neil Armstrong

Environmental Protection Agency/Occupational Health and Safety Administration

Stagflation

Huston Plan/ the plumbers/Daniel Ellsberg/Pentagon Papers

Southern strategy/Warren Burger/Spiro Agnew

Election of 1972/George McGovern/Committee to Re-Elect the President

Watergate/John Sirica/Woodward and Bernstein/Archibald Cox/Sam Ervin/John Dean

Saturday Night Massacre/Gerald Ford/Nixon’s resignation

Read Boyer, Ch. 30, “Society, Politics, and World Events from Ford to Reagan, 1974-1989”

and Ch. 31, “Beyond the Cold War: Charting a New Course, 1988-1995”

Key Terms:

Yuppies/VCRs/Three Mile Island

Roe v. Wade/Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)/AIDS/Moral Majority/televangelists

Gerald R. Ford/WIN/Mayaguez incident/Election of 1976

Jimmy Carter/Love Canal/Panama Canal Treaty/SALT II/Iran hostage crisis/Camp David

Ronald Reagan/Reagan Revolution/Reaganomics/deregulation/Contras/Grenada/Beirut bombings

SDI/Election of 1984/Iran-Contra Affair/Mikhail Gorbachev/START/INF Treaty/Pan Am 103

George H.W. Bush/end of the Cold War/invasion of Panama/Gulf War

Election of 1992/Pat Buchanan/H. Ross Perot

Bill Clinton/NAFTA/health care reform/welfare reform/Republican Revolution (1994)

Multiculturalism/immigration patterns/growing diversity/the “new economy”/culture wars

APUSH: Chapter 25 Identifications & Short Essay Questions

Identifications: Make sure that you are familiar with the following terms for class discussion, quizzes, and the unit essay test. You are not expected to write out definitions.

Good Neighbor policy/Nye Committee/Neutrality Acts/St. Louis

Election of 1940/Wendell Wilkie/America First Committee

Lend-lease/Atlantic Charter/Reuben James

Tripartite (Axis) Pact/Hideki Tojo/Pearl Harbor

War Powers Act/Joint Chiefs of Staff/Office of Strategic Services (OSS)/the Pentagon

War Production Board/War Manpower Commission/National War Labor Board

Office of Price Administration/Office of War Mobilization

Henry J. Kaiser/agribusiness/rationing/war bonds/Revenue Act of 1942

Office of Scientific Research and Development/ENIAC/Manhattan Project

Office of War Information

Operation Torch/Battle of the Atlantic/Operation Overlord/D-Day/Battle of the Bulge

Battle of Midway/Chester Nimitz/Guadalcanal/island-hopping

GIs/"Rosie the Riveter"/"Double V" campaign/CORE/A. Philip Randolph/Executive Order 8802

Japanese-American internment

Big Three/Yalta/Potsdam/The Holocaust

Iwo Jima/Okinawa/Enola Gay/Hiroshima & Nagasaki/atomic bomb

Short Essay Questions

(due at the start of class Thursday, March 29 – A day; Friday, March 30 – B day)

Answer the following questions. Aim for one fully-developed paragraph per response.

1. How did the American people respond to the international crises of the 1930s? Consider isolationism and the attitude towards Jewish refugees.

2. In what ways did FDR’s administration move the country toward war prior to December 1941? Consider policies aimed at helping other countries resist Axis expansion and efforts to put the country on a war footing.

3. How did America mobilize for war in World War II? Consider government organizations, major economic and social trends, and the role of technological innovation.

4. Describe United States military strategy in the European and Pacific theaters from 1942 to 1945. Identify at least three major campaigns, battles, and/or strategies in each theater of the war.

5. How did the war affect the role of women, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Japanese-Americans in American society?

6. Was President Truman justified in ordering the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945? Offer reasons to support your views.

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