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identify five people or events that are important to American history. Â Your completed assignment will, therefore, include a total of 20 people or events. Provide a picture to illustrate each person or event that you are identifying. Provide the sources that you used in completing this assignment.
• Part #1: Read Chapter 26: Identify 5 items (people, events, or a mixture of both) by answering the questions posed above (“Writing about events†or “Writing about peopleâ€).
• Part #2: Read Chapter 27: Identify 5 items (people, events, or a mixture of both) by answering the questions posed above (“Writing about events†or “Writing about peopleâ€).
• Part #3: Read Chapter 28: Identify 5 items (people, events, or a mixture of both) by answering the questions posed above (“Writing about events†or “Writing about peopleâ€).
• Part #4: Read Chapter 29: Identify 5 items (people, events, or a mixture of both) by answering the questions posed above (“Writing about events†or “Writing about peopleâ€).
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Writing about events/things:
What happened?
Who did it?
When did it occur?
What was it like?
What does it mean relative to the history of the United States?
Why did you identify this event?
Writing about people:
Who was it (What is the person’s background)?
When did she or he live?
What did the person do?
What are the person’s important acts, ideas, and relationships with other figures?
What are the person’s contributions to her or his times relative to the history of the United States?
Why did you identify this person?
Please document all of the sources you used in completing the weekly Historical Knowledge assignments, including the textbook. Â
Documentation is to be according to the Chicago Manual of Style, footing format.
Chapter 29: The Price of Power,
Part Two
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Learning Objectives
Evaluate Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs and their impact on the American economy.
Discuss the reasons for the war in Vietnam, including a discussion of the situation in Vietnam immediately following WWII and in the 1950s. Why did Eisenhower oppose U.S. military assistance to France in the 1950s?
Explain the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and its implications for Lyndon Johnson’s policies in Vietnam.
Explain the Tet Offensive and its importance for American politics at home and the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
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Learning Objectives (Continued)
Discuss the Paris Agreement that ended the Vietnam War for the United States. Why did Le Duc Tho reject his Nobel Prize?
Evaluate the Nixon administration’s domestic agenda.
Understand the meaning and significance of the Watergate affair. Discuss the improprieties of the President and persons in his administration that ultimately led to the President’s resignation.
Describe the accomplishments and failures of the Ford administration.
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Learning Objectives (Continued)
Discuss the platform of Jimmy Carter in 1976 and the factors that contributed to Carter’s electoral victory.
Evaluate the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
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29.1a “The Great Societyâ€
Johnson called for a “War on Poverty.â€
He believed that most of the nation’s poverty resulted from lack of education.
President Johnson’s program was the “Great Society,†which was concerned with eliminating poverty.
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29.1b President in His Own Right
Barry Goldwater was the Republican candidate in 1964.
Johnson was the Democratic nominee, with Hubert Humphrey as his running mate.
The strategy of Goldwater and the Republicans came to be known as the “Southern strategyâ€â€”exploiting the racist sentiments of white Southerners.
Johnson won in a landslide.
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Chapter 28: The Culture of the Postwar Era
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Learning Objectives
Discuss the rise of a consumer society after World War II.
Describe the “corporate economy.â€
Explain the impact of the Baby Boom on the economy and society.
Explain the “dark side†of American society in the 1950s.
Explain the shift in the economy from manufacturing to the white-collar service-sector economy.
Discuss technological advancements in electronics, chemistry, and agriculture and their impact on economics and society.
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Learning Objectives (Continued)
Discuss the rise of a new racial and ethnic consciousness.
Describe the impact of the Brown decision on American society including southern resistance to the court’s ruling.
Discuss the new Civil Rights Movement.
Discuss the new youth culture including the rise of the Beat Generation.
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28.1a The Prosperous American
Ordinary citizens were much more prosperous.
The “Average American†was female, white, and married.
Recreation centered on television.
Popularity of spectator sports, such as the NFL, increased.
The automobile culture and tourism increased.
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28.1b An Affluent Society
Productivity and prosperity were the dominant social facts in America.
High productivity and economic growth included rising wages and low unemployment.
Prosperity owed much to the GI Bill, which provided a college education and home loans to veterans.
Huge population growth—the Baby Boom—also contributed to economic growth.
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28.1c The Toy Boom
Baby boom led to a boom in the manufacture of toys.
Advances in plastic contributed to the toy boom.
Most popular toys were militaristic, but the Hula Hoop, Frisbee, and Barbie also became popular.
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Chapter 26: World War Two
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Learning Objectives
Trace the road to war.
Discuss Japanese ambitions in Asia and the reasons for Japanese expansion.
Describe the rise of the Axis powers in Europe.
Discuss American isolationism and neutrality.
Discuss FDR’s options in the aftermath of the outbreak of war in Europe.
Discuss the saving grace at Pearl Harbor and why the Japanese neither launched a second attack nor searched for American aircraft carriers.
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Learning Objectives (Continued)
Discuss the military strategy that led to an Axis defeat.
Discuss the economic home front during WWII. What roles did women play?
Discuss the Holocaust. Why didn’t FDR bomb the death camps? Why did Eisenhower demand media coverage?
Discuss the reasons for using nuclear weapons against Japan.
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26.1a Breakdown of the Security System
1931: Japanese invaded Manchuria.
Stimson’s Non-recognition Doctrine: The US and League of Nations would not recognize nations created by force.
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26.1b Growing Dangers in Europe
Germany increasingly became unstable.
Nazi party had strong support among veterans, patriots, labor, the military, and nationalists.
Nazis won large number of seats in 1932 election.
Hitler became Chancellor in 1933.
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26.1c Mein Kampf
Hitler’s political philosophy as outlined in Mein Kampf
Germany was not defeated in WWI—it had insufficient food and fuel supplies.
Germany was sold out by Jewish traitors (Dolchstross Myth).
Germany was the master race, but not united.
Germany must annex all German areas (Anschluss).
Germany must annex area for living space (Lebensraum).
Germany must take wheat fields of Eastern Europe for its self-sufficiency in food.
Germany must take oil fields of the Caucasus for self-sufficiency in fuel.
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