Chapter 28-31 Essentials

You will be expected to know the following topics and answer the following questions (journals) for your designated chapter:

*note: The topics are listed in the order that they are found in the chapter and can be covered by simply answering the journals, which are found in the same order. 

Chapter 28 "Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth 1961-1972

Aim: What were liberalism's social and political achievements in the 1960s, and how did debates over liberal values contribute to conflict at home and reflect tension abroad? 

Topics: 

LBJ and the Great Society

Economic Opportunity Act

Difference between Medicare and Medicaid

Change in Women's status (Rebirth of the Women's Movement)

Equal Pay Act

The Feminine Mystique

Presidential Commission on the Status of Women

The Vietnam War

Public Opinion about the Vietnam War and Student Movement

SDS

The New Left

YAF

counter culture

The Nationalist Turn

Women's Liberation

Stonewall and Gay Liberation

Nixon in Vietnam (detante, silent majority)

1972 Elections

Journal 161 - What new roles did the federal government assume under Great Society initiatives, and how did they extend the New Deal tradition? 

Journal 162 - What factors accounted for the resurgence of feminism in the 1960s? 

Journal 163 - In what larger context did President Johnson view the Vietnam conflict, and why was he determined to support South Vietnam? 

Journal 164 - Contrast the political views of the SDS, the YAF, and the counterculture. How would you explain the differences? 

Journal 165 - What changed between 1965 and 1968, and how did these developments affect national political life? 

Journal 166 - Why might a Democratic supporter of FDR in the 1940s have decided to vote for Republican Richard Nixon in 1968? 

Journal 167 - How did the antiwar movement, women's liberation, and gay liberation break with an earlier liberal politics? 

Journal 168 - How was President Nixon's Vietnam policy different from President Johnson's? 

Chapter 29 "The Search for Order in an Era of Limits" 1973-1980

Aim: How did the legacy of social changes - such as shifting gender roles, civil rights, and challenges to the family - in the 1960s continue to reverberate in the 1970s, leading to both new opportunities and political disagreement? 

Topics: 

Energy Crisis and Environmentalism

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Earth Day

stagflation

Deindustrialization and Rust Belt

Urban Crisis and Suburban Revolt

tax revolt

Watergate, War Powers Act, Freedom of Information Act, and Ethics in Government Act

Political Realignment

Deregulation

Affirmative Action

The Women's Movement, Gay Rights (Harvey Milk) and Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Roe v. Wade

After the Warren Court

Sexual Revolution

The Fourth Great Awakening

Journal 169 - What major factors led to the birth of the environmental movement in the 1970s?

Journal 170 - How did cities and suburbs experience the "era of limits" differently, and why? 

Journal 171 - What changed and what remained the same in American politics as a result of the Watergate scandal?

Journal 172 - What kind of president did Jimmy Carter hope to be, and how successful was he at implementing his agenda? 

Journal 173 - How did affirmative action evolve between 1961 and 1978? 

Journal 174 - How did the idea of civil rights expand during the 1970s? 

Journal 175 - Why did the struggles of working families become more prominent in the 1970s, and what social and economic concerns did those families have? 

Journal 176 - What were three major consequences of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s? 

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Chapter 30 "Conservative America in the Ascent" 1980-1991

Aim: what factors made the rise of the New Right possible, and what ideas about freedom and citizenship did conservatives articulate in the 1980s?  

Topics: 

The Rise of the New Right, Grassroots Conservatives

Free-Market Economics and Religious Conservatism

National Review, Religious Right

The Carter Presidency, Hostage Crisis

Election of 1980 and the Dawning of the Conservative Age

Reagan Democrats

Reaganomics

supply-side economics 

national debt

deregulation

HIV/AIDS

The End of the Cold War!!!

U.S.-Soviet Relations in a New Era

Iran-Contra, Sandinistas, Contras

glasnost and perestroika

A New Political Order at Home and Abroad (election of 1988, Middle East, Persian Gulf War)

Journal 177 - Why was the New Right disappointed with the Republican Party in the decades after WWII?

Journal 178 - What was the "three-legged stool" of the New Right, and how did each leg develop within the context of the Cold War? 

Journal 179 - In terms of presidential politics and policy, how successful was Jimmy Carter's term, coming between two Republicans (Nixon and Reagan)?

Journal 180 - What different constituencies made up the Reagan coalition, and how would you characterize their regional, geographic, class, and racial composition? 

Journal 181 - Why was Reagan unable to reduce federal expenditures as much as many of his supporters had hoped? 

Journal 182 - In what ways did American society embrace economic success and individualism in the 1980s? 

Journal 183 - How did Reagan's approach to the Soviet Union change between 1981 and 1989?

Journal 184 - Why did the United States intervene in the conflicts between Iraq and Iran and between Iraq and Kuwait? 

Chapter 31 "Confronting Global and National Dilemmas" 1989 to the Present 

Aim: How has globalization affected American politics, economics, and society? 

Topics: 

Al Qaeda

Globalization

WTO

Rise of EU and China

G8

NAFTA

multinational corporations

Revolutions in Technology, World Wide Web

culture war

Immigration and Nationality Act

multiculturalism, Proposition 209

Family Values (Abortion, Gay Rights, Defense of Marriage Act, Planned Parenthood case, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, Lawrence v. Texas

The Republican Resurgence

Post-Cold War Foreign Poilcy

Yugoslavia

American and the Middle East

Into a new Century: tax cuts, 9/11

Invasion of Iraq

USA Patriot Act

Abu Ghraib prison

The Obama Presidency

climate change

Journal 185 - What were the major consequences for the United States of the economic rise of China and the European Union? 

Journal 186 - What were the potential benefits and risks of globalization to the United States and other countries? 

Journal 187 - How did anti-immigrant sentiment increase between the 1960s and the 1990s and what sorts of actions were taken by those opposed to immigration? 

Journal 188 - How did clashes over "family values" alter American politics in the 1990s? 

Journal 189 - What made President Clinton a "New Democrat," and how much did his proposals differ from traditional liberal objectives? 

Journal 190 - In what specific ways were foreign policy developments during the Clinton presidency evidence of the end of the Cold War? 

Journal 191 - In what ways was George H.W. Bush a political follower of Ronald Reagan? In what ways was he not? 

Journal 192 - As the nation's first African American president, what kinds of unique challenges did Barack Obama face, and how did these issues impact his presidency?