APUSH 2024-2025

Nixon Resignation Speech Text Nixon Resignation Speech Video Discussion Question #1- What is the Historical Situation at this time? Discussion Question #2- What is President Nixon's point of view? Discussion Question #3- What is his intended audience? Discussion Question #4- What is the purpose of this speech? Maybe this will help-  Nixon leaving resignation Discussion Question #5- Based on this, is Nixon's pardon justified? Ford pardoning of Nixon text Ford Pardoning Proclamation Video Discussion Question #5- What historical development is occurring because of Ford's actions? Discussion Question #6- What is the supporting evidence Ford uses for his action? Discussion Question #7- Is this justified?  Why or why not? Discussion Question #8- What cultural trends do the JFK assassination, the war in Vietnam and Watergate cause in America?

Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 14- Society in Transition (continued) Student learning objective - Explain the causes and effects of continuing policy debates about the role of the federal government over time. 1979-  Camp David What happened? Why is this important? Explain whether this displays change or continuity in US Middle East policy 1945-1980? 1979-  3 Mile Island What happened? Why is this important? Compare the public perception of nuclear power in 1979 and today. Compare the public perception of nuclear weapons in 1979 and today. What are the top concerns about the environment in 2025? 1979-  Iranian Hostage Crisis Why did Iranians take US Hostages? Why did the Iranian extremists let the hostages go? What is our takeaway from this? How does 1979 compare or contrast to 2025 as far as US-Middle East policy or relations?

Students watch  8.14 Daily Video on AP Classroom  (Students can watch on their own sometime) Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 14- Society in Transition Student learning objective - Explain the causes and effects of continuing policy debates about the role of the federal government over time. Political Spectrum Left                                                                      Center                                                                 Right Question #1- Would you say you identify as conservative or liberal?  Explain. Question #2- What did liberals claim was wrong with the ...

8.13 Daily Video 1 on AP Classroom (students watch on their own) Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 13- The environment and natural resources from 1968 to 1980 Student Learning Objective - Explain how and why policies related to the environment developed and changed from 1968 to 1980. Discussion Question #1- How would you  describe the trend in crude oil imports to the United States from 1950 to 1970 as depicted in the graph? Discussion Question #2- How would you    describe the trend in crude oil imports to the United States between 1970 and 1980 as depicted in the graph? Discussion Question #3-  What  best describes an interpretation of the overall trend in the graph of United States crude oil consumption between 1950 and 1980 ? Discussion Question #4- How did the National Energy Crisis affect US importation of crude oil?  See Jan 16, 1979 Discussion Question #5- What else happened in the time period related to the learning objective? See March 28, 1979 on the t...

8.12 Daily Video on AP Classroom (You can watch this but the rest is more important) Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 12- Youth Culture of the 1960's Student Learning Objective - Explain how and why opposition to existing policies and values developed and changed over the course of the 20th Century. “I am forty-nine years old. It took me years of considerable anguish to get where I am. . . . I was nurtured in the Depression; I lost four years to war; I have had one coronary; I am a ‘liberal,’ a square and a professor of history. “As such, I am supposed to have ‘liaison’ with the young. But the fact is that I am fed up with hippies, Yippies, militants and nonsense. . . . “Every generation makes mistakes, always has and always will. We have made our share. But my generation has made America the most affluent country on earth; it has tackled, head-on, a racial problem which no nation on earth in the history of mankind had dared to do. It has publicly declared war on poverty and it has gone ...

8.11 Daily video #1 on AP Classroom ( watch on your own before summative assessments) 8.11 Daily Video #2 on AP Classroom (watch on your own before summative assessments) Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 11- The Civil Rights Movement Expands Student Learning Objective - Explain how and why various groups responded to calls for the expansion of Civil Rights. “The systematic exclusion of persons of Mexican descent from service as jury commissioners, grand jurors, and petit jurors in the Texas county in which petitioner was indicted and tried for murder, although there were a substantial number of such persons in the county fully qualified to serve, deprived petitioner, a person of Mexican descent, of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, and his conviction in a state court is reversed.” United States Supreme Court, ruling in  Hernandez  v.  Texas , 1954 Discussion Question #1- What right did people of Mexican descent NOT have before the 1950's?...