APUSH 2024-2025

Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 7- America as a World Power Student Learning Objective - Explain the various military and diplomatic responses to international developments over time. 60 Second Presidents- JFK What are the most important things about JFK? Lecture and discussion- KEEP UP and ask questions! New Frontier Open Skies Proposal? 1960- U2 Incident Peace Corps Alliance for Progress "The Best and the Brightest" Flexible Response 1961- Bay of Pigs Invasion -Why do this? -What went wrong? -What are the repercussions?  1962- Cuban Missile Crisis -How does the US know? -Why does the USSR do it? -Why does Castro accept? -What does JFK give as an ultimatum? -What military force does the USA exert? -What is the outcome? film clips- 1963-  JFK assassination What do we know happened? What is a theory and why? HW- American Pageant Stormy Sixties Quiz is Friday. February 13

8.7 Daily Video on AP Classroom  shared for later studying Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 7- America as a World Power Student Learning Objective - Explain the various military and diplomatic responses to international developments over time. “We face a hostile ideology—global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. . . . To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather . . . the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle—with liberty the stake. . . . “Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. . . . We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations. “This conjunction of ...

8.6 Daily Video on AP Classroom (absent students should watch) Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 6- Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940's and 1950's) Student Learning Objective - Explain how and why the Civil Rights movements developed and expanded from 1945-1960 Discussion Question #1- Explain thoroughly the result within the 1950's of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas . Discussion Question #2- What time period and historical situation is similar to this resistance to comply with Federal law? Discussion Question #3- What is the only way to integrate/desegregate when State Governors, city mayors, police commissioners, etc. disobey federal law? Discussion Question #4- What caused Civil Rights to be in the focus of national attention in the 1940's, 1950's and on? Essential Question #8-  How has the rise of Mass Media influenced and transformed Culture ? Discussion Question #5- What role did the legislative branch play in Civil Rights? Strom Thurmond...

8.5 Daily Video on AP Classroom What are the traditional gender roles from the 1950's? What was the advantage of living in Levittown or a comparable suburb? Why was Levittown a good business model for the company and customers? What things mentioned in the video are still big American institutions? (continuity) Why reject the conformity of the 1950's? After the rare (but important) examples of rebels in the 1950's, what movements emerged in the 1960's and 1970's? (Change) Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 5- American Culture after 1945 Student Learning Objective - Explain how mass culture has been challenged or maintained over time. “[The Organization men] are not the workers, nor are they the white-collar people in the usual, clerk sense of the word. These people only work for The Organization. . . . They are the ones of our middle class who have left home . . . to take the vows of organization life, and it is they who are the mind and soul of our great self-perpetuating ...

Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 4- US Economy after 1945 (continued) 8.4 Daily Video #2 on AP Classroom Student Learning Objective - Explain the causes and effects of economic growth and migration after WWII. “Question: When is a dollar more than a dollar? “Answer: When it’s used in Levittown, the most perfectly planned community in America! “Anybody can build a house and charge a lot of money for it. But it’s news—big news—when you can find a house . . . to buy for only $8,990. It’s a beauty with 3 and a half delightful rooms. “PLUS professionally landscaped grounds. . . . “PLUS a complete bath with a tub, toilet, shower, basin . . . “PLUS . . . all-steel kitchen cabinets, a stainless steel sink . . . “PLUS free use of Levittown’s championship swimming pools, “PLUS free use of all playgrounds, baseball fields, play areas. . . . “So if you don’t want to be disappointed, come out as soon as you can—today if possible.” Advertisement for Levitt and Sons housing development in Levittown, Pennsy...

8.4 Daily Video #1 on AP Classroom (Absent students should watch) Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 4- US Economy after 1945 Student learning objective - Explain the causes of economic growth in the years after WWII. Growing private sector Industries that experienced growth in the 1950's -Aerospace -Automobile -Credit Cards -Television -Commercial airlines -Air conditioning -Franchises of the 1940's McDonald's Dick's Sporting Goods -Franchises of the 1950's Dunkin New 1950's companies Discussion Question #1- Which companies founded in the 1950's play a large role in America?   Discussion Question #2- What role do they play? -Baby boom Discussion Question #3- What happened to the US birth rate after 1945? Discussion Question #4- Why? Amount of Baby Boomers in US population Discussion Question #5- What role do Baby Boomers play today? Discussion Question #6- Explain the birth rate trend after 1965. Technological advancements Inventions of the 1940's Independent Q...