APUSH 2024-2025

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...

Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 3- The Red Scare (of the 1950's) Student Learning Objective - Students will explain the causes and effects of the Red Scare after WWII. 8.3 Daily Video on AP Classroom ! Video discussion question #1- Is Communism a threat? Video discussion question #2- What rights do Communists have? Video discussion question #3- Why was McCarthy trying to find Communists in a witch hunt manner (not solid evidence)? Video discussion question #4-What was McCarthy's downfall? Video discussion question #5- What is the truth regarding Alger Hiss? Video discussion question #6- What is the truth regarding Whittaker Chambers? Video discussion question #7- What is the truth regarding the Rosenbergs? Video discussion question #8- What was added to the pledge of allegiance during the Eisenhower presidency? Video discussion question #9- Why? Video discussion question #10- Evaluate the duck and cover drills during the Cold War? “Resolved, That the Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. [Jos...

Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 2- The Cold War from 1945-1980 Student learning objective - Students will be able to explain the continuities and changes in Cold War policies from 1945 to 1980. Harry Truman 60 Second Presidents How did Truman become President? What "chaos" did Truman inherit? What was Truman's background before Presidency? What "bold decisions" did Truman make? What Democratic party policies, from the textbook Chapter 36, did the video elude to? How is the Truman Presidency remembered and why? Dwight Eisenhower 60 Second Presidents What was IKE's background before Presidency? What surprises you about Ike? What is important about Ike? More about "how" the Cold War heated up Mao/China 1949 Korean War Stimulus Analysis-  Stages of the Korean War Stage 1-  Stage 2-  Stage 3- Stage 4-  Stimulus Analysis-  Eisenhower Interstate Highway System Discussion Question #1- What is the purpose of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway Act? Discussion Ques...

Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 2- The Cold War from 1945-1980 Student learning objective - Students will be able to explain the continuities and changes in Cold War policies from 1945 to 1980. 8.2 Daily Video #1 on AP Classroom (absent students should watch) 8.2 Daily Video #2 on AP Classroom  (absent students should watch) "Iron Curtain Speech" “A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies. . . . It is my duty . . . to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe. “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, and Sofia, ...

8.1 Daily Video on AP Classroom  (absent students should watch) Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 1- Contextualization 20th Century USA timeline Student learning objective - Students will explain the context for societal change from 1945 to 1980. Discussion Question #1- What happened before 1945-1980 that you think is important to the time period? Discussion Question #2- What happened between 1945 and 1980 that you know about?! Discussion Question #3- What happened after 1945-1980 that you think was caused by our time period? Discussion Question #4- What would you say continued to be true 1945-1980? Discussion Question #5- What was a change 1945-1980? Period 8 KWL: What do you k now about 1945-1980 in American history? What do you w ant to know? What did you l earn? About the Cold War!  (For absent students) Upcoming schedule : American Pageant Chapter 36 Quiz- WED 1/21 American Pageant Chapter 37 Quiz- TUE 1/27 Period 8 topics 1-7 Exam (midterm period)- FRI 1/30 10:00 AM-11:30 AM