Unit 11- The 1980s and 1990s

Ch. 33 Section 4- Foreign Policy After the Cold War

1.     Identify Mikhail Gorbachev.

2.     What led to the collapse of Communist regimes in Europe?

3.     Explain the events in Tiananmen Square.

4.     Explain what happened during the Iran-Contra Scandal.

5.     Why did the Persian Gulf War begin?

6.     Identify the purpose of Operation Desert Storm.

7.     Summarize President George H. Bush’s presidency.

Ch. 34, Section 1- The 1990s and the New Millennium

8.     Summarize the 1992 election. Candidates? Clinton’s platform?

9.     Explain the role of Hillary R. Clinton.

10. Explain the economy and welfare under Clinton.

11. Identify crime and terrorist events that took place in the 1990s.

12. Summarize foreign policy under Clinton, including the role of NAFTA.

13. Who was Newt Gingrich?

14. Summarize the 1996 election.

15. Explain the impeachment process against Clinton.

16. Summarize the 2000 election and why it was controversial.

17. Explain George W. Bush’s antiterrorist measures, was against Iraq, and domestic agenda.

Unit 10 Test Guide

Unit 10 Test Guide- The Cold War Era 1950s-1970s

-       Why was there a post WWII economic boom?

-       Identify the post war migrations that took place, and the reasons for them.

-       Identify the effects of the 1950s baby boom

-       What were the post war goals of the U.S and the Soviet Union

-       Years of the Cold War

-       Role of Yalta Conference; United Nations

-       The Iron Curtain

-       Containment policy and Truman Doctrine

-       Why did the Berlin Airlift occur?

-       Purpose of NATO, Warsaw Pact

-       Why was 1949 a year of shocks?

-       Why did the Korean War take place? Outcome?

-       JFK’s New Frontier program

-       Why did Soviets build Berlin Wall in 1961?

-       JFK’s policy of flexible response

-       Reason for and outcome of the Bay of Pigs Invasion

-       Reason for and outcome of Cuban Missile Crisis

-       LBJ’s Great Society

-       Why did America become involved in Vietnam? Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; TET Offensive;

-       The Earl Warren Court liberal decisions (know the cases)

-       Link the rise of liberalism in the 1960s to the rise of conservatism in the 1970s

-       Know the difference between the beliefs of liberals and conservatives

-       What caused the economic decline of the 1970s? (besides the oil crisis)

-       Were the decisions of the Warren Burger court liberal or conservative, why?

-       Identify the significance of Title IX

-       Explain Richard Nixon’s domestic policy of New Federalism. Was it conservative or liberal?

-       Why did the energy crisis occur in 1973? Role of OPEC. Effect on America?

-       What happened during the Watergate scandal?

-       Questions raised from the 1970s.

-       Explain Nixon’s foreign policy of detente

A Class Divided

A Class Divided

In 1968 Jane Elliot of Ricetown, Iowa was supposed to teach a Sioux Indian lesson to her third grade class with the prayer "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes." However, the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated, she decided her students needed a life-long lesson. As a result, her brown eyes, blue eyes experiment taught her third graders an influential lesson on discrimination.

Choose one of the following questions and write a one page typed response, citing specific examples from the program. (font size 12, double-spaced)


Click below for the video program if you need to watch it again. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/

1. What did you learn from the program? What scenes do you remember the most? Did any part of the film surprise you? Also explain how easily children (and even adults) are molded in their thinking and behavior. How did the negative and positive labels placed on the group become self-fulfilling prophecies? Be sure to discuss the children's/adults’ body language.

 2. How did Jane Elliot's discrimination create no-win situations for those placed in the inferior group? How did she selectively interpret behavior to conform the stereotypes she assigned? Explain the results.