Sunday, May 5, 2013

APUSH Assignments Week of 5/6

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for this week.

We are coming down to the "Home Stretch."  It's not going to be easy.  But, I am confident, and proud of all of you!

YOU CAN DO THIS!  DO NOT QUIT!  
Your assignment for this week is tough, but simple.  
1.  READ Chapters 27-30 in the RED APUSH Review Book.

2.  Listen to Lectures 71-80

3. Complete the following questions:


10. What were links between Kennedy’s “New Frontier” and Johnson’s “Great Society”?

11. To what extent was Cuba the sight of Kennedy’s greatest foreign policy success and worst foreign policy fiasco?

12. To what extent was Johnson more successful with his social programs than Kennedy?

13. Over the course of the 1960s, how did the African-American methods of attaining equality evolve?

14. Aside from African-American Civil Rights, what elements of the protest created the New Left?

15. How did Johnson’s handling of Vietnam differ from that of his predecessors?

16. Why was 1968 considered a turning point in American history?

17. What strategy was employed by Nixon to end American involvement in Vietnam?

18. What events led to Nixon’s resignation?

19. What foreign and domestic problems were blamed on Carter?

20. How did Ronald Reagan take America out of its “national malaise”?

21. What role did America have in third world nations during the 1980s?

22. What were the negative effects of Reaganomics?

23. What are the primary characteristics of the New Right?

24. To what extent did the boy band craze of the late 1990s represent all that is wrong with America?

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