US HISTORY
EQ:
How did Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush impact the presidency?
CW:notes/video clips: The Reagan Years (1981-89)
Jan 1981--Gov't is not the solution...
March 30, 1981: assassination attempt on President Reagan's life
Reaganomics: video clip from AE DVD (Disc #2---11:00---13:50)
1984 campaign ad
Reagan vs. Mondale debate clip
Iran-Contra affair (overview)
video clip: (Disc #3---16:00---23:00); if absent from class, watch this
clip
Reagan at the Berlin Wall--1987
War on Drugs and its effects on African Americans--from Prof Gates DVD
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President George H.W. Bush Years (1989--1993)
Willie Horton ad
Dukakis tank ad
Senator Dan Quayle vs. Senator Lloyd Bentsen debate moment
VP Quayle gaffes
Nov 1989--Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall comes down--1989
President Bush throwing up in Japan--1992
HW:
review notes
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How did Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush impact the presidency?
notes/video clips: The Reagan Years (1981-89)
March 30, 1981: assassination attempt on President Reagan's life
Reaganomics: video clip from AE DVD (Disc #2---11:00---13:50)
1984 campaign ad
Reagan vs. Mondale debate clip
Iran-Contra affair (overview)
video clip: (Disc #3---16:00---23:00); if absent from class, watch this
clip
Reagan at the Berlin Wall--1987
War on Drugs and its effects on African Americans--from Prof Gates DVD
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President George H.W. Bush Years (1989--1993)
Willie Horton ad
Dukakis tank ad
Senator Dan Quayle vs. Senator Lloyd Bentsen debate moment
VP Quayle gaffes
Nov 1989--Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall comes down--1989
1991-Rodney King Beating video shakes America
May 1992-Rodney King Trial verdict
President Bush throwing up in Japan--1992
HW:
Read pp. 928-33