April 3-4

EQ:
Who was Emmett Till and how did his murder impact the CRM?
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in securing equal rights for African Americans?

CW:
video clips/notes: the murder of Emmett Till--1955
Money, MS
Montgomery Bus Boycott  (along with clips from Many Rivers)
Claudette Colvin handout 
1957:
Little Rock 9 integrate Central HS (clips from Eyes on the Prize)
1960:
Feb. 1, 1960
lunch counter sit-in movement begins in Greensboro, NC
black college students
Greensboro 4
video clips from Tell Them We Are Rising (47:36-56:38)
EOTP--Diane Nash-Fisk University--Nashville, TN
lunch counter sit-in movement (Feb. 1960-July 1960)
Nov. 1960: Ruby Bridges enrolled in elementary school in NOLA

HW:
Freedom Rides from the BLUE Civil Rights packet

March 22-23

EQ:
What are the origins of the civil rights movement?
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in securing equal rights for African Americans?

CW:
origins of the civil rights movement:
Reconstruction
Jim Crow laws; Era of Terror; convict leasing
de jure segregation vs. de facto segregation
early 20th century: W.E.B. DuBois; Booker T. Washington
1920s: Marcus Garvey; UNIA
WWII--the "Double V"
1948: To Secure These Rights-President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights
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1940s and 1950s: fight against racial segregation in public education
video clip: the NAACP builds its case against school segregation and the Plessy decision--Many Rivers clip
doll test
documents:
video clip: Brown decision
the Brown decision (1954)
Southern Manifesto (1956)   
White Citizens Councils fight against integration--commie plot
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School inequality/segregation in the present:
Tale of Two Schools: school inequality today
Central HS in Alabama
Segregation in Mississippi today
Segregated prom in Georgia

HW:
Read pp. 910-13:
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
Dr. King; SCLC
Sit-in movement

March 20-21

EQ:


CW:
Unit 5 Exam (WWII, Cold War, 1950s America)


HW:
read about the Brown decision and the Southern Manifesto from Civil Rights packet

March 16; 19

EQ:


CW:
small group activities:
essay prep
review b-ball

HW:
STUDY FOR UNIT EXAM

March 14-15

EQ:
What was American life like in the 1950s?

CW:
1950s: A Transformative Decade in American Life
1950s ppt
dating do's and don't's
handout: How to be a good wife
growth of suburbia
Baby Boom
conformity
Rock and Roll comes of age in the 1950s
conspicuous consumption

HW:
REVIEW AND PREP FOR THE UNIT FIVE EXAM

March 12-13

1. What efforts did President Eisenhower make to contain the spread of global communism (1952-60)?
2. How did the fear of nuclear attack impact American life in the 1950s?

CW:
notes: Cold War years under Eisenhower (1952-60)
Eisenhower and the Cold War ppt
Iran: 1953
CIA and Guatemala coup
Guatemala--1954--stop at 5:09
Sputnik I (show image from Cold War ppt)
Sputnik II
Eisenhower's New Look defense plan--1957
Eisenhower Doctrine
MAD; fear of the bomb
Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia (first 10 minutes)
video clips from Atomic Cafe
Nuke Map
video clip:
President Eisenhower warns against the military-industrial complex
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video clip: Vice; season 4; episode #14 on America's nuclear arsenal

HW:
Read
p. 849: baby boom
pp. 852-53 (Car culture)
pp. 854-55 (consumer culture)
pp. 861-62: Rock 'n' Roll

March 8-9

EQ:
How did anti-communist hysteria impact life the United States during the 1940s and 1950s?

CW:
video clips from Atomic Cafe: Operation Crossroads
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Video clip: How to detect a communist
WHO'S THE COMMIE? 
 notes: The Great Fear/Second Red Scare  
video clip from The Crucible:

Truman establishes LRBs
HUAC and video clip on HUAC
video clip: Alger Hiss case
26:3--The Cold War at Home (OVERHEAD NOTES--USE THEM IF ABSENT!)
GREAT LINK FOR COLD WAR AT HOME INFO
McCarthyism
McCarthy's speech in Wheeling, WV--1950
(first 18 minutes; then pick up at 22:30 for McCarthy's downfall)
rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy (elected in 1946; re-elected in 1952)
video clip on McCarthyism
The Rosenbergs arrested in 1950
Truman's response to McCarthy telegram 
Declaration of Conscience
video clips from Atomic Cafe
EXIT TICKET

HW:
review notes for a Cold War notes quiz
QUIZ WILL COVER ALL OF YOUR COLD WAR NOTES

March 6-7

EQ:
What efforts did President Truman take to stop the spread of communism?

CW:
PART ONE OF ESSAY THREE!
Cold War begins (1947)
map of Germany post-WWII 
map of eastern Europe and Soviet domination
notes:  CONTAINMENT OF COMMUNISM
Containment Docs
National Security Act--1947
video clips from The Cold War
clip #1--Truman Doctrine--(first five minutes)
clip #2--Marshall Plan in Greece (23:21--27:50)
map of Berlin
Berlin Airlift--1948
notes: The Cold War Heats Up--Korean War (1950-53)
The Korean War (1950-53)
video clips from Presidents series (Truman)
origins of the war and UN/American troops on the ground
(1:08:22---1:26:30)
stalemate achieved and MacArthur is fired (1:35:16---1:41:17)
MacArthur vs. Truman in public opinion
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North Korea today:
video clip: life in North Korean prison camps
North Korea's horrible human rights record 
March 2016--American college students sentenced to 15 years hard labor
From North Korea with Dread
What war with North Korea would look like

HW:
Read pp. 822-27
Loyalty Review Boards
HUAC
Alger Hiss; The Rosenbergs
Senator Joseph McCarthy's hunt for Commies! 

March 2; March 5

EQ:
Why did the United States use atomic weapons on Japan? 

CW:
video clip: U.S.S. Indianapolis (from The War)
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Atomic Bomb Debate
video clip from The War--bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945) 
small group activity: How should we remember the dropping of the atomic bomb? 
V-J Day--Aug. 15, 1945
 White Light Black Rain (shorter and with translations--SHOW THIS ONE)
White Light & Black Rain (42:33---53:10)
President Obama visits Hiroshima 
discussion on Japanese and German occupations post-WWII
Nuremberg Trials
UN created in 1945
Operation Crossroads--1946
video clip: atomic vets

HW:
Read pp. 810-14
containment; Cold War; Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Berlin Airlift; NATO