Honors American History
Unit 8:  Turbulent Times – Vietnam and the Civil Rights Struggles

Reading Schedule
In preparation
for class on…	Read…	Identify…	
Terms in bold print should be identified using the “CaDRES” format (if appropriate).	
Wednesday
April 13	Chap 29 – Sec 1
The War Develops	RC – How did Wilson disappoint Ho Chi Minh at Versailles in 1919?
•	Ho Chi Minh, Vietminh
•	domino theory
•	Dien Bien Phu, Geneva Conference
•	Gulf of Tonkin incident (Maddox, Turner Joy), Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
RC – Describe several causes of the Vietnam War.	
Tuesday
April 18	Chap 29 – Sec 2
US Support of the War at Home and Abroad	•	Operation Rolling Thunder, Ho Chi Minh Trail
•	draft law
•	“living room war” (or “television war”)
•	hawks vs. doves
RC - What effect did the media have on public opinion and the war?	
Thursday
April 20	Chap 29 – Sec 3
1968	•	Tet Offensive
•	Election of 1968: division within Democratic party, Democratic Convention in Chicago, Nixon, Wallace, results	
Monday
April 24	Chap 29 – Sec 4
The War Ends	•	Vietnamization
•	silent majority
•	Kent State shooting, antiwar movement
•	My Lai (pronounced ‘ME LIE’) massacre
•	Pentagon Papers case
•	War Powers Act
RC – Identify several effects of the war on American veterans, society, and politics 	
Tuesday
April 25		MID-UNIT 8 QUIZ	
Wednesday
April 26	Chap 28 – Secs 1 & 2
Civil Rights Movement to 1964	•	Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
•	Little Rock crisis, Little Rock “Nine”
•	Montgomery bus boycott, Rosa Parks
•	Martin Luther King, Jr., Southern Christian Leadership Conf.
•	March on Washington, “I have a dream” speech
•	Civil Rights Act (1964)	
Friday
April 28	Chap 28 – Secs 3 & 4
Later Civil Rights Movement	•	Freedom Summer, crisis in Mississippi
•	Selma march, Voting Rights Act (1965)
•	de jure vs. de facto segregation
•	Black Power movement, Stokely Carmichael
•	Black Panthers
RC – How was the Black Power movement different from the earlier, nonviolent civil rights leaders and organizations?	
Monday
May 1	Chap 30 – Sec 1 (to 990)
Women’s Rights Movement	•	Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
•	feminism
•	National Organization for Women
•	Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
•	Roe v. Wade (1973)	
Wednesday & Thursday, May 3 & 4 – Unit 8 Test (Turbulent Times)	

Essay Questions
You will be expected to answer several of these questions in essay form on the unit test, in class, and/or at home.

1)  Analyze the effects of the Vietnam War on each of the following:
o	Southeast Asia (esp. Vietnam itself)
o	veterans and the young people of the Vietnam War era
o	American politics
o	American society

2)  Analyze the reasons why many Americans began to oppose the Vietnam War, especially after 1968.

3)  Evaluate the significance of each of the following on the progress of the Civil Rights Movement: 
o	Brown v. Board of Education
o	Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
o	Civil Rights Act of 1964
o	the Black Power movement

4)  To what extent did African Americans achieve their political, economic, and/or social goals during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s?

5)  Analyze how the modern women’s rights movement affected American society.

Ohio’s Learning Standards
The following content statements from Ohio’s Learning Standards (2012) will be studied in this unit.

The Cold War and the conflict in…Vietnam influenced domestic and international politics.  (CS #26)

Following World War II, the United States experienced a struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil rights.  (CS #28)

The postwar economic boom, greatly affected by advances in science, produced epic changes in American life. 
 (CS #29)