I. War in Vietnam
A. Anti-Communist Context:
Containment and Domino Thinking
Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945
"All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free. The Declaration of the French Revolution…states: "All men are born free and with equal rights, and must always remain free and have equal rights." Those are undeniable truths. Yet, the French imperialists, abusing the standard of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, have violated our Fatherland and oppressed our fellow citizens. They have acted contrary to the ideals of humanity and justice. In the field of politics, they have deprived our people of every democratic liberty.
B. Escalation
1. Advisors:
2. Lyndon Baines Johnson "Great Society"
Head Start
Upward Bound
Job Corps
Volunteers in Service to America
Office of Economic Opportunity
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Immigration Act of 1965
Public Works and Economic Development Act
Clean Air Act
Highway Safety Act
R and D bills
Historic Preservation Act
Crime bills
Medicaire
Medicaid
Affirmative Action
2. Gulf of Tonkin
3. Rolling Thunder
4. The Crucial Year: 1968
a. Anti-War Movement—SDS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdeCxJmcAo fixin to die rag country joe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg war Edwin starr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AvrZCYvVQI ohio Crosby stills nash young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWkWSLEW-Ds masters of war dylan
b. The Tet Offensive
c. Enter Tricky Dick: "secret plan"
II. Watergate
A. Break-In/Cover-Up
B. Reform:
1. War Powers Act of 1973
2. Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act
3. Fair Campaign Act of 1974
4. Freedom of Information Act
5. --Attitude Adjustment--
III. Losing a War:
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Rights of Nature
I. Origins:
A. The Idea: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
B. The Event: The Santa Barbara Spill
II. Effect:
A. Politicizing a Community:
a. GOO
b. Earth Day
B. SF Bay Cons and Dvpt Commission
C. EPA
D. California Environmental Quality Act
E. California Coastal Act of 1976
F. Clean Air Act of 1990
III. Significance
A. The Idea: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
B. The Event: The Santa Barbara Spill
II. Effect:
A. Politicizing a Community:
a. GOO
b. Earth Day
B. SF Bay Cons and Dvpt Commission
C. EPA
D. California Environmental Quality Act
E. California Coastal Act of 1976
F. Clean Air Act of 1990
III. Significance
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
FINAL EXAM TIME
Here's the source:
http://www.csub.edu/documents/finalExamSched/finalExam_Winter_2010.pdf
The final exam is Wed, the 17th, from 11 to 1:30.
http://www.csub.edu/documents/finalExamSched/finalExam_Winter_2010.pdf
The final exam is Wed, the 17th, from 11 to 1:30.
Monday, March 8, 2010
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
History 232/Winter 2010
FORMAT: Two Essays, one short, one long
I. ESSAY ONE: SINCE THE MIDTERM (NEW DEAL TO THE 1970S) (40%)
The final exam will have one of the following essay questions:
1. What were the most important reforms of the New Deal? How effective were they in solving the problems of the Great Depression?
2. What lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the two landmark pieces of Civil Rights legislation?
3. Why was there so much radicalism in the 1960s?
II. ESSAY TWO: CUMULATIVE ESSAY (60%)
The final exam will have the following THREE essay questions. You will write on one of the three:
1. How did the U.S. change as a result of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, AND the War in Vietnam? Judging from the nation’s experience of war, can you make some generalization regarding the impact of war on a country?
2. Discuss the social and political transformation that the country went through during Progressivism, the New Deal, AND the changes associated with the 1960s. Which of these periods of reform ushered in the most profound social change? Which period resulted in the deepest political shift?
3. The idea of Upton Sinclair's _Jungle_ became a reality with the focusing event of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. President Roosevelt's idea of internationalism was made real by the event of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The idea of environmentalism in Carson's _Silent Spring_ became a reality with the focusing event of the Santa Barbara oil spill.
Discuss the relationship between ideas and events in causing historical change.
FORMAT: Two Essays, one short, one long
I. ESSAY ONE: SINCE THE MIDTERM (NEW DEAL TO THE 1970S) (40%)
The final exam will have one of the following essay questions:
1. What were the most important reforms of the New Deal? How effective were they in solving the problems of the Great Depression?
2. What lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the two landmark pieces of Civil Rights legislation?
3. Why was there so much radicalism in the 1960s?
II. ESSAY TWO: CUMULATIVE ESSAY (60%)
The final exam will have the following THREE essay questions. You will write on one of the three:
1. How did the U.S. change as a result of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, AND the War in Vietnam? Judging from the nation’s experience of war, can you make some generalization regarding the impact of war on a country?
2. Discuss the social and political transformation that the country went through during Progressivism, the New Deal, AND the changes associated with the 1960s. Which of these periods of reform ushered in the most profound social change? Which period resulted in the deepest political shift?
3. The idea of Upton Sinclair's _Jungle_ became a reality with the focusing event of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. President Roosevelt's idea of internationalism was made real by the event of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The idea of environmentalism in Carson's _Silent Spring_ became a reality with the focusing event of the Santa Barbara oil spill.
Discuss the relationship between ideas and events in causing historical change.
Social Movements: Civil Rights and Black Power
Social Movements: Civil Rights and Black Power
I. Civil Rights:
A. Enforcing Segregation:
1. Culturally
2. Legal: Plessy v Ferguson (1898)
B. Fighting Segregation:
1. NAACP
2. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
a. The Brown Decision
b. Brown II
c. Resisting Justice:
Little Rock Central High School(1957)
Orval Faubus
3. Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott:
4. The Sit-Ins:
5. Freedom Rides:
6. JFK:
a. Civil Rights Act of 1964
b. Voting Rights Act of 1965
--Fannie Lou Hammer
II. Non-Violent Revolution is an Oxymoron
I. Civil Rights:
A. Enforcing Segregation:
1. Culturally
2. Legal: Plessy v Ferguson (1898)
B. Fighting Segregation:
1. NAACP
2. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
a. The Brown Decision
b. Brown II
c. Resisting Justice:
Little Rock Central High School(1957)
Orval Faubus
3. Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott:
4. The Sit-Ins:
5. Freedom Rides:
6. JFK:
a. Civil Rights Act of 1964
b. Voting Rights Act of 1965
--Fannie Lou Hammer
II. Non-Violent Revolution is an Oxymoron
The Problem with No Name/
Making the Personal Political
Betty Friedan: Feminine Mystique (1963)
--“the problem lay buried"
--Women “could desire no greater destiny than to glory in their own femininity,"
--Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
--Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
National Organization for Women:
"to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men."
1967: 1000 members
1971: 15,000 members
FREEDOM SUMMER:
"we didn't come down here to work as a maid this summer."
"Assumptions of male superiority are as widespread and deeply rooted and every much as crippling to the women as the assumptions of white superiority are to the Negro."
LIBERAL VS. RADICAL FEMINISM
RADICAL GROUPS:
SCUM
W.I.T.C.H.
Redstockings
Cell 16
AS A RESULT OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT:
1. increased participation of women in politics on all levels
2. Title IX of Educational Amendments Acts of 1972, prohibited colleges from discriminating on basis of sex, requiring schools to fund womens' sports at a comparable level to mens' sports
3. Roe v. Wade: 1973, struck down Texas and Georgia statutes outlawing abortion, saying that states could no longer outlaw abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy
4. Equal Credit Opportunity Commission: in 1974, made it possible for women to get credit in their own name
5. ERA, which passed in Congress, and has to be seen as a victory in one sense, because it did pass in Congress, even though it is not now an amendment, since states did not ratify it in time. Why a victory? Military academies and other military arenas thought it would pass so they began to make changes that helped the position of women in the military
Betty Friedan: Feminine Mystique (1963)
--“the problem lay buried"
--Women “could desire no greater destiny than to glory in their own femininity,"
--Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
--Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
National Organization for Women:
"to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men."
1967: 1000 members
1971: 15,000 members
FREEDOM SUMMER:
"we didn't come down here to work as a maid this summer."
"Assumptions of male superiority are as widespread and deeply rooted and every much as crippling to the women as the assumptions of white superiority are to the Negro."
LIBERAL VS. RADICAL FEMINISM
RADICAL GROUPS:
SCUM
W.I.T.C.H.
Redstockings
Cell 16
AS A RESULT OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT:
1. increased participation of women in politics on all levels
2. Title IX of Educational Amendments Acts of 1972, prohibited colleges from discriminating on basis of sex, requiring schools to fund womens' sports at a comparable level to mens' sports
3. Roe v. Wade: 1973, struck down Texas and Georgia statutes outlawing abortion, saying that states could no longer outlaw abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy
4. Equal Credit Opportunity Commission: in 1974, made it possible for women to get credit in their own name
5. ERA, which passed in Congress, and has to be seen as a victory in one sense, because it did pass in Congress, even though it is not now an amendment, since states did not ratify it in time. Why a victory? Military academies and other military arenas thought it would pass so they began to make changes that helped the position of women in the military
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