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1 AP U.S. History 5 th 6wks Course Reader DHS APUSH

2 APUSH - Fifth Six Weeks Date Day Topic / Content For Class Assessment Homework Feb. 28 Monday UNIT 12 TEST UNIT 12 TEST TEST Read Ch. 34 Mar. 1 Tuesday TAKS ELA AP Review 2:30-3:30 TAKS Mar. 2 Wednesday The Great Depression and the New Deal Quiz, Note Check, Review QUIZ Mar. 3 Thursday The Great Depression and the New Deal Mar. 4 Friday FDR and the Shadow of War Quiz, Note Check, Review QUIZ Read Ch. 35 Mar. 7 Monday FDR and the Shadow of War Class Discussion Read: Ch. 36 America in WWII Mar. 8 Tuesday Quiz, Note Check, Review QUIZ Mar. 9 Mar. 10 Wednesday Thursday Dr. Seuss Goes to War and Other Satires UNIT 13 TEST APPARTS / Class Discussion Artwork UNIT 13 TEST TEST AP Review 2:30-3:30 Mar. 11 Friday Review Test Review Test/ 250 Things Read Ch. 37 Mar Mar. 21 Monday The Cold War Begins Quiz, Note Check, Review QUIZ Mar. 22 Tuesday The Cold War Begins Class Discussion * Mar. 23 Wednesday America s Role in the Cold War Seminar Mar. 24 Thursday Living Room Candidate AP Writing Academy 2:30-3:30 TV and Politics Mar. 25 Friday The Eisenhower Era Quiz, Note Check, Review QUIZ Mar. 28 Monday The Eisenhower Era Class Discussion Mar. 29 Tuesday UNIT 14 TEST UNIT 14 TEST TEST Read: OpV 31A / B Wallace / Kennan didate.org Read Ch. 38 Mar. 30 Wednesday Review Test Review Test/ 250 Things Mar. 31 Thursday Video: Eyes on the Prize AP Writing Academy 2:30-3:30 Notes due EOC Read Ch. 39 Apr. 1 Friday The Stormy Sixties Quiz, Note Check, Review QUIZ Apr. 4 Monday The Stormy Sixties Class Discussion * AP REVIEW PART Things Every AP Student Should Know(TEST GRADE) AP REVIEW PART 2 Apr. 5 Tuesday The American Idealism of JFK Model Lecture Read: Ch. 40 Apr. 6 Wednesday The Stalemated Seventies Quiz, Note Check, Review QUIZ Apr. 7 Thursday The Stalemated Seventies AP Writing Academy 2:30-3:30 Class Discussion * Apr. 8 Friday The Stalemated Seventies Class Discussion * Read Ch. 41 Apr. 11 Monday The Resurgence of Conservatism Quiz, Note Check, Review QUIZ Apr.12 Tuesday The Resurgence of Conservatism Bring your Book to Class Ch 41 Packet Apr. 13 Wednesday Writing Practice Writing Practice Apr. 14 Thursday UNIT 15 TEST Apr. 15 Friday AP PRACTICE TEST UNIT 15 TEST TEST

3 UNIT 13 TERMS Ch 34 Ch 35 Ch 36 Franklin D. Roosevelt Cordell Hull Henry J Kaiser Eleanor Roosevelt Joseph Stalin A. Philip Randolph Frances Perkins Benito Mussolini Douglas MacArthur Father Coughlin Adolf Hitler Dwight Eisenhower Huey Long Winston Churchill George S Patton John L. Lewis Wendall Willkie Harry Truman Boondoggling Totalitarianism Albert Einstein New Deal Good Neighbor Policy Office of Price Adm Brain Trust Nye Committee Smith Connally Act Works Progress Adm. Spanish Civil War Braceros Schechter case China Incident Casablanca Conference Dust Bowl Hitler/Stalin nonaggression pact D Day Securities & Exchange Comm cash & carry V E Day Tennessee Valley Authority American First Committee Potsdam Conference Federal Housing Authority Lend Lease V J Day Social Security Act Atlantic Charter Liberty League 20 th & 21 st Amendment Court Packing Scheme

4 UNIT 14 TERMS Ch 37 Ch 38 George Kennan Douglas MacArthur Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Benjamin Spock Earl Warren Rose Parks Ho Chi Minh Gamal Abdel Nasser J. Strom Thurmond Nikita Khrushchev Richard Nixon Yalta Conference Cold War Nuremberg Trials Berlin Airlift Containment Truman Doctrine Fidel Castro McCarthysim Massive Retaliation Military Industrial Complex Brown v. Board of Education Plessy v Ferguson White Citizens Councils Marshall Plan Civil Rights Act of 1957 White Flight North Atlantic Treaty Organization House Committee on Un American Activities Point Four Program Fair Deal Geneva Conference South East Asia Treaty Organization Suez Crisis Eisenhower Doctrine U02 Incident 38 th parallel Sputnik NSC 68 National Defense Education Act The Feminine Mystique

5 UNIT 15 TERMS CH39 Ch 40 Ch41 John Kennedy Richard Nixon Jimmy Carter Robert Kennedy Henry Kissinger Ronald Reagan Martin Luther King Jr Rachel Carson Anwar Sadat Lyndon Johnson Shah of Iran Mikhail Gorbachev Malcolm X Ayatollah Khomeini Jesse Jackson Stokely Carmichael Leonid Brezhnez Sandra Day O Conner J. William Fulbright Détente George H W Bush George Wallace Vietnamization Boris Yeltsin Flexible Response Kent State killings Clarence Thomas New Frontier 26 th Amendment William Clinton Peace Corps Environmental Protection Agency Hillary Clinton Viet Cong Pentagon Papers Newt Gingrich Bay of Pigs Southern Strategy John McCain Great Society Watergate Scandal George W Bush Tonkin Gulf Resolution CREEP Glasnost Civil Rights Act of 1964 Saturday Night Massacre New Religious Right Cuban Missile Crisis War Powers Act Ethnic Cleansing 24 th Amendment Title IX Moral Majority Operation Rolling Thunder Equal Right Amendment Reganomics Tet Offensive Wounded Knee Iran Contra Affair Counterculture SALT II Roe v Wade OPEC Iranian Hostage Crisis Persian Gulf War 27 th Amendment Branch Davidians Columbine high School Whitewater Land Corp.

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