Modern President Project 1. Research and bubble map presidents 2. Cut, Sort and Match Presidents Sheets 3. Free Write Attached 4. DBQ Attached
Indian Civil Rights Act Bilingual Education act Watergate Civil Rights Swann v Charlotte Mecklenburg Regents v Bakke Domestic Crisis Vietnam Protests Domestic Issues Wage and Price Freeze Inflation War Powers Act Nixon Economic Foreign Crisis Tet Offensive Vietnam Peace? Oil Crisis Henry Kissinger SALT OPEC
CRP Committee to Reelect the President Senate Investigations Saturday Night Massacre Watergate Hotel Nixon Tapes Cover-up Watergate Scandal Nixon Impeachment Nixon Resignation Imperial Presidency Spiro Agnew Vice President Resigns Presidents Advisors Ford Appointed Presidency by 25 th Amendment Public distrust of Government
American Public Cynical of Government Pardoned Nixon Domestic Issues Fall of Saigon WIN: Whip Inflation Now Ford Foreign Economic Recession Stagflation Unemployment Oil Embargo OPEC
Supply-Side Economics Balanced Budget Reganomics Deregulation of Industry GATT Trickle Down Theory Economic Reagan: Return of Conservatism End Of Cold War Glastnost Perestroika SALT II SDI Star Wars Nuclear Talks Cold War Escalation INF Foreign Conflict
Supreme Court Society Domestic Issues Economy George H Bush Globalization Communism Collapse Berlin Wall China Commonwealth of Independent States Human Rights Global Concerns Panama Foreign Conflict
Presidential Match Truman 1945-1952 Eisenhower 1952-1960 John F. Kennedy 1960-1963 L. B. Johnson 1963-1968
Brown v. Board of Education: Desegregation of schools, overturned Plessey v. Ferguson Peace Corps: volunteer service to help promote democracy in developing nations Escalation of Vietnam War: Promised he would not send American troops Rosa Parks: Montgomery Bus Boycott began SEATO: treaty used to enter Vietnam War/U.S. would use force on nations in SE Asia if threatened by communists Civil Rights Voting Act: No literacy tests for voting qualifications Cuban Missile Crisis: Example of Brinkmanship My Lai Incident: Innocent men, women and children killed by Marines Manhattan Project: development of the A Bomb U-2 Incident: spy plane shot down over Russia. Gorbachev captured pilot: Gary Powers Cesar Chavez: United Farm Workers organizer: Hispanic Civil Rights spokesman Domino Theory: If one country falls, they ll all fall Great Society: War on Poverty VISTA: youth volunteer in inner cities = 2 years of college Warren Commission report: assassination of JFK Bay of Pigs: failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro Shemp v. Abbington: No prayer in school Cold War Begins Potsdam Conference: talks to discuss Pacific Theater, Truman hints that he has a weapon to end the war G.I. Bill: middle class America grows b/c soldiers returning from WWII can attend college Containment: stop the expansion of Communism Feminine Mystique: Betty Friedan brought it to America s attention that women needed to look beyond the home for fulfillment Gulf of Tonkin Incident: North Vietnamese torpedo an American destroyer 24 th Amendment: No more poll taxes 38 th parallel: demilitarized zone in Korea Levittown: uniform houses sold: applied mass production to the housing industry Korea: example of Containment Beatlemania: Beatles/ music creates a youth revolution in America Sputnik: Russian satellite that began National Education Act, Math/Science schools and NASA Haight-Ashbury: hippie movement began here Agent orange used to de-foliate Vietnam Napalm: jellied gas 1 st televised Presidential debate Medicare: care for the old Medicaid: care for the poor Iron Curtain speech by Winston Churchill Operation Rolling Thunder Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima NATO: Collective Security Warsaw Pact: Soviet Union Collective Security Little Rock Nine integrate Central High Baby Boom House Un-American Activities Committee: investigates loyalty of American citizens Palmer Raids: roots out radicals and communists in the American government McCarthyism: use of smear tactics to accuse people of being communists Fall of China to Communism Formation of Communist Satellites Berlin Crisis leads to the Berlin Air lift Marshall Plan Truman Doctrine Yalta Conference Environmental Protection Laws passes as a result of Rachel Carson s Silent Spring Vietnam War protests Freedom of Speech Yippies War Powers Act passed Did not run for reelection because of the unpopular Vietnam war
Presidential Match Richard Nixon 1969-1974 Gerald R. Ford 1974-1977 James E. Carter 1981-1989 Ronald W. Reagan 1981-1989
Helsinki Accords US & USSR sign agreement to uphold human rights Affirmative Action priority job hiring for minorities/ diversified workforce OPEC Placed an embargo against the U.S. because they supported Israel Second Occupation of Wounded Knee led by AIM Love Canal toxic waste dump disaster Pardoned Nixon Swann v Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education Fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the fall of Communism War Powers Act limited presidents power to declare war SDI Star Wars Missile Defense System Pentagon Papers Published and showed that government lied about involvement in Vietnam Never Elected As President Roe v Wade legalized abortion Three Mile Island Partial Nuclear meltdown Regents v Bakke Reverse Discrimination Case Perestroika USSR economic openness Democratic National Convention Yuppies protested and police attacked I Am Not A Crook Clean Air and Water Acts Vietnamization turning over of Vietnam War to the Vietnamese 26 th Amendment Voting age dropped to 18 SALT I Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty limited the number of ICBMs Supply Side Economics Tax cuts for business will increase economic growth WIN: Whip Inflation Now Haight Ashbury Hippie Capital Tet Offensive North Vietnamese attacked key US bases Gray Panthers Old Age rights Iran-Contra Affair Oliver North accused of selling arms to Iran to fund Contras in Nicaragua Woodstock Hippie peace concert Wage and Price Freeze My Lai Massacre US forces killed Vietnamese villagers Glastnost USSR Political Openness Paris Peace Accords Vietnam Peace agreement that fell apart Cambodia and Laos Bombings US bombed and Peace Protests at home increased Kent State Universitystudent protesters shot by national guard Nicaragua Covert US operations to support democratic Contras Iran Hostage Crisis Iranians stormed US Embassy and took hostages Trickle Down Theory Tax cuts to business will increase jobs and income to everyone Vietnam- 17 th Parallel, Domino Theory, Fight Communism Indian Civil Rights Act Bill of Rights applies to Native Americans AIDS Reagonomics Tax cuts for business: Trickle Down Theory and Supply Side Economics INF Treaty eliminated ballistic missiles Cesar Chavez: National Farm Workers Grenada US forces invaded to liberate from pro-communist forces Stagflation economy stagnate and inflation continues Fall of Saigon Symbolized the fall of Vietnam to Communism Title IX Girls Sports Détente Henry Kissinger opened talks between Communist China and USSR Impeached The Whole World Is Watching Watergate Scandal Break-in at the Democratic National HQ to steel campaign Secrets EPA Environmental Protection Agency Camp David Accords Peace between Egypt and Israel during the Yom Kimper Wars Law and Order Campaign Sandra Day O Conner First female Supreme Court Justice New Right Coalition Conservative/ opposed controversial social issues Moral Majority Evangelical and Fundamental Christian leaders 1 st Earth Day National Energy Act Placed a tax on gasguzzlears
Presidential Match George H W Bush 1989-1993 William J. Clinton 1993-2001 George W Bush 2001-2008 Obama 2008-
Americans with Disabilities Act War on Drugs European Union Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia Troops Sent NAFTA Weapons of Mass Destruction Health Care Bill Fall of Communism Election 2000 Operation Desert Storm Monica Scandal/Impeachment Iraq invades Kuwait Immigration Act of 1990 Patriot Act GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Bush v Gore Florida Voting Chads cause controversy Department of Homeland Security Bosnia Texas v Johnson War in Iraq Contract with America 9/11 Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Penn v. Casey Savings and Loan Bailout World Trade Center Bombing Axis of Evil War on Terrorism Exxon Valdez First African American President Invasion of Panama Brady Bill Persian Gulf War Oklahoma Federal Building Bombing Stimulus Package Universal Healthcare Al-Qaeda Bush Doctrine No Child Left Behind Economic Crisis Afghanistan/Taliban Recession
Free Write: Conservativism v Liberalism Contrast the conservative ideology of President Reagan with the liberal views of Truman, Johnson and Kennedy in relation to economics, politics and foreign diplomacy.