Unit 9 Packet – Things to Know – 5% of Test
Links to PBS
http://video.pbs.org/video/979907571/ - Bush’s Presidency
http://video.pbs.org/video/1094119478/ - Reagan’s Presidency
http://video.pbs.org/program/american-experience/shorts/?page=22 – Clips on Clinton
http://video.pbs.org/program/american-experience/shorts/?page=21 – Clips on Clinton
http://video.pbs.org/program/american-experience/shorts/?page=24 – Clips on Carter
http://video.pbs.org/program/american-experience/shorts/?page=25 – Clips on Carter
http://video.pbs.org/program/american-experience/shorts/?page=27 – Clips on Nixon and Reagan
The Four part video on Bill Clinton is on Safari Montage
Unit 9 – 1980 to Present
9.1 New conservative movement grew to prominence defending traditional social values and rejecting liberal views about government
1. Reduced public faith in government. Growth of religious fundamentalism and dissemination of neoconservative thoughts invigorated conservatism.
A. Public confidence in government declines in the wake of economic challenges, political scandals, foreign policy failures, and a sense of social and moral decay.
Economic challenges
http://countrystudies.us/united-states/economy-3.htm Go to 1970 and beyond
http://www.choices.edu/resources/scholars_usrole.php Go to Economy Go to Globalization
1. OPEC – oil prices and inflation
2. High Interest rates from 1976 to 1980
3. Reagan – Are you better off than you were 4 years ago – state of nation in 1980
4. Financial crash of 1987
5. Rising national debt – 2 billion by 1988
6. Trickle Down Reaganomics
7. Saving and loan crisis – Keating 5
8. Deregulations by Reagan and Clinton
9. Dot Com Bubble
10. 2008 Housing crisis failures of GM and AIG
11. Globalization
Foreign policy failures
http://www.choices.edu/resources/scholars_usrole.php Part III Conflict and Military Security
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/timeline/text/quspolicy.html - Focus on Middle East
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/military/etc/cron.html
11. Fall of Saigon – 1975
12. Invasion of Afghanistan by Soviets – boycott Olympics
13.Iran Hostages
14.Terrorist attacks – Pan Am flight over Scotland – Attack on Libya- Marine barracks in Lebanon
15. Grenada
16. Star Wars – SDI
17. Desert Storm
18. Somali – Black Hawk Down
19. Genocide in Rwanda and Balkans
20. 9-11
21. Al Qaeda – Bin Laden
22. Iraq and Afghanistan
23. Other
Political Scandals - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_States
http://www.huntingtontheatre.org/articles/Now-Or-Later/Top-Ten-US-Political-Scandals/
http://www.pfhub.com/top-10-political-scandals-in-the-united-states/
24. Nixon - Watergate (1972)
25. Reagan - Iran Contra – Tower Commission
26. Bush - Savings and Loan scandal
27. Clarence Thomas – Anita Hill
28. Clinton - Monica Lewinsky, White Water, Travelgate
29. Snowden – NSA
30. Obama - Veterans scandal
Social and moral decay
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/03/morals - From Economist - counter arguments – liberal
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2014/down-the-slippery-slope-a-timeline-of-social-revolution- conservative views and timeline
31. Roe V wade
32. Webster vs Reproductive services
33. AIDS
34. Gay marriage
35. War on Drugs
36. Unemployment
37. Religious affiliations
38. Other
B. Evangelical and Fundamentalist organization challenge liberal trend
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/god-in-the-white-house/
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/view/ - Episode 6 on Of God and Caesar – on modern religious influences
39. Jerry Falwell – Moral Majority
40. Pat Robertson - Christian Coalition
41. Billy Graham
42. Family Research Council
43. Phyllis Schafly – anti-ERA
44. Bob Jones University – Home Schooling
45. Westboro Baptist Church
46. Jim Bakker
47. Tammy Faye
48. Jimmy Swaggart
49. Other
II. Conservatives achieved some goals but limited due to popularity of past trends
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2004-06-20/the-real-economic-legacy-of-ronald-reagan
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/reagan-program/ Overview of Reagan
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/reagan-remembered-the-fai_b_4745694.html - Liberal - counter arguments against Reagan
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/essays/age-reagan
50. Tax cuts under Reagan
51. Deregulation under Reagan
52. Garn – St. Garmain
53. Frank Dodd
54. Contract with America
55. Planned Parenthood Vs Casey
56. Other
B. Republican denounce big government but size and scope of federal government continues to grow
http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/Accomplishments/eightyears-02.html - This is just Clinton years – Democrat in White House
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_George_W._Bush_legislation_and_programs - List of legislation under Bush – not the best source site – but provides essential information
57. Expansion of Medicare and Medicaid
58. Affordable Care Act
59. Debt and deficit spending
60 bailouts of GM and AIG
9.2 End of Cold War and new challenges force U.S. to redefine its foreign policy and global role
1. Reagan pursued a reinvigorated anti-Communist policy that set tone for future
http://www.choices.edu/resources/scholars_usrole.php - This was also used under foreign policy failures – but provides information on post Cold War
61. Rejection of détente
62. Star Wars – SDI – military spending
63. Grenada – communist air strip
64. Gorbachev
65. Perestroika and Glasnost
66. Reagan “Take down this wall”
B. End of Cold War led to new diplomatic relationship and military peace keeping interventions as well as debate about our role in world
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cuny/laptop/coldwar.html
67. Attack on Libya
68. Clinton and Balkans
69. Clinton and Somalia
70 China rising
71. Desert Storm and Iraq
72. Capture Noriega in Panama
II. Following the attacks on 9-11 foreign policy and military involvement focused on terrorism
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/modern.html
http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Frontline-6/episodes/Top-Secret-America-911-to-the-Boston-Bombings-17675 Video on 12 years since 9-11
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/losing-iraq/ - Frontline on losing the war in Iraq
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/view/- Frontine on moments after 9-11 and Bush’s reaction
A. Military efforts against terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq
73. Outline timeine in Iraq
74. Outline timeline in Afghanistan
B. Security vs Civil liberties and human rights
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/10/us-debates-security-vs-privacy-12-years-after-911/2796399/
http://debatewise.org/debates/3040-privacy-vs-security/ Views on both sides
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-secrets/ Frontline video on United States of Secrets about NSA and national security
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/are-we-safer/- Frontline video on post9-11 and are we safer
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/view/ Frontline What is the trade off between security and safety???
75. Patriot’s Act
76. Homeland Security
77. TSA regulations
78. Guantanamo Bay detention center
79. Other
9.3 Moving into the 21 century the nation continued to experience challenges
I. U.S. integration in to the world economy was accompanied by economic instability and social and environmental challenges
A. Economic inequality increased after 1980 as U.S. manufacturing jobs were eliminated, union membership declined and real wages stagnated.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=090505_Globalization – Views by Thomas Friedman
http://www.ted.com/talks/chrystia_freeland_the_rise_of_the_new_global_super_rich?language=en – Ted Talk – bias
http://www.economist.com/node/17929013
80. PATCO strike
81. Globalization
83. Rise of the 1%
B. Policy debates intensified over free trade, the size and scope of government social safety nets and call to reform the U.S. financial system
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cliffhanger/ - Frontline debate on debt and deficit and the government’s failure
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/- Frontline on why no Wall Street executives have been prosecuted for financial crisis
84. NAFTA
85. Affordable Care Act
86. Frank Dodd
87. Sarbanes–Oxley
88. research Glass Steagall
C. Conflicts in the Middle East and concerns about climate change led to debates over fossil fuel and impact of environment
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/climate-of-doubt/ - Frontline debate on climate change
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/ - Frontline on climate change
89. Al Gore – Inconvenient Truth
90. Fracking
91. T Boone Picken’s energy policy
92. Solar and wind power
93. Keystone pipeline
D. The spread of computer technology and Internet increased access to information and new social behaviors and networks
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/view/ - The impact of technology on new generations
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/ Digital nation on everyone being wired
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/generation-like/ Generations identify formed by online behaviors
94. Mark Zucherberg and Facebook
95. Microsoft and Apple – Gates and Jobs
96. Nolan Bushnell and Atari – gaming
97. Fiber Optics
98. ARPAnet
99. Marc Andreseen
II. The U.S. continues to undergo significant demographic and profound culture changes with political consequences
A. American South and West increased fueled by Latin American and Asian immigrants
https://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_my_immigration_story/transcript?language=en – Asain immigrant story on Ted Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmz9cCF0KNE – Ted talk by Filipino immigrant
http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/spanglish/usa/
http://www.soc.duke.edu/GlobalEngineering/pdfs/media/americasloss/bw_whyskilled.pdf
100. DREAMers
101. Latinos in America – 2048
102. H-1B Visa
B. New Immigrant was important labor force but focus of intense political, economic and cultural debates
http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-47-summer-2014/feature/educator-s-guide-immigration-debate
http://www.cfr.org/immigration/us-immigration-debate/p11149
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/lost-in-detention/ - Frontline on Obama’s immigration policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvciFjn2v98 – Ted Talk on immigration reform
http://www.dol.gov/dol/aboutdol/history/herman/reports/futurework/conference/trends/trendsI.htm
Demographic changes intensified debates over gender roles family structure and racial and national identity
103. Gay marriage
104. Glass ceiling
105. Invetro, Surragattes,
106. Travon Martin and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri
107. Blended families
108. Sheryl Sandberg – Lean In
109. Graying of America
110. Other
http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2013/01/family-structure-class-sawhill
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/separate-and-unequal/ - Frontline video and documents on separate but unequal in U.S. today