Quarter 4: United States History II

Topic: Contemporary United States

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Domestic

Politics From

Nixon to Ford

American Government:

Richard Nixon:

Inaugural Address

(1969)

Richard Nixon:

Inaugural Address

(1973)

Richard Nixon:

Presidential

Resignation speech

(1974)

Richard Nixon:

Presidential Tape

Recordings address

(1974)

Richard Nixon:

Watergate

Investigations address

American Government:

Ash Council

Richard Nixon

Mass Media and Politics

(Overview)

Watergate scandal

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

stagflation

Equal Employment

Opportunity Act

American History:

Impeachment and

American Government:

Gerald Ford pardons

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford: Pardon of

Richard Nixon (1974)

Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon and

Mao Zedong

Richard Nixon and

Edward M. Kennedy

meet with League of

Women Voters

Richard Nixon boards

helicopter after

resigning

Richard Nixon leaves

American History:

Impeachment and

Resignation

(Research List)

Carter (Research

List)

Pop Culture

Universe:

Politics in Media

(Lesson Plan)

World History:

Modern Era:

Cold War, 1972-

1980 (Research

List)

(1973)

Gerald Ford: quote on

energy development

Watergate scandal:

transcript of White

House meeting (1972)

Gerald Ford: First

Address to Congress

and the Nation (1974)

Jimmy Carter: National

Malaise speech (1979)

Jimmy Carter: quote on

civil service

Clean Air Act (1963)

with amendments

(1966 and 1990)

Clean Water Act

(1972) with

amendments (1977)

Endangered Species

Act (1973)

Energy Policy and

Conservation Act

Resignation (Overview)

Carter (Overview)

energy crisis

White House after

resigning

Editorial cartoon

showing Richard Nixon

tangled in a spiderweb

Editorial cartoon

depicting Richard

Nixon as strangled

elephant

Richard Nixon

comments on releasing

the Watergate tapes

[1:26]

Richard Nixon:

Watergate address [:33]

Bob Woodward and

Carl Bernstein in 1973

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Equal Rights

Amendment ratification

extension

(1975)

Marine Protection,

Research, and

Sanctuaries Act (1972)

American History:

Impeachment and

Resignation (Visual)

Carter (Visual)

Domestic

Politics in

Contemporary

Society

American Government:

Iran-contra scandal:

Report of the

Independent Counsel

(1993)

George Bush:

Inaugural Address

(1989)

Barack Obama remarks

on fiscal policy (2011)

George W. Bush: State

of the Union message

(2003)

George W. Bush: State

of the Union message

(2006)

American History:

American Government:

George Bush

George Bush "Read my

lips, no new taxes"

pledge

organized labor

The Debt Ceiling and

the National Debt:

Background

U.S. financial crisis of

2008–2009

Grace Commission

American History:

The New Conservatives,

1980-1992 (Overview)

American Government:

Ronald Reagan waves

during inaugural parade

in 1981

Ronald Reagan

receives report on Iran-

contra scandal

Ronald Reagan address

on the Iran-contra

scandal [:35]

Ronald Reagan

George Bush attends

education summit in

1989

George Bush

Union Membership by

Industry, 2010

American History:

The War in the

Gulf (Research

List)

The New

Conservatives

(Research List)

World History:

Modern Era:

Cold War, 1980-

1991 (Research

List)

Ronald Reagan:

Inaugural Address

(1985)

Obama, Barack:

Address to joint session

of Congress (2009)

Ronald Reagan

supply-side economics

Reagan Revolution

American History:

The New

Conservatives, 1980-

1992 (Visual)

Foreign Policy

Initiatives

American Government:

Strategic Arms

Limitation Treaty II

(1979)

Strategic Arms

Reduction Treaty I

(1991)

Strategic Arms

Reduction Treaty II

(1993)

Anti-Ballistic Missile

Treaty (1972)

Nuclear

Nonproliferation Treaty

(1968)

American Government:

Arms Control and

Disarmament Agency

Henry Kissinger

détente

A Long History of

Troubled U.S.-Chinese

Relations

U.S. Middle East policy

antiapartheid movement

Bosnian intervention

Foreign Policy

(Overview)

American Government:

George W. Bush and

Vladimir Putin sign

treaty

George Bush signs

Strategic Arms

Reduction Treaty

Henry Kissinger: on

détente [1:26]

Henry Kissinger

Richard Nixon and Pat

Nixon visit Great Wall

Richard Nixon and

Henry Kissinger

World at War:

How did U.S.

diplomatic

relations with

communist nations

vary during the

Cold War?

World History:

Modern Era:

What factors

enabled the

peaceful collapse

of the Berlin Wall

in 1989?

American

Government:

Foreign Policy

(Research List)

World Geography:

The Cold War: An

Analytical

Approach

(Research List)

Intermediate-Range

Nuclear Forces Treaty

(1988)

Treaty of Moscow

(2002)

Camp David Accords

(1978)

Jimmy Carter: Camp

David Accords speech

(1978)

Bill Clinton: Address

following NATO Air

Strikes on Yugoslavia

(1999)

Ronald Reagan:

Statements on U.S. air

strikes against Libya

(1986)

Ronald Reagan: Evil

Empire speech (1982)

World History: Modern

Era:

Boris Yeltsin: speech

U.S. aid to Israel

American History:

Cuba's Relations with

the United States

Reagan administration

Middle East policy

World at War:

Nixon Doctrine

World History: Modern

Era:

Collapse of the Soviet

Union (Overview)

Soviet coup

collapse of the Soviet

Union

Alexander Haig: on

U.S. foreign policy

[1:08]

U.S. troops in Bosnia

and Herzegovina

Foreign Policy (Visual)

U.S. Foreign Economic

and Military Aid

Programs, 1980–2008

Ronald Reagan's Evil

Empire speech

Ronald Reagan: Evil

Empire speech [1:15]

Ronald Reagan: Star

Wars speech [1:16]

Ronald Reagan's Berlin

Wall speech [:51]

Ronald Reagan and

Mikhail Gorbachev

sign treaty

Ronald Reagan: with

Emperor Hirohito

following hard-line

revolt (1993)

Issues:

Strategic Arms

Limitation Treaty

(1972)

World History: Modern

Era:

Collapse of the Soviet

Union (Visual)

Mikhail Gorbachev

relinquishes control to

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin decries an

attempted coup in 1991

Berliners dancing on

the Berlin Wall

Topic: Social, Economic, and Cultural Developments in Contemporary United States

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Economic

Patterns Since

1968

American Government:

Ronald Reagan: State

of the Union message

(1983)

Gerald Ford: State of

American Government:

stock market

U.S. financial crisis of

2008–2009

American Government:

Barack Obama signs

American Recovery

and Reinvestment Act

Bipartisan meeting on

American

Government:

What are the risks

of a large national

debt?

American

Government:

Global Economy

(Research List)

World History:

the Union message

(1975)

George Bush: State of

the Union message

(1992)

George W. Bush: State

of the Union message

(2008)

Bill Clinton: State of

the Union message

(1998)

American History:

Affirmative Action

Report (1995)

Glass Ceiling

Commission: Summary

of Recommendations

(1995)

Local 28 of Sheet

Metal Workers v.

EEOC (1986)

Issues:

American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act

Bush Tax Cuts: Expire

or Extend?

Regulating the Evolving

Economy

international investment

The Stock Market and

Insider Trading

Global Economy

(Overview)

American History:

Glass Ceiling

Commission

Latinos in U.S. society

women in the workplace

Economic Downturns in

American History

economy

Home foreclosure

Gross Domestic

Product, Selected

Countries, 2006

American History:

Earnings by Women as

a Percentage of Men's,

1975-2009

Personal Income by

Race, 1970-2008

affirmative action

Issues:

Teacher helping

students in computer

lab

U.S. Navy personnel

with PackBot

Robot attempts to

detonate suspected

Modern Era:

The Flat World

Trade Primer: Qs and

As on Trade Concepts,

Performance, and

Policy (2012)

North American Free

Trade Agreement:

Preamble and

Objectives (1993)

The Impact of Illegal

Immigration on the

Wages and

Employment

Opportunities of Black

Workers(2010)

affirmative action

computer revolution

Issues:

artificial intelligence

Information Revolution

iRobot Corporation

U.S. Trade Issues:

Overview

improvised explosive

device (IED)

NAFTA initialing

ceremony

New

Immigration

and

Demographic

Shift

American Government:

Complaint filed by

Department of Justice

in U.S. v. State of

Arizona (2010)

Proposition 187

(California, 1994)

Arizona Immigration

Bill (SB 1070)

Barack Obama:

American Government:

immigration policy

The Immigration Debate

denial of benefits to

immigrants

employment restrictions

on illegal immigrants

Immigration Reform

and Control Act

American Government:

Estimated

Unauthorized

Immigrant Population,

2000, 2005–2009

Protest against Arizona

immigration bill

Immigration by

Country of Origin,

2010

Persons Naturalized by

Issues:

Do states have a

right to pass anti-

immigration laws?

How has women's

entrance into the

workforce affected

the family unit in

the United States?

American History:

America on the

Move (Research

List)

New Immigration

(Lesson Plan)

Latino American

Experience:

Mexican

Remarks by the

President on

Immigration (2012)

Issues:

International

Immigration: The

Impact on Maryland

Communities (2008)

Overview of

Immigration Issues in

the 112th Congress

(2011)

Mariel boatlift

DREAM Act

Proposition 187

(California)

Arizona Immigration

Bill–SB 1070

National Immigration

Law Center

Issues:

attitudes towards

undocumented

Immigrants

immigrants and

domestic violence

legalization program

immigration in America

Reverse Migration?

(Rust Belt)

Divorce in America:

Country of Birth,

2009–2011

Arizona immigration

protest rally

Cuban refugees during

Mariel boatlift

Issues:

Immigrants outside the

INS office in

Manhattan

Persons Obtaining

Legal Permanent

Residence, by Class of

Admission, Fiscal Year

2012

Poverty Levels for U.S.

Single Parent Families,

1960–2005

American History:

America on the Move,

1992-Present (Visual)

Immigration

(Research List)

World Geography:

United States &

Mexico:

Immigration

(Research List)

Outlook

America Begins the 21st

Century (Overview)

American History:

America on the Move,

1992-2000 (Overview)

Sun Belt

suburbanization

Houston, Texas

Changing

Religious

Diversity & Its

Impact on

American

Institutions and

Values

American History:

Board of Education v.

Mergens (1990)

Issues:

Federal Marriage

Amendment (2003)

Federal

Communications

Commission: Religious

Broadcasting Rumor

Denied

American History:

religion in the United

States

fundamentalism

Christian Broadcasting

Network

Christian Coalition

right-to-life movement

Concerned Women for

America

American History:

Muslim women in San

Francisco

Antiabortion and

abortion rights

protestors

Scene after a Chicago

church service

Issues:

American

Government:

Political

Ideologies

(Research List)

Issues:

Religion and the Media

churches lobby for and

against Federal

Marriage Amendment

religion and politics

The 700 Club

World Religions:

Christian

fundamentalism

Religion and the

Media: Timeline

Voting Results, by

Faith, Presidential

Election of 2004

George W. Bush backs

marriage amendment

Major Faith Magazines,

by Religion

Contemporary

American

Culture

American Government:

Keyes v. Denver

School District No. 1

(1973)

Milliken v. Bradley

(1974)

Regents of the

University of

California v. Bakke

(1978)

American Government:

desegregation in higher

education

school desegregation

Burger Court and school

desegregation

school choice

American Government:

Police escort school

buses in Boston

African American

bongo player

The Petition by Sam

Gilliam

Canadian mask

American

Government:

What are the

contributions of

Latinos to rock 'n'

roll history?

When did

Americans’

obsession with

celebrity truly

begin?

African American

Experience:

Civil Rights and

African American

Education

(Research List)

Black Arts

Movement

(Research List)

Swann v. Charlotte-

Mecklenburg Board of

Education (1971)

African American

Experience:

California: Archie

Reynolds Jr. Narrative

Issues:

Communications

Decency Act (1996)

African American

Experience:

History of Gospel Music

Black Arts Movement

Rap

Classic African

American Literature

African American Art in

the 20th Century

Issues:

cultural imperialism and

food

Anti-American

Sentiment: Outlook

Television Violence

Racial and Ethnic

Diversity: Outlook

American Indian

Experience:

Judy Baca: The Great

Wall of Los Angeles

(1983)

School Shooters'

Interest in Violent

Media (1974–2000)

Friends watch

television

What do

influential

television shows

tell us about

society's concerns

at various periods

in modern

American history?

Latino American

Experience:

Mural Art and the

Chicano

Movement

(Lesson Plan)

Exploring the "Infinity

of Nations" Exhibit

"Infinity of Nations"

Exhibit of Native

American Art Opens in

New York

Latino American

Experience:

Chicano Art

Judy Baca: The Great

Wall of Los Angeles

(1974)

Pop Culture Universe:

Grunge Music and

Fashion (Overview)

Professional Sports in

the 1990s

Sports Goes Big Time

(Overview)

American History:

media bias

Wal-mart

Starbucks

Democratic

Polity Debates

Social Issues

and Mediates

American Government:

Fisher v. University of

Texas at Austin (2013)

Metro Broadcasting v.

Federal

Communications

Commission (1990)

Richmond v. J.A.

Croson Co. (1989)

Proposition 209

(California, 1996)

Americans with

Disabilities Act (1990)

Bilingual Education

Act (1968)

American History:

American Government:

affirmative action

income disparities in

education

Disability Rights

Movement

official-English

movement

American History:

Feminist movement

Women's liberation

movement

National Organization

for Women

Gloria Steinem

American Government:

affirmative action [:44]

George W. Bush

speaks out on

affirmative action

[1:37]

Michigan students

protest ruling on race-

based policies

Propostion 203 Ballot

Intiative Rally

American History:

Gloria Steinem

Phyllis Schlafly

Business and

Professional Women

American History:

How Did Feminist

Goals Change

Over Time?

American

Government:

Politically

Contentious Issues

(Research List)

World History:

The Modern Era:

Feminism and

Suffrage (Research

List)

African American

Experience:

Affirmative Action

Latino American

Experience:

Bilingual

Education and

Family and Medical

Leave Act (1993)

American Indian

Experience:

American Indian

Movement: Edgewood

Declaration (1993)

Phyllis Schlafly

Ms. Foundation for

Women

Business and

Professional

Women/USA

Operation Rescue

Congressional Caucus

for Women's Issues

Gay Rights (Overview)

gay rights movement

American Indian

Experience:

Native American

Grassroots Activism

African American

Experience:

Multiculturalism

Issues:

headquarters

Antiabortion and

abortion rights

protestors

"don't ask, don't tell"

Protesters supporting

same-sex marriage

demonstrate against

California's Proposition

8

Issues:

Chinese American girl

Racial Population of

the United States,

1990–2000

Bilingual Education

Methods used in LEP

instructional programs:

English as Subject

2003-2004

Immigrant

Children (Lesson

Plan)

National Association for

the Advancement of

Colored People and

Racial and Ethnic

Diversity

Bilingual Education:

Overview

bilingual education and

state education policy

bilingual programs for

language-majority

students

English-as-a-second-

language instruction

Proposition 227 (1998)

Methods used in LEP

instructional programs:

Other Subjects 2003-

2004

Bilingual Education:

Timeline