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1/20
WORLD WAR TWO HOMEFRONT
TERMS: 1/25 WORLD WAR TWO LEGACIES Truman 1/27
ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR 2/1 ANTI-COMMUNISM
THEMES Levittown, Documentary
History, University of Illinois at Chicago
THEMES:
"THE GOOD WAR"
TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY
WORKING WOMEN UNEVEN LEGACY
MOBILIZING THE COUNTRY - WAR TIME POSTERS
ORIGINS OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT
"MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX"
"ROSIE THE RIVETER"
"DOUBLE V"
EXECUTIVE ORDER 8802/FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES COMMISSION, 1941 EXECUTIVE
ORDER 9981, 1948, DESEGREGATION OF ARMED FORCES
"MILITARY NECESSITY"
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066/JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT, 1942
442ND REGIMENT
THEMES:
INTERNATIONAL
MOUNTING DISTRUST BETWEEN U.S. AND SOVIET UNION
THE ATOMIC BOMB
U.S. AS THE "VICTOR OF VICTORS"
RESTRUCTRING A POSTWAR WORLD
DOMESTIC
ENVISIONING A POSTWAR AMERICA
WW2 REFUGEES
RECONVERSION FROM WAR TO PEACE
TERMS
YALTA CONFERENCE, FEB. 1945
ENOLA GAY
"ATOMIC AGE"
"INTERNATIONALISM"
BRETTPM WPPDS, NH 1944
UNITED NATIONS, 1949
"THIS IS AMERICA" POSTERS
DISPLACED PERSONS ACT, 1948
GI BILL, 1944
TAFT-HARLEY ACT, 1947
TRUMAN'S FAIR DEARL, 1948
Truman, Ripley's
Believe or Not
Enola
Gay Controversy
Nagasaki
Japan
Surrenders
Japanese
Surrender Document
This is America
- Family
Smile, Man, Smile
Where a Man Picks
His Job
Freedom from Want
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Worship
Freedom from Fear
Homesteading
Vets
THEMES AND TERMS
DEFINITIONS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
- "TRADITIONALISTS" 1940S-1960S
- "REVISIONISTS" 1960S-70S
- "POST-REVISIONISTS" 1970S-TODAY
COLD WAR STAGES, 1940s-50s
NEGOTIATION, 1945-6
- YALTA CONFERENCE, FEB. 1945
MILITARY AND ECONOMIC CONTAINMENT, 1947-49
- GEORGE KENNANıS "LONG TELEGRAM" 1946 & "ARTICLE X"1947
- TRUMAN DOCTRINE 1947
- MARSHALL PLAN 1947
- NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1947
- NATO, 1949
- NSC-68, 1950
COLD WAR CRISES
- BERLIN BLOCKADE, 1948
- "FALL" OF CHINA, 1949
BEGINNINGS OF COERCION/CONFLCT, 1950-68
- KOREAN WAR, 1950-3
Cold War Glossary
George Kennan,
cover of U.S. News and World Report
George
Kennan, "The X Article" 1947
The
Truman Doctrine, 1947
Marshall Plan, Library
of Congress
U.S. Dollar, Mediterranean
Patrol
RED SCARE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
CRIMINALIZATION OF COMMUNISM
SPY CASES AND INVESTIGATIONS
THE "HOMOSEXUAL MENACE"
MCCARTHYISM - POWER AND LEGACY
TERMS
"Countersubversive Tradition"
Exec. Order 9835, Federal Employees Loyalty/Security Program 1947
HUAC House Un-American Activities Committee
Smith Act, 1940
Dennis v. United States, 1951
Alger Hiss Case, 1948-50
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1951-53
Hollywood Ten, 1947
McCarran Security Act, 1950
McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, 1952
"Communist Party"
Newsweek, Feb. 14, 1949
Justice
Hugo Black on Dennis et al v. U.S.
Nixon and the Pumpkin
Papers
Rosenbergs
Trial
Homosexual
Menace
Screen Actors Guild Remembers
the Blacklist
McCarthyıs
Speech on Communists in the State Department
2/3 and 2/8 THE 1950S
THEMES
AMERICAN SUBURBS
YOUTH CULTURE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
COLD WAR CONTINUES
TERMS
Levittown
"Feminine Mystique"
"Beats"
Eisenhowerıs "New Look" in Foreign Affairs
Military Industrial Complex
"The Affluent Society"
Betty
Friedan
The
Runaway Daughter
I
Was a Communist for the FBI
Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen
Debate, 1959
Eisenhower's
"Military Industrial Complex" Speech
2/17
JFK AND LBJ:
Domestic
and International Promise and Perils of the 1960s
THEMES
JFK, CAMELOT, AND ASSASSINATION
NEW FRONTIER AT HOME AND ABROAD
LBJ AND THE GREAT SOCIETY - Goals, Accomplishments, Legacy
CONSERVATISM ASCENDANT
TERMS
NIXON-KENNEDY DEBATE, 1960
NEW FRONTIER LIBERALISM
EQUAL PAY ACT, 1963
BAY OF PIGS, APRIL, 1961
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, OCT, 1962
GREAT SOCIETY and WAR ON POVERTY LAWS/PROGRAMS
DAISY AD, 1964
Nixon-Kennedy Debate,
1960
Sputnick,
1957
JFK
Inauguration Speech, 1961
Assassination,
NY Times
Assassination -
Resources from the Library of Congress
LBJ,
Great Society Speech, 1964
1964
Daisy Ad
2/22:
Testing
the Limits - the Struggle for Equality, Part I
THEMES
SETTING THE STAGE - DEEP ROOTS OF RACISM/RACIAL VIOLENCE
GRASS ROOTS ORGANIZATION
BATTLES AGAINST
SEGREGATION
WHITE SOUTHERN AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESISTANCE
TERMS THEMES TERMS MLK,
Jr.ıs Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April, 1963 3/7:
THE
NEW LEFT
Amzie Moore
Ella Baker
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-6
Central High School, Little Rock, AK, 1957
Student Sit-ins, 1960
SNCC (Student Non-Violeng Coordinating Committee)
White Citizens' Council
Mississippi Sovereignty Commission
Freedom Rides
Lynching
Exhibit
Segregated
Fountains, Albany, Georgia, 1963
Brown v.
Board, 1954
MS Sovereignty Commission
2/24:
The
Movement Spreads - From Civil Rights to Black Power
STRATEGY OF "NON-VIOLENT CONFRONTATION"
TENSIONS WITHIN THE MOVEMENT
FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO BLACK POWER
Birmingham, AL campaign, 1962
March on Washington, 1963
Freedom Summer, 1964
Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney
MFDP
Fannie Lou Hamer
1964 Civil Rights Act
Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Malcolm X, Nation of IslaM, and Organization of Afro-American Unity Black
Power and the Black Panthers
MLK,
Jrıs "I have a dream" speech
John Lewis,
Proposed Address March on Washington, 1963
1964
Civil Rights Act
Mondale
Lectures: Atlantic City Revisited
Fannie Lou
Hamer Biography, Kent State University
1965
Voting Rights Act
SNCC
Position Paper on Black Power
"What
We Want, What We Believe" (Black Panther Party for Self Defense Platform,
1966)
THEMES
DEFINING THE SIXTIES GENERATION
THE NEW LEFT
COUNTERCULTURE
TERMS
3/9:
VIETNAM - ORIGINS OF THE WAR
Students for a Democratic Society (1960)
Port
Huron Statement, 1961
Free Speech Movement, Berkeley, 1964
Mario Savio
Port
Huron Statement
Free
Speech Movement, anonymous
Marioıs
Famous Speech
Posters
of Protest
Woodstock photos
THEMES
WHY VIETNAM?
VIETNAM BEFORE THE AMERICANS
U.S. INVOLVEMENT, 1945-64
TERMS Vietnam
War Posters from Vietnam THEMES
Robert McNamara
Ho Chih Minh
League for Vietnamese Independence (Viet Minh)
Eisenhower's Domino Theory
1954 Geneva Accords
National Liberation Front (South) (Viet Cong)
"Strategic Hamlet"
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964
Ho
Chih Minh's Declaration of Independence
Map of Asia, 1950s
Eisenhower's
Domino Theory
Gulf
of Tonkin Resolution
3/14
and 3/16: VIETNAM - PARTS II & III
Johnsonıs War
Credibility Gap
Teenage Soldiers - Class/Gender/Race
1968 - Tet and My Lai
Nixon's War
TERMS
Operation Rolling Thunder
"war of attrition"
"gookism"
Life Magazine, "One Weekıs Dead"
Tet Offensive, 1/30/1968
My Lai, 3/16/68
"Vietnamization"
Vang Pao/Armee Clandestine, Laos
1973 Paris Peace Agreement
"They Gave Their
Lives" Women in War Casualty List
Salon.com,
Unarmed and under fire: female Vietnam vets 11/11/99
Rules
of the Force
My
Lai Trial, Doug Linder, UMKC
My
Lai Photograph 1
My
Lai Photograph 2
Photographs
from the Fall of Saigon, 1975, New York Times
3/24:
ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT/1968
THEMES
THE MOVEMENT
ON CAMPUS
FROM PROTEST TO RESISTANCE
DEMOCRATIC POLITICS- ASSASSINATIONS AND THE 1968 CONVENTION
TERMS/LINKS
May
2nd Movement, 1965
Posters
of Protest
MLK,
Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam (April, 1967)
Kent State, 1970
Chicago
7 Trial, 1969-70
"Silent
Majority"
4/4:
ASIAN AMERICAN AND CHICANO MOVEMENTS
THEMES
ORIGINS OF
THE MOVEMENTS
IDENTITY FORMATION
CAMPUS POLITICS
ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
TERMS
Pan-Asian American Identity
Internal Colonialism
"Chicano Generation"
Los Angeles School Strike, 1968
Third World Liberation Front Strike, 1968-9
Young
Lords Platform
United
Farm Workers' Grape Boycott Buttons
"I am Joaquin"
by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, 1967
Chicano Power Explained
Brown Berets, "8 Points
of Attention"
Ethnic Studies
History, UC Berkeley
SF State Strike,
1968
4/6:
GAY/LESBIAN LIBERATION/WOMEN'S LIBERATION &
EARTH DAY
Extra Links
Documents after
Stonewall, 1969
SNCC
Position Paper on Women, 1964
NOW
(National Organization of Women) Statement of Purpose, 1966
NOW
Bill of Rights, 1968
United
Women's Contingent
Environmental
History Timeline
Sen. Gaylord
Nelson speech on the founding of Earth Day, 1970
4/11:
RED POWER
THEMES
Post-war Policies and Indian Organization
Red Power Goals and Context
Alcatraz - Significance
TERMS
Termination/Relocation
Self-determination
Pan-Indian Identity - Indians of all Tribes
American Indian Movement (AIM)
Alcatraz, 1969-70
Bureau of Indian Affairs Occupation (Washington, DC) 1972
Red
Power
AIM
Alcatraz
On
the Docks
Signs
You
are on Indian Land 1
You
are on Indian Land 2
Spirit
of Alcatraz
Occupation
Work
Keeping
Warm; Sharing culture
Community
and Caretaking
The
End
Preamble to Trail of Broken
Treaties 20 point Position Paper, 1972
Trail of Broken Treaties, 20 Point Position Paper, 1972
4/13:
LEGACIES OF THE SIXTIES Legacies
of the Sixties - discussion
4/18: SE ASIAN REFUGEES THEMES Malcolm
Brown, on the Fall of Saigon, New York Times
Photographs,
Fall of Saigon, New York Times
Training
for War - the Hmong Secret Army
4/20:
NIXON PRESIDENCY/WATERGATE
Cracks
in the Movement
Urban Uprisings
Casualties of the Movement
Government Repression of the Left
Counterrevolution
The Sharon Statement,
1960
Young Americans
for Freedom
Forced Exile
Settlement and Adaptation
Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
TERMS
Fall of Saigon, April, 1975
Vang Pao/Armee Clandestine
"Bui Doi"
Jim Loo/Stockton Schoolyard Massacre/Hung Truong/Ly Minh Thien
THEMES
Nixon Counterrevolution
Foreign/Domestic Policy
1972 Election and Watergate
TERMS
"Silent Majority"
The "Southern Strategy"
Detente
"Imperial Presidency"
CREEP - Committee to Re-elect the President
Daniel Ellseberg/Pentagon Papers
George McGovern and the "New Politics"
When Nixon
meets Elvis
4/25:
FORD/CARTER
Elvisıs letter to Nixon
The meeting
In the White
House
Washington
Post, Watergate Special
Nixon
Speech on Watergate, April 30, 1973
Nixon Resignation
Speech
Watergate Tapes
THEMES/TERMS
"Lean Years Presidents"
Nixon Pardon
Stagflation
Growth in New Conservatism
Ford
Pardon of Nixon, Sept. 8, 1974 Ford
on Clinton Impeachment, Oct. 1998
5/2: REAGAN REVOLUTION
Reagan, 1980 Evil Empire
Speech, 1982
NEW IMMIGRATION
Chronology of Immigration
Law
Pardon
Speech, 1974
Ford
and Carter on Clinton Impeachment, Dec. 1998
Carterıs
Malaise Speech, 1979
Reagan's
1964 speech in support of Goldwater
Star Wars' Speech
- TV conference, 1983
Star
Wars' Speech
Iran-Contra
Affair, New York Times
Iran-Contra
Affair, National Security Archives
Reagan and Gorbachev,
Geneva, 11/19/1985
1994 1998
the Latino Vote
"Stepping
into a New Minnesota," New Immigration in MN, St. Paul Pioneer
Press, Feb. - April, 2000
Mariel Boatlist Photographs
(1980) from Brothers to the Rescue
Elian
chronology, New York Times
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