February 28

Chapter 24 Section 1 Questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2TFR0N3hVVFZsX1k/edit?usp=sharing

February 27

Ch 24 Section 1 Notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2dWlJRVBfc0dFRjg/edit?usp=sharing

February 25

Notebook due tomorrow.
Test tomorrow.
Review pp 760-761 #1-28

Ch 22 Jeopardy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2WURpNTBFNGZVbmM/edit?usp=sharing

February 21

Assassination Paper:
Which theory do you believe to be true?
1. Single Bullet/Oswald acted alone
2. Magic Bullet/multiple people involved

5 paragraph hand written persuasive essay.

DUE MONDAY!

February 20

JFK Power Point- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2OV9yVVNSSVJ2RWM/edit?usp=sharing

Conspiracy Theory WS- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_gpVfHfuRG2QWxOc3JxQ3Q5OU0/edit?usp=sharing

Information for this week, due to snow days

YOU WILL NEED YOUR TEXTBOOK AND SPIRAL IN CLASS EVERY DAY THIS WEEK

2/11/14: Slideshow and discussion to re-cap The New Frontier, leading up to The Great Society.

2/12/14:  Notebook: Slideshow notes

2/13/14: Kennedy and Johnson Review

2/14/14: Notebook: The Great Society

13 Days Movie Questions

1. When did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur (month/year)?

2. What was Kenny O’Donnell’s position in the Kennedy Administration?

3. How far could the nuclear missiles in Cuba travel, and what part of the U.S. would have been in danger?

4. Who is Robert (Bobby) F. Kennedy?

5. What body/group did the Kennedy Administration work with to come up with solutions to the crisis?

6. What did the pilot say hit his plane during the surveillance flights?

7. What happened with the first ships that reached the blockade?

8 What was the response when a Soviet ship slipped past the blockade?

9. What happens to Colonel Anderson’s surveillance plane?

10. What is the final deal that is accepted?

(Didn't pay attention or don't remember? Try watching part or all of it again)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tho5ZYLiuoc

 

Notebook: New Frontier Graphic Organizer

See example on page 736 of the textbook. This is the basic organizer we created in class.  Add info as you see appropriate.
                                                 

  KENNEDY'S NEW FRONTIER

ECONOMIC INITIATIVES              ANTI-POVERTY/                      SPACE EXPLORATION

                                                       EQUALITY PROPOSALS
____________________________________________________________________________
Steel Price Fixing Probe              Increased minimum wage             Mercury Program
Area Redevelopment law             Area Redevelopment law              more funding for NASA
Major Weapons Contracts           distributed food to unemployed     goal: man on the moon
Major construction projects           wanted federal education aid        
Trade Expansion Act                    wanted medical care for elderly
                                                     changes in Social Security
                                                    Overhaul of the Welfare System

Notebook: Debate and Inaugural Address Q1-5

Answer the following in your spirals:
1) Why did people who watched the Kennedy/Nixon debate on tv think Kennedy won the debate, while those who listened on the radio believed Nixon won?
2) Explain the role of television and its importance in the 1960 election.
3) Why did Kennedy's phrase, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" have such a profound meaning for people during this time in the United States?
4) What domestic issues did President Kennedy attempt to address?
5) Why did Kennedy say the nation was poised at the edge of "A New Frontier"?

Notebook: 1960 Election

• The Democratic nominee for president in 1960 was a young Massachusetts senator named John Kennedy.
• He promised to "get America moving again"
• He had a well-organized campaign, was handsome, and charismatic
• The Republican nominee for president in 1960 was President Eisenhower's  Vice President, Richard Nixon.
• The candidates agreed on many domestic and foreign policy issues.
• Two main factors helped put Kennedy over the top: Television and Civil Rights support.
• On September 26, 1960, Kennedy and Nixon took part in the first televised debate between presidential candidates.
• Kennedy looked and spoke better than Nixon.
• Journalist Russell Baker said, "That night, image replaced the printed word as the national language of politics"
• Television had become so central to people's lives that many observers blamed Nixon's loss to Kennedy on his poor appearance in the televised presidential debates.
• JFK looked cool, collected, and "presidential"
• Nixon, according to one observer, resembled a "sinister chipmunk"
• The 2nd major event of the campaign took place in October 1960.
• Police arrested Martin Luther King jr. for conducting a "sit-in" at a lunch counter in Georgia.
• King was sentenced to hard labor
• While the Eisenhower Administration refused to intervene, JFK phoned King's wife and his brother, Bobby Kennedy, worked for King's release.
• The incident captured the attention of the African-American community, whose votes JFK would carry in key states.

2/3 - 2/14 Overview

Following is a basic outline of what we will be covering in class during the rest of my time here, filling in for Mr. Cash. He is scheduled to return on 2/18.

2/3-2/5: Watching the movie 13 Days & answering related questions about the Cuban Missile Crisis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tho5ZYLiuoc

2-6 & 2/7: Studying President Johnson's Great Society, both from Ch 22, Sec 2 in the text, as well as other resources.

2/10: Kennedy & Johnson Domestic Policies - Similarities & Differences

2/11: Kennedy & Johnson Foreign Policies - Similarities & Differences

2/12: Quiz Show (Review of Chapter 22)

2/13: Chapter 22 Exam

2/14: Transition to JFK Assassination (which Mr. Cash will be covering upon his return)