To further our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement, we watched the short film A Time for Justice, which covers many of the important events of the era as well as the drive to get African American in the South the vote.
To start our look at the Civil Rights movement, we discussed several important terms, like nonviolence and civil disobedience. Students then read through and organized information on some of the most important trends and events of the movement, such as Little Rock, Montgomery, and Birmingham. If absent today, please use the textbook to take notes on the appropriate pages in your binder.
We finished Thirteen Days, then followed that up with an article that presents an alternate analysis of the causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis. A discussion followed.
To illustrate the enormity of the Cuban Missile Crisis, we began viewing the movie Thirteen Days which dramatizes the Kennedy White House during the crisis. We will finish this up tomorrow.
To start class, we watched portions of the documentary Atomic Cafe, which communicates the atomic anxiety of the 1950s using footage, news reports, and propaganda from the era.
We then switched gears and examined aspects of the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies, especially Johnson's expansion of the welfare state. Finally, we discussed the opposition to the welfare state from the 1960s. We discussed many topics associated with 1950s society during class today. Terms like baby boom, suburbs, and consensus were used to describe this unique time in American history. We also watched an episode of I Love Lucy and talked about the gender roles on display.
If absent, please complete the appropriate sheet in your binder using the indicated book pages. Today's focus was on the fear of communists within the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Students read through information on the Smith Act, the McCarren Act, as well as accused communist spies Alger Hiss and Klaus Fuchs. Students took notes about each one in their binders.
We also viewed portions of a video on Sen. Joseph McCarthy and answered some questions about the video in their binders. If absent, please complete these activities. After finishing up the discussion of Cold War topics/events we started yesterday, the rest of class was devoted to learning about the Korean War. We focused primarily on the origin of the war and how the war fits in with the overall themes of the Cold War. The notes video should be used by absent students to complete the Korean War notes sheets in students' binders. After a brief recap of the introduction to the Cold War from last week, students worked on creating an information sheet (template below) about their assigned Cold War event. We began to talk about some of these events by the end of class, but did not have time to discuss them all. That will continue tomorrow. Absent students should complete the sheet below using the topic of the Rosenbergs - find information regarding who they were, what they did, what happened to them, and how they are a symbol of Cold War paranoia.
Students worked through the first page of their Cold War packet, which concerns both the Iron Curtain and important changes made in the US after WWII. If absent, please complete this page.
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