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    • Unit 5: 1920 - 1945 - Trials and Tribulations
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      • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
      • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
      • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Transoceanic Interconnections
      • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
      • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
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      • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
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      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
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      • Unit VI - Revolution
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
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      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
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Conflicts and Resolutions

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  • Great Society
  • entitlements
  • Medicare/Medicaid
  • Warren Court
  • Warren Court rulings
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THE GREAT SOCIETY AND THE WARREN COURT

The 1960s marked the ‘high water mark’ of liberalism in America with Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society advocating for government intervention to solve society's problems, and the judicial system under the Warren Court applying liberal ideals and values on America.
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  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Black Power
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • ​Voting Rights Act of 1965
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THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Denied the basic civil rights afforded to citizens of the United States for over a century after legally gaining them, African Americans and other minorities led movements in America that forever changed the nation and its people.
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  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  •  Vietcong
  •  Tet Offensive
  • "creditability gap"
  •  Vietnamization
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THE VIETNAM WAR

American military buildup in Vietnam began under President Eisenhower,  after Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, President Johnson inherited the crisis expanding America’s commitment into a lengthy full-scale war that shows the limitations of America's military might.
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  • Counterculture Movement
  • Women's Movement
  • Reproductive Rights
  • Mexican-American Rights
  • Native American Rights​
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THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN'

Social and cultural issues take center stage in an era of tremendous change.  These changes will lay the foundation of the modern culture and society of America.
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  • OPEC oil crisis
  • Three Mile Island
  • Environmental Movement
  • Silent Spring
  • Environmental Protection Agency​
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ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS

During the 1960s and 1970s, events both foreign and domestic spark a new interest in the environment and natural resources with the newly understood harm that human activity was having on the planet and American dependency on foreign sources of energy.
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  • religious right/moral majority
  • détente policy 
  • New Federalism 
  • Nixon visits China
  • Watergate​
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SOCIETY IN TRANSITION AND WATERGATE

The early 1960s saw the Cold War heat up as tensions grew between the United States and the Soviet Union.  As the Republican party tries again to reclaim the White House, a growing movement shifts the direction of the Republican Party further to the right as a new Republican president tarnishes the executive office.
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  • American History
    • American History Honors >
      • Map Test
    • Unit 0: 1763 - 1800 - Revolutionary America
    • Unit 1: 1800 - 1848 - Expansion & Reform
    • Unit 2: 1848 - 1877 - A Nation Divided
    • Unit 3: 1865 - 1898 - The Gilded Age
    • Unit 4: 1890 - 1920 - American World Debut
    • Unit 5: 1920 - 1945 - Trials and Tribulations
    • Unit 6: 1945 - 1963 - Cold War Tensions
    • Unit 7: 1955 - 1980 - Conflicts & Resolutions
    • Unit 8: 1980 - present - Modern America
  • World History
    • World History Honors
    • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
    • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
    • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
    • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Sea of Exploration
    • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
    • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
    • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
    • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
    • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
    • AP World History >
      • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
      • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
      • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
      • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Transoceanic Interconnections
      • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
      • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
      • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
      • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
      • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
    • AP European History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Civic Literacy
    • Unit 1 - Developing State and Local Government
    • Unit 2 - The Law
    • Unit 3 - Political Culture & Ideology
    • Unit 4 - National Government