Unit 10: KENNEDY AND JOHNSON Administrations
Cuba, Civil Rights, Great Society, and Vietnam
Unit Test: March 25
Textbook: Chapter 17
Curriculum: SSUSH21
Textbook: Chapter 17
Curriculum: SSUSH21
GRADED ASSIGNMENTS
Textbook Assignment - Read Chapter 17 and answer questions on pages:
Quiz: 1960s Civil Rights Movement
Quiz: 1960s Domestic Policies
Unit Test: Multiple Choice
Textbook Assignment - Read Chapter 17 and answer questions on pages:
- 495; 503 #1; 508 #1-2; 518; 519
Quiz: 1960s Civil Rights Movement
Quiz: 1960s Domestic Policies
Unit Test: Multiple Choice
handouts
Overview Kennedy Johnson |
Crash Course 1960s |
Videos and Review
PPT SSUSH21 Kennedy |
LEARNING GOALS
SSUSH21 Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations
a. Analyze the international policies and actions taken as a response to the Cold War including U.S. involvement in Cuba and
the escalation of the war in Vietnam as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
b. Connect major domestic issues to their social effects including the passage of civil rights legislation and Johnson’s Great
Society, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
c. Describe the impact of television on American culture including the presidential debates (Kennedy/Nixon, 1960), news
coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, the moon landing, and the war in Vietnam.
d. Investigate the growth, influence, and tactics of civil rights groups, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Letter from Birmingham Jail,
the I Have a Dream Speech, and Cesar Chavez.
e. Describe the social and political turmoil of 1968 including the reactions to assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and
Robert F. Kennedy, the Tet Offensive, and the presidential election.
SSUSH21 Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations
a. Analyze the international policies and actions taken as a response to the Cold War including U.S. involvement in Cuba and
the escalation of the war in Vietnam as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
b. Connect major domestic issues to their social effects including the passage of civil rights legislation and Johnson’s Great
Society, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
c. Describe the impact of television on American culture including the presidential debates (Kennedy/Nixon, 1960), news
coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, the moon landing, and the war in Vietnam.
d. Investigate the growth, influence, and tactics of civil rights groups, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Letter from Birmingham Jail,
the I Have a Dream Speech, and Cesar Chavez.
e. Describe the social and political turmoil of 1968 including the reactions to assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and
Robert F. Kennedy, the Tet Offensive, and the presidential election.