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Unit XI

Ch 38 The Stormy Sixties

Talking Points:

1. How did the New Frontier compare with the New Deal and Fair Deal?

2. Describe the Kennedy administration.

3. How did JFK shift relations with the Soviet Union?

4. What was Kennedy’s stand on Civil Rights?

5. How did LBJ carry out the legacy of the Kennedy administration?

6. How and why did we escalate the conflict in Vietnam?

7. What was the impact of the Bay of Pigs? Of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

8. Why did LBJ lose the war on Poverty and the Great Society? Explain.

9. Why did Johnson decide not to run in 1968?

10. Justify a Nixon victory in 1968.

Ch 39: The Stalemated Seventies

Talking Points:

1. What caused the Stagflation of the mid 70s?

2. What was Nixon’s secret plan to win the war? Explain in terms of Vietnamization

3. How did Nixon widen the war and what did Congress finally do to stop him?

4. Describe the shifts of the Burger court.

5. How did Nixon win in 72?

6. What caused the Oil Crisis and what were the effects?

7. Describe the undoing of the president

8. What happened to Civil Rights in the late 60s- 70s?

Ch 40: Resurgence of Conservatism

1. Explain and justify the Reagan Revolution.
2. How did Reagan handle terrorist threats?
3. Describe and trace the Iran Contra Deal.
4. What was Reagan’s economic legacy?
5. How did the Cold War come to an end? Who can take the credit? Why?
6. Describe the Persian Gulf Crisis.

Ch 41 America Confronts the Post Cold War Era

1992-2000

Talking Points:

1. How did the Democrats take back the Whitehouse in 1992?

2. Describe the scandals of the Clinton Whitehouse.

3. What was the election controversy of 2000?