Former Students

If any of you are checking the blog, I hope you are having a great senior year. Good luck on finals! Have a great spring semester.

Review for Spring Final

I am just giving the answers for now. Leave a post if you need clarification on anything.

1. The US and Soviet Union - bad relationship
2. Fear that Communists had infiltrated the federal government
3. National defense; protection against Soviet Union; possible nuclear attack
4. when N. Korea invaded S. Korea
5. Truman wanted a limited war while MacArthur wanted to bomb China
6. Successful containment, but not a victory
7. providing new funds to help the nation's educational system
8. We airlifted in supplies to the West Berliners
9. Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO
10. auto sales increased, travel time decreased, suburban communities grew
11. polio
12. the car allowed people to travel longer distances to and from their jobs
13. crime, poverty, etc
14. to reward those that served in the military by helping pay their tuition, home loans
15. countries that were dominated by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
16. July 4, 1776, no taxation without representation
17. AofC gave states too much power; Constitution in 1787
18. The both list unalienable rights like: freedom of speech, no quartering of soldiers, no excessive bail, right to bare arms
19. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness
20. power that is divided between the federal government and state government
21. 1861-1865 states rights and slavery
22. the idea that the states ultimately control the federal government and the states are simply allowing the federal government to exist
23. Free, Citizens, Vote
24. poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause
25. separate but equal
26. Brown v. Board 1954
27. Montgomery Bus Boycott
28. MLK - peaceful protest; Malcolm X "any means necessary"
29. granted right to vote to African American males (former slaves), women's sufferage, abolished poll tax
30. Kennedy promised to remove missiles from Turkey, Khrushchev promised to remove missiles from Cuba
31. they built bomb shelters
32. first televised presidentioal debate, Kennedy young and vibrant; Nixon old and unkept
33. economic opportunities, better way of life and freedom. Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall to keep people from going to the West
34. The Warren Commission; he acted alone
35. Yes, he knew how to work with Congress, sympathy over JFK's death, speedy passage of legislation
36. greater government involvement in the daily life of Americans
37. Domino Theory - spread of communism
38. gave the war powers to the president
39. containment - stop the spread of communism
40. if you are old enough to be drafted, then you should be old enough to vote
41. supply line from North Vietname to South Vietnam - Viet cong
42. War Powers Act of 1973
43. The Viet Cong could mount a major/massive attack within South Vietnam/The US could actually lose a war
44. That China would enter the war to aid North Vietham and the Vietminh
45. A credibility gap in the case of the Vietnam War was that it was hard to believe what the Johnson administration said about the war. Public support dropped - suspicion of government truthfulness
46. jungle terrain, difficult to find the enemy, reason for the lack of American success
47. original document
48. my lai massacre
49. roberty kennedy and mlk
50. 1968

This is where my sheet ends. I will go over any questions that I did not list here before the final.

Review Sheet Missing

Sorry students, but I thought I left my review sheet here next to the computer and it is not here. I have searched around for it, but cannot find it. We went over the review really well as a class today. We will have a few minutes before the test that I will be able to answer your questions before the test.

HOWEVER, read through the past few blogs - civil rights, Kennedy and Johnson and each will direct you to very relavent material.

Next stop VIETNAM.

Civil Rights and 1960s Review

Sorry it took so long, but I just got finished grading all of the quizzes (US History and Economics). In my rush I put some of the answers out of order. Please make sure you put the answer with the number indicated on this page. ( mainly look at 7. then 5.)

1. taking pride in Black Heritage, think Malcolm X
2. what LBJ called his program (remember his University of Michigan commencement address in May 1964 - before the election)
3. what JFK's program was called.
4. after Rosa Parks did not give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, MLK and other African American civil rights activists led an 11 month long bus strike.
7. JFK's plan to send young men and women to perform humanitarian work in developing countries.
6.Supreme Court decision to allow segregation must be "seperate but equal."
5. Supreme Court decision that outlawed "seperate but equal" gave civil rights incentive
8. people wanting to change "the system"
9. allowed people to vote only if they had a relative vote prior to 1865 (kept African Americans from voting because they were slaves before then, but allowed poor whites to vote)
10. you could vote only if you could pass the reading test. (again, most African Americans could not read)
11. must pay a "fee" in order to vote.
12. allow races to coexist


More tomorrow...

Conspiracy and Coincidence

Conspiracy Theories Abound,

But here are a few....



Here is a link from the Houston Chronicle that summarizes the more popular conspiracy theories involving the assination of President Kennedy. http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/jfk/theory/index.html



This link will send you to various conspiracy theory links including the Houston Chronicle.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sites.htm



Conspiracies aren't alone,

Coincidences Mount As Well...



Here are several links that tie in Kennedy with Lincoln.

http://www.coverups.com/jfk/lincoln.htm

http://people.consolidated.net/vmun/presidential.html



This one analyzes their strange connection and refutes it.

http://www.kilty.com/l_and_k.htm




Have a fun weekend!

The Democrat Presidents of the 1960s

A great source for more information about our presidents is their presidential libraries. All correspondence and papers that were written and logged all go to their libraries once they leave office.

John F. Kennedy's library is in Boston http://www.jfklibrary.org/ you can take the tour, read the White House diary or view the timeline. This is a great website!

Lyndon Johnson's library is in Austin http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/main.htm all of the links are great. You can read his Great Society speech and check out the information on his domestic and foreign policies.

Keep checking back for more information including conspiracy theories!!!

Have a good weekend.

I am Back! Civil Rights

Here are a few good sites to visit to learn more of Civil Rights.

The Civil Rights Museum http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/gallery/gallery1.asp you can look at the exhibits and read about important events. If you read about a certain event (Montgomery Bus Boycott, Sit Ins, Ole Miss, etc) it will give you people's names and events that you search for more information.

Here is a different site "for kids" but it has good pictures and easy reading for you.
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/places/civil_rights_museum

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute http://www.bcri.org/resource_gallery/interview_segments/index.htm# has great resources for research, but this link goes to directly to their Oral History Project where you can see and read interviews of key people involved in the civil rights movement, not just the main people you hear and read about.

Civil Rights Memorial opens with Dr. Martin Luther King speaking
http://www.tolerance.org/memorial/ just go through this site at your leisure. It is very moving.

Selma to Montgomery also known as "Bloody Sunday" You can see what the bridge looks like today and pictures from that fateful day.
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm

Tomorrow will be other things of the 1960s.