TERMINALE OIB HISTORY

AMERICAN OPTION

 

Welcome to our class wiki 

 

 

United States History since 1945

 

COMPARE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTY PRINCIPLES IN THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.doc

 

intro US poltical system.ppt

 

OVERVIEW OF PRESIDENTS.ppt

 

2012 Elections Seminar.ppt

 

These two sites provide a good overview of the period 1945 - 1975

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog23/index.html

 

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog24/index.html

 

 

Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty and Great Society

Johnson's Message to Congress

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQKueSDpvI

University of Michigan commencement speech by LBJ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2l2rdMiL-4 

Johnson's Great Society Notes.pdf

Johnson Documents.doc

A recent article about Michael Harrington - author of a 1962 book about poverty - 'The Other America'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/post_3167_b_1378516.html

Great Society assessment.doc

 

 

Reagan Revolution

Reagan's First Inaugural speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPt7xGx4Xo

'Evil Empire' speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcSm-KAEFFA

Reagan Notes.doc

Reagan Documents.doc

 

ESSAY ASSIGNMENT:  

Analyze the evolution of the ideologies and policies of the two major political parties

in the United States - the Democratic and Republican - from 1945 throught the 1980's

 

Civil Rights Movement documents & video clips:

Notes

civilrights.doc

 

Documents & Video clips

Civil Rights Movement  (Eyes on the Prize series)

 

Selma to Montgomery March 1965:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/10_march.html

 

Malcolm X speaks "By any means necessary"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhg6LxyTnY8

 

Black Panther Party Platform

http://caho-test.cc.columbia.edu/ps/10127.html

 

 

Jimmy Carter's 'Crisis of Confidence' or 'Mal;aise' speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOd-qWZB_g

 

 

Other Course Notes

Truman domestic policy.pdf

 

Red scare McCarthyism.doc  

 

OIB.HIST.CIVIL rights.odp  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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