TERMINALE OIB HISTORY

AMERICAN OPTION

 

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OIB American Option HG grading criteria for the written exam.doc

 

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

Speech to National Association of Evangelicals (includes reference to USSR as the 'evil empire')

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

Reagan Notes.doc

Reagan Documents.doc

 

1987 magazine article about the 'Reagan Revolution:'

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1987/01/the-new-shape-of-american-politics/303363/

 

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 through the 1980's.

 

 

Civil Rights Movement:

Class Notes

civil rights.doc

1960s Black Civil Rights Struggle.ppt

 

Document-Based Question:

LBJ Howard speech 1965 & Carmichael Black Power 1966.doc

 

Civil Rights Movement  docs and videos (Eyes on the Prize series)

 

Selma to Montgomery March 1965 Videos

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/10_march.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JERxreFsfP8

 

Malcolm X speaks "By any means necessary" Video

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

 

Black Panther Party Platform Document

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

 

 Secondary source: Analysis of two leaders - King and Malcolm X   

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/Souls.The_Unfinished_Dialogue.pdf

 

Women's Liberation Movement :

Women's Liberation Movement.odp

Women's Liberation Movement.odt

 

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  

 

The Influence of Religion on American Society 

Religion in the USA.ppt  

 

 

CHICAGO

Notes: Chicago notes.doc

Link to website below for information relating to the Chicago video:

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago

                                                        JFK and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley

Al Capone                                         1960 Presidential campaign

 

 

 

 

Emergence of the United States as a world power in the 20th century

 

Première Class materials on the Cold War

The Creation of Bi-Polar World.ppt

Germany 1945-9-1.ppt

Berlin Crisis.ppt

For a review of some Key questions about the Cold War:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/coldwar/

 

Key TermsKey Terms.odt

 

arms race-1.ppt

 

Link to an excellent website about the history of the atomic bomb

http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/index.shtml

 

Link to website below contains excellent Cold War videos (including Vietnam War):

http://www.cosmolearning.com/documentaries/cold-war-by-cnn-perspectives/

 

Website link to an enormous selection of Cold War documentation

http://www.teacheroz.com/coldwar.htm

 

Reading Assignment - an overview of the Reagan Revolution and the end of the Cold War

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/WebPub/history/henrettaAH6e/Instructor%20Resources/Instructors%20Manual/IRM%20%20Ch.%2030%20%28455-472%29.pdf

 

Gulf War.pptx

 

 

Global Economic Governance

global economic governance.pptx

 

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/EXTARCHIVES/0,,contentMDK:21826676~pagePK:36726~piPK:437378~theSitePK:29506,00.html

 

A recent newspaper article about the discovery of new documents showing the extent of disagreement during the Bretton Woods conference:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/transcript-of-1944-bretton-woods-meeting-found-at-treasury.html?ref=brettonwoodssystem&_r=0

 

GATT/WTO

http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/intl/guides/gattwto/gatt_1.html

 

 

 

 

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