Research Paper - Evaluating a President

Your assignment for the weekend is to write a research paper. The exact prompt is:

Evaluate the presidency of one of the following men:

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard M. Nixon

You must write in 12 pt Times New Roman font. 1.5 space between lines. No messing with margins. 3-7 pages long. Make sure you create a title page (and be creative for Pete's sake)

You must use 3 outside resources (not Pageant or AMSCO) of which only one may be an encyclopedia. Yes, that means you must read books (or parts of them). Use paranthetical references or foot/end notes and include a bibliography at the end. The more resources you use, the better off you will be in making a judgement. Click here for help with proper citation. ___________________________________________________________

Remember, this is a chance to choose a topic that you are interested in and then actually write a history about it. After all, isn't that why we are here?

Homework 4-26

List the Cold War confrontations that occurred in:
1. Asia
2. Latin America
3. Europe

What is Detente? When did it begin? Was it an appropriate policy?

How did the anti-war movement manifest itself? Who partook in it?

April Vacation Assignment

Part I - Notes
Chapter 27 - Eisenhower Years - Pages 570-584
Terms:
Eisenhower
Nixon
Republicanism
Highway Act
Dulles
massive retaliation
Indochina
Geneva Conference
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam
domino theory
SEATO
Eisenhower Doctrine
OPEC
Kruschev
Warsaw Pact
Sputnik
U-@ incident
Castro
Cuba
Military Industrial Complex

CIVIL RIGHTS TERMS
Jackie Robinson
NAACP
desegregation
Brown v. Board
Warren
Little Rock
Rosa Parks
Montgomery
MLK Jr.
Civil rights acts
nonviolence
corporate America

Chapter 28 Promises and Turmoil notes - pages 593-610
Terms:

JFK
New Frontier
Alliance for Progress
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
Cuban missile crisis
flexible response
NTBT
Warren Commission
LBJ
Great Society
War on Poverty
Barry Goldwater
Medicare/Medicaid
Elementary Secondary Act
Civil Rights Act 64
24th Amendment
Voting Rights Act
Meredith
MLK Jr.
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Black Panthers
Watts
Brown v Board
Gideon v Wainwright
Edcobedo case
Miranda case
sep of church and state
New Left
counterculture
sexual revolution
women's movement
Vietnam War
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Tet Offensive
hawks and doves

Part II - Annotated Timeline

Create an Annotated Timeline (just like the civil war timeline you did) regarding the Cold War.
Complete the timeline up to the end of Chapter 28 in AMSCO. Use both relevant foreign and domestic events. Be sure to give the date, and the significance of each event. Be neat.

Truman - Terms

GI Bill
baby boom
suburban growth
employment act of 1946
inflation
Commitee on Civil Rights
22nd Amendment
Taft-Hartley Act
Dixiecrats
Strom Thurmond
Fair Deal
Cold War
Soviet Union
UN
World Bank
Iron Curtain
containment
Truman Doctine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
NSA
arms race
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao Zedong
Stalin
Korean War
House Un-American Activities Committee

Also, due to recent comments made on the site, you will no longer be able submit them. If there is any confusion regarding homework or anything else, see me at your soonest possible convenience.

APUSH terms 4/4/07

Define and give significance of the following terms... remember, if all you are doing is searching for the basics and copying it from the book to your notes, you will have trouble understanding the history behind it all. If you share notes, get them done tonight and study what others did... simply having terms and notes in a binder doesn't mean you know the info.

good-neighbor policy
pan-american conferences
Soviet Union
fascism
Mussolini
Nazi Party
Hitler
Axis Powers
isolationism
Nye Committee
neutrality acts
Spanish Civil War
America First Committee
appeasement
Poland/blitzkreig
cash and carry
Selective Service and Training Act
destroyers for bases deal
four freedoms
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Pearl Harbor

FDR - New Deal - 4/3 HW

Consider your notes regarding the New Deal. List 2 things in your notebook...
1. Who supported it and who was against it? Reasoning?
2. List the effects it had on American society. Be sure to include all groups within the country (ie: labor [industry and agriculture], African-Americans, Native Americans, and other minorities, women, different social classes).
Once you have listed these in your notebook, answer the following:

3. Was the New Deal a success or a failure? Answer with an intro paragraph... follow the three steps to writing a good intro:
a. Reword the question if necessary
b. Brainstrom relevant information
c. Create a thesis statment that addresses the question head on

4. GENERAL NOTES FOR #4 -- Start to consider the extent to which FDR expanded the powers of the presidency.