• Unit II: Eisenhower

    Unit II-1: Eisenhower Bio


    Objectives: 
    -TSWBAT define the major biographical events of the time before the Eisenhower Presidency.
     
    Important People:
    -Dwight Eisenhower
     
    Important Places:
    -Kansas
    -Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 
     
    Assignments:
    -Begin Reading 412-417, 438-447, 448-453, 455-459, 470-497 in Textbook
     
    Unit II-2: The New Look

     
    Objectives: 
    -TSWBAT define the term Brinkmanship.
    -TSWBAT compare Truman's and Ike's beliefs with regard to communism through foreign policy. 
     
    Important People:
    -John Foster Dulles
    -Ho Chi Minh
    -Ngo Dinh Diem
    -Fidel Castro 
     
    Important Places:
    -Cuba
    -Korea
    -Vietnam 
     
    Assignments:
    1. Read the Article-The New Look 
    2. RQ#2: Friday (15 Points)
    3. Intro Paragraph Assignment (15 Points) Due Thursday 
     
    Unit II-3: Eisenhower Foreign Policy (Day 1) 
    Objectives: 
    -TSWBAT evaluate the successes of Eisenhower's Foreign Policy from Cuba to Iran.
    -TSWBAT evaluate the role of Oil with regard to specific actions in Ike's Foreign Policy. 
     
    Important People:
    -Fidel Castro 
    -Nikita Khruschev
    -Mohammed Mossadeq
    -Shah Reza Pahlavi
    -Gamal Abdul Nassar 
     
    Important Places:
    -Cuba
    -Washington D.C./California/Pittsburgh
    -Iran
    -Guatemala
    -W. Germany
    -Egypt 
     
    Assignments:
    Turn in Intro Paragraph (15 Points)
     
    Unit II-4: End of Eisenhower FoPo
    Objectives: 
    -TSWBAT evaluate the successes of Eisenhower's Foreign Policy the Suez Crisis to the launching of Sputnik.
    -TSWBAT evaluate the rationale for the failure of Ike's belief in Massive Retaliation. 
    -TSWBAT evaluate define the U2 Incident with regard to overall foreign policy.
     
    Important People:
    -Gamal Abdul Nassar 
    -Nikita Khruschev
    -Francis Gary Powers
    Important Places:
    -USSR
    -Hungary 
    -Egypt 
     
    Assignments:
    1. Reading Quiz Friday (15 Points) -  412-417, 438-447, 448-453, 455-459
     
    II-5: The beginnings of American Affluence
    Objectives: 
    -TSWBAT evaluate the role of the Highway Act of 1956 in the expansion of America.
    -TSWBAT discuss the role of Eisenhower with respect to the "Creeping Socialism" approaching America.
     
    Important People:
    -Dwight Eisenhower
     
    Important Places:
    -Pennsylvania 
     
    Assignments:
    Article: American Affluence + Galbreath's Affluent Society
     
    Unit II-6: Modern Republicanism
    Objectives: 
    -TSWBAT define the role of the baby boom on Domestic America during the Eisenhower Administration.
    -TSWBAT understand the reasons for judicial activism with regard to the Brown vs. the Board of Education case.
     
    Important People:
    -Jonas Salk
    -Linda Brown
    -Earl Warren
    -Rosa Parks
    -Dr. Martin Luther King 
     
    Important Places:
    -Pittsburgh, PA
    -Topeka, Kansas
    -Montgomery, Alabama 
     
    Assignments:
     
    Unit II-7: Intro to Civil Rights

    Objectives: 
    -TSWBAT define 4 examples of the struggle for Civil Rights during the Eisenhower Administration.
     
    Important People:
    -Emmitt Till
    -Strom Thurmond
    -Orval Faubus 
     
    Important Places:
    -Little Rock, Arkansas
    -Chicago, Illinois
    -Greensboro, North Carolina 
     
    Assignments:
    None
     
    Unit II-8 End of Civil Rights
    Objectives: 
    Important People:
    -None
    Important Places:
    Assignments:
     
     
    Unit II-9: Eisenhower Review Game 
    Objectives: 
    -TSWBAT review for the Eisenhower Unit 2 Test (60 Points)
     
    Important People:
    -None
     
    Important Places:
    -None
     
    Assignments:  
Last Modified on September 29, 2014