The National Security Act of 1947
“Little Boy”
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
Tet Offensive
Domino Theory
The Warsaw Pact
Guns and Butter
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
OPEC
Levittown
Truman Doctrine
Détente
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Dorothea Lange
Ten Point Essays: Pick Three and Answer Completely
What were the key components to the Green Revolution? What are the pros and cons? Where do you think we will be in thirty years regarding food versus world population? Are you a technocrat believing we will always solve the problem or a Malthusian believing that sooner or later we will hit a crisis point? Why or why not?
How did the Great Migration lead to changes in American society? What were the economic, social, cultural, and political ramifications of this mass migration?
What were the key movements that contributed to the social activism of the 1960s? Which was the most important? How did the media help to stimulate interest and support for these social issues?
Pick a topic, person, idea, event, time frame, or movement we studied that you would like to teach to either a middle or high school class for a week. What would you choose? How would you go about teaching it? Explain your choices.
Thirty Point Essay:
Explain the Great Society programs
