Students analyze important events and trends in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Explain the effect that the assassination of President Kennedy had on the nation.
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List and identify the major components of Johnson’s Great Society programs: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, the war on poverty, crime prevention, and removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
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Describe the Southern Strategy and the success of Nixon’s appeal to the silent majority.
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Analyze the rise of social activism and the antiwar and countercultural movements.
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Describe the dimensions of the energy crisis, the creation of a national energy policy, and the emergence of environmentalism (e.g., creation of the Environmental Protection Agency; Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring; disasters such as Love Canal, Three Mile Island, and the Exxon Valdez).
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