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U. S. History

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***This is for 11th Grade***

Thursday 4/26 Read Text 862-866
Write a few sentences explaining how Senator Joe McCarthy began the Second Red Scare.

Friday 4/27
Research. On paper list some of the specific information you will include in the background portion of the research paper. Be conscious if you need one or two background paragraphs.

Monday 4/30: No Homework

Tuesday 5/1 Read Text 902-907 List the ways in which the Soviet Union challenged President Kennedy in the early 1960s. What was his biggest foreign policy mistake?

Wednesday 5/2 Read Text 907-911 Why did President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger pursue detente in the 1970s? Why did detente come to an end later in the decade?

Thursday 5/3 Read Text 911 to top of 915. How did President Reagan’s policies put pressure on the Soviet Union? What did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev do to help end the Co

Friday 5/4 Research if needed. Outline if desired. Write if you can.

Monday 5/7 Investigate two different websites that have time lines on the Vietnam War between 1946 and 1963; read the infomation.
1.  list three questions about the material (think in terms of who, what where, when, why, and how)
2. find a map of Vietnam that includes the division of the country at the 17th Parallel. Think about the country’s geographic features as well as its relationship to the rest of the region surrounding it
3. see what you can find regarding the history of Vietnam prior to 1946—add one “what” statement to your list from #1
*Please copy any enticing website that you find for the benefit of posterity!

Tuesday 5/8 Read the following short account and be prepared for a quiz: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNngo.htm

http://www.fofweb.com/NuHistory/default.asp?ItemID=WE52

Friday 5/11 Start Writing!