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US History. Unit 9, Week 2. Agenda for Monday, April 21 . Human Be-in: Expand your mind Homework Cornell Notes: pgs 649-653 Get caught up on your vocab packet, due block day Question authority. Human Be-In. Station Rotation

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  1. US History Unit 9, Week 2

  2. Agenda for Monday, April 21 Human Be-in: Expand your mind • Homework • Cornell Notes: pgs 649-653 • Get caught up on your vocab packet, due block day • Question authority

  3. Human Be-In • Station Rotation • You will participate in an outta sight experience today involving the most happening movements of the 1960s. • All chicks and dudes will move from station to station see the choice trends of the times in a hands on manner. • Don’t be a spaz and get involved!

  4. Station A: The New Left-Letter Writing • You were inspired by a speech given by Mario Savio at UC Berkeley and now you want to promote activism through your support of the Free Speech Movement. You are so tired of people trying to shut down your opinions just because you are young. They act like you don’t have anything intelligent to say… fools. Begin a letter writing campaign by writing to Governor Jerry Brown about a cause that is important to you. Make sure to relate it to the Free Speech Movement and your basic first amendment rights.

  5. Station BAnti-Establishment-Slogan • You are a hippie who wants to reject the views of the “Establishment” because they control society and make us all act like sheep. Think about it, we should be treated like individuals and not just students in a factory that produces mindless middle management drones. Do something! Think about a cause that you feel passionately about and create a slogan on a nametag that you will wear all day. Make sure to relate it to similar causes that the hippies cared about in the 1960s.

  6. Station CPersonal Liberation- Finger Painting • You are feeling frustrated with the political and religious environment of the time and you want to freely express yourself and reach a higher understanding of who you are and what you want. We need to have the freedom to do what we want so that we can “shed hypocrisy, dishonesty, and phoniness, and go back to the purity of our childhood values.” Therefore, you can participate in the classic childhood activity of finger painting. Express yourself and reach a new height of personal liberation.

  7. Station D: Culture Clash • You are feeling disenchanted with the “little boxes” of suburbia and you are looking for an alternative way of life. You also want to reject materialism and the conventional lifestyles of the 1950s. You want to find beauty in the natural world instead of the capitalist factory system that America has become. Feel free to use face paint with your friends to express your feelings of love and nature while talking about your feelings and your ideal utopic society.

  8. Station E: Counterculture- Fashion Change • You want to reject the conventions of modern fashion and feel the need to express yourself as an individual. Change something about your appearance (within the dress code ) to demonstrate your individualism.

  9. Station F: Parents Just Don’t Understand- Lyrics • The growing Generation Gap has forever changed the way you relate to your parents. They just don’t seem to get you man. They think you are sinful slackers who don’t care about their future. They criticize you for being spoiled little rich kids when they don’t realize that you are practicing communal living where you all work and live together. Little do they know is that you are trying to make a better future for everyone around the world. Write a song or poem to express your frustrations with the Generation Gap. Damn the Man! The Times They Are A Changin’ – Bob Dylan • Come gather 'round peopleWherever you roamAnd admit that the watersAround you have grownAnd accept it that soonYou'll be drenched to the boneIf your time to youIs worth savin'Then you better start swimmin'Or you'll sink like a stoneFor the times they are a-changin'. • Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin' whoThat it's namin'For the loser nowWill be later to winFor the times they are a-changin'. • Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hallFor he that gets hurtWill be he who has stalledThere's a battle outsideAnd it is ragin'It'll soon shake your windowsAnd rattle your wallsFor the times they are a-changin‘ • Come mothers and fathersThroughout the landAnd don't criticizeWhat you can't understandYour sons and your daughtersAre beyond your commandYour old road isRapidly agin'Please get out of the new oneIf you can't lend your handFor the times they are a-changin'.

  10. Agenda for Tuesday, 4/22 • HOT ROC • The Vietnam War Experience • Homework • Cornell Notes on p.675-677 and glossaries collected

  11. HOT ROC: Would you consider yourself a “Hawk” or a “Dove”? Why? Use p.664-665. Hawks: Reasons for escalation in Vietnam Doves: Reasons for getting out of Vietnam 1. 2. 3. • 1. • 2. • 3.

  12. Who fought for the U.S.? • Early years (1960-1966)—professional soldiers and volunteers. • Later years (1966-1973)—the Draft. (Selective Service System—WWI) • By December 1966, the draft call was up to 40,000 men each month. • By 1973, 2.15 million Americans had served.

  13. How to Avoid Vietnam How could you avoid serving in the war? • Conscientious objector status • Illness • Go to Canada • Student status • National guard service

  14. Which young men* were drafted? • Lower income • No college degree • African Americans and Latino Americans made up 31% of all combat troops at the beginning of the war. • They were much more likely to see heavy combat throughout the war. • Forced into war by the draft • Over half of the 234 sons of Congressmen and Senators received deferments, only 28 were sent to Vietnam – none were killed • *10,000 women served as nurses and other support roles.

  15. Who were the Vietcong? • Ho Chi Minh’s main force were uniformed, full-time soldiers • Additional local Vietcong groups—often teenagers motivated by idealism or anger at the US and located in South Vietnam. They didn’t wear uniforms.

  16. Guerilla Warfare • Tunnels, bunkers, land mines, & booby traps • Difficult Terrain & weather • Viet conghad a strategy of “cling to the enemy’s belt” • Hit-and-run maneuvers

  17. How many died? • U.S.—58,000 killed, 200,000- 400,000 wounded • Vietnamese—1 million combatants killed, 4 million civilians. • Effects of Agent Orange – http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/30/effects-of-agent-orange-ongoing-silently-in-children/?hpt=hp_c3

  18. The War becomes unpopular • Using p. 675-676, list 5 reasons why Americans began to oppose Vietnam War 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

  19. Pentagon Papers • What happened: In 1971 a person working in the Defense Department revealed that the US government had lied to Congress and the public about our progress in the Vietnam War. The story was reported by the NY Times. • How could this information have hurt soldiers in harms way? • Does the NY Times have a right to report this story or should it be prevented by the government? • The Supreme Court ruled that the government could not block the publication of this information. • How is this case similar and different than Edward Snowden?

  20. War Powers Resolution • Some people in Congress oppose the Vietnam War and think that the President has too much power to expand it without their permission. • 1970 – Congress repeals the Gulf of Tonkin resolution  the President can no longer expand fighting without Congress’ approval • 1972 – Congress finds out the Nixon has still been secretly bombing Cambodia  they pass the War Powers Resolution which restores the powers around declaring war with the Congress. • Is it better to have the President or Congress in charge of declaring war? • Why does the Constitution divide this power between the President as commander in chief and Congress having the power to declare war?

  21. Agenda for Block Day 4/23-4/24 • My Lai Massacre inquiry • Homework • Cornell Notes on p.682-683.

  22. What happened at My Lai? Context • In January, 1968 the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army launched a massive surprise attack on the Vietnamese New Year’s, known as the Tet Offensive. • US responded with a counter-offensive 2 months later. • Destroying a Viet Cong battalion in the town of My Lai was part of this counter-offensive.

  23. What happened at My Lai? • Lt. William Calley commanded the troops that entered My Lai on March 16, 1968. • The “search and destroy” mission soon transformed into a brutal massacre of 300 unarmed Vietnamese men, women and children. • This story was revealed to the American public in 1969 through an investigation done by journalist Seymour Hersh. • Following a government investigation of events, Lt. William Calley was sentenced to life in prison for murder.

  24. What happened at My Lai My Lai massacre provides a particularly gruesome lens for what America struggled with in Vietnam, not only physically, but psychologically and morally as well. Our task: Investigate through primary sources what really happened at My Lai and what it reveals about the American experience in Vietnam.

  25. Agenda for Friday, 4/25 • HOT ROC • Nixon’s presidency • HW: Finish t-chart

  26. HOT ROC • Read p.697 • What does it tell you about Richard Nixon as a person?

  27. “Peace with Honor”- Nixon • Nixon did not want to be the 1st president to lose a war • “Vietnamization” pulling US troops, shift responsibility to S. Vietnamese • Was this a reelection strategy to appease the American public?

  28. Positive and Negative Aspects of Nixon Directions: Partners choose either 54.2 or 54.3 Read your section and fill in positive and negative things done by President Nixon Exchange info with your partner Label info as domestic or foreign policy Finish your section for HW

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