HIST 206:United States in the Twentieth Century II (1945-Present)
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Unit
One: A Cold War Unit Two: Post War Culture: Consensus and Challenge Unit Three: Vietnam and the Domestic Crisis of Authority Unit Four: The Resurgence of the Right Week One:
2. Prologue: 1900-1945 Week Two:
2. Containment 3. The Age of McCarthyism Week Three:
2. Discussion Section I – Cold
War America 3. Discussion Section II
– Cold War America Week Four:
2. 1950s Images of American Women &
the American Family 3. “Mainstream” Culture and Its Discontents
Week Five:
2. Discussion Section II: Beat Culture
3. The Brown Decision and the Early
the Civil Rights Movement Week Six:
2. Martin Luther King, SNCC and Political Responses to the Civil Rights Movement 3. Discussion Section I: An Intimate
View of American Racism Week Seven:
2. Disillusionment & Black Power Emerge (MDFP) 3. Visions of Racial Justice: Martin,
Bayard and Malcolm (Class Discussion) Spring Break- Enjoy! Week Eight:
2. Class Discussion: LBJ & JFK
Reconsidered 3. The War in Vietnam Week Nine:
2. Discussion Section I: The Vietnam
War 3. Discussion Section II: The Vietnam
War Week Ten:
2. Class Discussion: Student Antiwar
Radicalism 3. Battling for Gender & Sexual
Equality Week Eleven:
2. Discussion Section II: The Challenge to
Sexism 3. Nixon and Watergate Week Tweleve:
2. Debate teams meet in Dinand Library
for directed research Easter Break - Enjoy!
2. Revival of Conservatism & The
End of the Cold War (80s-90s) 3. Revival of Conservatism & The
End of the Cold War (80s-90s) cont’d Week Fourteen: 2. Debate Team 1 3. Deabte Team 2 Week Fifteen:
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Visual Exercise:
From magazines, newspapers, and other visual and material culture sources,
students must bring in two images – one of the American Woman and the
other of the American Family, to class for analysis. Images will be handed
in to the professor at the end of class.