Instructions for your DBQ

Each class received a different DBQ today. This DBQ will be due Friday. If you are going to be gone Friday on a field trip or other scheduled absence, you must get me the completed DBQ before you leave– it must be in my hands by the beginning of whatever class period you are in on Friday.

What you ARE allowed to do:
–Work on the DBQ during class on Wednesday/Thursday.
–Use your text, questions, and your own notes to refresh your knowledge of that period in which the DBQ takes place. This then means that I will expect you to write a better DBQ, and so the standards will be higher.
–Work on the DBQ at home on Wednesday and Thursday night. AP kids in period 2 are welcome to come get their DBQ today, Wednesday, even though you class does not meet with me until Thursday so that you have the same time as the other two classes. I told you this yesterday.
—You may type this, and for some of you, I am BEGGING you to do this.

I am trusting you to NOT make me regret this.

What you MAY NOT DO:
~~Plagiarize in any way, including:
looking up examples/explanations online, sharing with your friends, airdropping, texting, emailing, tweeting, tumblring, discussing the documents together, etc.
~~look up information on the internet.

Your work is to BE YOUR OWN work. No exceptions, not even a little bit.

10 most sexist ads from the 1950s

Why did organizations such as NOW (so-gounded by Betty Friedan) feel that women’s rights and the perception of women in society needed to be challenged? Okay, here are some examples.

Lawsamercy! The name says it all. Read ’em and weep:
http://www.businesspundit.com/10-most-sexist-print-ads-from-the-1950s/

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge

Go to http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm

Here is a video about the Khmer Rouge. Warning: there are a couple of pretty graphic photos for about ten seconds about two minutes into this video from 1:42 to 1:59. The stupas containing the skulls of victims are shown after that point.

Twenty percent of the Cambodian population may have died under Pol Pot’s attempt to enforce a return to “Year Zero” and kill off anyone who had any education or technical training. Cambodia was invaded by Vietnam in 1975, and although eventually Pol Pot was unable to control the entire country, he still operated from the Thai-Cambodian border until finally placed under house arrest by members of the Khmer Rouge who did not agree with his methods. Pol Pot died in 1998.

The Vietnam War– from the perspective of the 80s and 90s

Some songwriters continued to explore the Vietnam War as a theme into the 1980s and 1990s.

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English artist Paul Hardcastle used sampling and voice tracks to create his song 19 which was released in 1985. I would strongly suggest that you listen to this song as you prepare for both the AP Exam and for your test over the 1960s and 1970s, since it is made up of facts about the soldiers who fought in the war.

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Bruce Springsteen’s iconic “Born in the U.S.A.” was the title song to his album. It was later cited by conservative columnist George Will as a possible song to be used by the Reagan re-election campaign in 1984– who apparently had never actually listened to the lyrics:

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R.E.M.’s song “Orange Crush” was a song released in 1988 about a young man becoming a soldier in Vietnam. “Orange Crush” was slang for Agent Orange, the defoliant used to burn off the vegetation in the jungle.

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Johnny Cash, an American icon, wrote “Drive On” in 1993 about a veteran’s perspective decades after the war was over. In this video he explains his inspiration for the song (16s are M-16s).

The Diner Scene from Giant

Here’s the background: This is the story of a wealthy family in Texas. One of the rich man’s sons has married an Hispanic woman and has a child with her. At that time, interracial marriages were very much disapproved of in Texas, and Hispanics were heavily discriminated against in much the same way that African Americans were. The rich man, played by Rock Hudson, is originally none too happy that his son has married a Hispanic woman, being full of the prejudices that were common at the time.

The grandfather (Rock Hudson), grandmother (Elizabeth Taylor), mother and baby have stopped in a diner to eat. Because they are with wealthy white people, the diner owner has grudgingly allowed the Hispanic woman and her child to be seated. But when a Hispanic family (who earlier had been depicted as having had a son die in World War II) comes in and tries to get served, the diner owner has had enough, and attempts to throw them out. Then watch what happens….

Johnson’s Reelection ad 1964

A little less than a year after Kennedy’s assassination, LBJ faced an election year. Here he tries to portray himself as the person who fulfilled the martyred Kennedy’s vision, and make a claim for election on his own as a steward of a nation still in mourning and in crisis.

 

This is only a part of the original ad, but you get the idea.

Oswald’s assassination by Jack Ruby- newsreel footage

Note the ironies and strange coincidences.

Resource for reviewing the 1960s

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us38.cfm