A Young People’s History, Chapter 22, “Resistance”

Quizlet: Videos: No More Nukes, Protest in the 1980s, USA vs USSR, Cesar Chavez,
Gulf War Protests

Introduction:

1. How was resistance different in the late 70s,80s, and 90s from the 1960s?
2. What issues did they organize around?

No More Nukes!

1. Who pioneered the anti-nuclear weapons movement?
2. What did they get arrested for?
3. Who took a leading role against Reagan's bloated military budget and what did they do?
4. What was the largest political demonstration in American history?

Social Issues

1. What happened in Boston 1981?
2. Normal people were linking military policy with what?
3. What were Latinos struggling against and what did they do?

War and Antiwar

1. Explain some of the anti-war voices leading up to Desert Storm
2. How and why did the rhetoric change once the war started?
3. Why did Bush’s Desert Storm launch an “overwhelming force”?
4. Explain patriotic support of the war being very high and falling.

Remembering Columbus

1. What was the significance of 1992?
2. What did Natives do?
3. Why were people upset by the counter-Columbus events?
4. Where does hope in America lie?

A Young People’s History, Chapter 21, “Politics as Usual”

Vocabulary (Quizlet), Videos: Apartheid, Reaganomics, Fall of Berlin Wall,
Panama Invasion, Desert Storm,

Introduction

1. What was the political climate like in 1979, and who were suffering?
2. What was needed?
3. What are the two American traditions?

A Little Bit to the Left

1. What good things did Carter do?
2. Why did American want to end apartheid in S. Africa?
3. What bad things did Carter do?
4. What did Carter need to do?

Wealth and Poverty in America

1. What did the Reagan and Bush administrations do?
2. How did Reagan pay for his bloated military and what were the effects?
3. Explain why most Americans thought spending too much money on welfare was bad, but helping poor people in need was good?
4. What was the effect on the gap between the rich and poor during Reagan?

Desert Storm

1. What happened in 1989?
2. Why did the fall of communism make such a panic for American elites?
3. What did the Bush administration do?
4. What did the Bush administration tell the American people was the reason for Desert Storm?
5. What were the real reasons for Desert Storm?
6. If Saddam Hussein was so bad why did the US keep him in power?