Entry 9 - 4/6/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 29 Pg 867

  1. What did the 1896 court case, Plessy v. Ferguson establish?

  2. What was the court case Brown v. Board of Education about?

Entry 10 - 4/7/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 29 Pg 868

  1. What was the Southern Manifesto?

  2. Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?

  3. What was the crisis in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957?

4/8/2026 - ACT Testing

Entry 11 - 4/9/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 29 Pg 874

  1. Who were the Freedom Riders?

  2. Who was James Meredith?

  3. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?







Vigilante Parade: 1924 - 2026

Registration begins 4/9/2026 and runs thru 4/16. Outside the Library

http://helenahistory.org/

Parade Float Topics

Entry 12 - 4/14/2026 - Ch 29 Pg 879

  1. Why did Dr. King choose Selma, Alabama as the focal point of his campaign?

  2. What happened at the Edmund Pettus Bridge?

  3. How was the Voting Rights Act a “turning point” in the civil rights movement?


Entries Due Today

Wednesday 4/15/2026 - Assignment

Civil Rights Timeline

Entry 1 - 4/16/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 30 Pg 894

  1. What was the Domino Theory?

  2. What were the results of the Geneva Accords in 1954?

  3. Who were the Vietcong? 897

  4. What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

4/17/2026 - Assignment

Map of Vietnam

Entry 2- 4/17/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 30 Pg 899

  1. What was meant by the following statement?

    “Once on the tiger’s back, we cannot be sure of picking the place to dismount” - Undersecretary of State, George Ball

  2. What was Operation Rolling Thunder?

4/20/2026 - Video: Vietnam War in HD

Entry 3 - 4/21/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 30 Pg 900

  1. Why was it so frustrating for American soldiers fighting against the Vietcong?

  2. How did the US fight back against their enemy?

  3. What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?

Entry 4 - 4/22/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 30 Pg 905

  1. What was the credibility gap?

  2. How was the draft an unfair system?

  3. What was the 26th Amendment?

Entry 5 - 4/23/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 30 Pg 907

  1. What were hawks and doves during the Vietnam War?

  2. What was the Tet Offensive?

  3. What affect did the Tet Offensive have on public opinion?

Friday 4/24/2026 - Assignment - 20 points

Vietnam War era Music

By yourself or with a partner choose a song from the list I have provided. These are songs that were popular during the Vietnam War era from 1964-1973. Music from the early 1960s was starkly different from what happened with popular music around 1964. 1960-1963 the music was still characterized as a time of innocence. 1964 serves kind of as a turning point. More complex and politically active music.

4/27/2026 - Movie - We Were Soldiers

Entry 6 - 4/28/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 30 Pg 908

  1. What violence seemed to plague the United States in 1968?

  2. What was Nixon’s plan - Vietnamization?

  3. What happened at My Lai?

Continue Movie

Entry 7 - 5/4/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 30, Pg 911

  1. Why did more protests erupt in the Spring of 1970?

  2. What were the Pentagon Papers?

  3. What is the War Powers Act? 914

Tuesday - 5/5/2026 - Assignment

Vietnam War Timeline

Quiz on Friday

Vietnam War Quiz Review




Entry 1 - 5/11/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 31 Pg 940

  1. What was Rachel Carson’s book, Slient Spring about?

  2. What is celebrated on Earth Day?

  3. Why did people support Nuclear energy?

  4. What happened on Three-Mile Island in 1979?

Entry 2 - 5/12/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 32 Pg 956

  1. What kind of work did President Nixon carry out in his Foreign Policy?

  2. What was the result of his Summit in May 1972?

  3. What was the Watergate Scandal?

Wednesday - 5/13/2026 - Assignment

Nixon WebQuest

Entry 3 - 5/14/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 32 Pg 964

  1. What is inflation

  2. How did OPEC use oil as a political and economic weapon?

  3. What is an embargo?

  4. Why did Iran take American Hostages in 1979? 969

5/15/2026 - Movie: Miracle

The Seventies: Vietnam War hangover - Energy Crisis - Watergate - Inflation - Unemployment - Recession - Iran Hostage Crisis. The US suffered from low morale and needed a national victory. The 1980 Winter Olympics and the hockey team helped that

Entry 4 - 5/19/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 33 Pg 981

  1. What is the difference between Liberals and Conservatives - with regard to the govt?

  2. Why did support for Conservative ideas revive in the 1980s?

  3. Who was elected president in 1980?

Entry 5 - 5/20/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 33 Pg 987

  1. What did Reagan believe was the key to restoring the economy?

  2. According to many economists, how does a government fight against unemployment?

  3. What are supply-side economics?

Friday 5/22/2026 - Assignment

1980s Headlines and Facts

Tuesday 5/26/2026 - Grad Ticket info from counselors

Make-up day for class work



Final Project! - This will count as part of your final grade… I am also giving you a timeline test over the Cold War Era

Final Project is due on Wednesday, June 3, Late projects will be penalized 50%

List of Iconic Images to choose from

Images PPT

Timeline Test Review. The test will be multiple choice format in which I ask you which event took place in… and you will have a list of four or five possible answers.

For Example:

This event took place in 1964 and led to President Johnson escalating the Vietnam War?

  1. Watergate

  2. Cuban Missile Crisis

  3. Gulf of Tonkin incident

  4. Sputnik

Friday - 5/29/2026 - 9/11 WebQuest