APUSH
  • Calendar
  • Blog
  • Textbook
  • Period Materials
    • Period 1 - 1491-1607
    • Period 2 - 1607-1754
    • Period 3 - 1754-1800
    • Period 4 - 1800-1848
    • Period 5 - 1844-1877
    • Period 6 - 1865-1898
    • Period 7 - 1890-1945 >
      • New Deal Murals
      • Response to Economic Crisis
      • Hitler Documents
      • WWII Homefront Circles
      • Holocaust Intervention
    • Period 8 - 1945-1980
    • Period 9 - 1980-present
  • APUSH Exam Review
  • Writing Tips

Period 9: 1980-Present - Technology, Terror and Post-Cold War Challenges


Content Block Activity Files

Click on the links below to download and complete activities:
  1. Reaganomics Activities:
    1. Background
    2. Primary Source Opinions
    3. Economic Data Cards
  2. ​Iran-Contra Documents
  3. Debates over the First Gulf War:        George Bush                  Arthur Schlesinger
  4. ​Clinton Impeachment          Background              Link 1              Link 2
  5. Debates over the War on Terror:        George W. Bush             Joyce Neu
  6. Congressional Debates over Authorizing the War in Iraq Documents
  7. Uses of September 11 Documents
  8. Scored Discussion #5 Documents and directions:
    1. Who Owns History document set
    2. Podcast on "The Great Textbook War" from WV Public Radio
    3. Loewen reading​  (Please note, this PDF was apparently generated with scanning software which seems to have mis-read some of the words and replicated them incorrectly.  Therefore you will find some misspellings and word substitutions that were not in the original work.  Please take this into account while you are reading.)
    4. Directions:  For this discussion, you should take time to explore each of the sources in the three items above and reflect on your own educational experiences in preparation.  The pre-write this time should only include the following:  1) A personal reaction to each of the three items above, 2) 2-3 questions you would ask of the authors or the people involved in each of the three items above, and 3) 4-5 questions you can bring to class for the discussion.
  9. Contextualization listening: Backstory Radio 

Skills Activity Files

kyoto_protocol_student_materials.pdf
File Size: 204 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

nafta_student_materials.pdf
File Size: 152 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

evicted1.pdf
File Size: 5052 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

evicted2.pdf
File Size: 2202 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Evicted extension: nyti.ms/2GDGfwd

Document Recitation Block Files

reagan_cartoons.pdf
File Size: 904 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Targeted Standards

POL-1.0​ Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
CUL-1.0​ Explain how religious groups and ideas have affected American society and political life.
​WOR-1.0​ Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North America. 
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Calendar
  • Blog
  • Textbook
  • Period Materials
    • Period 1 - 1491-1607
    • Period 2 - 1607-1754
    • Period 3 - 1754-1800
    • Period 4 - 1800-1848
    • Period 5 - 1844-1877
    • Period 6 - 1865-1898
    • Period 7 - 1890-1945 >
      • New Deal Murals
      • Response to Economic Crisis
      • Hitler Documents
      • WWII Homefront Circles
      • Holocaust Intervention
    • Period 8 - 1945-1980
    • Period 9 - 1980-present
  • APUSH Exam Review
  • Writing Tips