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How can the President lose or restore the nation's trust?
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Student Learning Map
- Topic:Age of Limits
- Subject(s):Social Studies
- Days:10
- Grade(s):11
Key Learning:
During the Age of Limits, Presidents focused on political challenges like the Watergate scandal, economic challenges like the Energy Crisis, and environmental challenges like Earth Day and Three Mile Island.
Unit Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):What was the significance of Nixon\'s reaching out to the communist powers of Russia and the People\'s Republic of China? (A)What roles did the Helsinki Accords, the Mayaguez incident, a human rights foreign policy, the Camp David Accords, and the Iran hostage crisis play in the success or failure of the Ford or Carter administrations? (A)Lesson Essential Question(s):Why did President Nixon adopt a southern strategy in his efforts to lead the United States toward a New Conservatism? (A)Lesson Essential Question(s):Why did the involvement of President Nixon in the Watergate scandal force him to become the first President to resign from office? (A)Vocabulary:New Federalism, revenue sharing, southern strategy, stagflation, OPEC, realpolitik, detente, SaltI Treaty
Additional Info:
History of the Twentieth Century (DVD series), History Alive, Maps, The Americans chapter 24, Venn diagrams, timelines, charts
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