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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, detente, economic challenges like the Energy Crisis, and environmental challenges like Earth Day and Three Mile Island.
Unit Essential Question(s):
Concept: Restoring Trust in the Presidency under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
Lesson Essential Question(s):Why did President Nixon adopt a southern strategy in his efforts to lead the United States toward a New Conservatism?
How did Nixon appeal to the group he called "the silent majority"?
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?
What was the importance of the SALT agreement?
How did Secretary of State Henry Kissenger work for peace in the Middle East?
What problems were Latin American countries facing in this era?
Lesson Essential Question(s):What unique situation faced Gerald Ford when he became President?
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?
How did Stagflation and theArab oil embargo influence the United States during the Ford and Carter administrations?
Additional Info:
History of the Twentieth Century (DVD series), History Alive, Maps, American Odyssey Ch. 24, Venn diagrams, timelines, charts
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