The Sixties: Vietnam, Rights, and Backlash: Social Studies Unit 4, Grade 11 (Letters & Devotion)

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The Sixties: Vietnam, Rights, and Backlash is Unit 4 of United States History: 1877 to the Present (Grade 11), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 75 pages.

• The chronological sequence of Great Society legislation and Vietnam escalation, 1963-1972
• The mechanism differences between Great Society programs and New Deal agencies
• The four-part social movement mechanics frame applied to post-1965 civil rights organizing
• The shared organizing/media/legal-strategy structure across the women’s liberation and environmental movements
• The applicability and limits of the movement-mechanics frame when applied to the anti-war student movement
• Evidence of a credibility gap between official statements and battlefield reality in Vietnam-era primary sources
• The relative causal weight of Vietnam versus domestic unrest in damaging public trust in government, 1963-1972
• The containment doctrine as applied to the strategic logic of Vietnam intervention

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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