4/23/2024 2:16:02 AM	HIST 20 Course Outline as of Spring 2012	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  HIST 20	Title:  US HISTORY SINCE 1945
Full Title:  History of the US Since 1945
Last Reviewed:11/25/2019

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly:  HIST 17.3

Catalog Description:

This course will explore the political, economic, and social history of modern America from 1945 to the present. The course will examine the rise and decline of the U.S. as the dominant world power, Cold War politics and the consumer society, the fate of New Deal liberalism and the rise of neo conservatism, social movements on the left and right, the Vietnam War and a nation divided, deindustrialization, globalization and  the decline of organized labor, mass migration and the making of a multicultural nation, the end of the Cold War, and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The distinctive contributions of and interaction among and between African, Latinos, Europeans, Asians, and Middle Eastern Americans.  New immigrants will be emphasized.  The course will analyze how race, class, and gender have shaped and reproduced power relations during the postwar era.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

This course will explore the political, economic, and social history of modern America from 1945 to the present. The course will examine the rise and decline of the U.S. as the dominant world power, Cold War politics and the consumer society, the fate of New Deal liberalism and the rise of neo conservatism, social movements on the left and right, the Vietnam War and a nation divided, deindustrialization, globalization and  the decline of organized labor, mass migration and the making of a multicultural nation, the end of the Cold War, and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The distinctive contributions of and interaction among and between African, Latinos, Europeans, Asians, and Middle Eastern Americans.  New immigrants will be emphasized.  The course will analyze how race, class, and gender have shaped and reproduced power relations during the postwar era.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Spring 1994	Inactive:
Area:	D G	Social and Behavioral Sciences American Cultures/Ethnic Studies
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	D	Social Science		Fall 2012
	D3	Ethnic Studies
	D4	Gender Studies
	D6	History
	D	Social Science		Fall 1992	Summer 2012
	D1	Anthropology and Archeology
	D2	Economics
	D3	Ethnic Studies
	D4	Gender Studies
	D6	History
	D	Social Science		Fall 1981	Summer 1992
	D1	Anthropology and Archeology
	D2	Economics
	D3	Ethnic Studies
	D4	Gender Studies
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	4	Social and Behavioral Science		Fall 2013
	4C	Ethnic Studies
	4D	Gender Studies
	4F	History
	4	Social and Behavioral Science		Fall 1981	Fall 2013
	4F	History
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Major Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1.  Examine, discuss, and evaluate the experiences, roles, achievements, and contributions of European Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and new immigrants after World War II.

2.  Use the social historical approach to analyze the past and identify an awareness of historical methods used by historians to interpret the past.

3.  Identify examples of how class, race, and gender have shaped and reproduced power relations in American society since 1945.

4.  Employ appropriate vocabulary to analyze American political history and political parties after 1945.

5. Assess major social movements including labor, civil rights, feminism, environmentalism, religious fundamentalism, neo conservatism, and their impacts on American society and politics in the postwar era.

6. Compare and contrast different historical interpretations that explain major historical events and social change over time.

Topics and Scope

1.  Social History: methods of inquiry

2.  Study of history: methods of inquiry and promoting critical thinking

3.  The Legacy of World War II: Race, Class and Gender on the homefront

    a.  "Double V" and A.P. Randolph's March on Washington Movement

    b.  G.I. Forum and League of United Latin Americans

    c.  Bracero program

    d.  "Rosie the Riveter" goes home

4.  Extending the New Deal reform agenda

    a.  G.I. Bill

    b.  Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and postwar labor-liberalism

    c.  Interstate Highway Bill

5.  Origins of the Cold War

    a.  NATO and the Warsaw Pact

    b.  Global Arms Race

    c.  Korean War

6.  McCarthyism, the anticommunist crusade, and postwar liberalism

    a.  Civil rights

    b.  Organized labor

    c.  The disarmament movement

7.  "Crabgrass Frontier": the suburbs

    a.  Consumer culture

    b.  The new Cult of Domesticity

    c.  Redlining, restrictive covenants, and racial/ethnic exclusion

8.  The Civil Rights Movement

    a.  Wartime and postwar migration and the black vote

    b.  Brown versus Board of Education

    c.  Montgomery Bus Boycott

    d.  From "sit-ins" to "freedom rides" to Mississippi Freedom Summer

9.  Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and community organizing in the West

10. The "Rights Revolution" and Ethnic America

     a. Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965

     b. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

     c. Fair Housing Act of 1968

     d. Hart-Cellar Act of 1965 and postwar immigration of Asians and Latinos

11. American Indian Movement

     a. Occupation of Alcatraz 1969

     b. Trail of Broken Treaties

     c. Wounded Knee 1973

12. The Cold War in the 1960s

     a. Kennedy and The Bay of Pigs

     b. Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

     c. Vietnam: From Dien Ben Phu to the Tet Offensive

13. Escalation and the Anti-War Movement

     a. LBJ and the Gulf of Tonkin

     b. Students protesters

     c. The Chicano Moratorium

      d. G.I. resistance,

      e. Martin Luther King

      f.  The National Mobilization to End the War

     g. "Credibility Gap" and the Tet Offensive

14. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society: successes and failures

     a. The liberal reform agenda

     b. The War on Poverty

     c. Structural inequality and urban riots

15. Second Wave Feminism

     a. Betty Friedan and NOW

     b. Women's Liberation

     c. Black and Latino feminism

16. The Environmental Justice Movement

17. The Gay Liberation Movement

18. Richard Nixon and the Cold War

      a. Vietnamization and "peace with honor"

      b. Détente and normalization of relations with China and the Soviet Union

19. Nixon and Watergate

       a. Expansion of presidential power and authority

       b. "Plumbers," COINTELPRO, and constitutional crisis

20. Deindustrialization and economic decline

       a. Decline of domestic manufacturing

       b. Oil crisis of the mid-1970s

       c. Rising competition in the global economy

21. Demographic change

      a. White flight to the suburbs

      b. Inner cities of color (case studies: blacks in Detroit; Latinos in Los Angeles)

22. Rise of the New Right

     a. Neoconservatism, electoral realignment, and resistance to the liberal agenda

     b. Evangelical Christianity as political movement

      c. "Morning in America:" the election of Ronald Reagan

23. The Reagan Era

     a. Deregulation and "supply side" economics

     b. Decline of organized labor

     c. Assault on the welfare state and its impact on blacks and Latinos

24. Cold War in the 1980s

     a.  Intervention in Central America

     b. Iran-Contra scandal

     c. Collapse of the Soviet Union

25. Conflict in the Middle East

     a. Camp David Accords

     b. 1991 Gulf War

26. The New Immigration

     a. Immigration and Reform Act of 1986

     b. Amnesty and continued demand for undocumented labor

     c. Militarization of the border

     d. Changing face of African, Asian, and Latino America

27. The Clinton Era

     a. 1992 Los Angeles Riot

      b. The Information Revolution

     c. The New Economy:  from General Motors to "Wal-Mart economy"

     d. Welfare reform and the feminization of poverty

     e. 1990s boom and growth of the black and Latino middle class

28. The Bush Era

     a. Response to 9/11

     b. Patriot Act and the debate over civil liberties

     c. Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

29. The Election of Barack Obama

Assignments:

1. Weekly reading assignments of roughly 40 to 50 pages. These assignments will consist of primary and secondary sources

2. 12 to 15  pages of out-of-class writing.  These assignments will be critical film reviews, analytical essays, or brief responses to reading questions

An analytical component will be part of these assignments

3. One in-class essay mid-term and a final

4. Participation in discussion as directed by instructor

5. Multiple choice quizzes and/or exams

6. Written homework as directed by the instructor

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 20 - 40%
Critical film reviews, analytical essays, or brief responses to reading questions
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 0 - 15%
Organization of oral synopsis of weekly readings
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 40 - 70%
Multiple choice and other exams
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 10 - 15%
Class participation; oral synopsis of weekly reading

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II, Seventh Edition.  Chafe, William.  Oxford:  2007

 

A History of Our Time:  Readings on Postwar America, Sixth Edition.   Chafe, William,  Bailey, Beth, and  Sitkoff, Harvard.  Oxford: 2003 (Classic)

 

Postwar Immigrant America:  A Social History.   Ueda, Reed.  Bedford:  1994 (Classic)

 

Instructor prepared materials

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