MAS 142

Reading(s): Rivera: 12-15; Vargas, all of 12 & 13

1. The "Cold War": 1940s to 1989?

a. Defined: Ideological, Low intensity warfare

b. The background: Wilson & Russia, Red Scare,

c. US Policies: Containment, Massive Retaliation, "Spheres of influence": NATO, SEATO,

OAS

2. The "Cold War" at Home

a. Conforming Society: Back to "our" Roots

b. Educational Discontent: Alvarez vs. Lemon Grove Unified School District, 1931

Mendez vs. Westminster School District, 1945

Delgado vs. Bastrop School District, 1948

Brown vs. Topeka School District, 1954

c. Social Discontent: White, Black, Brown, and Women's Civil Rights Movement.

3. Modern Chicano Civil Rights Movement

a. Chicano defined

b. The Farm Movement: UFW, Cesar Chavez, Theatre, Boycott, Nonviolence

c. The Urban Struggle: Education, Old land grants, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Rueben Salazar

4. Those Rebellious Sixties

a. Kennedy: Bay of Pig -- 1961

b. Kennedy: Cuban Missile Crisis -- 1962

c. New Frontier: The Domestic Front