CONNECTING WITH MILLENNIALS (information found in Making Space for Millennials by Barna Group, 2015, p. 7. “Five major reasons that millennials stay connected with a Christian community: 1. Cultural discernment – engaging with the wider culture as a faith community, to assess and respond biblically to its effects on human flourishing. 2. Life-shaping relationships – consistent long-term friendship with at least one older Christian adult who invests time and resources into their lives. 3. A first-hand experience of Jesus – the confidence, through seasons of doubt and pain, that comes from having personally experienced God’s revelation in Christ. 4. Reverse mentoring – being valued for the knowledge, skills, and energy they can offer to older members of the community of faith. 5. Vocational discipleship – whole –life spiritual formation that includes understanding their work as a God-given calling. 13 Marks of a Planter (a mix of Charles Ridley’s classic 13 along with Paul Nixon’s observations coaching about six dozen planters to date.) ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. They can envision and articulate a desired future and effectively invite others to join them in a journey toward that future 2. Very strong personal spiritual practice and experience of God’s Call on their life (this results in courage and resilience) 3. History of effective, evangelistic conversation and relationships 4. An intense internal drive, even a hunger to do something very well – in this case to grow a church from scratch 5. They tithe 6. They love the community where they will be planting 7. Introvert/Extrovert is really not a big deal (but you will need some extroverts on your team) 8. They have spent quality time in highly evangelistic and innovative ministry – preferably in a new start.  They know the DNA of the teams that pull off such things. 9. They embrace mentoring and coaching relationships 10. They can be both stubborn and flexible – and somehow they know when to be which 11. They get bored after three years on average 12. The family is fully bought in and the plant is a family affair. 13.  It is almost never their first rodeo – they have done ministry start up before, they have grown ministry before, they have led people to faith before, they have discipled people before, and they have developed leaders before. Third Exam (Chapters 23-27) Option I: One Long Essay. Write one essay of about 4.5 pages about how America and the world changed in Chapters 23-27. This essay should include, within it, at least five key terms or key words from handout questions from the chapter handouts. Please put key terms or key words from the questions in bold. You must have key terms or questions from at least four chapters. You essays will also need an introduction, where you give an overview of the major events or trends you wish to cover. Please put your thesis statement in b.

1. CONNECTING WITH MILLENNIALS
(information found in Making Space for Millennials by Barna
Group, 2015, p. 7.
“Five major reasons that millennials stay connected with a
Christian community:
1. Cultural discernment – engaging with the wider culture as a
faith community, to assess and respond biblically to its effects
on human flourishing.
2. Life-shaping relationships – consistent long-term friendship
with at least one older Christian adult who invests time and
resources into their lives.
3. A first-hand experience of Jesus – the confidence, through
seasons of doubt and pain, that comes from having personally
experienced God’s revelation in Christ.
4. Reverse mentoring – being valued for the knowledge, skills,
and energy they can offer to older members of the community of
faith.
5. Vocational discipleship – whole –life spiritual formation that
includes understanding their work as a God-given calling.
13 Marks of a Planter
(a mix of Charles Ridley’s classic 13 along with Paul Nixon’s
observations coaching about six dozen planters to date.)
_____________________________________________________
_________________________________________
1. They can envision and articulate a desired future and
effectively invite others to join them in a journey toward that
future
2. Very strong personal spiritual practice and experience of

2. God’s Call on their life (this results in courage and resilience)
3. History of effective, evangelistic conversation and
relationships
4. An intense internal drive, even a hunger to do something very
well – in this case to grow a church from scratch
5. They tithe
6. They love the community where they will be planting
7. Introvert/Extrovert is really not a big deal (but you will need
some extroverts on your team)
8. They have spent quality time in highly evangelistic and
innovative ministry – preferably in a new start. They know the
DNA of the teams that pull off such things.
9. They embrace mentoring and coaching relationships
10. They can be both stubborn and flexible – and somehow they
know when to be which
11. They get bored after three years on average
12. The family is fully bought in and the plant is a family affair.

3. 13. It is almost never their first rodeo – they have done
ministry start up before, they have grown ministry before, they
have led people to faith before, they have discipled people
before, and they have developed leaders before.
Third Exam (Chapters 23-27)
Option I: One Long Essay. Write one essay of about 4.5 pages
about how America and the world changed in Chapters 23-27.
This essay should include, within it, at least five key terms or
key words from handout questions from the chapter handouts.
Please put key terms or key words from the questions in bold.
You must have key terms or questions from at least four
chapters. You essays will also need an introduction, where you
give an overview of the major events or trends you wish to
cover. Please put your thesis statement in bold. In your
conclusion, note how events of the era shaped the world we live
in today. Incorporate and analysis of one written primary source
and include at least3 pictures (at least one primary) and note
how the pictures help us understand the events or concepts.
Since integration is a big theme in this era, please make sure
you integrate the pictures and the writing in the essay. :)
1. World War II. Explain how the U.S. got involved in World
War II. What interests were considered especially important?
What factors were critical in winning the war? What lessons
could we learn from this experience?
2. World War II and American Society. How did Americans
adjust to changes during the war years? Describe some of the
social, cultural, and economic impacts of the war. In what ways
did the war leave a lasting impact on America?
3. Cold War. What was the Cold War about? Describe some of
the key events related to the Cold War between 1945 and 1960.
Was the conflict avoidable? In what ways might the conflict
appear different to us now than it did to people at the time?

4. 4. Post-War America. What major social, economic and cultural
changes do you see in America following World War II? Do
you see these developments as new and remarkable, or as a
continuation of trends that started earlier?
5. Post-War Politics. Describe some of the political events in
America during the Truman and Eisenhower years. What key
issues were on people’s minds? How did leaders in this era
build on the ideas of the New Deal? What new developments do
you see?
6. The 1960s. What was remarkable about the 1960s and early
70s? Describe at least three major social or political
movements. How does the portrayal of this era in our textbook
compare with impressions you might get from popular media?
7. Foreign Policy in the Vietnam Era. Discuss how American
foreign policy developed from 1961-1975. Focus on America's
relationship with three countries or regions (such as The Soviet
Union, China, Southeast Asia, or the Middle East). What do
you think we can learn from these experiences?
Reading Handout
Chapter 27: A Pivotal Era 1969-1980
Key Terms:
César Chávez
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Roe v Wade
Equal Rights Amendment
My Lai
Détente

5. George McGovern
Pentagon Papers
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Neil Armstrong
Camp David Accords
Discussion Questions:
1. What were the successes of the women’s movement during
the 1970s?
2. How did the Vietnam War influence Nixon’s approach to
foreign policy?
3. How did Watergate bring down the Nixon administration?
4. What were the long-term effects of the 1970s recession?
5. How did the new social mores of the 1970s impact family
life?
6. What was Carter’s record regarding the Middle East?
7. How did American foreign policy change as a result of
involvement in Vietnam?
8. Why did Americans see this era as an age of limits?
9. Some historians describe the period between 1968 and 1980
as a time when many Americans lost faith—in their government,
in the possibility of joining together in a society that offered
equality to all, in the possibility of consensus instead of
conflict. Do you agree, or were the struggles and divisions of
this era similar to those of previous decades?
Photograph from an abortion protest march in New York City,
1977. Peter Keegan / Getty Images
Phyllis Schlafly protests against equal rights for women at the
White House in 1977.

6. César Chávez (third from right) leading a farmworkers' march in
New York in the 1970s. Photograph: Bob Parent/Getty Image
Gas Rationing during the 1970s
Carter bows his head during a Nov. 15, 1979, prayer service at
Washington Cathedral for the hostages being held at the U.S.
Embassy in Tehran, Iran
Reading Handout for
Chapter 26 – The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960-1968
Key Terms
John F. Kennedy
Cuban Missile Crisis
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Lyndon Johnson
“The Great Society”
Civil Rights Act of 1964
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Voting Rights Act
Immigration Act of 1965
War on Poverty
Medicare/Medicaid
“Black Power”
Free Speech Movement (FSM)
“Doves”/ “Hawks”
Counterculture
Discussion Questions:
1. How was the Cuban Missile crisis a watershed in U.S.-Soviet
relations?
2. What was Kennedy’s reaction to growing civil rights
activism?
3. What made the War on Poverty controversial?

7. 4. How did the war in Vietnam become Americanized?
5. What were the hallmarks of the youth movement in the
1960’s?
6. What made 1968 distinctive?
7. What were the successes and failures of American liberalism
in the 1960’s?
8. Why did the United States expand its participation in the war
in Vietnam and continue in the war so long?
9. By 1968, many believed the fate of the nation hung in the
balance. What did they think was at stake? What divide
Americans, and how did they express their differences?
U.S. spy plane footage taken from a U-2 showing a medium
range ballistic missile (MRBM) site in Cuba (Cuban Missile
Crisis)
Castro and Khrushchev meeting during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy, Johnson and administration advisers during the Cuban
Missile Crisis
National Organization for Women

8. 1968 Mexico Olympics Black Power Salute. Pictured are
Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos, and Australian Peter
Norman. Smith and Carlos are doing the black power salute and
all three are wearing human rights badges. Norman lent Smith
and Carlos his gloves which is why they are doing the salute
with opposite hands.
Reading Handout for Week 10 (Part 1)
Chapter 25 – America at Midcentury, 1945-1960
Key Terms
· GI Bill
· Baby boom
· Full Employment Act
· Taft-Hartley Act
· Progressive Party
· Fair deal
· Dwight D. Eisenhower
· Military-industrial complex
· House Un-American Activities Committee
· Joseph R. McCarthy
· Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
· Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
· Martin Luther King Jr.
· Sunbelt

9. · Dr. Spock
· Elvis Presley
· Beat Generation
Discussion Questions:
1. What drove the mass migration of Americans to the suburbs
after World War II?
2. What happened to New Deal–style liberalism after World
War II?
3. How did Cold War fears inspire a Red Scare in the United
States?
4. How did federal initiatives, Supreme Court decisions, and
grassroots activism shape the struggle for civil rights after
World War II?
5. What led to the emergence of a middle-class culture in the
1950s?
6. How did the economic and social structure of the 1950s
influence gender roles?
7. What were the limits of 1950s middle-class culture?
8. How did the Cold War affect American society and politics?
9. How did federal government actions following World War II
change the nation?
10. During the 1950s, many people began to think of their
country as a middle-class nation. Were they correct?

10. Some suburban tract housing in the 1950s. Many returning
G.I.’s began families and moved into developments like this one
all around the U.S.
A photo at a HUAC hearing. These hearings were the subject of
national media attention.
This photo was taken at a protest against the integration of
public schools. This photo showcases both the racism and anti-
communist sentiments prevalent at the time.
The parents of the baby boom generation married quite young.
Getting married and having children during this period was seen
as extremely important. Additionally, there was little open
acceptance of pre-marital sex.
In the 1950s, the television became an important part of any
middle-class American home.
Reading Handout for Week 10 (Part 1)
Chapter 24 – The Cold War and American Globalism
Key Terms
George F. Kennan
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Marshall Plan
National Security Act of July 1947
Berlin Airlift
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

11. Mao Zedong
NSC-68
Korean War
John Foster Dulles
“Domino Theory”
Sputnik
Eisenhower Doctrine
Discussion Questions:
1. Was the Cold War inevitable?
2. How did the Cold War turn “hot” in Asia?
3. Was the U.S. containment policy successful?
4. What were the consequences of the Korean War for the
United States?
5. How did Dulles and Eisenhower raise the stakes in the Cold
War?
6. How did racism in America interfere with U.S. leader’s
ability to win Cold War allies among developing nations?
7. Why did relations between the Soviet Union and the United
States turn hostile soon after their victory in World War II?
8. When and why did the Cold War expand from a struggle over
the future of Europe and central Asia to one encompassing
virtually the entire globe?
9. By what means did the Truman and Eisenhower
administrations seek to expand America’s global influence in
the late 1940’s and the 1950’s?

12. Alignment of the world’s nations in 1953.
38th parallel, the line the two Koreas where divided on at the
start of the war, and roughly where fighting ground to a
stalemate in 1952 at the end of the Korean War.
F-86 Sabre and Mig-15
Sputnik
Berlin Airlift 1948-194
Reading Handout for Week 9
Chapter 23 – The Second World War at Home and Abroad 1939-

13. 1945
Key Terms:
· Selective Training and Service Act
· Lend-Lease bill
· Winston Churchill
· Atlantic Charter
· Joseph Stalin
· War Production Board
· Manhattan Project
· A. Philip Randolph
· Bracero program
· Rosie the Riveter
· Operation Overlord
· Battle of the Bulge
· Potsdam Declaration
·
Discussion Questions:
1. How did Roosevelt and Congress aid the Allies following the
German advances of early 1940?
2. Was the United States prepared for war when it entered
World War II?
3. How did wartime production needs create a new relationship
between government and business, and government and science?
4. What was the impact of the war on family life?
5. In what ways were American notions of civil liberties and
basic freedoms tested during the war years?
6. How did racial and gender norms play out in the military
during World War II?
7. Why did Truman opt to use the atomic bomb to help end the
war, rather than negotiate a peace with Japan?
8. What factors brought the United States into the war?
9. What military, diplomatic, and social factors influenced
decisions about how to fight the Second World War?
10. How did World War II transform the United States?

14. War propaganda encouraged women to support the war effort as
production workers, nurses, and as volunteers in the military.
Technical Sergeant William E. Thomas and Private First Class
Joseph Jackson on Easter Sunday in 1945. Americans served in
all theaters during World War II, in segregated units. The U.S.
armed forces were desegregated in 1948.
Housing barracks in a Japanese internment camp during the war.
Pro-Soviet propaganda. Films and posters were created in
support for the Soviet Union. Political relations between the
U.S. and Soviet Union were tense after the Bolshevik
Revolution in 1917.
Propaganda was used to instill hatred and fear of the enemies
and encourage Americans to support the war effort.
Picture of (from left to right) Winston Churchill, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference in 1945.