Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
SECTION II
Part A
(Suggested writing time -- 45 minutes)
Percent of Section II score -- 45
Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of
Documents A-I and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High scores will be earned only by
essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period.
1. The 1960s is often characterized as a time of turbulence, protest, and disillusionment as a result of the
actions of the baby boomer generation when they came of age. The 1950s is seen as the decade of
conformity and prosperity. Analyze the ways in which the society of the 1950s influenced the social
movements and political ideology of the baby boomers in the 1960s.
Document A
Source: David Harris, Stanford student body president, calls for other college students to sever ties
with the Selective Service and return their draft cards to the government, 1966.
As young people facing that war, as people who are confronted with the choice of being in that war
or not, we have an obligation to speak to this country, and that statement has to be made this way:
that this war will not be made in our names, that this war will not be made with our hands, that we
will not carry the rifles to butcher the Vietnamese, and that the prisons of the United States will be
full of young people who will not honor the orders of murder.
Document B
Source: Time Magazine, The Baby Boomer Generation as Man of the Year 1966.
Never have the young been left more completely to their own devices. No Adult can or will tell
them what earlier generations were told: this is God, that is Good, this is Art, that is Not Done.
Document C
The first lunch counter sit-in at Greensboro, 1968:
Document D
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched
slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and
Brownies, lay beside her husband at night — she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent
question — "Is this all?"
Document E
Source: Anne Kelley, "Suburbia -- Is it a Child's Utopia?", The New York Times Magazine, 1958.
Pressures on children to conform, to be popular, to achieve and generally to fit in with the
group amount to a squeeze. They…have no time left for daydreams….
Suburban life, for children, is over-organized; the father has little time at home because of
commuting demands; the mother becomes sole disciplinarian and 24-hour chauffeur;
population turnover is great, with a resulting lack of stability; materialism is glorified, with
sports cars, patios, hi-fi and country clubs set upon an altar….
Document F
The decline of utopia and hope is one of the defining features of social life today….the
horrors of the 20th century, symbolized in the gas ovens and concentration camps and
atom bombs, have blasted hopefulness.…To be idealistic is to be considered deluded…
Some would have us believe that Americans feel contentment amidst prosperity — but
might it not better be called a glaze above deeply-felt anxieties about their role in the new
world?
To turn these possibilities into realities will involve national efforts at university reform by
an alliance of students and faculty. They must wrest control of the educational process
from the administrative bureaucracy. They must make…contact with allies in labor, civil
rights, and other liberal forces outside the campus. They must import major public issues
It was with the draft that the Establishment, under suspicion as illegitimate when it came to exercising its wrath
and self-interest in our name, was insisting on its power to coerce precisely those people who were most inclined to
resist every kind of coercive power-a generation particularly given to confrontation, one that felt marginalized by
traditional authority and chafed by traditional cultural habits and attitudes, dominated by political, social, and
cultural confrontations with authority, and participants in an active counterculture which celebrated its
rebelliousness, its outsider status, its marginality."
David Harris, Stanford student body president, calls for other college students to sever ties with the
Selective Service and return their draft cards to the government:
"As young people facing that war, as people who are confronted with the choice of being in that war or not, we
have an obligation to speak to this country, and that statement has to be made this way: that this war will not be
made in our names, that this war will not be made with our hands, that we will not carry the rifles to butcher the
Vietnamese, and that the prisons of the United States will be full of young people who will not honor the orders of
murder."
Michael S. Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War (Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 19, http://www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=116684546.
Time Magazine announces that the Man of the Year of 1966 is the Baby Boomer Generation:
"Never have the young been left more completely to their own devices. No Adult can or will tell them what
earlier generations were told: this is God, that is Good, this is Art, that is Not Done.
Today's young man accepts none of the old start-on-the-bottom rung formulas that directed his father's
career…From Bombay to Berkeley, Vinh Long to Volgograd, he has clearly signaled his determination to live
according to his own lights and rights."