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United States History
Indianapolis Public Schools
2008-2009
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Benchmark 1
7-10 October 2008
Core standard 1: Industrialization, Individuals, and the Economy
Explain the factors that were necessary for industrialization in the United States. Explain the effects that industrialization had on
immigration, urbanization, labor, and government regulation
Core standard 2: Reform Movements
Connect the causes, ideas, events, achievements, and consequences of reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, including the Progressive Movement
Core standard 3: Expanding Global Influence and World War I
Explain how the United states increased it role in global affairs, culminating with its emergence as a major global power at the end of
World War I
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U.S. History
First Benchmark Period
UNIT NAME: America Industrializes and Becomes A World Power
Core Standards 1, 2, 3
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 2.1
Describe economic
developments that
transformed the United
States into a major
industrial power and
identify the factors
necessary for
industrialization.
(Economics)
Concepts
Factors leading to rapid
industrialization
Basic Industries (railroads,
steel, coal, textiles)
The Corporation
Sources of Capital
Venture Capital
Big Business Models
Vertical Consolidation
Horizontal Consolidation
Transcontinental Railroad
Standard Gage Tracks
Steel Rails
Unionization
Trust
Describe
Transform
Industrial Power
Economic
Developments
Fundamental
Industrialization
Capital
Entrepreneur
Robber Barron
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Analyze and categorize historical events
related to the post-Civil War
industrialization of the United States.
Synthesize a summary of causes for
given historical effects
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INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
USH.2.1
Describe economic
developments that
transformed the United
States into a major
industrial power and
identify the factors
necessary for
industrialization.
(Economics)
(CONTINUED)
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
People/Places/Things
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Union Pacific RR
Vanderbilts
Harrimans
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan & Co.
Video:
Inventions and Industry
(GL)
EARLY INDUSTRIAL
AMERICA (GL)
The Birth of the Industrial
Revolution (GL)
The Industrial Revolution
Comes to America (GL)
Oil Industry (GL)
John D. Rockefeller (GL)
Big Business: Rockefeller
& Carnegie (GL)
The Doctor Is In (Union
Pacific Railroad) (GL)
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Early American Capitalism:
Monopolies, Unions, and
the Great Depression
(GL)
How We Lived (GL)
Images:
Cartoon, economic
influence of Standard Oil.
John D. Rockefeller's
Standard Oil Refinery.
John Davison Rockefeller
(1839-1937).
A Union Pacific sleeping
car in the 1880s.
U.P. Railroad station,
Sherman, Wyoming
Territory.
Ad for opening
transcontinental RR, May
10, 1869.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
(1794-1877).
E.H. Harriman, headed
Southern Pacific railroad.
Audio:
The Industrial Revolution:
The Face of U.S.
Industrialization
Writing Prompts:
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Articles:
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
(1794-1877)
Morgan, John Pierpont, Jr.
Harriman, Edward Henry
American Federation of
Labor and Congress of
Industrial Organizations
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INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 2.2
Identify key ideas,
movements and
inventions and explain
their impact on rural
communities and urban
communities in the
United States.
(Economics, Sociology)
Concepts
Inventions
Physical Inventions
Managerial Inventions
Technological Progress
Price Fixing
Market Place
Organized Labor
Strike/Industrial Action
Gold Standard
Bi-metalism
Identify
Key Ideas
Movements,
Explain
Rural
Urban
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Identify ideas, movements, & inventions.
Identify change over time.
Categorize ideas, movements, &
inventions by their impact.
Video:
The Eiffel Tower (Making
use of Otis' invention) (GL)
George Washington
Carver (GL)
Biosphere: George
Washington Carver (GL)
Introduction: The Origin of
the Vitamin (GL)
John Deere Lawn Mowers
Pioneers
Agriculture in the
Grassland Biomes
The Second Industrial
Revolution (GL)
Thomas Alva Edison:
Scientist and Inventor
People/Places/Things
Elisha Otis – Elevator
George Westinghouse—
Air Brake
George Washington Carver
Agricultural Science,
New Organic-Based
Products
Uses of Peanuts
Cyrus McCormick
Mechanical Reaper
Farm Equipment
John Deere
Farm equipment and
Tractors
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
Thomas A. Edison
Phonograph
Moving Pictures (movies)
Electric Light Bulb
Central Power Station
(e.g. Electric Generation
Stations)
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(GL)
Thomas Edison: A Lifetime
of Achievements
Ushering in the Age of
Electricity
Industrial Age:
Technological Change in
Early America
Labor Organizations
Finally a Statesman
(Gompers)
Homestead Strike 1892
The Carnegie Family
Comes To America
Carnegie's Millions
The Emergence of a
Sharecropping System
Memories of
Sharecropping (GL)
Reconstructing the South
The Birth of the Populist
Party
William Jennings Bryan:
Spokesman for the
Common People
William Jennings Bryan:
Spokesman for the
Common People
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Images:
Cyrus McCormick (18091884),
A recreation of the first
mechanical reaper.
The Alexander Graham
Bell Museum, Nova Scotia.
The inventor of the
telephone.
A very early telephone
exchange.
The first telephone.
Telephone and electric
wires in New York City.
An early telephone
switchboard.
Thomas Edison with a Film
Projector
Thomas Alva Edison with
his first phonograph.
The invention of the
incandescent lamp.
Making steel by the
Bessemer process.
Samuel Gompers (18501924).
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"The Homestead Riot."
Andrew Carnegie (18351919).
Strikers at Homestead,
Pennsylvania.
Henry Clay Frick (18491919).
1884 Mississippi cotton
plantation.
Benjamin Ryan Tillman
(1847-1918).
Lincoln, President
Abraham; with Pinkerton
and McClernand
Audio:
Leading Black Americans:
George Washington
Carver
Thomas A. Edison:
"Electricity & Progress"
(October 3, 1908)
Thomas Edison speaks on
the future of Electricity
c.1908 (Audio Only)
Samuel Gompers: "Labor's
Service to Freedom"
Speech
African American History:
Steps Forward & Leaps
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Backward
Articles:
Gold Standard
Otis, Elisha Graves
Westinghouse, George
Carver, George
Washington
McCormick, Cyrus Hall
Deere, John
Edison, Thomas Alva
Bessemer, Sir Henry
Knights of Labor
Gompers, Samuel
Homestead Strike
Carnegie, Andrew
Frick, Henry Clay
Haymarket Square Riot
Populism
People's Party or Populist
Party
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Pinkerton, Allan
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INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
USH 2.2
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Henry Bessemer –
Bessemer Converter
The Knights of Labor
American Federation of
Labor
Samuel Gompers
Homestead Strike
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Clay Frick
Pinkerton Agents
Haymarket Riot
Grange
Populist Movement
“Pitchfork” Ben Tillman
William Jennings Bryan
Share Cropping
Company Store
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INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 2.5
Compare and contrast
government attempts to
regulate business and
industry.
Video:
Congress Passes the 14th
Amendment (GL)
The Interstate Commerce
Act (GL)
Progressivism at the
National Level (GL)
Concepts
Business
Sole Proprietor
Partnerships
Corporation
Trust
Monopoly
Vertical Consolidation
Horizontal Consolidation
Regulatory Commission
Market Share
Restraint of Trade
Restraint of Commerce
Economy of Size
Kickbacks
Substantive Due Process
Compare & Contrast
Regulate
Business
Industry
Restraint
Consolidate
Commerce
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Identify various state and national
attempts to regulate or control
business practices.
Compare various state and national
attempts at business regulation.
Contrast various state and national
attempts at business regulation
Explain how the US Supreme Court
used the 14th Amendment and the
doctrine of substantive due process
to block government regulation of
business.
.
Regulating the Economy:
The Interstate Commerce
Act (GL)
Garfield's Short Term and
the Pendleton Act
Civil Service Reforms &
the New Deal (GL)
People/Places/Ideas/
Things
Granger Laws
Railroad Rate Commissions
Interstate Commerce Act
Interstate Commerce
Commission
United States Supreme
Court
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Pendleton (Civil Service)
Act
Images:
"The Granger Shirt," a
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color lithograph.
Hon. William H. Hutch
(1833-1896).
"The Granger Shirt" about
the Grange movement.
A caption about farmers'
unions, 1871-1873.
Senator John Sherman
(1823-1900).
Coal strike representatives
meets with Roosevelt.
Audio:
U.S. Government: The
First 200 Years: Response
to Uncontrolled Business
Profiteering
Articles:
Immunity
Railroads, Government
Regulation of
Spoils System
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INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 3.1
Identify the events and
people central to the
transformation of the
United States into a
world power.
(Government,
Geography)
Videos:
Richard Harding
Davis, Theodore
Roosevelt, and the
Spanish-American War
(GL)
Footage of the
Spanish-American War
and McKinley's Funeral
(GL)
Spanish-American War
(GL)
The Emerging
Imperialist Nation
(GL)
A World Power (GL)
The Spanish Civil War:
Politically Committed
Concepts
Annexation
Canal
Naval Power
Coaling Stations
World Power
Great Power
Yellow Journalism
Jingoism
Imperialism
Spheres of Influence
The Open Door
European Powers (Britain,
France, Germany, Austria,
Italy, & Russia)
Mass Circulation
Magazines
Alliance System
People/Places/
Ideas/Things/Events
Spanish-American War
World War I
William McKinley
Hearst Publishing Empire
Wm Randolph Hearst
Philippines
Cuba
Central Powers
Allies
Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegraph
U-Boat
Unrestricted Submarine
Warfare
Battle of Somme
Batt le of Verdun
Transformation
World Power
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Compare and contrast United States
foreign policy and international influence
during the Gilded Age and after the
American victory in the SpanishAmerican War.
Identify the events in American history
that created the contrasts between US
foreign policy and international influence
during the Gilded Age and the postSpanish-American War eras.
Analyze the impact of:
Cleveland’s demand to arbitrate British
Border Claims in South America
American Sea Power (The G. White
Fleet)
Victory in the Spanish-American
War
Completion and operation of the
Panama Canal by the US
Acquisition of American colonies
Expansion of US world trade
Annexation of Hawaii on how the US
was viewed by the European Great
Powers and Japan.
Compare & Contrast reasons for the US
avoiding entering World War I early in
the war
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Journalism (GL)
The Spanish-American
War Begins (GL)
Determined (GL)
Gilded Age (GL)
The Gilded Age (GL)
Innovations of the
Gilded Age (GL)
African Americans in
the Gilded Age (GL)
Gilded Politics (GL)
Seeking Reform (GL)
Glory of Possession
(GL)
American and Spanish
Expansionism at the
Turn of the Century
(GL)
Imperialism (GL)
Diplomacy of
Imperialism (GL)
Evaluating the Effects
of Colonialism and
Imperialism (GL)
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Imperialism Takes
Control (GL)
Three Periods of
Imperialism: Modern
(GL)
Foreign Policy (GL)
The Panama Canal
(GL)
Looking to Foreign
Lands (GL)
China: The Open Door
Policy (GL)
The Alliance System
(GL)
Crisis in the Balkans
(GL)
A Killing Ground: The
Battle at Verdun (GL)
The Story of the USS
Maine (GL)
Hay-Bunau-Varilla
Treaty (GL)
Cuba & the SpanishAmerican War (GL)
1918: Americans
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Arrive Just in Time
(GL)
Modern Warfare
Changes the World:
Wilfred Owen's
"Anthem for Doomed
Youth" (GL)
Germany's Naval
Battles: The Sinking of
the Lusitania (GL)
Caught in the Middle
(GL)
The Great War (GL)
World War I: A New
Kind of War (GL)
Policies of World War
One (GL)
The United States and
World War I (GL)
World War I:
Journalists Tell the
Official Story (GL)
Life During and After
World War I (GL)
World War I, Tanks,
and the Tractor (GL)
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Progressivism (GL)
Progressives'
Programs (GL)
The Jungle: A View of
Industrial America
(GL)
THE JUNGLE BY
UPTON SINCLAIR (GL)
Roosevelt and
Corporations (GL)
The Sherman Antitrust
Act (GL)
Heroes of World War
I: John J. Pershing:
General of the Armies
The Story of the USS
Maine (GL)
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson:
Scholar, Reformer,
and Father of the
United Nations
The Battle of the
Somme - July 1, 1916
Roosevelt and
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Corporations (GL)
Images:
The U.S.S. Olympia in
Manila Bay in 1898.
The Maine explosion,
February 1898.
Remains of the
battleship Maine in
Havana, Cuba
African-American
soldiers in Cuba.
Theodore Roosevelt
and his Rough Riders.
The San Francisco
Daily Examiner.
Pulitzer and Hearst in
conflict over Cuba.
A German view of
British imperialism in
1915.
Leopold II reigned in
Belgium 1865-1909.
Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936).
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The Mahdi of the
Sudan (1843-1885).
The "Great White
Fleet" in Australia.
Crowds celebrate SF
arrival of Great White
Fleet.
Map: alliances in
World War I, 1914.
Map: the Western
Front, 1914.
William Randolph
Hearst, built
publishing empire.
George Hearst, mine
owner, publisher,
senator.
The San Francisco
Daily Examiner.
U .S. soldiers in Cuba,
1898.
Map: the Armistice
lines in Europe,
November 1918.
Turkish infantry unit
at rest during World
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War I.
Map showing alliances
& WWI boundaries in
Europe.
German submarine
that sank the
Lusitania.
Torpedoing of the
Lusitania.
An ad urging the U.S.
to enter World War I.
World War I soldiers
on a train at Salinas.
A World War I navy
recruiting poster.
Adolf Hitler as a World
War I corporal.
World War I 4-stacker
destroyers at
Philadelphia.
German World War I
propaganda flier.
The Arc de Triomphe.
The Graf Zeppelin
over Germany, 1928.
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LA journalist Noah
Thompson, 1920s
UNIA president.
Map: East Asia in
WWI.
A gas warning poster.
Eugene V. Debs
(1855-1926).
Ida M. Tarbell (18571944).
Upton Sinclair and His
Son
McClure's Magazine.
Captain Alfred Thayer
Mahan (1840-1914).
General John J. "Black
Jack" Pershing.
The American
Expeditionary Force:
Doughboys
Woodrow Wilson
delivering his War
Message.
Articles:
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Spanish-American War
Garcia Iniquez, Calixto
Manila Bay, Battle of
McKinley, William
Santiago, Battle of
Panama Canal
Goethals, George
Washington
Hay-Pauncefote
Treaty
Open Door Policy
U.S. Secretary of State
John Hay (18381905).
Panama Canal Zone
Richard Sears, cofounder of Sears &
Roebuck.
Hearst, William
Randolph
Central Powers
Lusitania (ship)
Mahan, Alfred Thayer
Havana
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Wilson, Thomas
Woodrow
Fourteen Points
Verdun, Battle of
Hay, John Milton
Audio:
U.S. Government: The
First 200 Years: The
Reform Spirit
The Causes of World
War I: Nationalism &
War The Causes of
World War I:
Imperialism &
Alliances
The Causes of World
War I: Tensions
Explode
African American
History: World War I
& the African
American
The Causes of World
War I: Imperialism
The Causes of World
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War I: Events Leading
Up to World War I
U.S. Government: The
First 200 Years: The
Reform Spirit
Writing Prompt:
Favorite Magazines
and Newspapers
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INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 3.1
Identify the events and
people central to the
transformation of the
United States into a
world power.
(Continued)
INDICATOR
Porto Rico
Columbia
Panama
Theodore Roosevelt
Trust-Busting
The Muckrakers
Havana Harbor
USS Maine
Alfred Thayer Mahan
John J. Pershing
Woodrow Wilson
CONTENT/CONCEPT
Explain how “The
Roosevelt Corollary”
(1904) modified the
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
justifying a new direction
in United States foreign
policy.
Concepts
Spheres of Influence
Theodore Roosevelt’s
Strong President
Corollary
Diplomatic Objective(s)
Videos:
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Theodore Roosevelt
Western Hemisphere
Corollary
Modified
Direction in US
Foreign Policy
Diplomacy
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
UHS 3.2
America Begins the
Twentieth
Century (GL)
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Analyze the purpose of the Monroe
Doctrine.
Analyze the purpose of T.R.’s
corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Compare and contrast the purposes
of the Monroe Doctrine and T.R.’s
Corollary.
Predict how the contrasts between
the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine
and the purpose of T.R.’s corollary
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Theodore Roosevelt
Takes Office (GL)
The Roosevelt
Corollary & William
Taft's Dollar
Diplomacy (GL)
The American Empire
(GL)
The Monroe Doctrine
(GL)
Roosevelt Corollary
Foreign Policy (GL)
will change how the United States
deals with other nations.
Predict how the contrasts between
the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine
and the purpose of T.R.’s corollary
will change how nations around the
world view the United States.
Images:
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919) .
The Monroe Doctrine.
Audio:
Expanding Our Nation:
Dealing with Other
Nations
U.S. Government: The
First 200 Years: The
Era of Good Feelings
Articles:
Monroe Doctrine
Harrison, Benjamin
(1833-1901)
Roosevelt, Theodore
Writing Prompts:
Being a Great Leader
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INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 3.3
Compare President
Woodrow Wilson’s
“Fourteen Points”
address to the views of
British leader David
Lloyd George and the
French leader Georges
Clemenceau regarding a
treaty to end World War
I.
Videos:
Armistice and Wilson's
Fourteen Points (GL)
Wilson Proposes a
Postwar Solution (GL)
Arguing the Arab
Cause (GL)
Negotiations and
Compromise in Paris
(GL)
The Emerging
Imperialist Nation
(GL)
Concepts
Armistice
Peace Treaty
Moral Diplomacy
Balance of Power
Diplomacy
Realpolitik
Reparations
National Pride
Diplomatic Objectives(s)
National Self-Determination
Ethnic/National Boundaries
Arbitrary Borders
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
Revenge
David Lloyd George
Georges Clemenceau
Versailles
Treaty
Peace Treaty
Arbitrary
Reparations
Self-Determination
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Summarize Wilson’s 14 Points.
Identify Wilson’s principles for
international relations.
Identify the political promises made by
Woodrow Wilson.
Summarize the principles Lloyd George
and Clemenceau applied to international
relations.
Analyze the distribution of ethnic groups
across Central Europe and the Balkans.
Explain why Wilson’s approach would
clash with Lloyd George’s and
Clemenceau’s approach to creating a
lasting peace.
Evaluate the potential for success in
creating a lasting peace if Wilson’s
approach is used.
Evaluate the potential for success in
creating a lasting peace if Lloyd
George’s and Clemenceau’s approach is
used.
Predict how the two competing
approaches might create problems in
writing a peace treaty acceptable to all
warring parties.
Analyze the reaction of the U.S. Senate
to the completed Treaty of Versailles.
Speculate on the importance of carefully
crafted peace treaties that “appear just”
to the warring powers making peace.
Conclusion
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(Armistice—GL)
The German
Surrender & the End
of the War (GL)
David Lloyd George
(GL)
David Lloyd George:
Great Britain's WWI
Supreme Architect of
Victory (GL)
Reparations for War
(GL)
Images:
Wilson in Paris.
Map: the Armistice
lines in Europe,
November 1918.
The German minister
who signed the
armistice.
Crowds of people
celebrate armistice.
Wilson reads terms of
Armistice to Congress,
1918.
U.S. artillerymen
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celebrating the
Armistice.
German town crier
reads U.S. regulations.
British prime minister
David Lloyd-George.
David Lloyd George at
Paris Peace
Conference.
The "Big Four" at the
Paris Peace
Conference.
Georges Clemenceau
(1841-1929).
The economist John
Maynard Keynes
(1883-1946).
Articles:
Fourteen Points
Veterans Day
Lloyd George, David,
1st Earl of Dwyfor
Balfour Declaration
Clemenceau, Georges
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Versailles, Treaty of
Little Entente
Audio:
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Fireside Chat: On the
Armistice with Italy
(September 8, 1943)
Writing Prompts:
Direct Contact
INDICATOR
USH 3.4
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments
that all teachers in a
given course will agree
to administer
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Summarize the Treaty
of Versailles, the
formation and purpose
of the League of
Nations and the interrelationship between
the two.
Videos:
The Treaty of
Versailles (GL)
The Effects of the
Treaty of Versailles on
Germany (GL)
Treaty of Versailles:
An Unsettling Peace
(1918) (GL)
1919: The Versailles
Peace Conference:
Herbert Hoover Raises
Relief Money for
Starving Europe (GL)
Concepts
Peace Treaty
Diplomatic Solutions
Diplomatic Forum
Restrictions
Reparations
Demilitarization
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
The Big Three
War Reparations
War Guilt
Military Restrictions
League of Nations
Seeking Diplomatic
Solutions to Prevents
Wars
A Weakened Germany
Right of National SelfDetermination
Rhineland
Ruhr Region
Alsace and Lorraine
Military Restrictions
Diplomatic Forum
Reparations
Military Restrictions
War Guilt
Transfer of Territory
Analyze the purpose of the War Guilt
Clause.
Analyze the provisions of the treaty
that were designed to keep Germany
economically and militarily weak.
Analyze Wilson’s reasoning on why
the League of Nations would prevent
future wars.
Analyze how the League of Nations
was intended to build on the peace
created by the Treaty of Versailles.
Compare and Contrast the examples
of retribution and national repression
in the Treaty of Versailles with the
concepts of national selfdetermination, equal representation,
and the creating of consensus
solutions of international differences
in the Covenant of the League of
Nations.
League of Nations
Council Meets in Rhine
Situation (GL)
May 1932: Japan
Breaks Agreements
and is Expelled from
the League of Nations
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(GL)
1919: Speeches For
and Against the
League of Nations
(GL)
Wilson's Battle with
the Senate (GL)
Woodrow Wilson:
Scholar, Reformer,
and Father of the
United Nations
Late-NineteenthCentury Europe
Images:
The League of Nations
building at Geneva.
The League of Nations
in session at Geneva.
Wilson campaigns for
the League of Nations.
Aristide Briand,
France's "apostle of
peace."
"C.K." McClatchy,
editor of Sacramento
Bee.
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Alsace-Lorraine: "You
may take me..."
French troops in an
Alsace town after
World War I.
Map: the unification of
Germany, 1866-1871.
Articles:
League of Nations
Lodge, Henry Cabot
(1850-1924)
Alsace-Lorraine
Wilson, Thomas
Woodrow
Reparations
Ruhr
The French statesman
Raymond Poincaré.
Audio:
U.S. Government: The
First 200 Years:
America during the
First World War
Warren G. Harding:
"League of Nations"
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(1920)
37
Benchmark 2
18-21 November
Core Standard 4 The 1920’s
Describe how key events, people, and groups in 1920s America reflect the conflicting values and changing society of those living in the
period of prosperity before the Great Depression
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INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 3.6
Identify the contributions
to American culture
made by individuals and
groups.
Videos:
African Americans in
the Progressive Era
(GL)
Women in the
Progressive Era (GL)
Technology in the
Progressive Era (GL)
Defining the
Progressive Movement
(GL)
Prohibition and
Temperance
Movements (GL)
The Jungle: A View of
Concepts
Contribution(s)
American Culture
Muckrakers
Progressives
Quality of Life
People/Places/Ideas/
Things/ Events
Government Reform
Frederick Law Olmsted –
Landscaper & Creator
of Central Park
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Tuskegee Institute
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair--The
Jungle
Women’s Christian
Temperance Union
(WCTU)
Prohibition
NAACP
Contribution(s)
Culture
The Arts
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Identify areas within which
contributions could be/were made.
Identify contributions.
Analyze how each individual/group’s
contribution changed the way
Americans lived.
Evaluate the importance of each
contribution to the quality of life in the
US for its citizens or groups of its
citizens.
Industrial America
(GL)
The Status of African
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Americans (GL)
Rosa Parks and the
NAACP (GL)
Tuskegee Institute
and Segregation (GL)
The Black Press (GL)
Southern Industry
(GL)
The First Nine Years:
Slavery and Poverty
(GL)
Freedom Seekers (GL)
Hellfighters (GL)
A Mass Women's
Suffrage Movement
(GL)
Women's Rights (GL)
Married Women's
Property Act (GL)
Images:
Robert La Follette at
his desk in 1906.
Not all artists of
Progressive era were
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realists.
A YWCA group in
Washington, D.C.
Carrie Nation (18481911), on shipboard.
Governor Peter
Norbeck (1870-1936)
of SD.
George Wesley
Bellows (1882-1925),
self-portrait.
Lillian D. Wald (18671940).
Leo Frank.
Finley Peter Dunne
(1867-1936).
Upton Sinclair and His
Son
"The Royal Family of
America," 1902.
Progressive leader
Father John A. Ryan.
Progressive historian
Charles A. Beard.
Theodore Roosevelt
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(1858-1919) .
W.E.B. Du Bois (18681963).
Margaret (Higgins)
Sanger (1883-1966).
Ida M. Tarbell (18571944).
A Pacific Electric
interurban railway car.
John Dewey (18591952).
A woman typist in
1906.
Louis Armstrong, with
Marable's Capital
Revue.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt (1859-1947).
Roosevelt and Booker
T. Washington at
White House.
Frank Norris (18701912).
Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872-1906).
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George Benjamin Luks
(1867-1933).
"Hell Hole," John
Sloan, 1917.
The African-American
leader Booker T.
Washington.
Lincoln Steffens,
muckracking editor,
journalist.
Office of the NAACP' S
Crisis Magazine
Cover of the First
Issue of "The Crisis"
NAACP Youth Council
Members
Walter White (18931955).
James Weldon
Johnson (1871-1938).
Members of the
WCTU.
Mary Church
Terrell***
Articles:
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La Follette, Robert
Marion
Tuskegee University
Steffens, (Joseph)
Lincoln
Riis, Jacob August
White, Walter Francis
National Association
for the Advancement
of Colored People
Du Bois, W(illiam)
E(dward) B(urghardt)
Charlotte Perkins,
feminist writer,
lecturer.
Audio:
Cultural Contributions
of Black Americans:
Art: Reactionary
Leaders Marcus
Garvey & W. E. B.
DuBois
African American
History: Achievement
in a Hostile Era
44
Leading Black
Americans: George
Washington Carver
Writing Prompt:
Women and Civic
Work
Equality for All
45
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 3.8
Describe the
Progressive Movement
and its impact on
political, economic and
social reform.
Videos:
Elements of a Social
Movement (GL)
Progressive Era Social
Controls (GL)
The Birth of the
Progressive Era (GL)
Suffrage (GL)
The Progressive Party
(GL)
The Wilson
Administration (GL)
The Triangle
Shirtwaist Fire (GL)
Progressivism (GL)
Concepts
Government Reform
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Prohibition
Conservation
Direct Election of Senators
Women’s Suffrage
Political Machines
State Machines
City Machines
Muckrakers
Mass Circulation
Journalism
Child Labor
Work Place Protection
Government Reform
Social Reform
Conservation
Reform
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Identify political, economic, and social
problems that arose between 1880 and
1900.
Identify reforms pushed by the
Progressives.
Compare and contrast the political,
economic, and social structures of the
United States from 1880-1900 with those
of 1900-1919.
Evaluate implemented Progressive
reforms for their impact on making
government more responsive to
American voters.
People/Places/Ideas/
Places/Things
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
Tammany Hall
City Manager Government
City Commission
Government
Progressive Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Child Labor Laws
Roosevelt, Taft, &
Reform (GL)
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The Square Deal (GL)
The Plight of Laborers
(GL)
The Populists (GL)
American Political
Movements and Civil
Liberties in the
Twentieth Century
(GL)
Immigration in the
Progressive Era (GL)
Politics and
Progressives (GL)
Special Interest
Groups (GL)
A Path to Reform (GL)
William Howard Taft's
Presidency and the
Return of Roosevelt
(GL)
Progressive Era Social
Controls (GL)
Women and the Right
to Vote (GL)
Progressives'
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Programs (GL)
The Sixteenth,
Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, and
Nineteenth
Amendments (GL)
A New America:
Mobility for Women:
The 18th Amendment
and Prohibition (GL)
The Economic
Conditions at Home:
New Legislation for
Workers, Segregation
of Blacks, and the
Suffragette Movement
(GL)
Child Labor & Bad
Working Conditions
(GL)
Women and Children
(GL)
President Roosevelt
Addresses Congress
on State of Nation
(GL)
Urbanization:
Changing the
48
Landscape (GL)
NEW YORK CITY:
FIVE POINTS
NEIGHBORHOOD AND
TAMMANY HALL (GL)
William Howard Taft's
Presidency and the
Return of Roosevelt
(GL)
THE IMPACT OF THE
JUNGLE (GL)
Images:
McClure's Magazine.
Search for bodies
after Triangle
Shirtwaist Fire.
The Supreme Court in
1904.
Cartoon, economic
influence of Standard
Oil.
Women at first
convention of
Women's Trade Union.
Ladies? Tailors Union
strikers, NYC, 1910.
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Workers in a Chicago
meat packing plant in
1905.
March 3, 1913
suffragists parade,
Washington, DC.
"4-year-old
Mary,.shucks oysters."
Teenage boy worked
in factory for two
years.
A young textile mill
worker.
Woman's suffrage
headquarters in
Cleveland, Ohio.
Opponents of womens
suffrage also
organized.
Most urban reform
demanded was of city
police.
Bohemian cigarmakers
at work in their
tenement.
An Italian mother,
Jersey Street, NY,
50
1890.
"Five cents a spot"
unauthorized rental
lodgings.
Child labor; children
tying "hands" of
tobacco.
Child workers,
newsboys, around
1900.
Child workers in a
glass factory, around
1900.
Most cotton mill
workers were women
& children.
Child of an AfricanAmerican tenant
farmer.
Articles:
Women's Rights
League of Women
Voters of the United
States
Child Labor
Tammany Society
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Audio:
Social Reform
Movements: The
Progressive Reform
Movement
Theodore Roosevelt:
"Social & Industrial
Justice" (August,
1912)
William H. Taft: "The
Rights of Labor"
(August 3, 1908)
Writing Prompt:
Activism
Leading a Cause
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INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 4.1
Give examples of
support shifting to big
business during the
postwar period between
World War I and the
Great Depression.
Videos:
Warren G. Harding
(GL)
Reluctant Nomination
(GL)
Concepts
Economic Boom
Stock
Stock Market
Consumer Economy
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Consumer Goods
Big Business
Business Community
Social Darwinism
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Analyze changes in American society
that resulted in a demand for consumer
goods.
Evaluate the role of credit in creating a
booming stock market.
Compose a statement summarizing the
role of the presidency as practiced by
Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.
Evaluate reasons many Americans felt
ensuring a good life for big business
meant a good life for Americans.
Ideal American (GL)
Silent Cal (GL)
Life After World War I
(GL)
Round Two: Calvin
Coolidge (GL)
Concluding Remarks
(GL)
"The Business of
America Is Business"
(GL)
American Individualist
53
(GL)
Miracle Man (GL)
A Rising Economy,
Flourishing Job
Market, Tax Cuts, and
Speculation: Election
of 1928 (GL)
America, 1920 (GL)
Wall Street, 1929
(GL)
Serving as Governor
of New York (GL)
Survival Theories:
Social Darwinism and
Eugenics (GL)
Social Darwinism and
Socialism (GL)
Social Darwinism and
Capitalism (GL)
Images:
Warren G. Harding
(1865-1923) .
Harding's Attorney
General resigned in
scandal.
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"Teapot Dome"
principals.
Calvin Coolidge (18721933) as vice
president.
Wall Street in New
York City, 1924.
Herbert Spencer, who
founded "Social
Darwinism."
A Horatio Alger book.
Articles:
Fall, Albert Bacon
Teapot Dome
Social Darwinism
Fiske, John
Audio:
Warren G. Harding:
"The Republic Must
Awaken" (1917)
U.S. Government: The
First 200 Years: A
Nation in Economic
Crisis
55
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 4.2
Describe the
development of popular
culture.
Videos:
Harlem Renaissance
(GL)
Harlem Renaissance
Art during the Harlem
Renaissance (GL)
Society Changes in the
Jazz Age (GL)
Jazz and Blues in the
1920s (GL)
Concepts
Popular Culture
Renaissance
Prohibition
Poetry
Jazz Age
Bootlegger
Renaissance
Harlem
Renaissance
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Analyze works by Hughes, Lewis,
and Fitzgerald to determine the
mood of the 1920’s.
Evaluate the extent of the impact of
the Harlem Renaissance on the
culture of the 1920’s.
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Harlem
Langston Hughes
Duke Ellington
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cotton Club
Bathtub Gin
Speak Easy
The Roaring Twenties
(GL)
Expression and Decline
of the Harlem
Renaissance (GL)
The Rise of the Harlem
Renaissance (GL)
The Harlem Renaissance
and the Formation of
Negro Baseball Leagues
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(GL)
Literature during the
Harlem Renaissance
(GL)
Harlem (GL)
New York (GL)
Jacob Lawrence (GL)
James Van Der Zee
(GL)
The Birth of Jazz (GL)
The Harmon Foundation
(GL)
Aaron Douglas (GL)
William H. Johnson
(GL)
Henry O. Tanner &
Edward Bannister
(GL)
The Jazz Age
The Renaissance's
Lasting Impression
(GL)
In Great Form
(Fitzgerald/GL)
57
Portrait of the Author: F.
Scott Fitzgerald (GL)
Syncopated City (GL)
Breaking Barriers (GL)
Lost Innocence: The
Myth of the American
Dream (GL)
The Cotton Club (GL)
"Stormy Weather" (GL)
Sinclair Lewis En Route
to Receive Nobel Prize
(GL)
Literature Critical of
Society's Materialism
(GL)
Bessie Coleman and
Lola Brown
Images:
Langston Hughes
American Author
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Cotton Club in
Harlem
"Duke" Ellington (18991974).
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Sinclair Lewis (18851951).
Pioneer Aviator Bessie
Coleman
Articles:
United States of
America: History--The
Roaring Twenties:
Boom and Crash
Cullen, Countee
McKay, Claude
Fitzgerald, F(rancis)
Scott (Key)
Ellington, Duke
Fitzgerald, Ella
Baker, Josephine
Hughes, (James Mercer)
Langston
Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair
Audio:
Cultural Contributions
of Black Americans:
Art: The Lasting
Impression of the
Harlem Renaissance
The History of
American Literature:
Poets of the Harlem
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Renaissance
Cultural Contributions
of Black Americans:
Literature: A Literary
Renaissance in Harlem
The History of
American Literature:
Unprecedented Criticism
& Sinclair Lewis
Writing Prompt:
Favorite Piece of
Literature
Favorite Music
An Age
The Artist and Culture
Gender Differences
60
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 4.3
Explain how America
reacted to a changing
society by examining
issues associated with
the Red Scare,
Prohibition, the
Scopes Trial, the
changing role of
women and AfricanAmericans, the Ku
Klux Klan, the Palmer
Raids, the National
Origins Act, and
restrictions on
immigration.
Videos:
The Red Scare and
Social Unrest (GL)
Concepts
Prohibition
Crime rates
Evolution
Religious Beliefs
Scientific Ideas
Radicalism
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
Red Scare
National Origins Act
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Women’s Suffrage
Communism
Attorney General Palmer
Palmer Raids
J. Edgar Hoover
Scopes Trial
Prohibition
Evolution
Biblical Creation
Radical
Radicalism
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Summarize what happened in Russia
at the end of World War I—the
Russian Revolution.
Analyze connections between the
Russian Revolution and the Palmer
Raids.
Evaluate the effectiveness of
Prohibition.
Analyze reasons for its failure.
Evaluate the impact of giving women
the vote.
Describe the ways in which religion
and science conflicted during the
1920’s.
The Red Scare (GL)
Fear of Communism
(GL)
The End of Senator
Joseph McCarthy's
Political Power (GL)
The McCarren Act and
the Efforts of Senator
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Joseph McCarthy (GL)
Understanding
McCarthyism (GL)
Sacco and Vanzetti and
the Communist Scare
(GL)
Scopes Monkey Trial:
Teaching Creationism or
Evolution in School
(GL)
William Jennings Bryan:
Participant in the Scopes
Trial (GL)
Bryan's Final Chapter:
The Monkey Trial (GL)
The Monkey Trial (GL)
American Political
Movements and Civil
Liberties in the
Twentieth Century
Ku Klux Klan
(GL)
Ku Klux Klan (GL)
An American Terrorist
Organization: The Rise
of the Ku Klux Klan
(GL)
62
Post-War Intolerance
Images:
Senator Joseph R.
McCarthy (1909-1957).
Senate Investigating
Subcommittee Meeting
Annie Lee Moss with
Lawyer
Sacco and Vanzetti.
Clarence Darrow During
Scopes Trial
The Scopes trial in July
1925.
John Thomas Scopes
(1900-1970).
Clarence Darrow and
William Jennings Bryan,
1925
Alexander Mitchell
Palmer (1872-1936).
Ku Klux Klan members
in a midnight ritual in
1922.
Ku Klux Klan members
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with Confederate Flag
Kkk Blood Oath;
Ishness
Nathan Bedford Forrest
(1821-1877).
The National Origins
Act of 1924.
Articles:
Communism
McCarthy, Joseph
Raymond
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Scopes Trial
Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Darrow, Clarence
Seward
Ku Klux Klan
Miller, Arthur
Audio:
U.S. Government: The
First 200 Years: A
Nation in Economic
Crisis
African American
History: Civil War
Promises & Realities
64
Benchmark 3
3-6 February 2009
Core standard 5: The Great Depression
Give examples of the causes and effects of the Great Depression and describe the government’s responses to the Great Depression.
Analyze the conflicts between business, government, and labor that occurred during the 1930s.
Core standard 6: World War II
Analyze the events that led to the United States’ involvement in World War II. Describe key events, places, and people involved with
the causes and course of World War II. Give examples of the economic and social changes in American life resulting from World War
II.
65
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 4.6
Describe New Deal
legislation and its
effect on government
expansion and
compare and contrast
their views with New
Deal proponents and
opponents.
Videos:
The Dust Bowl (GL)
Dust Bowl (GL)
Causes of the Great
Depression (GL)
The Great Depression
(GL)
The Great Depression
in America (GL)
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
The Nation's Guiding
Light Through the
Great Depression and
WWII (GL)
Concepts
Help business to end
the depression
Help the population to
increase spending
and end the
depression
Supply side
economics
Keynesian Economics
Deficit Spending
Balanced Budget
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Great Depression
Bank Failures
Bank Holiday
NRA
AAA
CCC
WPA
FDR
New Deal
Depression
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments
that all teachers in a
given course will
agree to administer
Compare the Hoover
(Republican) view of self-help
and help from charities with the
Roosevelt (New Deal Democrat)
view of government having a role
in people’s lives.
Explain the idea of priming the
pump.
Explain the ultimate goal of
programs like the CCC and the
WPA.
Describe why New Deal
opponents (a) believe the New
Deal economically unsound and
(b) thought it was a form of
socialism.
The End of the Great
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Depression
Flotsam and Jetsam
(GL)
American Stories: A
Future Reborn (GL)
Pendulum (GL)
Economic Tremors
before Black Tuesday
(GL)
Packing the Supreme
Court
The South &
Southwest, 1933
Chicago, 1934
New Deal Legacy (GL)
Disciplined Fantasy
(GL)
Picturing Hard Times
(GL)
President's Wife (GL)
Radio
The Share-A-Meal Plan
The WPA (GL)
FDR Visits Virginia
67
New Deal: First One
Hundred Days (GL)
Eleanor Roosevelt and
the Plight of the
American Migrant
Farm Worker (GL)
Eleanor's Politics (GL)
When Fiction Inspires
Change (GL)
Images:
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
Destitute family beside
railroad tracks
Franklin Roosevelt
About to Deliver His
First Fireside Chat
Farm abandoned during
Great Depression (1)
Oklahoma drought
refugees at Marysville,
1935.
Drought refugees from
Abilene, Texas.
A depression-year corn
stalk withered by
68
drought.
Oklahoma drought
refugees in the Imperial
Valley.
An Oklahoma family
camped at Blythe,
1936.
Harry L. Hopkins
(1890-1946).
An AAA exhibit.
Enrollees in an AfricanAmerican CCC camp .
Eleanor Roosevelt with
National Youth
Administration Leader
Marian Anderson at the
Lincoln Memorial.
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962).
Articles:
New Deal
Lange, Dorothea
National Industrial
Recovery Act
Evans, Walker
Guthrie, Woody
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Work Projects
Administration
Richard Wright (19081960).
Civilian Conservation
Corps
Roosevelt, (Anna)
Eleanor
Audio:
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Fireside Chat: On the
Works Relief Program
& Social Security Act
(April 28, 1935)
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Fireside Chat: On the
New Deal (May 7,
1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Fireside Chat: On the
Bank Crisis (March 12,
1933)
The Great Depression:
Causes: The Nation's
Poor
The Great Depression:
Solutions: Recovery
Policies on the Farm &
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in the Factory
The Great Depression:
Solutions: Political
Response & the Second
New Deal
The Great Depression:
Solutions: Reshaping
the Economy
The Great Depression:
Solutions: The
Economic Climate
Surrounding
Roosevelt's Election
The Great Depression:
Causes: Hoover's
Disastrous Decisions &
Roosevelt's Promise
The Great Depression:
Effects: The Life of the
American During the
Depression
African American
History: The Great
Depression & the
African American
Community
The Great Depression:
Solutions: An
Impending, Uncertain
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War Era
The Great Depression:
Effects: American
Pastimes
Writing Prompt:
Direct Contact
Discovery Education
Resources
Videos:
The Great Depression:
Boom and Bust in
America
America: The Roaring
Twenties
Dark Days of October
Images of Depression
INDICATOR
USH 4.7
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
72
Describe technological
developments during
the 1920’s and their
impact on rural and
urban America.
Concepts
Mass production
Urbanized nation
Automobile society
Automobile focused
economy
Videos:
EARLY INDUSTRIAL
AMERICA
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
The Urban
Transformation (GL)
Henry Ford
Model T
Ford Assembly Plant
Oil/Gas
Internal Combustion
Engine
Culture in the 1920s
(GL)
America, 1920 (GL)
Assembly Line
Mass Produced
Urbanization
Consumer Products
Analyze the impact of the motor car
on the life of urban and rural
Americans.
Evaluate the impact of Ford’s mass
manufacturing of automobiles on
the sales of automobiles.
Suggest ways the America of the
1920s in which more people lived in
cities than in the countryside was
different from the America of the
1890’s.
Early American
Capitalism:
Monopolies, Unions,
and the Great
Depression (GL)
The Great Depression
& New Technology:
1930, 1933, &
19351936 (GL)
The Rails, 1932
Henry Ford (GL)
Henry Ford: Changing
the Way Americans
Worked, Played, and
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Traveled (GL)
The Highest Quality of
Life in the World
The Automobile
Charles Lindbergh (GL)
Into the Twentieth
Century (GL)
The Birdmen (GL)
Amelia Earhart (GL)
Franklin's Early Years
(GL)
Science and
Technology
How We Lived
A Brief History of
Automobiles and
Trucks
Images:
Henry Ford (18631947).
An assembly line.
Ad for a Lincoln
touring car, 1923.
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Pilot Amelia Earhart
The arrival of Amelia
Earhart (1897-1937).
Articles:
Earhart, Amelia
Ford, Henry
Assembly Line
Olds, Ransom Eli
Internal-Combustion
Engine
Audio:
The Great Depression:
Effects: The Need for
Organized Labor
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Fireside Chat: On
Farmers & Laborers
(September 6, 1936)
My Belief in the Age of
Flight Amelia Earhart
c.1932 (Audio Only)
Writing Prompt:
No Is Not an Answer
75
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 4.8
Describe the cause and
effect of American
isolationism during the
1930s.
Concepts
Isolationism
Pre-occupation with the
Great Depression
Videos:
Crisis (GL)
The United States in the
Late 1930's (GL)
American Isolationism
FDR Faces American
Isolationism (GL)
World Events (GL)
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
Neutrality Act
“America First”
Japan attacks China
Mussolini invades
Ethiopia
Hitler occupies the
Rhineland
Hitler annexes Austria
Isolationism
Neutrality
Preoccupation
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Explain why Americans came to
believe that American involvement in
World War I was a plan devised by
profiteering industrialists.
Analyze the stress the Great
Depression placed on the ability to
the US government to react to
foreign events.
Restate what was meant by the
statement America First.
Analyze how strict neutrality
prevented the United States from
helping China in its war against
Japanese aggression
Isolationism (GL)
The Clouds of War
Austria Annexed by
Hitler - March 14, 1938
Germany, France,
England, and Italy Sign
a Treaty that Clears the
Way for Hitler's Armies
(GL)
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Overview of 1938 (GL)
Adolf Hitler Befriends
Benito Mussolini
The Rise of Economic
Nationalism (GL)
Unrest in Europe and
U.S. Neutrality (GL)
March 13, 1938: Hitler
Defies Versailles Treaty
and Marches into
Austria (GL)
America Ignores the
War (GL)
1940: America Resolves
Not to Join the War
(GL)
Adolf Hitler Proves
Unstoppable: Prospects
of War Grow Inevitable
(GL)
Audio:
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt Outbreak of
WW II in Europe and
proclamation of
American neutrality 77
September 3, 1939
F.D.R. Gives Message to
Congress (Video
Speech)
78
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
UHS 5.1
Compare and contrast
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s world view
with that of Germany’s
Adolf Hitler.
Videos:
Hitler Cohorts Lose in
Election
The Rise of Adolf Hitler
and Nazi Germany (GL)
Hitler's Papers: Black
Market Brings
Documents to Light
(GL)
Concepts
World view
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adolph Hitler
Nazism
Hitler’s May Day Speech
(1937)
New Deal
Four Freedoms
FDR’s Declaration of
War Speech
World View
Compare & Contrast
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Read a text of a speech or article to
identify key ideas and concepts of
the author/speaker.
Set speeches/articles in the context
of the time.
Identify audiences of speeches and
articles.
Compare key ideas and concepts of
a speech given by FDR and Adolph
Hitler.
Synthesize a summary composition
comparing how FDR saw the world
and how Hitler saw the world.
Enemies of Freedom
(GL)
Turning Points: Freedom
of the Press (GL)
1933: Hitler's First
Speech to the Reichstag
as Chancellor of
Germany (GL)
Images:
Adolf Hitler and His
79
Officials at a Ceremony
in Berlin
A poster of Hitler.
Hitler sworn in as
chancellor, March 21,
1933 .
Articles:
Hitler, Adolf
National Socialism
Audio:
Adolf Hitler: Chancellor
of Germany (1933-1945)
(Video Speech)
1933: Hitler's First
Speech to the Reichstag
as Chancellor of
Germany (Video
Speech)
Hitler's Speech to the
Workers (Video Speech)
Hitler's Speech to the
German State (Video
Speech)
Pearl Harbor Speech to
the Congress of the
United States President
Franklin Delano
80
Roosevelt December 8,
1941
Writing Prompt:
Censorship of Ideas
81
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
Identify
Describe
Cause & Effect
Acts of War
Totalitarianism
Fascism
Nazism
Military Government
Undeclared Act of War
Blitzkrieg
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Identify the purpose and conditions
of sale stated in the Lend-Lease Act.
USA 5.2
Identify and describe
key events that resulted
in the United States’
entry into World War II
Videos:
America Joins the War
(GL)
American
Manufacturing
Mobilizes for War (GL)
America Enters World
War II
Pearl Harbor (GL)
Japanese Aircraft Head
for Pearl Harbor (GL)
The Attack on Pearl
Harbor & Its Impact
(GL)
Hideki Tojo (GL)
Concepts
Military Aid
Reasons for War
Undeclared Act of War
Cripple or Disable a
Fleet
Entrench Before a
Counter-Attack
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Germany
Italy
Japan
China
Eastern Europe
France
Great Britain
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Lend-Lease
European Theater
Pacific Theater
Mussolini
Hitler
Stalin
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Identify the purpose and conditions
of sale stated in the Cash and Carry
law.
Describe reasons Germans would
support Hitler in starting a European
War and eventually a world war.
The Attack of Pearl
Harbor (1941): America
Stands United
December 7, 1941:
82
America Joins the War
After the Japanese
Attack Pearl Harbor
(GL)
The Second Wave of the
Japanese Attack on Pearl
Harbor Begins (GL)
Results of Pearl Harbor:
Patriotism, JapaneseAmerican Heroes, and
War Memorials (GL)
FDR and the LendLease Act (GL)
U.S. Lend-Lease Act
Buys Time to Prepare
for War
FDR Discusses Threat
of Axis Powers
Nazi Parachute Troops
and Blitz Tactics
Devastate Resisters
Rise of Fascism (GL)
Gleichschaltung: The
Basis of Nazi
Totalitarianism and
Oppression of the
German People
General MacArthur:
83
Supreme Allied
Commander of the
Southwest Pacific
Theater in WWII (GL)
Josef Stalin (GL)
Stalin Meets with U.S.
and Great Britain to
Reaffirm Commitment
in War Efforts
The Big Three
Conference: Churchill,
Truman, and Stalin
Discuss World Affairs
Hitler Turns on Russia:
Stalin Rallies Soviets to
Fight Back
President Roosevelt's
Final Message to
Congress
Meeting for Peace:
Churchill and Roosevelt
Discuss the War
Benito Mussolini (GL)
Chiang Kai-Shek (GL)
General Eisenhower
Inspires Troops (GL)
Italy, Germany, & Japan
84
Unite (GL)
Images:
Lend-Lease: bacon from
U.S. in England.
Congress authorized a
"lend-lease" program,
1941.
Roosevelt, Churchill,
U.S.S. Augusta.
Workman reads about
the Pearl Harbor attack.
A ship burning during
attack on Pearl Harbor.
Patriotic Sign on
Japanese Grocery Store
Japanese bomber
attacking "battleship
row."
Women volunteers
signing up, SF Red
Cross office.
Redding newsboy sells
an extra, December 7,
1941.
"I am an American" sign
85
in a store window.
Roosevelt asking
Congress to declare war
on Japan.
A public notice about
the Japanese removal.
Benito Mussolini (18831945).
The Cairo Conference,
November 1943.
Map: Hitler's empire,
1942.
German Junkers Ju. 87
"Stuka" in flight.
Houses in Luxembourg
destroyed, May 10,
1940.
Winston Churchill
(1874-1965).
A poster, "Death to the
Fascist Serpent!"
Mussolini presides over
Fascist Grand Council.
Soldiers study war map
Pacific-Asiatic theaters.
The "Stalin-Hitler Pact."
86
Joseph Stalin (18791953).
Color photo, Tojo
Hideki, 1948 war crimes
trial.
Articles:
Lend-Lease
Axis Powers
Totalitarianism
Arendt, Hannah
Flamethrower
Stalin, Joseph
Yalta Conference
Audio:
Pearl Harbor Speech to
the Congress of the
United States President
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt December 8,
1941 (Audio Only)
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill's Address to
the U.S. Congress
December 26, 1941
(Audio Only)
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
On Lend Lease (March
87
15, 1941)
Fascist Dictatorships:
The Roots of Fascism
Fascist Dictatorships:
Fascism Spreads across
Europe
88
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 5.4
Describe Hitler’s “Final
Solution” policy and
identify the Allied
responses to the
Holocaust.
(THE STATE OF INDIANA
MANDATES THAT THIS
INDICATOR BE TAUGHT
EVERY YEAR IN THIS
COURSE)
Videos:
A Last Goodbye (GL)
A Reawakening of AntiSemitism (GL)
Hitler and the Nazis
Spread Anti-Semitism
(GL)
In Memoriam: The
Holocaust (GL)
Encountering the
Holocaust (GL)
Auschwitz (GL)
Exile and Deportation
(GL)
Concepts
Genocide
Anti-Semitism
Rules of War
Rules of Internment for
Enemy Prisoners
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
“Undesirables”:
Jews
Mentally impaired
Physically impaired
Gypsies
Homosexuals
Slavs
Wannsee Conference
“Final Solution”
Crimes Against Humanity
Nuremburg Trials
Concentration Camp
Death Camp
Gestapo
POW camp
Liberation of Death
Camps
Zionism
“Never Again!”
State of Israel
FDR
Harry Truman
Genocide
Mass Murder
Anti-Semitism
International Law
Laws of War
Holocaust
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Explain the significance of the “Night of
the Broken Glass” in terms of German
treatment of European Jews.
Identify the categories of people labeled
Undesirables within the Third Reich.
Describe the various attempts to use
Undesirables as slave labor or to mass
murder them.
Analyze the impact of the fact that the
USSR had never signed the Geneva
Agreements on the fate of captured
Russian and German soldiers.
Analyze conditions and procedures in a
Nazi Death Camp.
Describe the fate of most Jews sent to
the Death Camps.
Describe efforts of various Europeans
including the Danes to prevent the Nazis
from killing European Jews.
Explain the role of the SS and especially
the Gestapo in eliminating Undesirables.
Describe how the Allied Powers
responded to the German liquidation of
the Jews and others at the Nuremburg
Trials.
Analyze reasons Harry Truman decided
to recognize the state of Israel.
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Answers to Questions
About the Holocaust
(GL)
Introduction: Objectives
and Vocabulary
Writing as an Escape
News of the Outside
World: Deporting More
Jews
Anne's Childhood in
Germany
The Secret Annexe
Why Anne's Story Lives
On
Anti-Semitism (GL)
The Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising: Heroism and
Resistance (GL)
Looking Back and
Moving On: The Many
Emotions of the
Holocaust Survivors
(GL)
Kristallnacht &
Holocaust
Photographs from the
90
Lodz Ghetto (GL)
Childhood: Life Before
World War II (GL)
Life in the
Concentration Camps
(GL)
The Segregation and
Persecution of the Jews
(GL)
The Jewish Children in
Ghettos and Death
Camps (GL)
Hermann Goering (GL)
Opening Statement
(Herman Goering—
GL)
Goering Takes the Stand
(GL)
The Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg (GL)
Nazi Atrocities (GL)
Newsreel: Hitler's
Atrocities
The Final Solution (GL)
The Annihilation of the
91
Jews: The "Final
Solution" Begins
Damning Evidence (GL)
Trial of the Century:
Eichmann Tried for War
Crimes
Dachau (GL)
The Nuremburg Trials
and the Lessons of
World War II
Adolph Hitler (GL)
Harry S. Truman: One
of America's Most
Effective Presidents
(GL)
The Truman Committee
(GL)
Images:
Orthodox Polish Jew has
his beard shaved off.
Warsaw citizens' papers
reviewed during revolt.
Prisoners in their bunks
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at Dachau.
German soldiers forced
to uncover mass grave.
Women's ward at Belsen
concentration camp.
One of the first freed
from a concentration
camp.
Bodies of Nazi
concentration camp
victims, 1945.
Irma Grese, in charge of
death cells at Belsen.
Buildings on fire in the
Warsaw ghetto, 1943.
Warsaw Jews herded
into ghetto.
Concentration camp
inmates (2)
Ovens in a German
concentration camp.
War Criminals at the
Nuremberg Trials, 1946
Color photo, Hermann
Goering at Nuremberg.
Articles:
93
Gestapo
War Crimes Trials
Isolationism
National Socialism
Audio:
Fascist Dictatorships:
Hitler Defines the
Fascist Movement (GL)
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S.
Truman March 12, 1947
(Audio Only)
The Causes of World
War II: The Early Days
of the Nazi Party
Discovery Education
Resources
Videos:
Refugees are Turned
Away
Jewish Americans in
World War II
Skill Builder:
Europe at the Peak of
Axis Power
94
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
USH 5.6
Identify and describe the
impact of World War II
on American culture and
economic life.
Videos:
Prelude to 1942
Media Images of the
War (GL)
Women in World War II
Women and World War
II (GL)
The Significance of
World War II
Native Americans in
World War II (GL)
This Is London: Edward
R. Murrow's World War
II Broadcasts (GL)
African Americans in
World War II (GL)
Concepts
Home Front
Rationing
Women in the Workplace
Farm Workers
Mobilization of
Resources
African-American in the
Military
Wartime Radio/
Communications
SKILLS
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Home Front
War Economy
Rationing
Wartime Agriculture
War Casualties
Government
Censorship
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
Meatless Days
Ration Coupons
War-Related Rationed
Items
Rosie the Riveter
Triple V
A. Philip Randolph
Braceros
G.I. Bill
War Dead
VA Hospital System
VE Day
VJ Day
Manhattan Project
Atomic Bomb
Japanese Americans in
World War II (GL)
95
World War II: Five
Photographs (GL)
The Pueblo and World
War II (GL)
World War II: Navajo
Code Talkers in the
United States Military
(GL)
Visiting the Troops
(GL)
Crowds Flock to Gala
Opening of 1940
World's Fair
Ernie Pyle Goes to War
(GL)
American Stories: A
Future Reborn (GL)
Tell My Dad I Love
Him Very Much (GL)
A Man of Honor (GL)
These Things Can't
Happen(GL)
Kill Jim Crow (GL)
Atomic Bomb - August
6, 1945 (GL)
Racism in the United
96
States (GL)
An Agent of Change
(GL)
War Correspondents on
D-Day (GL)
Homer Bigart, War
Correspondent (GL)
A Japanese-American
Rebuttal to the US
Government's Position
on Relocation (Primary
Source Interview)
War Relocation
Authority
Food Rationing
Gasoline Rationing
Part Four: Rockwell and
the American Workplace
(GL)
America Salutes Women
Workers in War Effort
The Manhattan Project
Begins (GL)
The Manhattan Project
and the Atomic Bomb
Attacks on Hiroshima
97
and Nagasaki
The Atomic Bomb and
Naval Defeats Bring an
End to the War with
Japan
The Destruction of
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki: A Result of
the Atomic Bomb
The G.I. Bill
1944 Almanac; More
1944 Headlines
Life in Post-World War
II America (GL)
V-E Day - May 13, 1945
V-E Day Forty Years
Later (GL)
Truman Drops ABomb/Japan Surrenders
(GL)
Paris Liberated:
Germans Surrender,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Yalta Conference February 12, 1945
98
Images:
Disheveled Soldier in
Europe During World
War II
A World War II black
trainee learning arc
welding.
A World War II war
bonds poster.
General George S.
Patton in World War II.
President Manuel
Camacho and President
Roosevelt.
A World War II draft
board, 1942.
Adolph Hitler at a radio
in World War II.
African-American
troops at SF awaiting
shipment.
Color WWII photo,
Marlene Dietrich,
soldiers.
A Family Watching
Television
99
The original atomic pile.
African American
women workers in
WWII.
The line at a rationing
board.
On July 16, 1945, first
atomic bomb was
detonated.
Hiroshima, Japan, after
atomic bomb blast.
Enola Gay after
dropping first atomic
bomb.
The dropping of the
atomic bomb on
Nagasaki.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
(1904-1967).
Albert Einstein (18791955).
Hiroshima after the
atomic explosion.
Farm workers arrive
under bracero program.
Articles:
United States of
100
America: History-World War II and
Aftermath
Eisenhower, Dwight
David
World War II
WAVES
Woman brazing an
automobile casting in
Buffalo.
Fitch, Val Logsdon
Nuclear Weapons
Alamogordo
Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Veterans Affairs,
Department of
V-J Day celebration at
the White House.
Audio:
Truman speech on
Potsdam Conference and
atom bomb on
Hiroshima August 9,
101
1945 (Audio Only)
Writing Prompt:
Distinguished Honor
Working Traditions
Unbelievable
Accomplishment
102
Benchmark 4
21-24 April
Core Standard 7: The Cold War
Describe key events, people and groups related to the causes, conditions, and consequences of the Cold War. Give examples of how
Cold War events continue to influence the United States
Core Standard 8: Conflicts with Other Nations
Describe key events, people, and groups related to the causes, conditions, and consequences of conflicts such as the Korean War and
Vietnam
Core Standard 9: Civil Rights
Compare and contrast key events, people, and groups related to the causes, conditions, and consequences of the struggle for civil
rights.
103
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 6.1
Describe the Domino
Theory and its
relationship to the
principle of containment.
Identify key events and
individuals as well as
their connections to
post-World War II
tensions (Cold War).
Videos:
The Economic Surge
Prelude to 1946
Overview of 1952
The Cold War Begins
(GL)
The Origins of the Cold
War: Totalitarianism and
Reaction
Recovering from World
War Two & Entering the
Cold War
Concepts
Hot War
Cold War
Domino Theory
Control of Access to the
Black Sea
Social Unrest
Economic Jump Start
General Strike
Industrial Strike
Strategic Assets
Anti-Communism
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
Greece
Turkey
Truman Doctrine
Yugoslavia
Marshall Tito
Balkans
Marshall Plan
Korean Peninsula
North/South Korea
“Loss of China”
Chairman Mao
Taft-Hartley Act (Control of
Communist Influence in
American Labor)
Describe
Theory
Relationship
Principle
Containment
Soviet Expansionism
Proxy Wars
Geopolitical
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Describe the analogy implicit in the
Domino theory.
Analyze evidence from Eastern
Europe and the Balkans as proof or
disproof of the Domino Theory.
Analyze the condition of the Low
Lands, France, and Germany
immediately after the end of World
War II.
List reasons why Britain could not
continue to insure the military safety
of Western Europe and Greece after
the end of World War II.
Analyze how the Marshall Plan was
designed to help jump-start the
economies of the European countries
(including the Soviet Union) after the
end of World War II.
Explain how the USSR and the
People’s Republic of China sought to
extend their control of East Asia via
Korea.
The Structure of the
Cold War
The Cold War & the
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Korean War
The Cold War (GL)
Francisco Franco:
Fascist Nationalist,
Dictator of Spain, and
Cold War Ally of the
U.S. (GL)
Global Cold War Battles
(GL)
Cold War Ideology (GL)
Cold War Victories and
Setbacks (GL)
Manipulating Media:
The Example of the
Rosenberg Case
Technological Advances
Détente with the Soviet
Union
The Aftermath of the
Atomic Age (GL)
Communism in China October 1, 1949
The Arms Race: 1958 to
1959
Missile Attack on a
105
Korean Airliner (GL)
Democracy vs.
Communism: The
Korean War (GL)
Korean War: Early
Victories for North
Korea (GL)
Korean War - June 25,
1950
North Korea
Successfully Invades
South Korea and the
U.N. and U.S. Respond
The Chinese Intervene
(GL)
The U.S. Breaks the Red
Spy Ring
Eisenhower Speaks of
Nuclear Situation
The Origins of the
Truman Doctrine:
Greece and Turkey (GL)
The Marshall Plan (GL)
Resistance Continues in
France and Yugoslavia
(GL)
106
Images:
David Ben-Gurion
proclaims Israel's
independence.
President Truman
presiding over 1948
NSC meeting.
Mao Zedung meets with
Ho Chi Minh, Beijing,
1959.
Alger Hiss (b. 1904).
United Nations forces
cross the 38th parallel.
Map of southernmost
advance, North Korean
forces.
Desegregated unit
fighting in Korea in
1950.
Frances Perkins (18821965).
Articles:
Cold War
Korean War
Truman, Harry S.
National Labor
Relations Board
107
National Labor
Relations Act
Audio:
Truman Doctrine,
President Harry S.
Truman March 12, 1947
108
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 6.2
Summarize the early
struggle for civil rights
and identify events and
people associated with
this struggle.
Videos:
Post Harlem Renaissance
(GL)
The Role of Television
in the Cold War & Civil
Rights (GL)
How We Lived (GL)
Concepts
Segregation
Desegregation
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
Executive Order 9981
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Civil Right Act 1957
Little Rock School Crisis
Freedom Riders
“We Shall Overcome”
Martin Luther King
Summarize
Associated with
Civil Rights
Civil Liberties
Jim Crow
Desegregation
Jackie Robinson
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Identify the causes and
consequences of major events like
the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the
Little Rock school crisis, etc.
Identify individuals associated with
these major events.
Compare and contrast the views and
objectives of the “establishment” and
the Civil Rights protesters.
A Change is Gonna
Come (GL)
Freedom: A History of
US: Let Freedom Ring
(GL)
Problems in Little Rock
Conclusion ((GL-Executive Order 9981)
109
Images:
Rosa Parks Riding the
Bus
Rosa Parks with Thomas
Kilgore Jr
Black Students Integrate
Little Rock's Central
High School
Articles:
Space Exploration
Parks, Rosa L(ouise)
Audio:
Integration Crisis at
Little Rock Schools
President Eisenhower
September 23, 1957
(Audio Only)
Gov. Orval Faubus
Maintain Civil Order
Little Rock, Arkansas
September 26, 1957
(Audio Only)
110
Writing Prompt:
21st Century Study
Groups
Discovery Education
Resources
Videos:
The PBS NewsHour:
The Little Rock Nine:
Fifty Years Later
The Little Rock Nine
Rosa Parks and the New
Generation of Activists
The Montgomery Bus
Boycott
The Greensboro Sit-ins
Nashville Sit-ins
Freedom Summer
Writing Prompts:
Elizabeth Eckford and
The "Little Rock Nine"
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111
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 6.3
Describe the
constitutional
significance and lasting
effects of the United
States Supreme Court
case Brown v. Board of
Education.
Concepts
Constitutional Law
Supreme Court
Decisions
Segregated Schools
Equal Protection under
the Law
Videos:
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
NAACP
Fourteenth Amendment
Equal Protection Clause
Plessy v Ferguson
Earl Warren
Prologue to Brown (GL)
Integration in Farmville:
Church Involvement in
the Civil Rights
Movement
Franklin's Hand in
Ending Segregation
Brown v. Board of
Education: The Supreme
Court Battle for School
Integration
Constitutional
significance
Describe
Lasting Effects
Supreme Court
Case
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Identify the issue being litigated in
Brown v. Board of Education.
Analyze the Equal Protection Clause
of the Fourteenth Amendment.
State the reasons given by the US
Supreme Court for its decision in
Brown v. Board of Education.
Read various forms of information
media (maps, charts, graphs) to
gather information on the progress of
integration of schools in the United
States.
Draw conclusions from information
gained by reading maps, charts, and
graphs about the progress of
integration of schools in the United
States.
Brown v. Board of
Education: The Supreme
Court Decision
Brown Versus Board of
Education (GL)
The Warren Court and
Brown v. Board of
112
Education
Southern Backlash
Against the Brown
Ruling (GL)
The Road From Brown
(GL)
Marshall Won Brown v.
Board of Education
(GL)
Thurgood Marshall
The Young Lawyer's
Top Priority (GL)
School Segregation:
Brown v. The Board of
Education and the Little
Rock Nine
Central High (GL)
American History:
Racial Inequality:
Remnants of a Troubled
Time (GL)
The Role of the Supreme
Court (GL)
Education for the
Purpose of Change (GL)
Segregated Schooling in
113
Clarendon County
Separate but Unequal
Introduction: Charles
Hamilton Houston and
the Fight Against Jim
Crow
Briggs v. Elliott: The
Battle for Educational
Equality Begins
The Fight for Civil
Rights (GL)
Houston's Legacy: The
Continuing Struggle
Against Racial
Discrimination (GL)
Plessy v. Ferguson:
Background
Plessy and the Era of
Jim Crow (GL)
"Separate but Equal"
(GL)
Gaines v. Missouri
(GL)
Murray v. Maryland
(GL)
Start of the NAACP
114
Legal Defense Fund
Final Groundwork:
Fighting Segregation in
Graduate Schools
The Man Who Would
Kill Jim Crow
The Strange Case of the
Chinese Laundry
Turning Points: Due
Process Protection
Images:
The Supreme Court
Building in Washington.
Thurgood Marshall
argued the Brown case.
University students burn
desegregation literature.
Demonstrations forced
local districts to comply.
Walter White (18931955).
James Weldon Johnson
(1871-1938).
Thurgood Marshall
argued the Brown case.
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868115
1963).
Articles:
National Association for
the Advancement of
Colored People
White, Walter Francis
Du Bois, W(illiam)
E(dward) B(urghardt)
Audio:
Reconstruction: A
Changed Nation
African American
History: Laws &
Lynchings
Harry S. Truman:
Address before the
NAACP (June 29, 1947)
Writing Prompt:
21st Century Study
Groups
Discovery Education
Resources
Videos:
Brown vs. Board of
Education
116
The NAACP and The
Birth of a Nation
Plessy vs. Ferguson and
Declaring "Separate but
Equal"
Writing Prompts:
Famous Quotes: W.E.B.
Dubois
[Analysis][ELA,SS][912]
117
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
Explain
Describe
Civil Rights Movement
Ideas
Ideology
Grassroots Movement
Identify the issues at stake in the various
protests and events.
USH 7.1
Explain the civil rights
movement of the 1960’s
and 1970’s by
describing the ideas and
actions of federal and
state leaders, grassroots
movements, and central
organizations that were
active in the movement.
Videos:
Interview with
Representative John
Lewis (GL)
The Dark Lens
The Fight for Civil
Rights (GL)
Milestones of the Civil
Rights Movement (GL)
The Civil Rights
Movement (GL)
Concepts
Civil Disobedience
Sit-in
Black Power
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
Stokley Carmichael
Medgar Evers
NAACP
SCLC
CORE
SNCC
American Indian Movement
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Earl Warren
George Wallace
March on Washington
U of Miss. Desegregation
Birmingham Protest
Selma Protests
Black Panthers
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
State the goals and actions taken by
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm
X.
Analyze the reasons for a change of
ideology with SNCC.
Describe the attitudes and actions of
White Southern leaders when faced with
demands for racial equality.
Explain the reason why the Federal
government took action to combat
attempts of White Southern leaders to
stop desegration.
Analyze the relationship between Civil
Right leaders (King, Malcolm X and
others) and officials of the Kennedy,
Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter
administrations.
Justice Delayed
Elements of a Social
Movement
118
The Road From Brown
(GL)
The Civil Rights
Movement: The Role of
Youth in the Struggle
(GL)
The Urban League, the
NAACP, and the Black
Muslims (GL)
Vernon Dahmer (GL)
Medgar Evers(GL)
Teacher's Salary Cases
(GL)
Stories of the Civil
Rights Movement (GL)
Remembering a Dream
(King & Civil Rights
Part 1) (GL)
Trial (GL)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Joins the Memphis
Sanitation Workers
(Speeches from Dr. King
and activists)
I Am a Man: The
Sanitation Workers'
Strike Becomes a
119
Movement(GL—Dr.
King’s speech to the
sanitation workers)
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s
Last Days (GL—Dr.
King’s final speech
“I’ve Been to the
Mountaintop”)
Justice for the Memphis
Sanitation Workers
(GL)
The Formation of a
Separate State(GL)
Personal and Societal
Relationships with the
White Community(GL)
Society Disrupted
Rough Years in Harlem:
Malcolm's Life of Crime
and Discovery of the
Nation of Islam(GL)
The Controversy of
Black Nationalist
Groups: Malcolm X
Becomes a Leader of the
Nation of Islam (GL)
Malcolm X Becomes
Alienated from the
120
Nation of Islam (GL)
The Assassination and
Legacy of Malcolm X
(GL)
Malcolm Becomes an
Orthodox Muslim and
Renounces His Hatred
of White People (GL)
Medgar Evers(GL)
1957: The Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference: NonViolent Resistance
Civil Rights Martyrs
(GL)
Meridian, Mississippi
Strikes, Protests, and
Anti-Government
Demonstrations (GL)
African Americans
Exercise the Right to
Vote (GL)
Civil Rights & Native
Americans
Political Backlash (GL)
Selma March to
121
Montgomery
March to Freedom
1968: The Pivotal Year
Raid on Black Panther
Headquarters
Birmingham, AL, 1963:
Children Jailed, Protests
and Police Brutality:
JFK Pushes Civil Rights
Act Through Congress
Images:
Cover of the First Issue
of "The Crisis"
Malcolm X at a Harlem
Civil Rights Rally
Black and White
Buttons
Medgar Evers and James
H. Meredith at Press
Conference
Protesters in Front Of
Woolworth in Harlem
Freedom Riders Near
Burning Bus
Writer and Activist
Marian Wright Edelman
122
Poet and American
Indian Movement
Leader John Trudell
Governor George C.
Wallace (b. 1919).
Eldridge Cleaver, Black
Panther leader.
The Black Panthers
March in New York
Segregation Protest
March
Segregation Protesters at
Jail
Articles:
Evers, Medgar
Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE)
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
Wallace, George Corley
Black Panther Party
Audio:
Staying One Nation: The
123
Civil Rights Movement
President Kennedy,
Civil Rights Address
June 15, 1963 (Audio
Only)
Writing Prompt:
Determination
Making Sacrifices
Discovery Education
Resources
Videos:
John F. Kennedy's
Assassination
Bloody Sunday in
Selma, Alabama
New Voting Legislation
Malcolm X
Black Power and the
Black Panthers
Martin Luther King is
Assassinated
124
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 7.5
Identify and describe
United States foreign
policy issues during the
1960’s and 1970’s.
Videos:
Overview of 1961
Nixon and Kennedy
(GL)
Concepts
Containment
Proxy War
Protection from Nuclear
Attack
Mutually Assured
Destruction
Nuclear War
Military Advisors (Kennedy
and Vietnam)
Roman Catholic/Buddhist
Conflict
Kennedy in Europe:
People/Places/Ideas
Berlin Wall and the Cold Events/Things
Cuban Missile Crisis
War (GL)
Causes of the War
The Cuban Revolution
(1959)
The Cuban Missile
Crisis (GL)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Seven Days War
OPEC Oil Embargo
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
President Diem
Walter Cronkite
Relations with Newly
Independent African
Nations
Relations with China
Foreign Policy
Diplomacy
Anti-war Sentiment
Military Build Up
Escalation
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Analyze the effect of the discovery of
Soviet medium range nuclear missiles in
Cuba on American National Defense
Policy.
Identify reasons for South Vietnam’s
President Diem’s unpopularity with the
South Vietnamese people.
Describe the purpose for the creation of
OPEC by the Arab oil producing
countries.
Describe Congress’ response to an a
supposed attack on an American
destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Compose a short summary explaining
why LBJ went from a highly successful
election victory in 1964 to declaring he
would not run for re-election in 1968.
A Legacy of Mistrust
(GL)
Controversies of the
1960s: Espionage and
the Berlin Wall (GL)
125
We Are All Mortal
(GL)
Nikita Kruschev and the
Rise of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall Seals Iron
Curtain
The Vietnam War (GL)
Nuclear War and
Technology (GL)
President on
Vietnam:Offers Peace
Talks, Proposes Aid
Program (GL)
Nixon Addresses the
Nation on His Vietnam
Policy (GL)
Showdown: The Cuban
Missile Crisis (GL)
A Changed Man:
Kennedy's First
Encounter with
Khrushchev (GL)
Cuba and Operation
Mongoose (GL)
Viet Victories: Twin
Offensives Rock
Vietcong (GL)
126
Invasion Scare: Castro
Masses Troops, Claims
U.S. "Aggression"
JFK Pledges Help to
Those Suffering Under
Communism
Berlin Escape: Easterner
Scales Cemetery Wall
More Troops Arrive:
101st Airborne Lands in
Vietnam
The Fall of South
Vietnamese President
Diem
Vietnam Today:
Politically Communist
and Economically
Capitalist (GL)
Fidel Castro, John F.
Kennedy, and the Cuban
Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
Addresses Fears of
Communist Espionage
(GL)
Bombing Resumes in
Vietnam
OPEC Agreements (GL)
127
Gulf of Tonkin (GL)
South Vietnam Troops
Counter Rebel Attacks
The War Spins Out of
Control: Tet and Walter
Cronkite
The Vietnam War
Introduction: The
Foreign Correspondent
Television and the War:
Morley Safer at Cam Ne
Images:
Fidel Castro (b. 1926).
Checkpoint Charlie,
West Berlin, 1966.
Khruschev and
Kennedy, 1961.
A Soviet missile base in
Cuba.
A graphic map of world
oil reserves.
Lyndon B. Johnson.
Articles:
Organization of
128
Petroleum Exporting
Countries
Audio:
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 22, 1962 (Audio
Only)
129
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
International Relations
USSR
Conflict
Cooperation
Nuclear Stalemate
Nuclear Overkill
Describe the Allied (United Kingdom,
France, United States) response to
Stalin’s blocking off all rail traffic to and
from West Berlin.
Explain how the success of the Berlin Air
Lift forced Stalin to reopen the rail line to
Berlin.
USH 7.6
Explain and analyze
changing relations
between the United
States and the Soviet
Union from 1960 to
1980 as demonstrated
by the Cuban Missile
Crisis, the Crisis in
Berlin, the U-2 incident,
the Space Race, and
the SALT agreements.
Concepts
Videos:
Berlin Air Lift
U-2 Spy Plane
U-2 Incident
Francis Gary Powers
Spy Exchange
Open Admission of Spying
Sputnik
Strategic Arms Limitations
Treaty (SALT)
NASA
First Man on the Moon
ICBM
ABM
SLBM
A Historic Event: The
Signing of the Atomic
Test Ban Treaty (1963)
U.S.-Cuba Relations
After the Missile Crisis
(GL)
A Possibility of
Friendship (A Secret
Truce: Kennedy and
Castro Part Two) (GL)
As World Watched:
Spaceman Hailed after
U.S. Triumph
Mutually Assured
Destruction
Nuclear Stalemate
Intelligence Gathering
Math and Science Gap
Arms Limitations
Space Race
Communism
Capitalism
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Evaluate the American Government’s
response to the discovery of Soviet
Missiles in Cuba.
Analyze how the United States and the
Soviet Union perceived each other in
military and ideological terms after the
Cuban Missile Crisis.
Describe the role of military intelligence
in determining US military and diplomatic
national security policies.
Analyze the impact of the Soviets’
successful launch of Sputnik and the
American response.
Explain how the Space Race became a
symbolic and technological battle
between the Communist System of the
USSR and the Capitalist System of the
United States.
Explain how the Soviet’s successful
bringing down of Francis Gary Power’s
U-2 spy plane changed the practices of
American spying on the Soviet Union.
Ich Bin Ein Berliner
130
(GL)
The First Woman in
Space (GL)
Space Triumph:
Discoverer Capsule
Recovered from Orbit
Alan Shepard's Freedom
7 Rocket Flight (GL)
Astronaut Gus Grissom's
Role in the Space Race
(GL)
The First Man in Earth
Orbit: John Glenn and
the Atlas (GL)
The Space Race:
America and the Soviet
Union Compete to Send
a Man Into Space (GL)
The U-2 Spy Plane
Incident (GL)
The Spy Exchange (GL)
Soviet Advancements in
Science, Space, and
Technology (GL)
Political Dilemma
(GL)
131
Project Mercury Begins
The Space Race:
America and the Soviet
Union Compete to Send
a Man Into Space
First American Satellite
Launched
The Space Race:
Kennedy is Elected
Apollo 13 Explosion:
NASA's Shining
Moment
NASA Formed and the
Race to the Moon
Apollo 17: Final Lunar
Mission
Early Astronaut Training
Training for the Moon
Landing
Landing Safely
Moon Landing
Touching Down
U.S./Soviet Relations:
Missile Agreement
Images:
132
Sputnik I Satellite
Poster Celebrating
Sputnik
Triumphant Nixon after
SALT I meeting in
Moscow.
Nixon's Air Force One
arrives in Peking, 1972.
A Chinese satellite- and
ICBM-tracking ship.
Space program's success
owed to Wernher von
Braun.
Articles:
National Aeronautics
and Space
Administration
Armstrong, Neil Alden
Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks
Strategic Defense
Initiative
Guided Missiles
133
Audio:
The Solar System:
Introduction to Space
Exploration
Writing Prompt:
Career
Civilian Space Travel
134
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
USH 8.2
Identify and describe
important United States
foreign policy issues, the
people involved, and the
impact on the country.
Videos:
The American
Superpower in the 1990s
(GL)
The Start of the Reagan
Era (GL)
Ronald Reagan Works
on the Soviet Problem
Ronald Reagan Opens
Communication With
Mikhail Gorbachev (GL)
Clinton and the New
World Order: Failures
and Successes (GL)
The New World Order
Means More Freedom
and Less Stability (GL)
December 3, 1989
Concepts
Retaliatory Air Strikes
Military Invasion
Nuclear Arms Proliferation
Oil Diplomacy
Weapons of Mass
Destruction
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
Afghanistan
Soviet Invasion of
Afghanistan
Iran Hostage Crisis
Election of Ronald Reagan
Gorbachev
End of the Cold War
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Solidarity (Poland)
Collapse of the USSR
Iraq
Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Coalition of the Willing
Gulf War I
George H.W. Bush
No Fly Zone
Saddam Hussein
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
9/11 Attack
Taliban
Osama bin Laden
American Invasion of
Afghanistan
Gulf War II
George W. Bush
Foreign Policy Issues
Diplomacy
Military Intervention
Proliferation
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
Identify foreign policy issues (e.g.
containment of Communism, protecting
American geopolitical interests,
protecting American allies around the
world, protecting strategic assets around
the world, maintaining American military
superiority, nuclear proliferation,
weapons of mass destruction, biological
warfare).
Describe the impact of the collapse of
the Soviet Union on the conduct of
international affairs in the 1990’s.
Analyze reasons for continuing unrest in
the Middle East (Arab-Israeli conflicts,
Civil War in the Lebanon, Israeli policy of
preventive and retaliatory military
strikes).
Identify reasons for Arab and Palestinian
anti-Americanism based on perceptions
of American policy in the region.
Evaluate the role that national security
issues play in American politics and
American elections.
Evaluate the American government’s
treatment of Arab Americans following
the 9/11 attack.
Describe the international reaction to the
United States “detention” of suspected
Islamic terrorists without trial in Cuba.
135
Reagan and the USSR
(GL)
Address to the Nation on
the Soviet Attack on a
Korean Civilian Airliner:
September 5, 1983
New Soviet Premier and
Disarmament Talks
(GL)
The Cold Warrior (GL)
Address to the Nation on
the Iran Arms and
Contra Aid Controversy
Address to the Nation on
the Iran Arms and
Contra Aid Controversy:
March 4, 1987
Address to the Nation on
Events in Lebanon and
Grenada: October 27,
1983
The Wall Opens: East
Germans Visit West
After Three Years
Mikhail Gorbachev and
the Collapse of the
Soviet Union
Leonid Brezhnev and the
136
Return to a Nationalist
Program
November 9, 1989
The Break Up of the
Soviet Union
Presidential Legacies:
Eisenhower, Johnson,
Nixon, and Reagan (GL)
Crisis Within the USSR
(GL)
Relations Between the
US and USSR (GL)
US Involvement in
Central America (GL)
The First Gulf War:
Limited Access to a
Video War (GL)
The Russian Invasion of
Afghanistan (GL)
The Iran Hostage Crisis
(GL)
Iran: Hostage Crisis and
War with Iraq (GL)
Developments in the Iran
Hostage Crisis (GL)
137
The Presidency in Crisis
(GL)
America Struggles (GL)
Soldiers in Iraq (GL)
U.S. and Iraq: Transition
of Power (GL)
Debating the Invasion
of Iraq (GL)
The Controversy over
the War in Iraq (GL)
Conclusion: The Iraq
War and the Future of
Islam (GL)
The War Between Iran
and Iraq (GL)
Iraq's Chemical
Weapons (GL)
War on Terrorism (GL)
George W. Bush's
Mission Accomplished
(GL)
Operation Desert Shield
(GL)
Persian Gulf War:
Battles, Strategies, and
the Reaction at Home
138
(GL)
9/11 Attacks: Who's
Responsible? (GL)
No Remorse (GL)
Feelings on the
Afghanistan-Pakistan
Border (GL)
Clear for Takeoff (GL)
Documenting and
Preserving Evidence
from the September 11th
Terrorist Attack on the
World Trade Center
(GL)
War on Terrorism (GL)
Bin Laden's Connection
to Afghanistan
(GL)
When the Taliban Ruled
Afghanistan (GL)
Challenges for Our
Century (GL)
Violence in the Middle
East and the Camp
David Accords (GL)
The Assassination of
Anwar Sadat (GL)
139
Background to the
Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict (GL)
Quiryat Mal'aki, Israel
(GL)
Land for Peace and
People on the Land (GL)
Arab-Israeli Conflict
and the Rise of the PLO
(GL)
Solidarity Union in
Poland
Lech Walesa and Poland
(GL)
Solidarity Uprisings in
Poland (GL)
Address to the Nation
About the Situation in
Poland; December 23,
1981 (GL)
Barack Obama: Moving
beyond Race (GL)
Opening Remarks:
Change Has Come to
America (President
Obama/GL)
This Is Our Moment,
140
This Is Our Time
(President Obama/GL)
Images:
Soldiers in the Gulf War.
An Afghan refugee in
Pakistan, 1980.
M-8 armored cars near
Teheran.
A Man Walks in the
Street After World Trade
Center Disaster
At the signing of the
Camp David Accords.
Anwar Sadat, Jimmy
Carter, and Menachem
Begin.
Barack Obama, FortyFourth President of the
United States
Articles:
Third World
Iraq
Persian Gulf Wars
141
Kurdistan
Kirkuk
Arabia
Kuwait (country)
Syria
Hussein, Saddam
Turkey (country)
TIKRIT
Baghdad or Bagdad
Middle East
Iran
Obama, Barack
Audio:
George H. W. Bush:
Address to the Nation on
the Invasion of Iraq
(January 16, 1991)
George W. Bush:
9/11/01 Address to the
Nation (September 11,
2001)
Writing Prompt:
Women in the Military
Discovery Education
Resources
Videos:
Towers Collapse and
Ground Zero
142
Quest for Survivors
Design of the Memorial
Family Members Reflect
on Memorial
Recovery and Clean Up
Efforts End Eight
Months Later
Smithsonian Institution:
Presidential Inauguration
The PBS NewsHour:
CIA Chief Panetta:
Obama Made 'Gutsy'
Decision on Bin Laden
Raid
Writing Prompts:
September 11
[Expository][ELA,SS][912]
143
INDICATOR
CONTENT/CONCEPT
USH 8.2
(continued)
CRITICAL
VOCABULARY
SKILLS
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all
teachers in a given course
will agree to administer
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
Camp David Accords
Iran-Contra Affair
Helsinki Accords
Iran Hostage Crisis
Good Friday Accords
144
24 April – End of Course
Cores standard 10: Foreign Policy Since World War II
Evaluate the United States governments’ responses to past and present foreign policy issues (e.g. terrorism, human rights, refugees,
energy supplies and crisis (OPEC), the threat of nuclear weapons, the growth and globalization of Asian economies) and explain the
historical background of those issues.
Videos:
Foreign Policy, Terrorism, & September 11
Globalization (GL)
An Introduction to Globalization
Globalization's Impact (GL)
Standing in the Way of Globalization (GL)
Globalization & Acculturation
Ecological Globalization
Trade & Environmental Consequences
Global Economy
Introduction: Connected by Capitalism
International Organizations
145
Nuclear Weapons and the Peace Movement (GL)
The Final Above-Ground Tests of Nuclear Weapons(GL)
Ford's Foreign Policy (GL)
An Experiment With Death: Testing the Power of Plutonium
Darfur: Taking Action
(GL)
What Is Your View of Freedom? (Rusesabagina from Rwanda/GL)
Why Didn't You Leave Rwanda? (Rusesabagina from Rwanda/GL)
Images:
China's first nuclear reactor.
Articles:
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
Nuclear Weapons
Discovery Education Resources
Videos:
A Ten-Year Search
Implications for Foreign Policy and the War on Terror
Namibia
Turkey
Coffee Exporters in Eithiopia
The Economics of Coffee
Starbucks and Its Suppliers
Euro
Organic Food
146
The Munich Massacre
Core Standard 11: Domestic Policy Since 1980
Give examples of domestic issues facing the Unites States from 1980 to the present. Explain the historical background of those issues
and analyze them within a larger global context
Videos:
Interview with Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Freedom/GL)
The Groundbreaking Online Fund-Raising of Howard Dean (GL)
Pressures on Domestic and International Workers (GL)
World Poverty
Cheap Labor Driving the Global Economy (GL)
A Private Meeting: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev Meet to Discuss Nuclear Proliferation (GL)
Challenges for Our Century (GL)
Domestic Economic Policies (GL)
Women's Rights (GL)
2008 Presidential Campaign: Long Road to the White House (GL)
Images:
Coretta Scott King Speaking in Support of Feminism
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Carolyn Kizer
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
147
Discovery Education Resources
Videos:
Bubble Burst
Telecommunications and Fiber Optics
2008 Stock Market Crash
The PBS NewsHour: Arrogance, Ignorance Recurring in Economic History
148