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U.S. HISTORY - Units-Terms 2

Imperialism-World War I (1898-1919)


Objectives:

1.	Explain the economic, political, and cultural factors that fueled the growth of American imperialism.
2.	Understand the arguments made by those opposed to American imperialism.
3.	Trace the events and results of the Spanish-American War.
4.	Describe American involvement in the following places after the Spanish-American War: Puerto Rico, Philippines, and China.
5.	Explain how and why the United States entered WWI.
6.	Describe American involvement in the war at home and abroad.
7.	Explain Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the Treaty of Versailles.

Key Terms:

•	Hawaii annexation	•	Spanish American War
•	Annexation of the Philipines	•	Luisitania
•	Panama Canal	•	Zimmerman Note
•	Yellow journalism	•	League of Nations
•	Selective Service Act	•	Fourteen Points
•	Imperialism

Enrichment Terms:

•	White man's Burden	•	Roosevelt Corollary
•	China's Open Door Policy	•	Espionage and Sedition Acts
•	Trench warfare

Course Questions in Focus:

	Power
	Role of the U.S. in the world
	Citizen Involvement
	Impact of Ideas

Roaring 20’s-Great Depression & New Deal


Objectives:

1.	Analyze the impact of the automobile and other consumer goods on American society.
2.	Explain how prosperity affected different groups of Americans and how that prosperity was often superficial.
3.	Evaluate America’s response to solutions to post war issues.
4.	Describe the African American artistic activity that became known as the Harlem Renaissance.
5.	Describe the causes and results of the changing role of women in the 1920s.
6.	Analyze the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
7.	Explain President Hoover’s response to the Great Depression.
8.	Discuss how the New Deal tried to combat the Great Depression.
9.	Examine how different groups of Americans coped with economic hardships during the Depression.
10.	Analyze the legacy of the New Deal.

Key Terms:

•	Relief	•	Heroes
•	Recovery	•	Chaning women's roles
•	Reform	•	Harlem Renaissance
•	Social Security	•	Stock market crash
•	Prohibition	•	Cause of the Great Depression
•	Bonus Army	•	Urban Sprawl
•	Immigration quota of 1924
•	Installment Plan
•	New Deal Programs (Social Security Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Emergency Banking Relief Act)

Enrichment Terms:

•	Red Scare	•	Double Standard
•	Rise of the Klan	•	Shantytowns
•	Quota system	•	Hoover
•	Superficial prosperity	•	Franklin D. Roosevelt
•	Speakeasies	•	FDIC
•	Al Capone	•	Firside chats
•	Bootleggers	•	National Labor Relations Board
•	Flappers	•	Federal Securities Act

Course Questions in Focus:

	American Dream
	Impact of Ideas

World War II-1950’s (1941-1960)


Objectives:

1.	Describe the United States’ response to the outbreak of war in Europe and its attempt to assist the Allies without declaring war.
2.	Identify and explain events during the war in Europe and the Pacific.
3.	Explain the impact of WWII on the lives of American citizens.
4.	Evaluate the cause of results of WWII.
5.	Summarize the steps taken to contain Soviet influence.
6.	Describe the suburban lifestyle of the 1950s.

Key Terms:

•	Internment	•	Island hopping
•	Truman vs. MacArthur	•	Atomic bomb
•	Containment	•	United Nations
•	Rationing	•	Korean conflict
•	Red Scare	•	Creation of Israel, appeasement
•	Lend-lease Act	•	Growth of the suburbs
•	Holocast	•	Consumerism
•	Pearl Harbor	•	Conformity
•	Isolationism	•	Truman Doctrine
•	Minorities and women in the war

Enrichment Terms:

•	Appeasement	•	Suburbs
•	VE Day	•	Totalitarianism
•	Kamikaze	•	Fascism
•	Cash and carry	•	Winston Churchill
•	Yalta Conference	•	Nagasaki and Hiroshima
•	Battle of the Bulge	•	Isolationism
•	Marshall Plan	•	United Nations
•	Warsaw Pact	•	Battle of Midway
•	NATO	•	Joseph Stalin
•	GI Bill	•	Dwight Eisenhower

Course Questions in Focus:

Power, Citizen Involvement, Impact of Ideas, Role of the U.S. in the world, and the American Dream

Civil Rights (1954-1968)


Objectives:

1.	Explain how legalized segregation deprived African Americas of their rights as citizens.
2.	Summarize American responses to the Plessey and Brown cases.
3.	Describe the expansion of the Civil Rights Movement.
4.	Explain the tactics tried by civil rights organizations to secure equality.
5.	Discuss the accomplishments of the civil rights movement.

Key Terms:

•	Emmett Till	•	Civil Rights Act of 1964
•	Montgomery Bus Boycott	•	Voting Rights Act of 1965
•	SNCC	•	Affirmative Action
•	De facto segregation	•	MLK vs. Malcom X
•	Plessy v. Ferguson / Brown v. Board of Education

Enrichment Terms:

•	Literacy tests and poll taxes	•	Freedom Summer
•	Little Rock 9	•	Selma Campaign
•	Birmingham desegregation marches	•	March on Washington

Course Questions in Focus:

	American Dream
	Citizen Involvement
	Im[act of Ideas

JFK-Watergate (1960-1974)


Objectives:

1.	Summarize the crises that developed over Cuba.
2.	Discuss the domestic and foreign goals of the New Frontier.
3.	Describe the tragic chain of events surrounding the Kennedy assassination.
4.	Describe some of the early gains and losses of the women’s movement.
5.	Understand the events leading to the Watergate scandal and their impact on American politics.
6.	Identify the factors that led to US involvement in Vietnam prior to 1965.
7.	Determine the effects of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
8.	Explain the tactics used by American soldiers in Vietnam and the obstacles they faced.
9.	Describe the key events in 1968 and their effect on the Vietnam War.
10.	Analyze the effects of the protests during the Vietnam War.
11.	Compare and contrast the Vietnam War and the current war in Iraq.

Key Terms:

•	JFK v.Nixon	•	Pentagon Papers
•	JFK Assassination	•	Bay of Pigs
•	Gulf of Tonkin Resolution	•	Cuban Missle Crisis
•	George Wallace	•	1968, End of Vietnam War
•	Watergate	•	Détente
•	Warren Court	•	Domino Theory
•	Role of TV in Vietnam	•	Great Society
•	Vietnam Protests	•	Feminism
•	Cesar Chavez

Enrichment Terms:

•	Berlin Wall	•	Pentagon Papers
•	Election of 1960	•	Henry Kissinger
•	Warren Commission	•	Draft
•	Space Race	•	New Left
•	Ho Chi Minh	•	Hawks/Doves
•	Vietcong	•	Vietnamization
•	Robert McNamara	•	Kent State
•	Search and Destroy missions	•	War Powers Act
•	Creadibility gap
•	Events of 1968- Tet Offensive, LBJ, Robert Kennedy Assassination, MLK Assassination, 68 Democratic Convention, Election of 1968

Course Questions in Focus:

	Power
	Role of U.S. in the world
	Citizen Involvement

Modern U.S. (1975-present)


Objectives:

1.	Analyze Carter’s achievements and failures in foreign policy matters.
2.	Summarize Reagan’s economic programs.
3.	Describe the changes that occurred in the makeup of the Supreme Court.
4.	Identify changes in the Communist world that ended the Cold War.
5.	Analyze the challenges America faces regarding terrorism.

Key Terms:

•	Reagan	•	Iran Contra Affair
•	Rise of Conservatism	•	Reagonomics
•	Iran Hostage Crisis	•	9/11

Enrichment Terms:

•	Sandra Day O'Connor	•	Clinton Impeachment
•	Operation Desert Storm	•	Election of 2000
•	NAFTA	•	Osama bin Laden
•	Contract with America