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PART FIVE: Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad - 1901-1945
Sub-Unit: The Road To War
1/11-1/18 Ch. 28 Progressivism and Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
•Progressivism•William Howard Taft
•Social Injustice •Muller v. Oregon – 1908
PowerPoint
1/18-1/25 Ch.29 Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916
•Election of1912 •War in Europe
•Latin America •Woodrow Wilson
Discussion Questions: Wilson on the brink of war with Germany, events that lead up to the U.S. involvement, and compare and contrast policies in Latin America under Roosevelt and Wilson.
PowerPoint: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
Lecture and Discussion Questions (Wilson & WWI)
Video: America Enters the War
1/25-2/1 Ch.30 The War to End War, 1917-1918
•America goes to War •Fourteen Points
•The League of Nations •Workers on the Home Front
Discussion Questions: Wilson’s war aims and his fourteen points, negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference, and the League of Nations
2/1-2/8 Ch. 31 American Life in the "Roaring Twenties", 1919-1929
•The "Red Scare" •Immigration restrictions
•Prohibition and Gangsterism •The Automobile Age
•Jazz Age culture, music, and literature
PowerPoint (lecture): After the Great War and the 1920s
2/1-2/8 Ch. 32 The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932
•The Republicans return to Power, 1921
•Disarmament and Isolation •Harding Scandals
•The Great Crash, 1929 •Hoover and the Great Depression
•Aggression in Asia
Discussion Questions: The causes of the Great Depression. How did President Hoover try to help the nation during this time of crisis?
2/8-2/15 Ch. 33 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939
•Franklin D. Roosevelt as President
•The Hundred Days Congress •Relief, Reform, & Recovery
•"Alphabet Agencies” •The Election of 1936
PowerPoint (Lecture): Depression to War
Great American Speeches: Volume I:
FDR’s First Inaugural Address, 1933
Between World Wars: FDR and the Age of Isolationism (CHOICES)
Part I: After the Great War (1918-1935)
Advanced Study Guide I
Activity: Great Depression –Photographs – Students are required to analyze five photographs and share their findings with the class.
FDR’s Fireside Chat, September 6, 1936 – What was the importance of the fireside chats?
Free Response Essay
2/15-2/22 Ch. 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941
•German and Japanese Aggression
•Neutrality Acts, 1935-1939
•Isolation and appeasement
•Lend-Lease Act and the Atlantic Charter
Between World Wars: FDR and the Age of Isolationism (CHOICES)
Part II: “Isolationism” and Franklin Roosevelt (1935-1941)
Advanced Study Guide II
Epilogue: The Legacies of FDR and Isolationism
Great American Speeches: Volume I
FDR – Declaration of War, 1941
2/22-3/1 Ch.35 America in World WarII, 1941-1945
•Internment of Japanese Americans
•Women in wartime
•"D-Day" in Normandy, June 6, 1944
•Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 1945
PowerPoint (lecture)
Ending the War Against Japan: Science, Morality, and the Atomic Bomb (CHOICES)
Ending the War Against Japan: Science, Morality, and the Atomic Bomb - Study Guide II
July 1945 - The Moment of Decision - Choices
Epilogue: The Decision and the Consequences and Questions
Did the United States have any other choice? Was the dropping of the bomb inevitable, and why?
Video: Duck and Cover
M/C - Chapters 32-35
PART SIX: Making Modern America- 1945 to the Present
3/1-3/8 Ch. 36 The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952
•Origins of the Cold War
•The United Nations
•Communism and Containment
•The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
PowerPoint - Post War America and The Cold War
The United Nations: Challenges and Change (CHOICES)
Part I: The UN and the International Community
Advanced Study Guide - Part I
Part II: Debating the UN’s Role
Advanced Study Guide – Part II
Discussion Questions: The UN and the World today
3/8-3/15 Ch.37 The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960
•Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower
•Desegregating the South
•The Menace of McCarthyism
•Election of John F.Kennedy, 1960
PowerPoint - Korean War and 1950s Culture
3/15-3/22 Ch.38 The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968
•Kennedy and the Cold War
•Kennedy Assassination - November 22, 1963
•The Cuban Missile Crisis
•Lyndon B. Johnson and the "Great Society"
•The Struggle for Civil Rights
•The Election of Richard Nixon, 1968
PowerPoint (lecture): The Civil Rights Movement
Video: Eyes on the Prize
3/22-3/29 Ch.39 The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980
•Nixon and the Vietnam War
•The Watergate Scandal
•New Policies -- China and the Soviets
•Desegregation and Affirmative Action
•Israelis, Arabs, Oil
•The election of Jimmy Carter, 1976
Discussion Questions: Vietnam War, Watergate, and Nixon
3/29-4/5 Ch.40 The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1992
•The New Right and Reagan’s Election
•The Election of George Bush, 1988
•The Iran Scandal •The End of the Cold War
•Conservatism and the courts •The Persian Gulf War, 1991
APRIL 6-13 -- SPRING BREAK
4/5-4/12 Ch. 41 America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2004
•The Election of Bill Clinton, 1992
•Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
•The Clinton Impeachment Trial
•George W. Bush as President
•The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001
4/12-4/19 Ch.42 The American People Face a New Century
•The High-tech Economy •The Feminist Revolution
•Immigration and Assimilation •A Multi-Cultural Society
Discussion Questions (chapter 41-42)
May 11th AP U.S. History -- State Exam - 8:00 a.m.
May 23rd -June 6th-- Conspiracy Theory Project Presentations