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PART FIVE: Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad - 1901-1945

Sub-Unit: The Road To War

•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)

                                                •America goes to War •Fourteen Points

•The League of Nations •Workers on the Home Front

•The "Red Scare" •Immigration restrictions

•Prohibition and Gangsterism •The Automobile Age

                                                •The Republicans return to Power, 1921

•Disarmament and Isolation •Harding Scandals

•The Great Crash, 1929 •Hoover and the Great Depression

•Aggression in Asia

                                                •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

Video: MANDATE: The President and the People

Part III: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and The New Deal

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

                                                •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

                                                •Internment of Japanese Americans

•Women in wartime

•"D-Day" in Normandy, June 6, 1944

•Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 1945

PowerPoint (lecture) and discussion regarding the Atomic Bomb

Did the United States have any other choice? Was the dropping of the bomb inevitable, and why?

The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (1988 DBQ)

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 (hand-out): 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

•Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower

•Desegregating the South

•The Menace of McCarthyism

•Election of John F.Kennedy, 1960

                                                PowerPoint (hand-out): The “Red Scare” and JFK

•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: Eye on the Prize

Mutiple Choice Test (Chapters 34-37) April 11th

•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

•The New Right and Reagan’s Election

•The Election of George Bush, 1988

•The Iran Scandal •The End of the Cold War

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 High-tech Economy •The Feminist Revolution

•Immigration and Assimilation •A Multi-Cultural Society

Discussion Questions (chapter 41-42)

DBQ - 4/28/08

Multiple Choice Test (Chapters

Video: The Presidents

May 26-June 3 -- Conspiracy Theory Project Presentations