PART FIVE: Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad - 1901-1945
•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
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
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) 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?
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
•Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower
•Desegregating the South
•The Menace of McCarthyism
•Election of John F.Kennedy, 1960
PowerPoint - Korean War and 1950s Culture
•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
•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)
May 25 -June 2 -- Conspiracy Theory Project Presentations