Chapter 28-29 - Roosevelt and Wilsonian Progressivism1/6 – 1/10

Content: Progressives, Triangle-Shirtwaist Coal Factory, One-Two Party Systems, Bull Moose Party, New Freedom vs. New Nationalism, Dollar Diplomacy, Tariffs, Banks and Trusts, American Neutrality in WWI (Isolationism), Muckrackers, Women’s Issues, Local, State and National Reform, Consumer and Environmental Protection

Chapter 30 – World War I and U.S. Involvement1/13-1/7

Content: Causes and Origins of War, Reasons of U.S. Involvement, Results of WWI, War in Europe & Homefront (Propaganda and Civil Liberties, Women and Minorities), Treaty of Versailles, Wilsonian Idealism and 14 Points,

Chapter 31 – The Roaring 20’s (1912-1929)1/20-1/24

Content: Post-War Economy (Economic Boom and Mass-Consumption), The Red Scare, Immigration Restriction, KKK, Prohibition & Crime, New Inventions of 1920s, Life in the Roaring Twenties, Harlem Renaissance, Presidential Administrations: Scandals, Supply Side Theory, Promotion of Business, Foreign Policy, Literature of Langston Hughes, Music of Bessie Smith, and other Harlem Renaissance Artists

Chapter 32 – The Great Depression (1929-1939)1/27-1/31

Content: Politics of Boom & Bust, Isolationism, Hoover’s “Rugged Individualism”

Chapter 33 – Roosevelt’s New Deal (1933-1939)2/3-2/7

Content: 1st 100 Days, Relief Recovery, Reform, New Deal Agencies, FDR’s First Inaugural Address.

Chapter 34 – The Shadow of World War II2/10-2/14

Content: American Isolationism, Neutrality Acts, Causes of WWII, Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt’s Four Freedom’s Speech

Chapter 34 Continued

Chapter 35 – World War II (1939-1945)

Content: War in Europe and Far East, Role of minorities during the war (women, African-Americans and Latino), the home front, atomic bomb

Chapter 36 – Origins of Cold War (1939-1952)

Content: Consequences of WWII, Cold War Begins, Containment, Korean War, Truman Doctrine, Marshal Plan, NATO

Unit 12: The Roaring TwentiesSS-HS-5.2.4

Text, Chapters 31-32

(9 days)

Content:

The post-war economy

The first red scare

Immigration restriction

KKK

Prohibition and crime

The automobile, radio and the movies

Jazz age culture

The economic boom and mass-consumption

The presidential administrations

  • Scandals
  • Supply side theory
  • Promotion of business
  • Boom and Bust
  • Foreign Policy

Primary source activity:

1986 DBQ – The 1920s

Unit 13: The 1930sSS-HS-5.2.5

Text, Chapter 32

(9 days)

Content:

Hoover’s and Roosevelt’s approaches to the Depression

New Deal – Effectiveness and criticisms

The Supreme Court fight

The Dust Bowl

Depression Demagogues

Shifts in political alignments – The Roosevelt coalition

Primary source activity:

1984 DBQ – Hoover and Roosevelt: Liberal or Conservative?

Unit 14: World War IISS-HS-5.2.5

Text, 34-35

(9 days)

Content:

Origins of War – Europe in the 20’s and 30’s

* The rise of Nazism and Fascism

German, Italian, and Japanese aggression

Isolation and appeasement

Pearl Harbor

The Home Front

  • Japanese internment
  • Women and minorities
  • Economic impact

Military Strategy

  • European and African war
  • Island Hopping in the Pacific
  • D-day and victory in Europe
  • Atomic Bomb

Wartime diplomacy

Results of war

Primary source activity:

1988 DBQ the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

Audio visual series – Bill Moyers the Dictator and the Democrat, a comparison of Hitler and Roosevelt

Unit 15: The Cold War BeginsSS-HS-5.2.6

Text, 36

(9 days)

Content:

Baby boom

The Truman Presidency

Origins of Cold War

United Nations

Fall of Eastern Europe

Containment

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

NATO

Germany and the Berlin crisis

Anti-communism at home

Korea

Primary source activity:

Taking Sides: Did Communism Threaten America’s Internal Security after World War II. John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr (yes), Richard M. Fried (no).

Unit: 16 Happy Days 1952-1960SS-HS-5.2.6

Text, 37

(9 days)

Content:

Affluent American

Mass produced culture

Effects of Television

Eisenhower Administration and modern Republicanism

Brown v. Board of Education and the origins of the civil rights revolution

Space race

Interstate highways

Ike and the Cold war-Dulles and Brinkmanship

Literature

Primary source activity:

Organizing the DBQ from U.S. History Skillbook

Unit: 17 the Stormy SixtiesSS-HS-5.2.6

Text, 38

(9 days)

Content:

The Kennedy Administration

Kennedy and the Cold War

  • Origins of Vietnam
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

Kennedy and civil rights

New Frontier

Moon shot

Peace Corps

Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society

Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam escalation

Civil rights revolution explodes

Counterculture and anti-establishment movements

Election of Nixon

60’s culture

Primary source activity:

Pro vs. Con – Vietnam Conflict (Commit American Troops or Stay Out)

Unit 18: The 70’s and beyondSS-HS-5.2.7

Text, 39-41

(9 days)

Content:

Economic stagnation

Vietnamization

Openings to China and the Soviet Union

Nixon and the Supreme Court

Détente

The Middle East and the oil crisis

Nixon’s domestic program

Watergate

Feminism

School busing and affirmative action

The Ford Administration

The fall of South Vietnam

The Carter Administration

Energy crisis and inflation

Carter and foreign policy

  • Human rights
  • Camp David Accords
  • Panama Canal Treaties
  • Afghanistan
  • The Sandinistas
  • Iran Revolution and hostage crisis

The Reagan Revolution – America moves right

The New Right

The Moral Majority

Tax cuts and supply side economics

Reagan and the Soviets

Reagan’s military buildup

SDI

Gorbachev, Reagan, and the end of the Cold War

Iran-Contra

The fall of communism in Eastern Europe

The George H.W. Bush Administration

The death of the Soviet Union

The Persian Gulf War

Bush’s domestic battles

The Clinton Administration

  • Domestic policy
  • Post-Cold War foreign policy
  • Impeachment

George W. Bush

The election of 2000

9-11

War of Terror

Primary source activity:

Taking Sides – Did President Reagan Win the Cold War. John Lewis Gaddis (yes), Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry (no).

Unit 10: The Progressive EraSS-HS-5.2.4

Text, Chapter 28-29

(9 days)

Content:

Local, state, and national reform

Muckrakers

Women’s issues

Consumer and environmental protection

Roosevelt’s New Nationalism, Taft’s policies, and Wilson’s New Freedom

Primary source activity:

President Theodore Roosevelt – Speak softly and Regulate When Necessary

Writing an Introductory Paragraph from U.S. History Skillsbook

Unit 11: World War ISS-HS-5.2.4

Text, Chapter 30

(9 days)

Content:

Origins of the war

American neutrality

Reasons for our involvement

Wilsonian idealism and the 14 points

The homefront

  • Propaganda and civil liberties
  • Women and minorities

America fights in France

Treaty negotiations and Senate rejection of the Versailles Treaty

Results of the war