Curriculum Map
Course Title: The American Way of War Grade: 11 & 12
Unit (Name/Number): Case Studies / Pacing: Seven WeeksEssential Question(s):
- UEQ: What are historical case studies?
- LEQ: What are some of the major case studies (i.e., wars, conflicts, issues) of American military history?
- LEQ: How can case studies be analyzed and interpreted to ascertain the unique relationship between the American military and its society in shaping history?
Content/Key Concepts / Standards / Key Vocabulary / Learning Activities/Resources / Evidence of Learning
(Assessments; Performance Tasks)
Case Study:
American Revolution / Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.A Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.E Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.F Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.G
Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.H
Standard - CC.8.5.11-12.I Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.A Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.B Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.C Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.D
Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.F Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.G
Standard - CC.8.6.11-12.H Standard - 5.1.12.B
Standard - 5.1.12.C
Standard - 5.1.U.D
Standard - 5.1.U.F
Standard - 5.2.12.B
Standard - 5.2.C.A
Standard - 5.3.12.D
Standard - 5.3.12.H
Standard - 5.4.12.A
Standard - 5.4.12.B
Standard - 5.4.C.A
Standard - 5.4.C.B
Standard - 5.4.C.B
Standard - 5.4.C.B
Standard - 6.3.U.B
Standard - 6.3.U.B
Standard - 6.3.U.B S
Standard - 8.1.C.B
Standard - 8.3.12.A
Standard - 8.3.12.A
Standard - 8.3.12.C
Standard - 8.3.12.D
Standard - 8.3.C.B
Standard - 8.3.U.B
Standard - 8.3.U.C
Standard - 8.3.U.D
Standard - 8.4.12.A
Standard - 8.4.12.B
Standard - 8.4.12.C /
- Patriots, Loyalists, Independent, Republic, Constitutional Monarchy, Tyranny, Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Continental Army, Guerilla Warfare, Evasion, Alliances, Brandywine,
Case Study:
Civil War / Same as above. /
- 1860 Election, Parties: Republican, Southern Democrats, Northern Democrats, Constitutional Union, North, South, Federal, Confederacy, Secession, John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, King Cotton, Plantations, Slavery, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, John Brown’s Body, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Dixie, Anaconda Plan, Volunteer Regiments, Zouaves, Staff, Field Command, Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry, Sharpshooters, Ironclads, Monitor, Merrimac, Gun Boats, Lincoln, Davis, US Generals: Scott, Halleck, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, CSA Generals Lee, Jackson, Hill, Longstreet, Beauregard, Polk, Captain Raphael Semmes, CSSShenandoah and Alabama, Battles of Bull Run (First and Second), Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Antietam, Winchester, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Mobile Bay, Atlanta, Cold Harbor, Richmond, Petersburg, March to the Sea Campaign, Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Appomattox Court House, Assassination of Lincoln, Team of Rivals: Seward, Chase, Welles, Stanton, Bates, Grand Army of the Republic
Case Study:
Indian/Frontier Wars / Same as above. /
- Great Plains, Dawes Act, Reservations, Buffalo, Horses, Hunter/Gatherer, Carbine, Gatlin Gun, Bow/Arrow, Transcontinental Railroad, Frontier, Cavalry, Fort Laramie Treaty, Tribes: Cheyenne, Sioux, Apache, Nez Perce, Comanches, Leaders: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Joseph
Case Study:
American Imperialism / Same as above. /
- Imperialism, Colonialism, Paternalism, Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization, Manifest Destiny, White Man’s Burden, Rudyard Kipling, Yellow Journalism, Spanish-American War, Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, Wake, Hawai’i, Philippines, Philippine Insurrection, Annexation, Commonwealth, Platt Amendment, Rough Riders, Yellow Fever, Malaria, Panama Canal, POTUS McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft
Case Study:
WWI / Same as above. /
- Arms Race, Alliance Systems, Mobilization Plans, Imperialism, Militarism, Assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Habsburg Dynasty, German Empire, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Russian Empire, Czar Nicholas II, Ottoman Empire, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points, Generals Haig, Foch, Petain, Ludendorff, Hindenburg, Pershing, Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, Ace, Dog Fight, Eddie Rickenbacker, Huns, Boche, Tanks, Barbed Wire, Draft, Machine Guns, Submarines, Trench Warfare, No Man’s Land, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Battleships, Poison Gas, War Bonds, Rationing, Power Keg, Balkans, Western Front, Eastern Front, Bolshevik Revolution, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Armistice, Versailles Peace Treaty, Article 231-War Guilt Clause, Reparations, Demilitarization, League of Nations, Naval Battle of Jutland, Battle of Gallipoli, Marne, Amiens, BrusilovOffensive, Verdun, Somme, Passchendaele/Ypres
Case Study:
WWII / Same as above. /
- Great Depression, Weimar Republic, Nazis, Fascism, Rearmament, Remilitarization, Rhineland, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, FDR, Emperor Hirohito, Hideki Tojo, US Generals: Marshall, Eisenhower, Arnold, Spaatz, LeMay, MacArthur, Patton, British General Montgomery, Admiral King, Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, Chinese General Chiang Kai-Shek, Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, Guam, Wake, Philippine, and Singapore Attacks, Jeep, Battles of Midway, Coral Sea, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Operation Downfall, Atomic Bombs, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Firestorm, Red Cross, LST, Higgins Boat (LCV-P), Aircraft Carriers, Submarines, Admirals Raeder and Donitz, Invasion of Poland, Low Countries, Battles of Norway, France, Britain, Blitz, Vichy France, Atlantic Wall, Erwin Rommel, AfrikaKorps, Operations, Torch, Husky, Mincemeat, Overlord, Cobra, Fortitude, Barbarossa, Uranus, Battles of Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, Berlin, VE-Day, VJ-Day, Potsdam Declaration, Conferences: Quebec, Tehran, Potsdam, Holocaust, Battle Fatigue, GI Bill
Case Study:
Cold War (Korea and Vietnam) / Same as above. /
- POTUS Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Cold War, Atomic Diplomacy, Gar Alperovitz, Korean War, Kim Il Sung, Syngman Rhee, 38th Parallel, Chosin Reservoir, PRC/Red China, Soviet Union (USSR), Joseph Stalin, Chinese Troops, Mao Zedong, MiGs, Pusan Perimeter, UN, Yalu River, Inchon Landing, Generals MacArthur and Ridgway, Armistice, Vietnam War, 16th Parallel, DMZ, Ho Chi Minh, General Vo Nguyen Giap, Guerilla Warfare, Seek and Destroy, Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution, Ngo Dinh Diem, NLF, Viet Cong, VC, War Powers Act, Body Count, Air Cavalry, Huey, Generals Westmoreland and Abrams, Strategic Hamlets, Hanoi Hilton, POW/MIA, My Lai Massacre, Tet Offensive, Christmas Bombings, Fall of Saigon, Peace Protests, 1968 Election, Woodstock Festival, Counter-Culture, Kent State Shootings
Case Study:
War On Terror & Iraq / Same as above. /
- POTUS GW Bush and Obama, 9/11 Attacks, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Baghdad, UN Inspectors, Saddam Hussein, Axis of Evil, Taliban, Islam, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Jihad, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Patriot Act, Department of Homeland Security, Dirty Bombs, Terrorism, Guantanamo Bay, Internment, Waterboarding, Abu Grab Prison Scandal, Shock and Awe Campaign, Sunni, Shiite, Sharia Law, Rules of Engagement, IED, Pashtun, Kabul, Kandahar, Helmand, NATO, Special Forces, Wounded Warriors