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1 School District of Springfield Township Springfield Township High School Course Overview Course Name: Academic United States History II Course Description U.S. History II (Academic) focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries of United States history. The world wars, Great Depression, post-war prosperity, Vietnam, movement are examined in both chronological and thematic approaches. This course includes the opportunity to conduct oral history interviews. Course Prerequisite U.S. History I Unit Titles Unit 1: Continuity and Change 1980 to the present Unit 2: U.S. on the Brink of Change Unit 3: Boom Times to Hard Times Unit 4: Hot War and Cold War Unit 5: Period of Turmoil and Change Essential Questions 1. How has the public s notion of an individual American Dream evolved over time? 2. What are the key factors behind the evolution of the collective notion of the American Dream? 3. To what degree are the individual s notion of the American Dream and the collective notion of the American Dream aligned? Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings Unit 1: Continuity and Change 1980 to the present The 1980s is the decade for the birth of the conservative revolution. What is a conservative versus a liberal? What is a Republican versus a Democrat? Which of these choices most fits the student s viewpoint of the world and the American Dream? The student is chronologically on the edge of full-fledged citizenship at this time. What choices should we as a nation make to fulfill the American Dream? The United States has been forever changed as a result of 9/11. What seems to have caused this event, what has been the U.S. response to this event both at home and abroad? Student s response to this and other historical events should be compared/contrasted with those views of the parent and grandparent generations.

2 Unit 2: U.S. on the Brink of Change The role of the United States on the world stage is enhanced by the possession of overseas territories. Concurrently, the role of the government at all levels in relation to social welfare issues is also expanding. The press and media influence the attainment of the American Dream which is viewed by many as being not equally attainable. Unit 3: Boom Times to Hard Times The 1920s began with economic slow down in the immediate post-war years but soon produced a growth in the material goods of life. Changes in the arts and sciences accompanied these developments as the notion of the American Dream evolved. However, distribution was at best uneven. Following the crash of the stock market, the Great Depression yielded unprecedented levels of suffering. Governmental response to these woes varied as did the public s reaction to these efforts. Unit 4: Hot War and Cold War After an initial debate of whether to enter the war or not, the U.S. did become involved in World War II following the attack at Pearl Harbor. Participation in the war changed government and the public and their relations to each other dramatically in political, economic and social terms. Events of the war may have triggered the ensuing period known as the Cold War. The challenge presented by the U.S.S.R. had a dramatic impact on the U.S., yet for many it remained a seemingly distant threat, only occasionally rising to disturb their lives. Unit 5: Period of Turmoil and Change The Civil Rights movement expanded from a focus on African-American rights to include other groups such as women, Latinos, Native Americans, etc. A variety of strategies were employed to achieve these ends with varying degrees of success. The Kennedy-Johnson years led to an expansion of the role of the federal government in both a social welfare setting as well as in the realm of foreign policy. What forces generated these expansions and what were the results of these expansions in both the short and long term settings? What lessons were to be learned from U.S. involvement in Vietnam? Richard Nixon claimed he had a secret plan for ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam. U.S. troop withdrawal took four more years and total U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam took place under the Ford Administration. The Nixon years generated a great deal of social upheaval on more than just involvement in Vietnam.

3 Senator Ervin (D-NC) considered the Watergate Scandal to have been our most serious challenge as a nation, even greater than the Civil War. Political cynicism seemed to ensue from this time frame. Presidents Ford and Carter faced a sluggish economy heightened by gasoline crises brought on by U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Some would say that the failure of the moderates and liberals to be able to deliver the American Dream opened the door for the ensuing conservative revolution of the 1980s. Key Competencies/Skills/Procedures: Read actively o Observe details o Make connections among observations o Take notes, paraphrase, summarize o Locate and identify points on a map Research o Use content rich, creditable sources, both primary and secondary o Recognize bias o Ask questions o Listen Writing o Create a persuasive argument o Synthesize and summarize Critical Thinking o Seek accuracy and be accurate o Take a position and defend it o Be sensitive to the feelings and knowledge of others Self-regulation o Plan and meet deadlines o Use resources wisely Core Vocabulary: Unit 1: Continuity and Change 1980 to the present AIDS multinational corporation Apartheid new Federalism bilingual education new Right contra North American Free Trade Agreement contract with America Persian Gulf War downsizing proliferation economic sanctions Reagan Democrat Entitlement Sandanista Iran-Contra Affair Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty INF treaty Strategic Defense Initiative supply side economics

4 televangelism Whitewater Affair World Trade Organization Unit 2: U.S. on the Brink of Change Points Armistice Versailles Treaty 19 th Amendment Alice Paul Carrie Chapman Catt Alliances Nationalism Militarism American Exped. Force Liberty Bond Selective Service Act American Fed. of Labor Ida Tarbell Upton Sinclair Civil Disobedience National Amer.Woman Suffrage Assoc. (NAWSA) Clayton Anti-trust Act New Nationalism Bull Moose Party Communism Socialism Russian Revolution Congressional Union (CU) Stalemate Propaganda Direct primaries Jacob Riis Muckrakers Federal Reserve Act Conservationist Plessy v. Ferguson Imperialism Banana Republic Arbitration League of Nations Meat Inspection Act Yellow Press Trust Busting Open Door Policy Jingoism Sphere of Influence Price Controls Genocide Reparations Progressive Movement Immigration Nativism Racism Referendum Home Rule Roosevelt Corollary Dollar Diplomacy Great White Fleet St. Mihiel Convoy Rationing Woodrow Wilson Howard Taft Teddy Roosevelt Zimmerman Note Lusitania U-Boats Unit 3: Boom Times to Hard Times Agricultural Adjustment Consumer economy Act Deficit spending American Liberty Demagogue League Demographics Assembly line Disarmament Barrio Dow-Jones Industrial Black Tuesday Average Bonus Army Dust Bowl Bootleggers Flapper Business cycle Fundamentalism Buying on margin Great Crash Civilian Conservation Great Depression Corps Gross National Product Closed shop Harlem Renaissance Coalition Hawley-Smoot Tariff Communism Hooverville Hundred Days Installment plan Isolationism Jazz Age Kellogg-Briand Pact Lost Generation Mass media National debt Nationalization New Deal Penny auction Public Works Program Quota Recession Reconstruction Finance Corporation

5 Red Scare Revenue Scopes Trial Second New Deal Sit-down strike Social Security Speakeasies Speculation Teapot Dome Scandal Tennessee Valley Authority Twenty-first Amendment Wagner Act Welfare capitalism Unit 4: Hot War and Cold War th parallel Allies America First Committee Anti-Semitism Appeasement Arms race Atlantic Charter Axis Powers Baby boom Barrio Bataan Death March Battle of Guadalcanal Battle of Iwo Jima Battle of Leyte Gulf Battle of Midway Battle of Okinawa Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Coral Sea Beatnik Berlin Airlift Blacklist Blitzkrieg Bracero Brinksmanship Burma Road Carpet bombing Cash and Carry Cold War Collaboration Collective security Concentration camp Conglomerate Congress of Racial Equality Containment D-Day Death camp Deterrence Fascism Franchise Geneva Convention Genocide GI GI Bill of Rights Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Hollywood Ten Holocaust House Un-American Activities Committee ICBM Interned Iron curtain Island hopping Kamikaze Korean War Kristallnacht Lend-Lease Act Liberty Ship Manchurian Incident Manhattan Project Marshall Plan McCarran-Walter Act McCarthyism Military-industrial complex Modern Republicanism National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Defense Education Act Nazism Neutrality Acts Nisei North Atlantic Treaty Organization Nuremburg Trial Office of War Mobilization Per capita income Puppet state Purge Reconversion Resistance

6 Rock and Roll Satellite nation Selective Training and Service Act Sputnik Taft-Hartley Act Totalitarian Transistor Truman Doctrine U-2 Incident Victory garden Wannsee Conference War Refugee Board Warsaw Ghetto Warsaw Pact Unit 5: Period of Turmoil and Change Affirmative action Agent Orange Alliance for Progress American Indian Movement Amnesty Apportionment Autonomy Bay of Pigs invasion Berlin Wall Bicentennial Black nationalism Black power Brown v Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas Camp David Accord Domino theory Head Start Helsinki Accords Ho Chi Minh Trail Immigration Act of 1965 Impeach Incumbent Integration Interracial Japanese American Citizens League Land mine Latino Limited Test Ban Treaty Mandate March on Washington Medicaid Medicare MIA Middle America Migrant farm worker Civil Rights Act of 1964 Clean Air Act Clean Water Act Cloture Congress of Racial Equality Conscientious objector Counterculture Cuban Missile Crisis De facto segregation De jure segregation Deferment Deficit spending Deregulation Détente Dissident Miranda Rule Montgomery Bus Boycott Napalm Nation of Islam National Liberation Front National Organization for Women National Regulatory Commission New Federalism New Frontier New Left Nonviolent protest Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Paris Peace Talks Peace Corps Doves Embargo Environmental Protection Agency Equal Rights Amendment Escalation Feminism Filibuster Fragmentation bombs Freedom Ride Generation gap Geneva Accords Great Society Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Hawks POW Realpolitik Roe v Wade SALT I Saturation bombing Silent majority Sit-in Southern Christian Leadership Conference Special prosecutor Stagflation Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Teach-in Tet Offensive Twenty-fourth Amendment United Farm Workers Viet Cong Vietminh

7 Vietnamization Volunteers in Service to America Core Resource: America: Pathways to the Present Voting Rights Act of 1965 War Powers Act Warren Commission Watergate Scandal Wiretap Woodstock Festival Pennsylvania State Standards Guiding Course: Unit 1: Continuity and Change 1980 to the present Civics and Government: 5.2 Rights and responsibilities of citizenship 5.4 How international relations function Economics: 6.1 Scarcity and choice 6.2 Markets and Economic Systems 6.4 Economic interdependence 6.5 Work, Profit, and Wealth Geography: 7.1 Basic geography literacy 7.2 Physical characteristics of places and regions History: 8.1 Historical analysis and skills development A Continuity and Change over time B Fact/Opinion and Points of View C Analyze, synthesize, and integrate historical data 8.3 United States History A Roles of U.S. groups and individuals in the development of the world B Historical Documents and Artifacts C Impact of Continuity and Change on U.S. History D Conflict and Cooperation Unit 2: U.S. on the Brink of Change Civics and Government: 5.1 Principles and Documents of Government 5.2 Rights and Responsibilities of citizenship 5.3 How government works 5.4 How international relations function Economics: 6.1 Economic systems 6.2 Markets and functions of government 6.3 Scarcity and choice 6.4 Economic interdependence 6.5 Work and earnings Geography: 7.1 Basic geography literacy

8 7.2 Physical characteristics of places and regions 7.4 Interactions between peoples and places History: 8.1 Historical analysis and skills development A Continuity and Change over time B Fact /Opinion and Points of View (Evaluate the interpretation of historical events C Research (Synthesize historical research) Unit 3: Boom Times to Hard Times Civics and Government: 5.1 Principles and Documents of Government 5.2 Rights and Responsibilities of citizenship 5.3 How government works Economics: 6.1 Scarcity and choice 6.2 Markets and functions of government 6.4 Economic interdependence Geography: 7.1 Basic geography literacy 7.2 Physical characteristics of places and regions 7.4 Interactions between peoples and places History: 8.1 Historical analysis and skills development 8.3. Use of primary documents, material artifacts 8.3 Conflict and Cooperation among social groups and organizations 8.3 Political and cultural contributions of individuals and groups Unit 4: Hot War and Cold War Civics and Government: 5.1 Principles and Documents of Government 5.2 Rights and Responsibilities of citizenship 5.3 How government works 5.4 How international relations function Economics 6.1 Scarcity and choice 6.2 Markets and functions of government 6.3 Economic interdependence 6.4 Income, Profit, and Wealth Geography 7.1 Basic geography literacy 7.2 Physical characteristics of places and regions 7.4 Interactions between peoples and places History 8.1.U.A.Evaluate patterns of continuity and change

9 8.1.U.B. Evaluate sources, considering fact versus opinion 8.2. U.A. Social, Political, cultural, economic development of the U.S. 8.3.U.B. Compare historical documents and artifacts Unit 5: Period of Turmoil and Change Civics and Government: 5.1 Principles and Documents of Government 5.2 Rights and Responsibilities of citizenship 5.3 How government works 5.4 How international relations Economics 6.3 Markets and Economic Systems 6.3 Functions of Government 6.4 Income, Profit, and Wealth Geography 7.1 Basic geography literacy 7.2 Physical characteristics of places and regions History 8.1 Historical analysis and skills development 8.3. Use of primary documents, material artifacts 8.2 Conflict and Cooperation among social groups and organizations 8.3 Political and cultural contributions of individuals and group Prepared AE Approved chr

How did African Americans gain more rights and equality during the 1950s-60s?

How did African Americans gain more rights and equality during the 1950s-60s? Topic: Civil Rights Movement Days: 8 Key Learning: During the 1950s-60s a dramatic change happened with regards to the rights of African Americans. Unit Essential Question(s): How did African Americans