Fourth Quarter 2019
*****On 29 April we will be taking a class field trip to see the World War II battle sites of Monte Cassino battle sites and Monte Cassino itself, and San Pietro Infine. We will leave at 0800 and return at 1700 by bus. Cost for the trip is 10 euro.
16 April 2019: Chapter 16 World War I and Its Aftermath
Lesson 1 The United States Enters World War I
1. Essential Questions: Why do nations go to war?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Militarism, nationalism, propaganda, contraband.
3. Content Vocabulary: Emphasis, erode.
4. People, Places and Events: Causes of World War I - Alliances, imperialism and nationalism, assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary, the Neutrality Debate, Carrie Chapman and Jane Addams, John Works - Civil War veteran and U.S. Senator, Robert Lansing Secretary of State, sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-Boat, U.S. declares war on 2 April 1917.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. What political circumstances in Europe led to World War I?
b. What events motivated the United States to join the war?
6. Click here for How World War I Began Part 1 - Crash Course 209.
7. Click here for the Complete World War I Documentary.
8. Click here for the video on World War I. While viewing this video, students will record on their World War I Notes Sheet, 15 key events, people, etc., that had an impact on the war. Students will turn in this sheet and the score will go on their 4th quarter Gradespeed. Click here for the sheet. This assignment score will be placed on the 4th quarter Gradespeed account.
9. No Homework today.
World War I Resources:
1. Click here for the Complete World War I Documentary.
2. Click here for World War 1 History Channel Mini Video's on a variety of topics.
3. Click here for the Complete America in World War I.
4. Click here for World War I in Color - The Trenches. And the short video on Trench Warfare 12:00min.
5. Click here for World War I in Color - Blood in the Air.
6. Click here for the First Dogfights of World War I.
18 April 2019: Chapter 18 The Great Depression (1929-1932)
DoDEA Standard 11.7 The 1920s and 1930s were a time of cultural and economic changes in the nation. During this period , the nation faced significant domestic challenges, including the Great Depression.
11.7c: For many Americans, the 1920s was a time of prosperity. However, underlying economic problems, reflected in the stock market crash of 1929, led to the Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's responses to the Great Depression increased the role of the federal government.
Click here for The Roaring 20's Crash Course #32.
Click here for the Wonderful World of Groucho Marx. He lost all his money in the stock market crash of 1929.
Click here and here for 1920's and 1930's music playlist. And then this playlist is great.
Lesson 1 The Causes of the Great Depression:
1. Essential Questions:
a. What causes changes in the economy over time?
b. How do depressions affect societies?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Collapse, sum, invest.
3. Content Vocabulary: Stock market, bull market, speculation, margin, margin call, bank run, installment.
4. People, Places and Events: Prosperity of the 1920's - Roaring 20's and the long bull market, Election of 1928, Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith, soaring Stock Market, then the Stock Market Crash, Groucho Marx, Black Thursday - 24 October 1929, banks close, Causes of the Great Depression: uneven distribution of income, low interest rates, overproduction, uneven distribution of wealth, high tariffs, falling demand, Stock Market Speculation, loss of export sales, mistakes of the Federal Reserve.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. What economic choices caused the economy to become unstable in the late 1920s?
b. What investment decisions destabilized the economy during the 1920s?
c. How did the Stock Market crash trigger a chain of events that led to the Great Depression?
d. What were the underlying conditions that led to the collapse of the U.S. Economy?
6. Click here for the 1929 Wall Street Stock Market Crash.
7. Click here for the Causes of the Great Depression.
8. Click here for 60 Second Presidents - Herbert Hoover.
8. Causes of the Great Depression DBQ Due on 24 April. This DBQ will be handed out in class.
Click here for an electronic copy.
9. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 18, Lesson 1 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 21 April. Click here for the link to Schoology.
10. RESOURCE: Click here for History Brief 1930s.
22 April 2019: Chapter 18 The Great Depression (1929-1932
DoDEA Standard 11.7 The 1920s and 1930s were a time of cultural and economic changes in the nation. During this period , the nation faced significant domestic challenges, including the Great Depression.
11.7c: For many Americans, the 1920s was a time of prosperity. However, underlying economic problems, reflected in the stock market crash of 1929, led to the Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's responses to the Great Depression increased the role of the federal government.
Click here for photos of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
Click here for the Guiding Questions activity opener.
Lesson 2 Life During the Great Depression/Lesson 3 Hoover's Response to the Great Depression:
1. Essential Questions:
a. What causes changes in the economy over time?
b. How do depressions affect societies?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Suspend, technique, colleague, series, community.
3. Content Vocabulary: Baliff, soap opera, hobo, public works, foreclose, relief.
4. People, Places and Events: Depression worsens 1930-1933, joblessness, hunger, many immigrants return to their native countries, The Dust Bowl, Arts and Entertainment focus on the times, Walt Disney, movies Wizard of Oz, and Gone With the Wind, novelists like William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, photojournalist Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, and Margaret Bourke-White of Life Magazine. Hoover promotes recovery by increasing funding for public works, policies to rescue banks, relief for impoverished families; citizens respond by hunger marches, and protests by farmers, World War I veterans march for their war bonuses. Hoover failed to resolve the economic crisis, but did more than any previous president to expand the federal government's role in the economy.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. How did economic changes affect everyday life during the 1930's?
b. In what ways did culture reflect the Depression experience?
c. How did President Hoover's governing philosophy influence his efforts to combat the Great Depression?
d Why did citizens try to change government policy during the Depression's early years? How did they change it?
6. Click here for Crash Course U.S. History The Great Depression.
7. Click here for the Dust Bowl.
8. Click here for History Brief - Black Blizzards.
9. Click here for History Brief: Okies During the Great Depression.
10. Click here for History Brief: The Grapes of Wrath.
11. Click here for the Ghost of Tom Joad - background music and video.
12. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 18, Lesson 2 and 3 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 24 April. Click here for the link to Schoology.
24 April 2019: Chapter 19 Roosevelt and the New Deal (1933-1941)
DoDEA Standard 11.7 The 1920s and 1930s were a time of cultural and economic changes in the nation. During this period , the nation faced significant domestic challenges, including the Great Depression.
11.7c: For many Americans, the 1920s was a time of prosperity. However, underlying economic problems, reflected in the stock market crash of 1929, led to the Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's responses to the Great Depression increased the role of the federal government.
Begin with Page 516-517 DBQ and the Map of Public Works Projects of the New Deal: Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration had a monumental task in 1933. The Great Depression had affected millions of Americans. People began to demand help from the federal government. Promising a "New Deal" for the American people, President Roosevelt took immediate steps to put people back to work, strengthen the economy, and establish a safety net for the nation. Roosevelt's critics challenged his plan because never before had the federal government intervened so directly in the economy.
Click here for the New Deal Presentation.
Click here for the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, and New Deal Presentation featuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Lesson 1 The First New Deal: Click here for FDR's Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
1. Essential Questions:
a. Can government fix the economy?
b. Is government responsible for the economic well-being of its citizens?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Apparent, ideology, fundamental.
3. Content Vocabulary: Polio, gold standard, bank holiday, fireside chats.
4. People, Places and Events: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his rise to power, Eleanor Roosevelt, The New Deal and The Hundred Days, Roosevelt administration divided initially, Banks relief, mortgage relief, debt relief for Americans, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLC), Farm Credit Administration (FCA), Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA), National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), National Recovery Administration (NRA), mobilizing Farms and Industry, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Public Works Administration (PWA), Civil Works Administration (CWA), results of the First New Deal - legislation passed to save the country, did not restore prosperity, banks were reopened, many people retained their homes, more people employed, the spirit of the American people was more positive and optimistic, restoring their faith in their country.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. What qualities make an effective leader?
b. Why are the first hundred days so important for a president?
c. Why did Roosevelt broadcast "fireside chats"?
d. How did the New Deal legislation try to stabilize agriculture and industry?
e. How did New Deal programs differ from President Hoover's attempts to combat the Depression?
6. The First New Deal DBQ assignment on page 526-527: When FDR took office in 1933, the economy had been getting worse for more than three years. During the first one hundred days of his presidency, he oversaw 15 major pieces of legislation that attempted to revive the nation's economy and provide relief to the unemployed. Never before had the federal government intervened so directly in the economy. Key to stopping the economic downside was FDR's ability to inspire confidence in the Nation's economic problems could be solved. This assignment is on Schoology.
7. Click here for Crash Course #34 - The New Deal.
8. Click here for History Channel Presidents - Franklin D. Roosevelt Part 1.
9. Click here for History Brief - FDR's First 100 Days.
10. Click here for 60 Second Presidents - FDR.
11. Click here for 1930s jazz (Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, etc.)
12. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 19, Lesson 1 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 28 April. Click here for the link to Schoology.
29 April 2019: U.S. HISTORY WORLD WAR II FIELD TRIP TO MONTE CASSINO AND SAN PIETRO INFINI TODAY
1. Insure you bring 10 euro for the two guides for both sites.
2. Bring sack lunch.
3. Bring hat, cel phone, or anything else you might need.
4. Click here for the field trip flyer.
1 May 2019: Chapter 20 A World in Flames (1931-1941)
DoDEA Standard 11.7 - World War II 1935-1945: The participation of the United States in World War II was a transformative event for the nation and its role in the world.
11.8a - As situations overseas deteriorated President Roosevelt's leadership helped to move the nation from a policy of neutrality to a pro-Allied position and, ultimately, direct involvement in the war.
11.8b - United States entry into World War II had a significant impact on American Society.
**The Attack on Pearl Harbor - page 540-541: How do you think Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor affected the global policies of the United States? Click here and here for Pearl Harbor Attack scene. And President Roosevelt's response here.
**For Petty Officer Dorie Miller - Bio, and video.
WORLD WAR II CAUSE and EFFECT PROJECT USING CLAIMS, EVIDENCE, REASONING PROJECT
Compelling Question: What people, places, and events led to the U.S. victory over Europe, North Africa, Japan in the Pacific and Asia during World War II?
Research an event, person, place, or thing that made an important contribution to the U.S. victory in North Africa, Europe and the Pacific in World War II. Cause (the important contribution), Effect (how this produced a step toward victory against Germany and Japan). You will need to create a Google Slide Presentation document, no slide limit but you will have only 5 minutes to present your evidence, you will need a title slide with the title, date, your name and an image of your topic. You must use Bullet Points. You are encouraged to use images that capture your topic.
IMPORTANT: You must cite three primary sources on a Citation Slide at the end, and where it is cited, place a citation a the bottom of the slide and place an asterisk by the citation. Use a citation generator MLA format. Please use the GALE Database - you can find the .pdf on your History Schoology page, link and login information. These must be a credible sources. You will present to the class.
Topics: North Africa Campaign (Alyssa), Italian Campaign (Vanessa), Army Air Corps Air War over Europe Bombing Germany (Jaden), D-Day Operation Overlord (Marcus A.), Battle of the Bulge (Diego), Attack on Pearl Harbor (Amie), Battle Bataan Peninsula and Bataan Death March (Freyja), Operation Market Garden (Nick) Doolittle Raid on Tokyo (Xzavier), Battle of Midway (Kailey), U.S. Military Leaders (Chester Nimitz, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, George Marshall, Henry H. Arnold (Kyle), Colonel Lewis Puller and the First Marine Division (), Battle of the Coral Sea (Mikaila), Island Hopping Campaign (Chloe), Battle of Iwo Jima (Marcus), Battle of Guadalcanal (Nubia), Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific (Daphne), U.S. Pacific Submarines (Noah), Pappy Boyington and the Marine Corps Black Sheep Squadron (Sierra), Battle of Okinawa and Atomic Bomb mission to Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Daniel).
400 points . You will present your topic and evidence on 13 May.
Lesson 1 The Origins of World War II/Lesson 2 From Neutrality to War:
Click here to see the World War II Allied and Axis Powers/Leaders.
Click here for History Channel's Presidents - Franklin D. Roosevelt Part 2.
Click here for World War II songs that GI's listened to.
1. Essential Questions:
a. Could World War II have been prevented?
b. Why do some people not respond to injustice while others try to prevent injustice?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Exploit, command, dominate, revise, underestimate, purchase.
3. Content Vocabulary: Fascism, appeasement, collective, internationalism, strategic materials.
4. People, Places and Events: Rise of dictators in Japan, Italy, Germany, Russia, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Hideki Tojo, War begins in Europe - Austrian Anschluss, Munich Crisis, Danzig, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Invasion of Poland and Fall of France, Neville Chamberlain, Miracle at Dunkirk, Britain holds the line against Hitler, American Neutrality, the Nye Committee, neutrality legislation, Roosevelt's Internationalism, Neutrality Act of 1939, Lend-Lease Act, Hemispheric Defense Zone, Winston Churchill, The Atlantic Charter between Roosevelt and Churchill, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, Germany and Italy declares war on the U.S. December 11th, 1941.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. What economic and political conditions following World War I encouraged dictatorships?
b. How did European nations try to prevent war?
c. Why did many Americans support isolationism? Why did President Roosevelt support Internationalism?
d. How did President Roosevelt assist Britain while maintaining U.S. neutrality?
e. How did the United States try to slow Japan's advances in the Pacific?
5. Click here for How did Hitler Rise to Power?
6. Click here for Crash Course WWII History #38.
7. Click here for The Atlantic Charter.
8. For the Complete History of WWII Part 1 and Part 2.
9. For video list of World War II documentaries click here.
10. Click here for World War II in Color - Documentary.
11. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 20, Lesson 1 and 2 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 5 May. Click here for the link to Schoology.
3 May 2019: Chapter 20 A World in Flames (1931-1941)
DoDEA Standard 11.7 - World War II 1935-1945: The participation of the United States in World War II was a transformative event for the nation and its role in the world.
11.8c - In response to World War II and the Holocaust, the United States played a major role in efforts to prevent such human suffering in the future.
Lesson 3 The Holocaust:
Holocaust Primer click here: The Path to Nazi Genocide, Chapter 4/4: World War II and the Holocaust, 1939–1945
1. Essential Questions:
a. Could World War II have been prevented?
b. Why do some people not respond to injustice while others try to prevent injustice?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Prohibit, virtually, assume.
3. Content Vocabulary: Concentration camp, extermination camp.
4. People, Places and Events: Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews in Europe, the Nuremberg Laws, Kristalnacht, Jewish refugees try to flee European countries, U.S. limits Jewish immigration, international response and regret, St. Louis Affair, Hitler's Final Solution of the Jews in Europe, locations of concentration/extermination camps in Europe, p. 557.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. Why did many Jews remain in Nazi Germany and within Axis-controlled areas of Europe?
b. How did the Nazis try to exterminate Europe's Jewish population?
6. Click here for 5 Sad Facts about the Holocaust.
7. Click here for Holocaust Footage 1945.
8. Click here for A Day in the Life of Auschwitz.
9. Click here for Band of Brothers - Liberation of a Concentration Camp.
10. Click here for the Documentary - One Day in Auschwitz.
11. Click here for Ken Burns Documentary - Short - Holocaust.
12. The Holocaust DBQ today in class. Students will analyze four primary sources from the Holocaust historical event, and answer seven critical thinking questions on Schoology.
13. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 20 Lesson 3 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 8 May. Click here for the link to Schoology.
7 May 2019: Chapter 21 America and World War II (1941-1945)
DoDEA Standard 11.7 - World War II 1935-1945: The participation of the United States in World War II was a transformative event for the nation and its role in the world.
11.8a - As situations overseas deteriorated President Roosevelt's leadership helped to move the nation from a policy of neutrality to a pro-Allied position and, ultimately, direct involvement in the war.
11.8b - United States entry into World War II had a significant impact on American Society.
Lesson 1 Wartime America:
Click here for the Smithsonian Presentation Wartime America. And here from Slide Share.
1. Essential Questions:
a. What kinds of Sacrifices does war require?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Draft, justify, coordinate.
3. Content Vocabulary: Disenfranchised, cost-plus, Sunbelt, zoot suit, victory suit, rationing, victory garden.
4. People, Places and Events:
5. Guiding Questions:
a. What roles did minorities and women play in the armed forces during World War II?
b. How did the U.S. government mobilize the economy for war?
c. How did World War II change life for women and minorities in the United States?
d. How did the wartime relocation of many Americans affect U.S. government and society?
e. What steps did the government take to stabilize wagers and prices?
6. Click here for the Big Bands of the WWII Era. And here for WWII Songs.
7. Click here for the Tuskegee Airman.
8. Click here for The U.S. Homefront During WWII. And Here for a comprehensive look.
9. Click here for the Complete History of World War II Part 1, and here for Part 2.
10. Click here for the Crash Course U.S. History: World War II Part 2 - The Homefront: Crash Course US History #36
11. Click here for American Women in WWII.
12. No HOMEWORK
9 May 2019: Chapter 21 America and World War II (1941-1945)
DoDEA Standard 11.7 - World War II 1935-1945: The participation of the United States in World War II was a transformative event for the nation and its role in the world.
11.8a - As situations overseas deteriorated President Roosevelt's leadership helped to move the nation from a policy of neutrality to a pro-Allied position and, ultimately, direct involvement in the war.
11.8b - United States entry into World War II had a significant impact on American Society.
Click here for WWII in the Pacific Resource.
Lesson 2 War in the Pacific :
1. Essential Questions:
a. What kinds of Sacrifices does war require?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Code.
3. Content Vocabulary: Amphtrac, kamikaze.
4. People, Places and Events: Fall of the Philippines, Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island, Bataan Death March, Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, aircraft carrier USS Hornet, Admiral Yamamoto and his plan to attack the U.S. base at Midway Island, Admiral Nimitz and Battle of the Coral Sea, Navajo Code Talkers, USS Yorktown and Lexington, Battle of Midway and the air battle, the Island-Hopping Campaign in the Pacific, MacArthur returns to the Philippines, the kamikazi's.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. Why was the Doolittle Raid important for U.S. Forces in the Pacific?
b. Why was the Battle of Midway a turning point in the war in the Pacific?
c. What was the military strategy behind "Island-Hopping?"
6. Click here for Crash Course U.S. History #35 - World War II
7. Click here for: Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo WWII Newsreel (Great Original Footage)
8. Click here for: The Battle of Midway: Anatomy of a Decisive World War II Victory | History
9. Click here for: Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
10. Click here for the Island-Hopping Campaign - Great Video!!
11. Click here for MacArthur's Return to the Philippines.
12. CLASSWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 21 Lesson 2 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 13 May. Click here for the link to Schoology.
13. Classwork. World War II in the Pacific Document Based Assessment click here.
13 May 2019: Chapter 21 America and World War II (1941-1945)
DoDEA Standard 11.7 - World War II 1935-1945: The participation of the United States in World War II was a transformative event for the nation and its role in the world.
11.8a - As situations overseas deteriorated President Roosevelt's leadership helped to move the nation from a policy of neutrality to a pro-Allied position and, ultimately, direct involvement in the war.
11.8b - United States entry into World War II had a significant impact on American Society.
Begin World War II Presentations today
COMPELLING QUESTION: What key events gave the Allies victory over Hitler and the Third Reich in Europe?
-The Battle of Omaha Beach, Operation Overlord 6 June 1944 - Saving Private Ryan scene click here. And here for their upward assault.
Lesson 3 War in Europe: Click here for the WWII in Europe Banner.
1. Essential Questions:
What kinds of Sacrifices does war require?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Target, Intense, Briefly.
3. Content Vocabulary: Periphery, Convoy System.
4. People, Places and Events: Battle for North Africa, German General Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox) and his Afrika Korps, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General George Patton, Battle of the Atlantic, German submarines - U-Boats, Convoys System, Battle of Stalingrad and Josef Stalin, Striking Italy and Germany, Casablanca Conference between Churchill and Roosevelt, Strategic bombing of Germany, U.S. Eighth Army Air Force, Patton's attack on Sicily and Italy, Battle of Monte Cassino page 585, 1st Lieutenant Vernon Baker, The Tehran Conference with Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill, The D-Day Invasion and Operation Overlord, General Charles DeGaulle and the liberation of Paris, The Longest Day - Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword, and Juno, General Omar Bradley.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. Why did Churchill and Roosevelt want to attack German controlled areas in North Africa before areas in Europe?
b. What were the goals of strategic bombing in Germany and the invasion of Sicily?
c. What if D-Day had failed and Germany had defeated the Allies in Europe?
6. Click here for Operation Torch - the Invasion of North Africa.
7. Click here for the Invasion of Sicily.
8. Click here for the History Channel short clip on the D-Day Invasion.
9. Click here for Original Footage of the D-Day Operation Overlord Invasion of France.
10. Click here for Rare Color Video of Operation Overlord.
11. Click here for Operation Overlord American heroes interview about their experience.
12. Click here - Veteran recalls "Saving Private Ryan" battle. 82nd Airborne.
13. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 21 Lesson 3 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on
16 May. Click here for the link to Schoology.
15 May 2019: Chapter 21 America and World War II (1941-1945)
DoDEA Standard 11.7 - World War II 1935-1945: The participation of the United States in World War II was a transformative event for the nation and its role in the world.
11.8a - As situations overseas deteriorated President Roosevelt's leadership helped to move the nation from a policy of neutrality to a pro-Allied position and, ultimately, direct involvement in the war.
11.8b - United States entry into World War II had a significant impact on American Society.
Continue World War II Presentations today
Lesson 4 The War Ends:
1. Essential Questions:
a. What kinds of Sacrifices does war require?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Despite, Nuclear.
3. Content Vocabulary: Hedgerow, napalm.
4. People, Places and Events: Third Reich collapses, Normandy, French Resistance fighters, Battle of the Bulge and the last German offensive, General Patton, Allies surround Germany and go in for the kill and German defenses crumble, Adolf Hitler commits suicide (a coward), Germany signs the unconditional surrender on 7 May 1945 called V-E Day (Victory in Europe), the death of President Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman becomes President, Battle of Iwo Jima, B-29 Superfortress bombers, firebombing Japan with napalm, Invasion of Okinawa, American terms was unconditional surrender of the Japanese, Emperor Hirohito, Manhattan Project and General Groves - the first nuclear reactor, Albert Einstein, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Leahy, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima 6 August 1945, 9 August 1945 atomic bomb "Fat Man" is dropped on Nagasaki, Emperor Hirohito orders the Japanese government to surrender on 15 August 1945, called V-J Day (Victory over Japan), the Nuremberg Trials (International Military Tribunal (IMT) charging the Nazi leaders with war crimes against humanity, and similar trials were held in Japan charging Japanese leaders with war crimes. 1939-1945 was a turning point in World History and American History - the shift of powers , Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union lay devastated. American economy, infrastructure is intact and becomes the dominant power on Earth - producing over 35% of the entire worlds gross domestic product. The U.S. emerges as the world's strongest economic and military power (superpower). Communism and the Soviet Union begins to challenge that power as a Cold War of ideology - the race is on for the battle of communism and oppression, and democracy and freedom.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. Why was the Battle of the Bulge so important to Allied Forces?
b. Do you agree or disagree with President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb? Explain your reasons.
c. Why was the Battle of the Bulge such a disastrous defeat for Germany?
d. What arguments did Truman consider when deciding whether to use the atomic bomb?
6. Click here for D-Day, A Critical Moment in History.
7. Click here for Crash Course World History #38 - A review of World War II.
8. Click here for 10 things you did not know about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
9. Click here for the Battle of Iwo Jima.
10. Click here - Japanese Soldiers surrender to U.S. Navy in 1945.
11. Click here for the Japanese Surrender in 1945.
12. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 21 Lesson 4 on Schoology - one question . This assignment will be due on 17 May. Click here for the link to Schoology.
13. Classwork. World War II in the Pacific Document Based Assessment click here.
17 May 2019: Chapter 22 The Cold War Begins (1945-1960)
DoDEA Standard 11.9a: After World War II, ideological differences led to political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. In an attempt to halt the spread of Soviet influence, the United States pursued a policy of containment.
11.9b: The United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a nuclear arms race that eventually led to agreements that limited the arms buildup and improved United States-Soviet relations.
11.9c: American Strategic interests in the Middle East grew with the Cold War, the creation of the State of Israel, and the increased United States dependence in Middle Eastern oil. The continuing nature of the Arab-Israeli dispute has helped to define the contours of American policy in the Middle East.
11.9d: A combination of factors contributed to the end of the Cold War, including American policies and Soviet economic political problems that led to the loss of Soviet control over Eastern Europe.
Continue World War II Presentations today
Lesson 1 The Origins of the Cold War/Lesson 2 The Early Cold War Years:
Click here for The Cold War Introduction.
Click here for the Reading Through History Cold War Series.
a. Click here for the Berlin Airlift.
b. Click here for What is Communism?
c. Click here for The Truman Doctrine.
d. Click here for Civil Defense at School.
d. Click here for the Korean War.
1. Essential Questions:
a. How did the Cold War shape the postwar international relations?
b. How did Cold War tensions affect American society?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Liberate, equipment, insecurity, initially.
3. Content Vocabulary: Charter, satellite nations, Iron Curtain, containment, limited war.
4. People, Places and Events: COLD WAR!! The Bretton Woods System, International Monetary Fund (IMF), United Nations and Eleanor Roosevelt (general assembly and security council), the Yalta Conference, Declaration of Liberated Europe, dividing Germany into four zones, UN Commission on Human Rights 1948, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, President Truman the anti-Communist, Potsdam Conference, Iron Curtain descends on Europe - free Europe and Communist Europe, containing Communism and the policy of containment, Iran crisis, The Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan, The Berlin Airlift, creation of NATO, The Chinese Communist Revolution, MacArthur and the rebiulding of Japan, Korean War and the final armistice.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. How did the conferences at Dumbarton Oaks and Yalta attempt to shape the postwar world?
b. Why did the Potsdam Conference further increase tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union?
c. What was the policy of containment?
d. Why was the Korean War a major turning point in the Cold War?
6. Click here for the Crash Course USA vs. USSR in the Cold War Fight.
7. Click here for Harry S. Truman, 33rd President.
8. Click here for the Korean War.
9. Click here for the Berlin Airlift.
10. Click here for the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
11. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 22 Lesson 1 and 2 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 31 May. Click here for the link to Schoology.
21 and 23 May 2019: Chapter 22 The Cold War Begins (1945-1960)
DoDEA Standard 11.9a: After World War II, ideological differences led to political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. In an attempt to halt the spread of Soviet influence, the United States pursued a policy of containment.
11.9b: The United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a nuclear arms race that eventually led to agreements that limited the arms buildup and improved United States-Soviet relations.
11.9c: American Strategic interests in the Middle East grew with the Cold War, the creation of the State of Israel, and the increased United States dependence in Middle Eastern oil. The continuing nature of the Arab-Israeli dispute has helped to define the contours of American policy in the Middle East.
11.9d: A combination of factors contributed to the end of the Cold War, including American policies and Soviet economic political problems that led to the loss of Soviet control over Eastern Europe.
World War II Presentations today.
COLD WAR RESEARCH MINI-PRESENTATION PROJECT: Use one Google Slide only. You may use bullet points to highlight the major causes and effects, people, places, etc., of your Cold War event. You need to have a couple of images that show clearly what the event was all about. You will be presenting your research in class on 28 and 30 May.
Click here for the Reading Through History Cold War Series.
a. Click here for the U-2 Incident.
b. Click here for The Berlin Wall.
c. Click here for the Cuban Missile Crisis.
d. Click here for the Space Race.
e. Click here for the SALT II Nuclear Treaty.
f. Click here for the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
Lesson 4 Eisenhower's Cold War Policies:
1. Essential Questions:
a. How did the Cold War shape the postwar international relations?
b. How did Cold War tensions affect American society?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Imply, response.
3. Content Vocabulary: Massive retaliation, brinkmanship, covert, developing nation, military-industrial complex.
4. People, Places and Events: President Eisenhower's military and economic policies, nuclear weapons and the B-52 bombers, ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile), and Polaris submarines, Taiwan Crisis, Suez Crisis, covert operations, Iran and Guatemala, Eastern Europe, Nikita Khrushchev, Sputnik, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), The Eisenhower Doctrine, U-2 Spy plane and Col Francis Gary Powers, Fidel Castro in Cuba.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. How were the policies of massive retaliation and brinkmanship different from previous military policies?
b. Why did President Eisenhower want to use covert operations to combat the spread of communism?
6. Click here for Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President.
7. Click here for Massive Retaliation and Containment Policy.
8. Click here on How the U.S. Won the Space Race.
Lesson 1 The New Frontier/Lesson 2 JFK and the Cold War:
1. Essential Questions:
a. Can government fix society's problems?
b. How do you think President Kennedy changed American Society.
2. Academic Vocabulary: Commentator, arbitrary, conventional, remove, institute.
3. Content Vocabulary: Missile gap, reapportionment, due process, flexible response, space race.
4. People, Places and Events: Election of 1960, televised debates, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon (Cold Warriors), The New Frontier, Kennedy economy and tax cuts, expanding women's rights, President's Panel on Mental Retardation and the disabled, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Special Olympics, Chief Justice Warren and the Supreme Court - Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims, One Person - One Vote, extending due process, prayer in public schools, containing Communism, ICBM's, foreign aid, The Peace Corps, Cold War in Space and the Space Race, Sputnik, John Glenn, Fidel Castro, The Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall goes up, Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy and Khrushchev, Assassination of President Kennedy.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. How did the election of 1960 change the way candidates ran their campaigns?
b. What were some domestic policies initiated when Kennedy took office?
c. How important are some of the Warren Court rulings for today's society?
d. How were President Kennedy's programs to combat communism different from the programs of previous administrations?
e. What was the most important foreign policy event of the Kennedy administration? Why was it the most important event?
6. Click here for John F. Kennedy, 35th President.
7. Click here for Crash Course 1960s America.
8. Click here for the APUSH Review - The Election of 1960.
9. Click here for: John F. Kennedy Presidential Inaugural Speech
10. Click here for The Peace Corps.
11. Click here for the Bay of Pigs Invasion - Khan Academy.
12. Click here for the Cuban Missile Crisis - Khan Academy.
13. Click here for a short video intro on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
14. Click here for Kennedy's New Frontier speech.
15. Click here for The Space Race (1955-1975).
16. Click here for: How The Cold War Launched The Space Race
17. Click here for: 25 Fascinating Facts About The Space Race You Probably Didn’t Know
18. Click here for the National Geographic Documentary on the Race for Space.
19. Click here for the CBS broadcast of the announcement of the assassination of President Kennedy.
20. Click here for the death of President Kennedy. And here for the primary source videos of his assassination and funeral here.
9. No HOMEWORK Today.
28 and 30 May 2019: Chapter 25 The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)
DoDEA Standard 11.10 Social and Economic Change/Domestic Issues 1945-Present: Racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequalities were addressed by individuals, groups, and organizations. Varying political philosophies prompted debates over the role of the federal government in regulating the economy and providing a social safety net.
World War II Presentations today.
Click here for the Bob Marley Song - Get up, Stand Up!
Click here for Civil Rights Movement Songs.
Lesson 1 The Movement Begins:
1. Essential Questions:
a. Why do you think the civil rights movement made gains in postwar America?
b. What motivates a society to make changes?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Facility.
3. Content Vocabulary: Separate but equal, de-facto segregation.
4. People, Places and Events: Rosa Parks, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Plessy v. Ferguson, Norris v. Alabama, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), desegregation of the military, African Americans choose the Democratic Party because they benefited from the New Deal programs of Roosevelt, Brown v. Board of Education, Southern Democrats resist civil rights, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), President Eisenhower responds and was sympathetic with the civil rights movement by desegregating the federal government, Little Rock Nine, Civil Rights Act of 1957.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. What techniques did the civil rights movement use to challenge segregation?
b. Why was the Montgomery bus boycott successful?
c. How did President Eisenhower respond to the civil rights movement?
6. Class Assignment: Comprehensive Document Based Assessment on the Civil Rights Movement- Mr. Hanson will share the DBQ Google Document with you in class. You will need to make a working copy. You will work with a partner to complete the DBQ.
Important: Martin Luther King Jr. Ultimate Motivational Speeches click here.
7. Click here for the Crash Course video Civil Rights and the 1950s.
8. Click here for the video on Remembering Thurgood Marshall, Justice of the Supreme Court.
9. Click here for an interview with Rosa Parks. And a Bio here.
Lesson 2 Challenging Segregation:
1. Essential Questions:
a. Why do you think the civil rights movement made gains in postwar America?
b. What motivates a society to make changes?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Register.
3. Content Vocabulary: Filibuster, cloiture.
4. People, Places and Events: The Sit-In Movement, NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, Fannie Lou Hamer, The Freedom Riders, Kennedy and Civil Rights, Thurgood Marshall, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., bombing of Birmingham church by KKK killed 4 girls, Civil Rights Act of 1964, George Wallace and Segregation Now, Medgar Evers, March on Washington and Dr. King, EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, March in Selma 1965 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. What were the goals of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
b. How did the Kennedy administration's Justice Department help the civil rights movement?
c. How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 allow the federal government to fight racial discrimination?
d. Why was the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 a turning point in the civil rights movement?
6. Click here for the Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech.
7. Click here for for Dr. King's entire speech from the March on Washington August 28, 1963.
8. Click here for Dr. King's "I've been to the Mountaintop" complete speech just before he was killed in 1968.
9. Click here for: The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. by Kid President
10. Click here for the Freedom Riders.
11. Click here for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
12. Click here for the debate between Dr. King and Malcolm X.
13. Click here for the history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
14. Click here and here for the Freedom Summer Project of 1964.
15. Click here for Fannie Lou Hamer's Testimony about Freedom Summer.
16. Click here for Malcolm X interviews.
17. ASSIGNMENT Today - only the DBQ on Civil Rights.
3 and 5 June 2019: Chapter 26 The Vietnam War (1954-1975)
DoDEA Standard 11.9 Cold War 1945-1990: In the period following World War II, the United States entered into an extended era of international conflict called the Cold War which influenced foreign and domestic policy for more than 40 years.
11.9a: Students will trace the United States involvement in Vietnam, including President Johnson's decision to escalate the fighting in Vietnam.
Click here for the Songs of the Vietnam War Era.
Lesson 1-3 Going to War in Vietnam:
1. Essential Questions:
a. How does military conflict divide people within cultures?
b. Should citizens support the government during wartime?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Strategic, traditional.
3. Content Vocabulary: Domino theory, napalm, guerrilla, Agent Orange.
4. People, Places and Events: Vietnamese Nationalism and Ho Chi Minh, The Domino Theory of President Eisenhower, French war in Vietnam, containing communism, Geneva Accords, American involvement to stop communism in Vietnam by Kennedy and Johnson, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, stalemate, search and destroy operations, the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. Why did the United States provide military aid to the French in Indochina?
b. How did American involvement in Vietnam change during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations?
c. What military tactics were used by the Vietcong, and how did American troops respond?
6. Click here for the French interview of Ho Chi Minh. In French. Here for Ho Chi introduction to the Vietnam War.
7. Click here for Why was the Vietnam War so complicated?
8. Click here for Part 1 of How the Vietnam War started.
9. Click here for Part 2 The Tactics of the Vietcong.
10. Click here for Part 3 The Tactics of the Americans.
11. Click here for Part 4 What problems did the Americans face.
12. Click here for Part 5 The Tet Offensive.
13. Click here for Part 6 How did the media affect the Vietnam War?
14. Class assignment - Students will analyze the causes and effects of the Vietnam War and answer the following questions using evidence from their research:
a. Why did Vietnam matter to the United States and how did the war develop?
b. How were the two sides engaged and what was the ultimate result?
c. What was the anti-war movement and how did it impact America's involvement in the war?
d. How did the war end and what was its lasting effects on the United States?
15. Interesting Vietnam Video Resources:
For Class: Click here and here for Vietnam War Songs. Click here for "Why did America fight the Vietnam War?" Vietnam Documentary here. And here about the truth about the Vietnam War.
5 June:
1. Click here for the Vietnam War from 1962-1975.
2. Click here for Why did the U.S. fight the Vietnam War? Prager University.
3. Click here for CBS news 5 min footage of combat.
Click here for: Guerrilla warfare in vietnam the Punji Sticks
Click here for: F-4 Phantom Vs Mig21 - Hell Over Hanoi Documentary - History
Click here for: Vietnam War - USAF Battle at Khe Sanh - B-52 Air Strikes - 1967 to 1968
Click here for: Vietnam war - Siege at Khe Sanh 8/12 - Battlefield Series (Vietnam War) Full HD
Click here for the Battlefield Series: Vietnam war - Dien Bien Phu, The Legacy part 1/12 - Battlefield Series (Vietnam War) Full HD
Click here for: Battle of Khe Sanh
Click here for: Viet Cong : Documentary on the Viet Cong Soldiers of Vietnam
5 June 2019: America's Challenges for a New Century
Global Challenges in the 21st Century. Class discussion on topics that students will experience and live through in the future.
CLASSWORK ASSIGNMENT Focus: Terrorism, AI, etc.
2ND SEMESTER EXAM SCHEDULE. Click here for the entire schedule.
7 June - Period 5 and 7
10 June - Period 2 and 4
11 June - Period 7 Make-up and Period 8 Seminar Exam Make-up
12 June - Period 1 and Period 3. Period 4 Exam Make-up
13 June - Seminar from 0800-1100 Exam Make-ups
7 June 2019: 2nd SEMESTER EXAM TODAY
1. Traditional Test on Schoology. There are 7 questions on key events in history. Choose 5 out of 7. Questions are comprehensive in nature and require detailed evidences from U.S. History - people, places, events, etc.
2. Argumentative Essay: How has the United States influenced the world in a positive way? Insure that you use specific events in U.S. history from the Industrial Age of 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement era of the 1960s. Important to give great detail about causal factors such as events, people, places, and things and their effects domestically and globally.
You can use your textbook only to write this 5 paragraph essay. Insure you develop your introduction, THESIS STATEMENT THAT SETS THE TONE FOR YOUR ENTIRE PAPER, use topic sentences, paragraphs are well developed with details, three supporting paragraphs, and your summary restating your thesis and summarizing your evidence.
1. Write an Argumentative Essay. You will be looking for evidence in your research and use that evidence to defend an argument.
2. Theme is focused on how the United States has influenced the world.
3. You will need to create a Google Document and submit your essay by uploading (SUBMISSION) it to the Schoology 2nd Semester Exam Assignment.
4. You can use your textbook as your only resource.
5. Only text goes in your paper. Your title and name go in the upper right hand corner of you Google Document as the Document title.
6. Write a 5 paragraph essay. Insure you develop your introduction by fully introducing the historical event, THESIS STATEMENT (main idea) THAT SETS THE TONE FOR YOUR ENTIRE ESSAY, use a hook in your introduction, use topic sentences for your paragraph, paragraphs well developed with details of people, places, events, laws, technology, etc., three supporting paragraphs of evidence for your historical event (please use primary sources from the book and you can quote them), and your summary paragraph that restates your thesis and summarizes your evidences. Paper must be double spaced, a minimum of two full pages of only text, 14 font, Times New Roman.
Insure that you upload your Google Document to Schoology Turn-It-In. In Schoology: SECOND SEMESTER EXAM: ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY# - JUNIORS
11 June 2019: Historical Debate Socialism vs. Capitalism Last day of U.S. History Class
13 June 2019: Last Day of School - Seminar from 0800-1100
14 June 2019: Last Day for Mr. Hanson and Teachers at Naples High School
16 June-20 August 2018: Summer Vacation
ARCHIVED FROM 2017-18 YEARs
14. Class Assignment Document Based Assessment (DBQ): Civil Rights Act of 1964. Due .
a. Students will analyze two speeches (John F. Kennedy on 11 June 1963, and John Lewis during the March on Washington in August 1963).
b. Guiding questions:
1. What was the Civil Rights Act?
2. Do you believe that JFK was a strong supporter of civil rights? Why or why not?
c. Click here for the primary source video of President Kennedy's Civil Rights speech.
d. Click here for the primary source video of President Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and giving the pen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
6. Class Assignment: Document Based Assessment - Montgomery Bus Boycott.
a. Students will break up in to partner teams, read and analyze the Boycott Timeline, and five primary source documents.
b. Guiding Question: Why did the Montgomery Bus Boycott Succeed?
b. To what extent was Rosa Parks responsible for its success?
c. Click here for the Montgomery Bus Boycott Lesson plan.
d. Click here for the Introduction to Rosa Parks video.
e. In 1955, just after the school desegregation decision, a black woman helped change American history. Like most southern cities (and many northern ones), Montgomery had a law that blacks had to sit in the back rows of the bus. One day, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus and sat down in the closest seat. It was one of the first rows of the section where blacks were not supposed to sit. The bus filled up and some white people were standing. The bus driver told Rosa Parks
that she would have to give up her seat to a white person. She refused and was arrested. The next evening, black leaders, many of them church ministers, met to decide if they should protest. A young minister who just moved to Montgomery from Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr., soon became the leader of the group. King and the others called for a black boycott of the Montgomery bus system. The boycott meant blacks refused to ride the buses. For months, the buses were almost empty because most of the riders had been black. Then, the boycott spread to white businesses in downtown Montgomery. King was arrested and jailed, but he continued to urge his followers to use a path of “non-violent resistance.” This meant that they would break laws that discriminated against blacks, but that they would not use violence… By 1960, black Americans had made some progress toward equality. The Supreme Court and other government actions had opened the door. But most blacks still were forced to live a second-class type of life.
**Cold War DBQ: Today in class, students will investigate the origins of the Cold War from the primary source documents of the events and communications of the leaders of the U.S. and USSR. The assignment resources are below:
a. Cold War Presentation click here.
b. Cold War original documents click here.
c. Cold War lesson plan click here - including the critical thinking questions and analysis questions.
THIS ASSIGNMENT NOT USED THIS YEAR - Paper: Analyze MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
a. What is the "American Dream" to which King refers?
b. How well does King think the nation has lived up to its promise?
c. What do the many aspects of King's dream have in common?
d. Why might we have focused on that theme on the day he spoke?
e. What makes this speech so powerful?
f. Click here for a copy of the speech.
g. Use Google Document and name the document MLK Speech, and your name; only your response writing should be in the document. No titles, name, etc.
h. DUE DATE: . Share with Mr. Hanson to his Google Drive at [email protected]
1 May 2019: Chapter 19 Roosevelt and the New Deal (1933-1941)
DoDEA Standard 11.7 The 1920s and 1930s were a time of cultural and economic changes in the nation. During this period , the nation faced significant domestic challenges, including the Great Depression.
11.7c: For many Americans, the 1920s was a time of prosperity. However, underlying economic problems, reflected in the stock market crash of 1929, led to the Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's responses to the Great Depression increased the role of the federal government.
Due Today: The First New Deal DBQ assignment on page 526-527:
Lesson 2 The Second New Deal/Lesson 3 The New Deal Coalition:
1. Essential Questions:
a. Can government fix the economy?
b. Is government responsible for the economic well-being of its citizens?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Benefit, thereby, finance, recovery, mediate.
3. Content Vocabulary: Deficit spending, binding arbitration, sit down strike, court-packing, broker state, safety net.
4. People, Places and Events: Second New Deal, WPA Works Progress Administration, Supreme Court battle, Huey Long, Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, NRA National Recovery Administration, opponents of the New Deal, the Wagner Act, Social Security Act, Roosevelt's second term, election of 1936, Court-Packing Plan, Recession of 1937, New Deal ends and last reforms - National Housing Act, Federal Minimum Wage, Legacy - broker state, and safety net.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. Why did President Roosevelt decide to introduce a new legislation to fight the Depression?
b. How did the Wagner Act and Social Security Act affect Amercans?
c. Why do you think Roosevelt easily won reelection?
d. What impact has New Deal legislation had on federal and state governments?
6. Click here for History Channel's Presidents - Franklin D. Roosevelt Part 2.
7. Click here for Crash Course #34 - The New Deal.
8. No HOMEWORK today.
10 and 12 April 2017: Chapter 12 The Cold War 1945-1960
Due: World War II Battles Project due today. Start Date was 13 March.
1. Section 1 The Cold War Begins:
a. Objectives:
1. Trace the reasons that the wartime alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union unraveled.
2. Explain how President Truman responded to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
3. Describe the causes and results of Stalin's blockade of Berlin.
b. Terms and People: Satellite state, Cold War, iron curtain, Truman Doctrine, George F. Kennan, containment, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO, Warsaw Pact.
c. Focus on the conflict and rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Union, Truman and Stalin, Communist expansion and the Truman doctrine, the policy of containment of the spread of communism, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, and the alliances of NATO and Warsaw Pact.
Click here for the video on the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.
2. Activity in Class: Two Superpowers emerge from the ashes of World War II in Europe. The United States and the Soviet Union. Students will form four teams, two teams will take the United States position and perspective, two teams will take the Soviet Union's position and perspective. Both sides will answer the question, "What happened to postwar Europe and why did it happen?"
a. Analyze NATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the leaders Stalin and Truman.
b. Present your findings to the class, use a Google Slides, images, bullet points, quotes, and most of all primary sources.
3. Click here for the Crash Course video on The Cold War.
4. Click here for the Berlin Airlift and the Formation of NATO.
5. Click here for the Policy of Containment as proposed by George F. Kennan.
6. Click here for Part 1 from World War to Cold War.
7. Click here for Part 2 Containment.
8. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 12, Section 1 The Cold War Begins on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 13 April before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
14 April 2017: Chapter 12 The Cold War 1945-1960
1. Section 2 The Korean War:
a. Objectives:
1. Explain how Mao Zedong and the communists gained power in China.
2. Describe the causes and progress of the war in Korea.
3. Identify the long-term effects of the Korean War.
b. Terms and People: Jiang Jieshi, Mao Zedong, 38th parallel, Douglas MacArthur, limited war, SEATO.
c. Focus on how the communists gained control of China, the North Korean invasion of South Korea and the United Nations and United States forces defense of South Korea, MacArthur's role as the commander of all forces against the communists, the war stalemate and the lasting effects of the war today.
2. Activity in class: Should the United States Invade China? China's troops advance, driving U.S. soldiers and marines back into South Korea. General Douglas MacArthur favored a strong response that included an invasion of China. President Truman disagreed. What were the options - how would you decide?
3. Click here for the Crash Course Korean War.
4. Click here on Why did America fight the Korean War?
5. Click here for the History of the Korean War.
6. Click here for the Inchon Invasion by General MacArthur.
7. Click here for A Tribute to General MacArthur.
8. Click here for a brief Bio of Mao Zedong.
9. Click here for Harry S. Truman, 33rd President.
10. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 12, Section 2 The Korean War on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 18 April before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
18 April 2017: Chapter 12 The Cold War 1945-1960
**Today from 1135-1200 Mrs. Lucy will be talking about course selections for next year with our class.
1. Section 3 The Cold War Expands:
a. Objectives:
1. Describe the causes and results of the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
2. Explain how Eisenhower's response to communism differed from that of Truman.
3. Analyze worldwide Cold War conflicts that erupted in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and other places.
4. Discuss the effects of Soviet efforts in space exploration.
b. Terms and People: arms race, mutually assured destruction (MAD), John Foster Dulles, massive retaliation, brinkmanship, Nikita Khrushchev, nationalize, Suez crisis, Eisenhower doctrine, CIA, NASA.
c. Focus on: The arms race as a foundation of the Cold War, nuclear weapons expand, the Eisenhower Doctrine of containing communism and massive retaliation, impact of Stalin's death, the Cold War is global, the Domino Theory, the CIA, and the space race NASA.
2. Click here for the Crash Course Video on: USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War: Crash Course World History #39
3. Click here for Mutually Assured Destruction Book. And here for the doctrine. And here for the superpowers.
4. Click here for the Eisenhower Doctrine and the Suez Crisis.
5. Click here for Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President.
6. Click here for the Arms Race.
7. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 12, Section 3 The Cold War Expands on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 20 April before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
20 April 2017: Chapter 12 The Cold War 1945-1960
1. Section 4 The Cold War at Home:
a. Objectives:
1. Describe the efforts of President Truman and House of Representatives to fight communism at home.
2. Explain how domestic spy cases increased fears of communist influence in the U.S. government.
3. Analyze the rise and fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the methods of McCarthyism.
b. Terms: Red scare, Smith Act, HUAC, Hollywood Ten, blacklist, Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Joseph R. McCarthy, McCarthyism.
c. Focus on: The influence of communism in the United States, and the response of the people and government to domestic communism on the culture, Cold War spying in the United States, Civil liberties and National Security issues, the influence of McCarthyism.
2. Click here for the video on McCarthyism in America. Start at 4:00.
3. Click here for the Red Scare and HUAC.
4. Click here for the Crash Course video on: USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War.
5. Click here for the video "On The Brink: Doomsday" Nuclear War.
6. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 12, Section 4 The Cold War at Home on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 25 April before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
25 April 2017: Chapter 14 The Civil Rights Movement (1945-1975)
Project Presentation today: Conflict between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
1. Section 1 Early Demands for Equality:
a. Objectives:
1. Describe efforts to end segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
2. Explain the importance of Brown v. Board of Education.
3. Describe the controversy over school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.
4. Discuss the Montgomery bus boycott and its impact.
b. Terms and People: de jure segregation, de facto segregation, Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren, Civil Rights Act of 1957, Rosa Parks, Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr.
c. Focus on: A segregated America, history of the Civil Rights movement in America, Brown v. The Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall, Federal government and State government conflict over civil rights, Montgomery bus boycott and Rosa Parks, the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Class Assignment: Document Based Assessment - Montgomery Bus Boycott.
a. Students will break up in to partner teams, read and analyze the Boycott Timeline, and five primary source documents.
b. Guiding Question: Why did the Montgomery Bus Boycott Succeed?
b. To what extent was Rosa Parks responsible for its success?
c. Click here for the Montgomery Bus Boycott Lesson plan.
d. Click here for the Introduction to Rosa Parks video.
e. In 1955, just after the school desegregation decision, a black woman helped change American history. Like most southern cities (and many northern ones), Montgomery had a law that blacks had to sit in the back rows of the bus. One day, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus and sat down in the closest seat. It was one of the first rows of the section where blacks were not supposed to sit. The bus filled up and some white people were standing. The bus driver told Rosa Parks
that she would have to give up her seat to a white person. She refused and was arrested. The next evening, black leaders, many of them church ministers, met to decide if they should protest. A young minister who just moved to Montgomery from Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr., soon became the leader of the group. King and the others called for a black boycott of the Montgomery bus system. The boycott meant blacks refused to ride the buses. For months, the buses were almost empty because most of the riders had been black. Then, the boycott spread to white businesses in downtown Montgomery. King was arrested and jailed, but he continued to urge his followers to use a path of “non-violent resistance.” This meant that they would break laws that discriminated against blacks, but that they would not use violence… By 1960, black Americans had made some progress toward equality. The Supreme Court and other government actions had opened the door. But most blacks still were forced to live a second-class type of life.
3. Click here for the Crash Course video Civil Rights and the 1950s.
4. Click here for the video on Remembering Thurgood Marshall, Justice of the Supreme Court.
5. Click here for an interview with Rosa Parks. And a Bio here.
6. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 14, Section 1 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 27 April before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
27 April 2017: Chapter 14 The Civil Rights Movement (1945-1975)
1. Section 2 The Movement Gains Ground:
a. Objectives:
1. Describe the sit-ins, freedom rides, and the actions of James Meredith in the early 1960s.
2. Explain how the protests at Birmingham and the march on Washington were linked to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
3. Summarize the provisions of the Civil Rights act of 1964.
b. Terms and People: sit-in, SNCC, freedom ride, James Meredith, Medgar Evers, March on Washington, filibuster, Civil Rights Act of 1964.
c. Focus on: Student activists of all ethnic groups for civil rights, riding for freedom on the buses, protests and confrontations, President John Kennedy and his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy supports Civil Rights, the March on Washington - Dr. King, the passing of the Civil Rights Act by Congress.
2. Click here for the Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech.
3. Click here for for Dr. King's entire speech from the March on Washington August 28, 1963.
4. Click here for Dr. King's "I've been to the Mountaintop" complete speech just before he was killed in 1968.
5. Click here for: The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. by Kid President
6. Click here for the Freedom Riders.
7. Click here for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
8. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 14, Section 2 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 1 May before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
1 May 2017: Chapter 14 The Civil Rights Movement (1945-1975)
1. Section 3 New Successes and Challenges:
a. Objectives:
1. Explain the significance of Freedom Summer, the march on Selma, and why violence erupted in some American cities in the 1960s.
2. Compare the goals and methods of African American leaders.
3. Describe the social and economic situation of African Americans by 1975.
b. Terms and People: Freedom Summer, Fannie Lou Hamer, Voting Rights Act, Twenty-fourth Amendment, Kerner Commission, Malcolm X, Nation of Islam, black power, Black Panthers.
c. Focus on: The movement for voting rights, the march on Selma, racial violence in cities, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Twenty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution, moving away from nonviolence to promoting violence as a form of protest, the death of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968.
2. Continue with the Montgomery Bus Boycott in class.
3. Essay: Analyze MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
a. What is the "American Dream" to which King refers?
b. How well does King think the nation has lived up to its promise?
c. What do the many aspects of King's dream have in common?
d. Why might we have focused on that theme on the day he spoke?
e. What makes this speech so powerful?
f. Click here for a copy of the speech.
g. Use Google Document. See the document Mr. Hanson Shared with you as a template.
h. DUE DATE: 16 May 2017. Share with Mr. Hanson to his Google Drive at [email protected]
4. Click here for the debate between Dr. King and Malcolm X.
5. Click here for the history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
6. Click here and here for the Freedom Summer Project of 1964.
7. Click here for Fannie Lou Hamer's Testimony about Freedom Summer.
8. Click here for Malcolm X interviews.
9. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 14, Section 3 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 4 May before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
3 May 2017: Monte Cassino Trip/Anzio and Montgomery Bus Boycott
1. Review the field trip.
2. Continue the Montgomery Bus Boycott assignment in class. Due on 8 May in class.
3. Continue working on the MLK Essay in class. Due on 16 May in class.
5 May 2017: Chapter 15 The Kennedy and Johnson Years (1960-1968)
1. Section 1 Kennedy and the Cold War (CONTINUED TO 8 MAY):
a. Objectives:
1. Explain the steps Kennedy took to change American foreign policy.
2. Analyze the causes and effects of the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
3. Assess the results of the Berlin Crisis and other foreign-policy events of the 1960s.
b. Terms and People: John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Fidel Castro, flexible response, Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress, Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis, Nikita Khrushchev, hot line, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Berlin Wall.
c. Focus on: The 1960 Presidential election, new Cold War Strategies - military and Peace Corps, confronting the communist threat.
2. Click here for Crash Course 1960s America.
3. Click here for the APUSH Review - The Election of 1960.
4. Click here for: John F. Kennedy Presidential Inaugural Speech
5. Click here for The Peace Corps.
6. Click here for the Bay of Pigs Invasion - Khan Academy.
7. Click here for the Cuban Missile Crisis - Khan Academy.
8. Click here for a short video intro on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
9. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 15, Section 1 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 9 May before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
8 May 2017: Chapter 15 The Kennedy and Johnson Years (1960-1968)
1. ****On 12 May we will be taking a class field trip to the Anzio Museum (Piana Della Orme) to see the World War II battle sites, and equipment used during the war. We will also be taking a tour of the Monte Cassino battle sites and Monte Cassino itself. We will leave at 0800 and return at 1800 by bus. Cost for the trip is 20 euro.
a. Click here for the field trip form.
b. Click here for the video on the Battle of Monte Cassino.
c. Click here for the video on the Battle of San Pietro, filmed by John Houston.
d. Click here for the video on the 1st Special Service Force (Devil's Brigade)
e. Click here for the video, Monte Cassino - 9 months in hell.
f. Click here for the map of the Gustav Line.
1. Section 1 Kennedy and the Cold War (CONTINUED FROM 5 MAY):
a. Objectives:
1. Explain the steps Kennedy took to change American foreign policy.
2. Analyze the causes and effects of the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
3. Assess the results of the Berlin Crisis and other foreign-policy events of the 1960s.
b. Terms and People: John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Fidel Castro, flexible response, Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress, Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis, Nikita Khrushchev, hot line, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Berlin Wall.
c. Focus on: The 1960 Presidential election, new Cold War Strategies - military and Peace Corps, confronting the communist threat.
***Finish up Round 3 of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in class. Turn in your packets so Mr. Hanson can grade them.
2. Click here for Crash Course 1960s America.
3. Click here for the APUSH Review - The Election of 1960. Shown in class.
4. Click here for: John F. Kennedy Presidential Inaugural Speech. Shown in class
5. Click here for The Peace Corps.
6. Click here for the Bay of Pigs Invasion - Khan Academy.
7. Click here for the Bay of Pigs Invasion/President Kennedy, Nikita Kruschev, and Fidel Castro. As shown in class.
8. Click here for the Cuban Missile Crisis video as shown in class.
9. Click here for the Cuban Missile Crisis - Khan Academy.
10. Click here for a short video intro on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
11. Click here for President Kennedy's Speech at the Berlin Wall 1963, as shown in class.
12. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 15, Section 1 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 12 May before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
10 May 2017: All my students except 3 are taking their AP Language Arts test today in the Library. For my 3 students, the period will be seminar-like in nature.
12 May 2017: U.S. History Field trip - Field Trip to Monte Cassino Battle Sites, and Piana Della Orme Anzio Battlefield Museum today.
1. ****On 12 May we will be taking a class field trip to the Anzio Museum (Piana Della Orme) to see the World War II battle sites, and equipment used during the war. We will also be taking a tour of the Monte Cassino battle sites and Monte Cassino itself. We will leave at 0800 and return at 1800 by bus. Cost for the trip is 20 euro.
a. Click here for the field trip form.
b. Click here for the video on the Battle of Monte Cassino.
c. Click here for the video on the Battle of San Pietro, filmed by John Houston.
d. Click here for the video on the 1st Special Service Force (Devil's Brigade)
e. Click here for the video, Monte Cassino - 9 months in hell.
f. Click here for the map of the Gustav Line.
16 May 2017: Chapter 15 The Kennedy and Johnson Years (1960-1968)
*******Click here for the NHS Final Exam Schedule.
1. Section 2 Kennedy's New Frontier:
a. Objectives:
1. Evaluate Kennedy's domestic policies.
2. Asses the impact of the Kennedy assassination.
b. Terms and People: New Frontier, Equal pay Act, deficit spending, space race, Warren Commission.
c. Focus on the charisma of JFK, the goals of his domestic program, Kennedy's policy of Keynes economics and tax cuts for the middle class, the space race, his assassination.
2. MLK Essay assignment due today: Essay: Analyze MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
a. What is the "American Dream" to which King refers?
b. How well does King think the nation has lived up to its promise?
c. What do the many aspects of King's dream have in common?
d. Why might we have focused on that theme on the day he spoke?
e. What makes this speech so powerful?
f. Click here for a copy of the speech.
g. Use Google Document. See the document Mr. Hanson Shared with you as a template.
h. DUE DATE: 16 May 2017. Share with Mr. Hanson to his Google Drive at [email protected]
3. Click here for Kennedy's New Frontier speech.
4. Click here for The Space Race (1955-1975).
5. Click here for: How The Cold War Launched The Space Race
6. Click here for: 25 Fascinating Facts About The Space Race You Probably Didn’t Know
7. Click here for the National Geographic Documentary on the Race for Space.
8. Click here for the CBS broadcast of the announcement of the assassination of President Kennedy.
9. Click here for the death of President Kennedy. And here for the primary source videos of his assassination and funeral here.
10. NO HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT TODAY.
18 May 2017: Chapter 16 The Vietnam War Era (1954-1975)
1. Section 1 Origins of the Vietnam War:
a. Objectives:
1. Describe the reasons that the United States helped the French fight the Vietnamese.
2. Identify ways in which the United States opposed communism in Southeast Asia.
3. Analyze how the Unites States increased its involvement in Vietnam.
b. Terms and People: Ho Chi Minh, domino theory, SEATO, Vietcong, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
c. Focus on French influence in Southeast Asia, nationalistic movements in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, who was Ho Chi Minh, the Domino Theory and the incident at Dien Bien Phu, American involvement in Vietnam, Kennedy sends U.S. troops as advisors, Johnson leads America into war in Vietnam.
2. Click here for the French interview of Ho Chi Minh. In French. Here for Ho Chi introduction to the Vietnam War.
3. Click here for Why was the Vietnam War so complicated?
4. Click here for Part 1 of How the Vietnam War started.
5. Click here for Part 2 The Tactics of the Vietcong.
6. Click here for Part 3 The Tactics of the Americans.
7. Click here for Part 4 What problems did the Americans face.
8. Click here for Part 5 The Tet Offensive.
9. Click here for Part 6 How did the media affect the Vietnam War?
10. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 16, Section 1 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 22 May before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
22 May 2017: Chapter 16 The Vietnam War Era (1954-1975)
1. Section 2 U.S. Involvement Grows:
a. Objectives:
1. Identify the factors that caused President Johnson to increase American troop strength in Vietnam.
2. Assess the nature of the war in Vietnam and the difficulties faced by both sides.
3. Evaluate the effects of low morale on American troops and on the home front.
b. Terms and People: William Westmoreland, napalm, hawk, dove.
c. Focus on: war strategies of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and General William Westmoreland, guerrilla warfare, costly war in American lives, American military were heroes, patriots and fulfilled their duty, anti-war movement emerges.
2. Images of American heroes of the Vietnam war. Class discussion.
3. Click here for the TedEd video on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
4. Click here for the video on General William C. Westmoreland.
5. Click here for: Vietnam War Documentary: Inside the Viet Cong - Tactics, Weapons, Tunnels, Uniform
6. Class Assignment Document Based Assessment (DBQ): Civil Rights Act of 1964. Due 24 May.
a. Students will analyze two speeches (John F. Kennedy on 11 June 1963, and John Lewis during the March on Washington in August 1963).
b. Guiding questions:
1. What was the Civil Rights Act?
2. Do you believe that JFK was a strong supporter of civil rights? Why or why not?
c. Click here for the primary source video of President Kennedy's Civil Rights speech.
d. Click here for the primary source video of President Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and giving the pen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
7. Interesting Vietnam Video Resources:
Click here for Vietnam War Songs.
Click here for: Guerrilla warfare in vietnam the Punji Sticks
Click here for: F-4 Phantom Vs Mig21 - Hell Over Hanoi Documentary - History
Click here for: Vietnam War - USAF Battle at Khe Sanh - B-52 Air Strikes - 1967 to 1968
Click here for: Vietnam war - Siege at Khe Sanh 8/12 - Battlefield Series (Vietnam War) Full HD
Click here for the Battlefield Series: Vietnam war - Dien Bien Phu, The Legacy part 1/12 - Battlefield Series (Vietnam War) Full HD
Click here for: Battle of A Shau Valley (documentary) Hamburger Hill.
Click here for: Viet Cong : Documentary on the Viet Cong Soldiers of Vietnam
8. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 16, Section 2 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 24 May before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
24 May 2017: Chapter 16 The Vietnam War Era (1954-1975)
1. Section 3 The War Divides America:
a. Objectives:
1. Describe the divisions within American society over the Vietnam War.
2. Analyze the Tet Offensive and the American reaction to it.
3. Summarize the factors that influenced the outcome of the 1968 presidential election.
b. Terms and People: draftee, SDS, "credibility gap", Tet Offensive, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy.
c. Focus on: Antiwar protests and the draft, African Americans and the Vietnam War, activists on college campuses and violence, the Tet Offensive, Johnson steps down, violence rocks the 1968 presidential race and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are assassinated in 1968, Nixon wins the presidency.
Continue class Assignment Document Based Assessment (DBQ): Civil Rights Act of 1964. Due 24 May.
a. Students will analyze two speeches (John F. Kennedy on 11 June 1963, and John Lewis during the March on Washington in August 1963).
b. Guiding questions:
1. What was the Civil Rights Act?
2. Do you believe that JFK was a strong supporter of civil rights? Why or why not?
c. Click here for the primary source video of President Kennedy's Civil Rights speech.
d. Click here for the primary source video of President Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and giving the pen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Click here for the video on Vietnam War Protest documentary. (11:53 min)
3. Click here for Tet in Saigon and Hue 1968 Part 1.
4. Click here for Tet in Saigon and Hue 1968 Part 2.
4. Click here for Broken Arrow: A Vietnam War Story.
5. Click here for Johnson's resignation from the Presidency.
6. Click here for the 1968 Presidential Election explained.
7. Click here for the 1968 Presidential Election Riots.
8. Click here - Nixon wins the 1968 Presidential race.
9. Click here for Raw Uncut Vietnam War footage.
10. Click here for African American's in the Vietnam War.
11. Click here for the Vietnam War Documentary in HD.
12. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 16, Section 3 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 31 May before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
26 May 2017: No school due to CCRS Literacy Training for all teachers.
31 May 2017: Chapter 16 The Vietnam War Era (1954-1975)
1. Section 4 The War's End and Impact:
a. Objectives:
1. Assess Nixon's new approach to the war, and explain why protests continued.
2. Explain what led to the Paris Peace Accords and why South Vietnam eventually fell to the communists.
3. Evaluate the impact of the Vietnam War on the United States.
b. Terms: Vietnamization, My Lai, Pentagon Papers, Paris Peace Accords, War Powers Act.
c. Focus on: Nixon begins the withdrawal of military forces from South Vietnam - Peace with Honor, the situation with American troops in Cambodia, graph on page 553 of U.S. military personnel in Vietnam, violent protests at Kent State University, the My Lai massacre, Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, ending the war and the fall of Saigon, what was the lasting impact of the Vietnam War on the American public and the veterans who returned, how was the War Powers Act changed after Vietnam?
2. Click here for the Prager University video on The Truth about the Vietnam War.
3. Click here for the My Lai Massacre.
4. Click here for the Protests at Kent State University.
5. Click here for the Fall of Saigon and South Vietnam.
6. Click here for Vietnam - The Impact of the War.
7. In class Assignment: Why History Will Repay Your Love, "Knowing the past is ‘a wonderful way to enlarge the experience of being alive," says historian David McCullough. Assignment is on Schoology. For this assignment, you will need to read the article by Peggy Noonan, syndicated columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Your summary of this article must minimum a page in length, double spaced. You must also answer this question in your summary: How is knowing the past is a wonderful way to enlarge the experience of being alive? Assignment is due on 2 June. Please upload your assignment on Schoology to the assignment there, not Google Drive. Click here for the Article.
8. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 16, Section 4 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 1 June before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
*******Click here for the NHS Final Exam Schedule.
2 June 2017: Chapter 19 The Conservative Resurgence (1980-1993)
1. Section 1 The Conservative Movement Grows;
a Objectives:
1. Describe the differences between liberal and conservative viewpoints.
2. Analyze the reasons behind the rise of conservatism in the early 1980s.
3. Explain why Ronald Reagan won the presidency in 1980.
b. Terms and people: liberal, conservative, New Right, unfunded mandate, Moral Majority, Ronald Reagan.
c. Focus on: The views of liberals and conservatives, how the conservative movement started, Reagan won the Presidency, who was Ronald Reagan.
Click here for: How do you Judge America? Left vs. Right.
2. Click here for the video on Conservatism from Prager U. 4 min ****
3. Click here for the video on Conservative Values. 4 min
4. Click here for the video on Progressivism. 4 min
5. Click here for the video on Socialism.
6. Click here for the video on Democratic Socialism.
7. Click here for the Liberal/Conservative top 10 test.
8. Click here for "How Morals influence whether you are Liberal or Conservative".
9. Activity in class - Top Hat comparison and contrast both liberal and conservative views. Students will have 20 minutes to use any resource they wish to compare and contrast these two political ideologies. Class discussion will follow. Assignment is worth 100 points.
10. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 19, Section 1 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 5 June before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
*****Second Semester U.S. History Exam Study Guide. Questions from this guide below will be on your semester exam. Your exam will be on Schoology on 14 June. If you are going to be absent, you will need to make arrangements to take your exam before 14 June. This is a general study guide.
1. Chapter 8 The Great Depression: What were the causes, how did it begin, how did it affect average Americans in the cities and rural areas, what was the dust bowl and its consequences, what was the governments response.
2. Chapter 9 The New Deal: FDR's plan to lead the country out of the depression, FDR's first one hundred days in office and what he was able to accomplish, what was the opposition to the New Deal. What was the Second New Deal and what did it accomplish for the country, what is Social Security and why was it needed, what was the role of Labor Unions in the New Deal, how did the New Deal help minorities, and build a new political coalition, what were the effects of government expansion during this time.
3. Chapter 10 Dictators and War: Who were the dictators, how did they seize power, and what influence (or aggression) did they have on their in and out of their countries; America tended to be isolationist - why and how did we get involved in the war in Europe, what was the debate between the isolationists and those that supported intervention in the war, what was the Atlantic Charter, how did America enter the war and what was it like in the first few months for the Americans, how was industry mobilized, what was the fighting like in the Pacific, what did the U.S. do to strike back at Japan.
4. Chapter 11 World War II: How did the allies turn the tide of the war, what was their strategy, how was the pressure turned up against Germany, what was the strategy in the Pacific and how did the U.S. take the offensive against the Japanese, what was it like for Americans at home, what were the new economic opportunities for Americans, how did the country support the war effort, how did the Allies and the U.S. obtain victory in Europe and in the Pacific, what was the plan after victory, the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the atomic bomb details, the Holocaust - its beginnings and result, and how the U.S. took action, the effects of the war and postwar goals for Germany and Japan, the new world order, international cooperation - UN, the U.S. and global leadership.
5. Chapter 12 The Cold War Begins: Causes of the Cold War, the Truman Doctrine and the competition between the superpowers Russia and the U.S., containing Soviet Expansion Kennan, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, China becomes communist, the Korean War and U.S. involvement, MacArthur and his war strategy in Korea, result of the Korean War, expansion of the Cold War as a Global issue, the Arms Race, Eisenhower's policy, the Cold War effects in the American homeland - communism and the Red Scare, spy cases and McCarthyism.
6. Chapter 14 The Civil Rights Movement: Segregation divided America, Jim Crow laws, the growth of the Civil Rights movement, Brown v. Board of Education and Thurgood Marshall, State governments clash with the Federal government over civil rights, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., student activists and Sit-Ins, Freedom Riders, Kennedy's actions, the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, nonviolent protest, voting rights, Freedom Summer, March on Selma, racial violence, Malcolm X and the promotion of violence.
7. Chapter 15 Kennedy and Johnson Years: Kennedy and his Cold War strategies, the election of 1960, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy's New Frontier, his domestic program, his assassination.
8. Chapter 16 Vietnam War Era: the origins of the Vietnam War, the Domino Theory, American opposes communism in Vietnam, Kennedy sends U.S. troops, Johnson leads the nation in declaring war on North Vietnam, how the U.S. involvement increased and escalated, what was the enemy like, how frustrating was the war, the patriotism of American troops, the anti-war movement, war weakens the economy, America becomes divided and protests increase, the Tet Offensive is the turning point, violence rocks the 1968 presidential race, MLK and Robert Kennedy assassinated in 1968, Nixon's withdrawal strategy, American troops in Cambodia, violence at Kent State, the My Lai massacre, Pentagon Papers, how did the war end, the results of the war and how it impacted the U.S. for many years in the future.
6 June 2017: Chapter 19 The Conservative Resurgence (1980-1993)
1. Section 2 The Reagan Revolution:
a. Objectives:
1. Analyze Reagan's economic policies as President.
2. Summarize how Reagan strengthened the conservative movement.
3. Evaluate the steps taken to address various problems in the 1980s and early 1990s.
b. Terms and People: Supply-side economics, deregulation, Budget Deficit, national debt, Savings and Loan crisis, voucher, AIDS.
c. Focus on: Reaganomics policy guide the economy and it booms, recovery from Carter's recession, problems that budget deficits cause, Conservatives continue with Reagan's reelection in 1984, Supreme Court justices, George HW Bush becomes president in 1988 - he was Reagan's Vice President, the Challenger explosion, AIDS crisis.
2. Click here for Ronald Reagan - The 40th President of the United States. 10 min ****
Click here for Why America's military must be strong.
3. Click here for the Crash Course on the Reagan Revolution.
4. Click here for: Challenger: President Reagan's Challenger Disaster Speech - 1/28/86
5. Click here for the Best of Reagan.
6. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 19, Section 2 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 8 June before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
8 June 2017: Chapter 19 The Conservative Resurgence (1980-1993)
1. Section 3 The End of the Cold War:
a. Objectives:
1. Analyze the ways that Ronald Reagan challenged communism and the Soviet Union.
2. Explain why communism collapsed in Europe and the Soviet Union.
3. Describe other foreign policy challenges that faced the United States in the 1980s.
b. Terms and People: Strategic Defense Initiative, Contras, Mikhail Gorbachev, glasnost, perestroika, Iran-Contra affair.
c. Focus on: Reagan builds up the U.S. military, and he challenges communism, Gorbachev pursues Soviet reform, the American's and Soviets meet and develop friendships, the Fall of Communism and the ending of the Cold War in Eastern Europe.
2. Click here for the Crash Course on The Rise of Conservatism.
3. Click here for long version, and here for short version of Reagan's Berlin Speech - "Tear Down this Wall Mr. Gorbachov!"
4. Click here for "The End of the Cold War".
5. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 19, Section 3 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 11 June before your next class. Click here for the link to Schoology.
12 June 2017: Study for your Final Semester Exams today in class.
Trip to ..........
1. Click here for "Why America's Military must be Strong".
2. Click here for "Why America Must Lead".
3. Click here for "What Makes America Different".
4. Click here for "How do you Judge America? Left vs. Right.
*******Click here for the NHS Final Exam Schedule.
14 June 2017: U.S. History Semester Exam today 0750-0915 am.
*****Second Semester U.S. History Exam Study Guide. Questions from this guide below will be on your semester exam. Your exam will be on Schoology on 14 June. If you are going to be absent, you will need to make arrangements to take your exam before 14 June. This is a general study guide.
1. Chapter 8 The Great Depression: What were the causes, how did it begin, how did it affect average Americans in the cities and rural areas, what was the dust bowl and its consequences, what was the governments response.
2. Chapter 9 The New Deal: FDR's plan to lead the country out of the depression, FDR's first one hundred days in office and what he was able to accomplish, what was the opposition to the New Deal. What was the Second New Deal and what did it accomplish for the country, what is Social Security and why was it needed, what was the role of Labor Unions in the New Deal, how did the New Deal help minorities, and build a new political coalition, what were the effects of government expansion during this time.
3. Chapter 10 Dictators and War: Who were the dictators, how did they seize power, and what influence (or aggression) did they have on their in and out of their countries; America tended to be isolationist - why and how did we get involved in the war in Europe, what was the debate between the isolationists and those that supported intervention in the war, what was the Atlantic Charter, how did America enter the war and what was it like in the first few months for the Americans, how was industry mobilized, what was the fighting like in the Pacific, what did the U.S. do to strike back at Japan.
4. Chapter 11 World War II: How did the allies turn the tide of the war, what was their strategy, how was the pressure turned up against Germany, what was the strategy in the Pacific and how did the U.S. take the offensive against the Japanese, what was it like for Americans at home, what were the new economic opportunities for Americans, how did the country support the war effort, how did the Allies and the U.S. obtain victory in Europe and in the Pacific, what was the plan after victory, the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the atomic bomb details, the Holocaust - its beginnings and result, and how the U.S. took action, the effects of the war and postwar goals for Germany and Japan, the new world order, international cooperation - UN, the U.S. and global leadership.
5. Chapter 12 The Cold War Begins: Causes of the Cold War, the Truman Doctrine and the competition between the superpowers Russia and the U.S., containing Soviet Expansion Kennan, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, China becomes communist, the Korean War and U.S. involvement, MacArthur and his war strategy in Korea, result of the Korean War, expansion of the Cold War as a Global issue, the Arms Race, Eisenhower's policy, the Cold War effects in the American homeland - communism and the Red Scare, spy cases and McCarthyism.
6. Chapter 14 The Civil Rights Movement: Segregation divided America, Jim Crow laws, the growth of the Civil Rights movement, Brown v. Board of Education and Thurgood Marshall, State governments clash with the Federal government over civil rights, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., student activists and Sit-Ins, Freedom Riders, Kennedy's actions, the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, nonviolent protest, voting rights, Freedom Summer, March on Selma, racial violence, Malcolm X and the promotion of violence.
7. Chapter 15 Kennedy and Johnson Years: Kennedy and his Cold War strategies, the election of 1960, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy's New Frontier, his domestic program, his assassination.
8. Chapter 16 Vietnam War Era: the origins of the Vietnam War, the Domino Theory, American opposes communism in Vietnam, Kennedy sends U.S. troops, Johnson leads the nation in declaring war on North Vietnam, how the U.S. involvement increased and escalated, what was the enemy like, how frustrating was the war, the patriotism of American troops, the anti-war movement, war weakens the economy, America becomes divided and protests increase, the Tet Offensive is the turning point, violence rocks the 1968 presidential race, MLK and Robert Kennedy assassinated in 1968, Nixon's withdrawal strategy, American troops in Cambodia, violence at Kent State, the My Lai massacre, Pentagon Papers, how did the war end, the results of the war and how it impacted the U.S. for many years in the future.
15 June 2017: Seminar this morning and Semester Exam make-ups. Last day of school - release at 11:00 am.
ARCHIVED FROM 2019 YEAR:
18 April 2019: Chapter 16 World War I and Its Aftermath
DoDEA Standard 11.6 The Rise of American Power 1890-1920: Numerous factors contributed to the rise of the United States as a world power. Debates over the United States' role in world affairs increased in response to overseas expansion and involvement in World War I. United States participation in the war had important effects on American Society.
Lesson 2 The Homefront:
1. Essential Questions: Why do nations go to war?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Migrate, Draft.
3. Content Vocabulary: Victory garden, espionage.
4. People, Places and Events: War Industries Board (WIB), Food Administration, Fuel Administration, mobilizing the workforce to support the war effort, National War Labor Board (NWLB), Committee on Public Information (CPI), Schenck v. United States - free speech limited, military volunteers and conscripts, Selective Service Act of 1917, the Draft, service included White Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, women joined the military.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. What did Congress do to prepare the economy for war?
b. How were progressive ideals used in preparing the military for war?
6. Click here for Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. And here for the failure of the League of Nations.
7. Click here for How World War I Began Part 2 - Crash Course 210.
8. Click here for the Complete World War I Documentary - U.S. Enters 51:10 on video.
9. Mini-Bio Report/Presentation - Identify and research American individuals who had a major impact on World War I (July 1914-Nov 1918). You can only use three Google Slides. List who they are (background), and their major accomplishments focusing on their contribution to the war effort (or if they opposed the war). Use only two images. Document and Presentation due on 22 April in class. 100 project points.
10. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 16, Lesson 2 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 20 April. Click here for the link to Schoology.
22 April 2019: Chapter 16 World War I and Its Aftermath
Lesson 3 A Bloody Conflict/Lesson 4 The War's Impact:
1. Essential Questions: Why do Nations go to War?
2. Academic Vocabulary: Network, resolve, adequately, widespread, authorities.
3. Content Vocabulary: Convoy, amistice, national self-determination, reparations, cost of living, deport, general strike.
4. People, Places and Events: Trench warfare, new technology, chemical warfare, war at sea, Doughboys, the Russian Communist Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, and Vladimir Lenin, Battle of the Argonne Forest, Private Alvin York, Armistice, Wilson's Fourteen Points, Treaty of Versailles and the U.S. Senate rejection of it, Europe is weakened after the war; American economy in turmoil, worker strikes and inflation of prices, racial unrest, the Red Scare, The Palmer Raids, Election of 1920.
5. Guiding Questions:
a. How did new technologies increase the number of casualties compared with previous wars?
b. Why was the arrival of U.S. forces so important to the war effort?
c. Why did President Wilson's ideas for peace negotiations differ from those of French premier Clemenceau and British prime minister Lloyd George?
d. Why did many workers participate in strikes following the war?
e. Do you agree or disagree with A. Mitchel Palmer's efforts to prevent a "radical" revolution in the United States?
6. Click here for Crash Course - Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I #36.
7. Click here for the Complete World War I Documentary.
8. Click here for the Complete World War I Documentary - U.S. Enters 51:10 on video.
9. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Chapter 16, Lesson 3 and 4 on Schoology. This assignment will be due on 24 April. Click here for the link to Schoology.
10. RESOURCE: Click here for History Brief 1930s.