Public Schools of Robeson CountyAmerican History II
SOCIAL STUDIES AH 2 Unit 6
INSTRUCTIONAL ALIGNMENT
The United States attempts to maintain a neutral status as the world enters WWII. Once a part of the conflict, the United States military forces are important in both the European and Pacific theaters. Following the war the United States and its allies establish the United Nations and the world enters a period of heightened tensions known as the Cold War.
Essential Standards: :AH2.H.1 Apply the four interconnected dimensions of historical thinking to United States History Essential Standards in order to understand the creation and development of the United States over time
AH2.H.2 Analyze key political ,economic and social turning points in United States History using historical thinking AH2.H.3 Understand the factors that led to exploration, settlement, movement and expansion and their impact on United States development over time
AH2.H.6 Understand how and why the role of the United States in the world has changed over time
AH2.H.7 Understand the impact of war on American politics, economics, society and culture
AH2.H.8 Analyze the relationship between progress, crisis and the “American Dream”within the United States
Clarifying Objective
AH2.H.1.1 (Use Chronological thinking)
AH2.H.1.2 (Use Historical Comprehension)
AH2.H.1.3 (Use Historical Analysis and Interpretation)
AH2.H.1.4 (Historical Research)
AH2.H.2.1: Analyze key political, economic and social turning points since Reconstruction in terms of causes and effects AH2.H.2.2: Evaluate key turning points since Reconstruction in terms of their lasting impact
AH2.H.3.2 Explain how environmental, cultural and economic factors influenced the patterns of migration and settlement within the United States since the end of Reconstruction
AH2.H.4.1 Analyze the political issues and conflicts that impacted the United States since Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted AH2.H.6.1 Explain how national economic and political interests helped set the direction of United States foreign policy since Reconstruction
AH2.H.6.2 Explain the reasons for United States involvement in global wars and the influence each involvement had on international affairs
AH2.H.7.1 Explain the impact of wars on American politics since Reconstruction
AH2.H.7.2 Explain the impact of wars on the American economy since Reconstruction
AH2.H.7.3 Explain the impact of wars on American society and culture since Reconstruction
AH2.H.8.2 Explain how opportunity and mobility impacted various groups within American society since Reconstruction AH2.H.8.3 Evaluate the extent to which a variety of groups and individuals have had opportunity to attain their perception of the “American Dream”since Reconstruction
Essential Questions
Pacing Guide: 8 days / What were the main causes of WWII?
What factors combined to draw the world and the US into WWII?
How did the US respond to the new war?
Was US involvement in WWII inevitable?
What was the US military’s role in the war in Europe?
How and why did WWII impact the impact the economic, social, cultural, and political life in the US?
What was the effect of the Holocaust?
To what extent was America’s decision to drop the Atomic Bomb a viable option to ending the war in the Pacific?
How did WWII lead to the political conflict of the Cold War?
Focus: Neutrality to WWII, expansion, European and Pacific theaters, peace, the Cold War
Unit of Study / Major Concepts / Instructional Task / Essential Vocabulary / Instructional Resources / Sample Assessment Prompts
World War II and the Cold War / International affairs, foreign policy, war and the impact of war / Define current vocabulary
Discuss concepts for the unit of study.
Examine and explain the impact of economic, political and social policies on this time period.
Analyze reasons for and impact of expansion and overseas involvement and empire.
Compare and contrast imperialistic and isolationist tactics and motives.
Explain the impact of the assimilation of cultures on progress and the “American Dream”. / Prior: Neutrality
Isolationism
Totalitarianism
Fascism
World war / Text Resources:
George F. Kenan, “The Long Telegram”
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Geneva Accords of 1954
Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
Political Cartoons of Dr. Seuss / To what extent did the United States adopt an isolationist policy in the 1920s and 1930s? (1998)
Analyze the influence of TWO of the following on American-Soviet relations in the decade following the Second World War. (1996)
Yalta Conference
Communist revolution in China
Korean War McCarthyism
How do you account for the appeal of McCarthyism in the United States in the era following the Second World War? (1997)
While the United States appeared to be dominated by consensus and conformity in the 1950s, some Americans reacted against the status quo. Analyze the critiques of United States society made by TWO of the following. (2006)
Youth
Civil Rights Activists
intellectuals
Current:
Totalitarianism
2. Joseph Stalin
3. Benito Mussolini
4. Adolf Hitler
5. Blitzkrieg
6. Axis Powers
7. Allies
8. Winston Churchill
9. Neutrality Act of 1939
10. Tripartite Pact
11. Lend-Lease Act
12. Atlantic Charter
13. Hideki Tojo
14. Pearl Harbor
15. WAC
16. Douglas MacArthur
17. Bataan Death March
18. Battle of Coral Sea
19. Dwight D. Eisenhower
20. George Patton, Jr.
21. Unconditional surrender
22. Tuskegee Airmen
23. Chester Nimitz
24. Battle of Midway
25. A. Philip Randolph
26. Executive Order 8802
27. Internment
28. Rationing
29. Office of War Information
30. D-Day
31. Battle of the Bulge
32. Harry Truman
33. Island hopping
34. Kamikaze
35. Albert Einstein
36. J. Robert Oppenheimer
37. Manhattan Project
38. Holocaust
39. Nuremburg Trials
40. Kristallnacht
41. War Refugee board
42. Yalta Conference
43. United Nations
44. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
45. Geneva Convention / Digital Resources:
govpub/collections/wwii-posters/
Introductory:
Civil Rights
Environmental issues
Conformity to individualism / Literary Connections:
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bells
Toll
John Knowles, A Separate Peace
George Orwell, 1984
John Hersey, Hiroshima
Ernie Pyle,
John Steinbeck,
Elie Wiesel, Night