11th Grade- History and Geography: Change in the Twentieth Century
par Sarah Babcock
1. The Great Depression and the New Deal
1.1. The monetary issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that gave rise to the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the weaknesses in key sectors of the economy in the late 1920s. (H/SS Content Standard 11.6.1)
1.2. The explanations of the principal causes of the Great Depression and the steps taken by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and Presidents Herbert Hoover andFranklin Delano Roosevelt to combat the economic crisis. (H/SS Content Standard 11.6.2)
1.3. The human toll of the Depression, natural disasters, and unwise agriculturalpractices and their effects on the depopulation of rural regions and on politicalmovements of the left and right, with particular attention to the Dust Bowl refugeesand their social and economic impacts in California. (H/SS Content Standard 11.6.3)
1.4. The effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy since the 1930s. (H/SS Content Standard 11.6.4)
1.5. The advances and retreats of organized labor, from the creation of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations to current issues of a postindustrial, multinational economy, including the United Farm Workers in California. (H/SS Content Standard 11.6.5)
2. World War II
2.1. The origins of American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events that precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor. (H/SS Content Standard 11.7.1)
2.2. U.S. and Allied wartime strategy, including the major battles of Midway, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Battle of the Bulge. (H/SS Content Standard 11.7.2)
2.3. The roles and sacrifices of individual American soldiers, as well as the unique contributions of the special fighting forces. (H/SS Content Standard 11.7.3)
2.4. Roosevelt’s foreign policy. (H/SS Content Standard 11.7.4)
2.5. The constitutional issues and impact of events on the U.S. home front, including the internment of Japanese Americans, and the restrictions on German and Italian resident aliens; the response of the administration to Hitler’s atrocities against Jews and other groups; the roles of women in military production; and the roles and growing political demands of African Americans. (H/SS Content Standard 11.7.5)
2.5.1. Activity: Have students, after having been taught a lesson about Japanese Internment, form their own opinions on whether the Internment of Japanese-Americans was due to a military necessity or not.
2.6. Major developments in aviation, weaponry, communication, and medicineand the war’s impact on the location of American industry and use of resources. (H/SS Content Standard 11.7.6)
2.7. The decision to drop atomic bombs and the consequences of the decision. (H/SS Content Standard 11.7.7)
2.8. The effect of massive aid given to Western Europe under the Marshall Plan to rebuild itself after the war and the importance of a rebuilt Europe to the U.S.economy. (H/SS Content Standard 11.7.8)
3. Post-World War II America
3.1. The growth of service sector, white collar, and professional sector jobs in business and government. (H/SS Content Standard 11.8.1)
3.2. The significance of Mexican immigration and its relationship to the agricultural economy, especially in California. (H/SS Content Standard 11.8.2)
3.3. Truman’s labor policy and congressional reaction. (H/SS Content Standard 11.8.3)
3.4. New federal government spending on defense, welfare, interest on the national debt, and federal and state spending on education, including the California Master Plan. (H/SS Content Standard 11.8.4)
3.5. The increased powers of the presidency in response to the Great Depression,World War II, and the Cold War. (H/SS Content Standard 11.8.5)
3.6. The diverse environmental regions of North America, their relationship to local economies, and the origins and prospects of environmental problems in those regions. (H/SS Content Standard 11.8.6)
3.7. The effects on society and the economy of technological developments since 1945, including the computer revolution, changes in communication, advances in medicine, and improvements in agricultural technology. (H/SS Content Standard 11.8.7)
3.8. Popular culture, with emphasis on their origins and geographic diffusion. (H/SS Content Standard 11.8.8)
4. U.S. Foreign Policy Since World War II
4.1. The establishment of the United Nations and International Declaration ofHuman Rights, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and their importance in shaping modern Europe and maintaining peace and international order. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.1)
4.2. The role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring communist aggression and maintaining security during the Cold War. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.2)
4.3. The era of McCarthyism, instances of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and blacklisting. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.3)
4.4. The Truman Doctrine. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.3)
4.5. The Berlin Blockade. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.3)
4.6. The Korean War. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.3)
4.7. The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.3)
4.8. Atomic testing in the American West, the “mutual assured destruction” doctrine, and disarmament policies. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.3)
4.9. The Vietnam War. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.3)
4.10. Latin American policy. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.3)
4.11. Effects of foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa.(H/SS Content Standard 11.9.4)
4.12. the role of the Reagan administration and other factors in the victory of theWest in the Cold War. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.5)
4.13. U.S. Middle East policy and its strategic, political, and economic interests, including those related to the Gulf War. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.6)
4.14. relations between the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century, including key economic, political, immigration, and environmental issues. (H/SS Content Standard 11.9.7)
5. Civil and Voting Rights
5.1. The demands of African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rights, including President Roosevelt’s ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in 1941, and how African Americans’ service in World War II produced a stimulus for President Truman’s decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948. (H/SS Content Standard 11.10.1)
5.2. The key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civilrights, including Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education,Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, and California Proposition 209. (H/SS Content Standard 11.10.2)
5.3. The collaboration on legal strategy between African American and white civil rights lawyers to end racial segregation in higher education. (H/SS Content Standard 11.10.3)
5.4. The roles of civil rights advocates and their work. (H/SS Content Standard 11.10.4)
5.5. The diffusion of the civil rights movement of African Americans from the churches of the rural South and the urban North, including the resistance to racial desegregation in Little Rock and Birmingham, and how the advances influenced the agendas, strategies, and effectiveness of the quests of American Indians, AsianAmericans, and Hispanic Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities. (H/SS Content Standard 11.10.5)
5.6. The passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment. (H/SS Content Standard 11.10.6)
5.7. The women’s rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Stanton and SusanAnthony and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s, including differing perspectives on the roles of women. (H/SS Content Standard 11.10.7)
6. Contemporary America
6.1. The reasons for the nation’s changing immigration policy. (H/SS Content Standard 11.11.1)
6.2. The significant domestic policy speeches of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy,Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. (H/SS Content Standard 11.11.2)
6.3. The changing roles of women in society as reflected in the entry of more women into the labor force and the changing family structure. (H/SS Content Standard 11.11.3)
6.4. The constitutional crisis originating from the Watergate scandal. (H/SS Content Standard 11.11.4)
6.5. The impact of, need for, and controversies associated with environmental conservation, expansion of the national park system, and the development of environmental protection laws, with particular attention to the interaction between environmental protection advocates and property rights advocates. (H/SS Content Standard 11.11.5)
6.6. The persistence of poverty and how different analyses of this issue influence welfare reform, health insurance reform, and other social policies. (H/SS Content Standard 11.11.6)
6.7. The federal, state, and local governments have responded to demographic and social changes such as population shifts to the suburbs, racial concentrations in the cities, Frostbelt-to-Sunbelt migration, international migration, decline of family farms, increases in out-of-wedlock births, and drug abuse. (H/SS Content Standard 11.11.7)
7. The Founding of a Nation
7.1. The Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas. (H/SS Content Standard 11.1.1)
7.2. The American Revolution, the Founding Fathers’ philosophy of divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights, the debates on thedrafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights. (H/SS Content Standard 11.1.2)
7.3. The history of the Constitution after 1787 with emphasis on federalversus state authority and growing democratization. (H/SS Content Standard 11.1.3)
7.4. Examine the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the industrial revolution, including demographic shifts and the emergence in the late nineteenth centuryof the United States as a world power. (H/SS Content Standard 11.1.4)
8. Industrialization, Large-scale Rural-to-urban Migration, and Massive Immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe
8.1. The effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including theportrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. (H/SS Content Standard 11.2.1)
8.2. The changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and trade, and the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class. (H/SS Content Standard 11.2.2)
8.3. The Americanization movement. (H/SS Content Standard 11.2.3)
8.3.1. Activity: With contextual information given in previous class periods about European immigration, students will be asked to define what "Americanization" means to them, and then move into a class discussion. After the discussion, present the history of Americanization.
8.4. The urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class reformers. (H/SS Content Standard 11.2.4)
8.5. The corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders. (H/SS Content Standard 11.2.5)
8.6. The economic development of the United States and its emergence as a major industrial power, including its gains from trade and the advantages of its physical geography. (H/SS Content Standard 11.2.6)
8.7. The ideologies of Social Darwinism and Social Gospel. (H/SS Content Standard 11.2.7)
8.8. The political programs and activities of Populists. (H/SS Content Standard 11.2.8)
8.9. The political programs and activities of the Progressives. (H/SS Content Standard 11.2.9)
9. The Founding of America
9.1. The contributions of various religious groups to American civic principles and social reform movements. (H/SS Content Standard 11.3.1)
9.2. The great religious revivals and the leaders involved in them, including theFirst Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening, the Civil War revivals, theSocial Gospel Movement, the rise of Christian liberal theology in the nineteenth century, the impact of the Second Vatican Council, and the rise of Christian fundamentalism in current times. (H/SS Content Standard 11.3.2)
9.3. Religious intolerance in the United States. (H/SS Content Standard 11.3.3)
9.4. Religious pluralism in the United States and California that resulted from large-scale immigration in the twentieth century. (H/SS Content Standard 11.3.4)
9.5. The principles of religious liberty found in the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment, including the debate on the issue of separation of church and state. (H/SS Content Standard 11.3.5)
10. The US as a World Power
10.1. The Open Door policy. (H/SS Content Standard 11.4.1)
10.2. The Spanish-American War and U.S. expansion in the South Pacific. (H/SS Content Standard 11.4.2)
10.3. The Panama Revolution and the building of the Panama Canal. (H/SS Content Standard 11.4.3)
10.4. Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick diplomacy, William Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy, and Woodrow Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy (H/SS Content Standard 11.4.4)
10.4.1. Activity: Analyze the above political cartoon to represent he popular feeling among citizens at the time regarding Big Stick Diplomacy. Have students look at the picture, while teaching them to look for intended audience and contextual clues.