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Fall Semester

Unit #1: Foundations of American History

  1. Understanding Americas Founding Ideals

  2. Revolutionary War Timeline Reading

  3. Constitution Readers Theater

  4. Ideals in the Civil War Era Reading 

  5. Ideals in the Reconstruction Era Reading

  6. Juneteenth Article (extra credit)

 

Unit #2: Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization & Reform

  1. Industrialism Spreads to the U.S.

  2. Big Business Reading

  3. Captain of Industry vs Robber Baron

  4. Effects of Industrialization Reading

 

Unit #3: America Becomes a World Power

  1. "White Man's Burden" Reading

  2. Presidential Foreign Policies

  3. World War I Homefront Reading

  4. Treaty of Versailles Summary

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Unit #4: Between the Wars

  1. 1920s Tension Reading

  2. 1920s Reading (extra credit)

 

Unit #5: Causes & Early Events of WWII

  1. Road to War

  2. American Response to the Holocaust (use this to answer video qs - if absent)

  3. Pearl Harbor: A Surprise?

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Spring Semester

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Unit #1: End & Effects of World War II​​​​

  1. Impact of WWII (World War II and the Economy)

  2. Opportunities & Hardships (reading to print & annotate)

  3. D-Day

  4. Internment Extra Credit Reading

  5. A-Bomb Reading
     

Unit #2: Early Cold War

  1. Causes of the Cold War​

  2. Korean War Reading

  3. Government Response to the Red Scare and the Creation of the CIA

  4. Red Scare Reading

  5. Kennedy & the Cold War

  6. History Alive Reading for Paragraph

 

Unit #3: Conformity & Change

  1. JFK Inaugural Address

  2. JFK Assassination Reading #1 and #2

  3. Great Society Speech

  4. Pro-Con Analysis of Great Society

  5. Youth Culture & Politics

  6. Segregation Reading

 

Unit #4: The Vietnam Conflict

  1. Introduction to Vietnam Reading

  2. Getting Drafted

  3. What Did you do in the Class War Daddy?

  4. Stop the War

  5. TET Offensive

  6. 1968 Overview

  7. Nixon's War/Vietnamization

  8. Kent State Incident

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Unit #5: Modern Foreign Policy

  1. Reagan & Bush Cold War Policies

  2. Post Cold War Foreign Policy

  3. War on Terror 

  4. 9-11 and the American Ideals 

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