University City High School 2023-24
AP United States History
Honors United States History
Mr. Brown
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United States History Schedule
Semester 2
2023
Semester 2
2023
Q2 Week 16-17
1960-1968
C20 The New Frontier and the Great Society
C20.1 Kennedy and the Cold War
C21 Civil Rights 1960-65
C21.2 The Triumphs of the Crusade
C22 The Vietnam War Years
2. Study Guide Due 6/2
3. Assessment 6/9
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Q2 Week 16
5/15-5/19
Postwar America 1950s
In 1945, the United States was a far different country than it subsequently became. Nearly a third of Americans lived in poverty. A third of the country's homes had no running water, two-fifths lacked flushing toilets, and three-fifths lacked central heating. More than half of the nation's farm dwellings had no electricity. Most African Americans still lived in the South, where racial segregation in schools and public accommodations were still the law. The number of immigrants was small as a result of immigration quotas enacted during the 1920s. Shopping malls had not yet been introduced.
Following World War II, the United States began an economic boom that brought unparalleled prosperity to a majority of its citizens and raised Americans expectations, breeding a belief that most economic and social problems could be solved. Among the crucial themes of this period were the struggle for equality among women and minorities, and the backlash that these struggles evoked; the growth of the suburbs, and the shift in power from the older industrial states and cities of the Northeast and upper Midwest to the South and West; and the belief that the U.S. had the economic and military power to maintain world peace and shape the behavior of other nations.
During the early 1970s, films like American Graffiti and television shows like Happy Days portrayed the 1950s as a carefree era--a decade of tail-finned Cadillac's, collegians stuffing themselves in phone booths, and innocent tranquility and static charm. In truth, the post-World War II period was an era of intense anxiety and dynamic, creative change. During the 1950s, African Americans quickened the pace of the struggle for equality by challenging segregation in court. A new youth culture emerged with its own form of music--rock n' roll. Maverick sociologists, social critics, poets, and writers--conservatives as well as liberals--authored influential critiques of American society.
Ch. 19.2 The American Dream in the Fifties
Ch. 21.1 Taking on Segregation
4. Oral Interview Worksheet due 5/24
5. Final Project due 6/9
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Q2 Week 15
5/2-5/5
World War II
On September 1, 1939, World War II started when Germany invaded Poland. By November 1942, the Axis powers controlled territory from Norway to North Africa and from France to the Soviet Union. After defeating the Axis in North Africa in May 1941, the United States and its Allies invaded Sicily in July 1943 and forced Italy to surrender in September. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies landed in Northern France. In December, a German counteroffensive (the Battle of the Bulge) failed. Germany surrendered in May 1945. The United States entered the war following a surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. Pacific fleet in Hawaii. The United States and its Allies halted Japanese expansion at the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and in other campaigns in the South Pacific. From 1943 to August 1945, the Allies hopped from island to island across the Central Pacific and also battled the Japanese in China, Burma, and India. Japan agreed to surrender on August 14, 1945 after the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Consequences:
1. The war ended Depression unemployment and dramatically expanded government's presence in American life. It led the federal government to create a War Production Board to oversee conversion to a wartime economy and the Office of Price Administration to set prices on many items and to supervise a rationing system.
2. During the war, African Americans, women, and Mexican Americans founded new opportunities in industry. But Japanese Americans living on the Pacific coast were relocated from their homes and placed in internment camps.
The Cold War
After World War II, the United States clashed with the Soviet Union over such issues as the Soviet dominance over Eastern Europe, control of atomic weapons, and the Soviet blockade of Berlin. The establishment of a Communist government in China in 1949 and the North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950 helped transform the Cold War into a global conflict. The United States would confront Communism in Iran, Guatemala, Lebanon, and elsewhere. In an atmosphere charged with paranoia and anxiety, there was deep fear at home about “enemies within” sabotaging U.S. foreign policy and passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.
1. C17-18 World War II and the Origins of the Cold War Study Guide due 5/4
Ch. 17.1 Mobilizing for Defense
Ch. 17.2 The War for Europe and North Africa
Ch. 17.3 The War in the Pacific
Ch. 18.1 Origins of the Cold War
2. C17-18 Assessment 5/4
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Q2 Week 13-14
4/17-5/5
The stock market crash of October 1929 brought the economic prosperity of the 1920s to a symbolic end. For the next ten years, the United States was mired in a deep economic depression. By 1933, unemployment had soared to 25 percent, up from 3.2 percent in 1929. Industrial production declined by 50 percent, international trade plunged 30 percent, and investment fell 98 percent. Causes of the Great Depression included: insufficient purchasing power among the middle class and the working class to sustain high levels of production; falling crop and commodity prices prior to the Depression; the stock market's dependence on borrowed money; and wrongheaded government policies, including high tariffs that reduced international trade and contracted the money supply. This section examines why the seemingly boundless prosperity of the 1920s ended so suddenly and why the Depression lasted as long as it did. It assesses the human toll and the policies adopted to combat the crisis of the Great Depression. It devotes particular attention to the impact on African Americans, the elderly, Mexican Americans, labor, and women.
4. 1940s Decades Presentation 4/24
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Q2 Week 12
4/10-4/14
The stock market crash of October 1929 brought the economic prosperity of the 1920s to a symbolic end. For the next ten years, the United States was mired in a deep economic depression. By 1933, unemployment had soared to 25 percent, up from 3.2 percent in 1929. Industrial production declined by 50 percent, international trade plunged 30 percent, and investment fell 98 percent.Causes of the Great Depression included: insufficient purchasing power among the middle class and the working class to sustain high levels of production; falling crop and commodity prices prior to the Depression; the stock market's dependence on borrowed money; and wrongheaded government policies, including high tariffs that reduced international trade and contracted the money supply. This section examines why the seemingly boundless prosperity of the 1920s ended so suddenly and why the Depression lasted as long as it did. It assesses the human toll and the policies adopted to combat the crisis of the Great Depression. It devotes particular attention to the impact on African Americans, the elderly, Mexican Americans, labor, and women.
2. The Great Depression and the New Deal 1930s Presentation 4/11
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Q2 Week 11
4/3-4/7
The 1920s was the first decade to have a nickname: ?Roaring 20s" or "Jazz Age." It was a decade of prosperity and dissipation, and of jazz bands, bootleggers, raccoon coats, bathtub gin, flappers, flagpole sitters, bootleggers, and marathon dancers. It was, in the popular view, the Roaring 20s, when the younger generation rebelled against traditional taboos while their elders engaged in an orgy of speculation. But the 1920s was also a decade of bitter cultural conflicts, pitting religious liberals against fundamentalists, nativists against immigrants, and rural provincials against urban cosmopolitans.The 1920s was a decade of major cultural conflicts as well as a period when many features of a modern consumer culture took root. In this chapter, you will learn about the clashes over alcohol, evolution, foreign immigration, and race, and also about the growth of cities, the rise of a consumer culture, and the revolution in morals and manners.
The stock market crash of October 1929 brought the economic prosperity of the 1920s to a symbolic end. For the next ten years, the United States was mired in a deep economic depression. By 1933, unemployment had soared to 25 percent, up from 3.2 percent in 1929. Industrial production declined by 50 percent, international trade plunged 30 percent, and investment fell 98 percent.Causes of the Great Depression included: insufficient purchasing power among the middle class and the working class to sustain high levels of production; falling crop and commodity prices prior to the Depression; the stock market's dependence on borrowed money; and wrongheaded government policies, including high tariffs that reduced international trade and contracted the money supply. This section examines why the seemingly boundless prosperity of the 1920s ended so suddenly and why the Depression lasted as long as it did. It assesses the human toll and the policies adopted to combat the crisis of the Great Depression. It devotes particular attention to the impact on African Americans, the elderly, Mexican Americans, labor, and women.
Q2 Week 9
3/20--3/24
Each group will produce a Google Slide Deck that will summarize your research. Your team will present your research to the class as we begin each new unit in the 20th century beginning with the Roaring 20's and finishing in the 1970's. You will become experts and teach the class about significant events that shaped an era, politics, foreign affairs, the economy, popular culture and society. Each team member will incorporating photos, political cartoons, charts and graphs to contribute to the production of the Twentieth Century Decades Project.
2. !920s Presentation 3/15
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Q2 Week 8
3/13--3/17
Each group will produce a Google Slide Deck that will summarize your research. Your team will present your research to the class as we begin each new unit in the 20th century beginning with the Roaring 20's and finishing in the 1970's. You will become experts and teach the class about significant events that shaped an era, politics, foreign affairs, the economy, popular culture and society. Each team member will incorporating photos, political cartoons, charts and graphs to contribute to the production of the Twentieth Century Decades Project.
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Q2 Week 7
3/6--3/10
C11 World War I
The Associated Press ranked World
War I as the 8th most important event of the 20th century. In fact, almost
everything that subsequently happened occurred because of World War I: the
Great Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, the Cold War, and the collapse
of empires. No event better underscores the utter unpredictability of the
future. Europe hadn't fought a major war for 100 years. A product of
miscalculation, misunderstanding, and miscommunication, the conflict might have
been averted at many points during the five weeks preceding the fighting. World
War I destroyed four empires - German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Romanov -
and touched off colonial revolts in the Middle East and Vietnam. WWI shattered
Americans' faith in reform and moral crusades. WWI carried far-reaching
consequences for the home front, including prohibition, women's suffrage, and a
bitter debate over civil liberties. World War I killed more people (9 million
combatants and 5 million civilians) and cost more money ($186 billion in direct
costs and another $151 billion in indirect costs) than any previous war in
history.
Triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the
throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, World War I began in August 1914 when
Germany invaded Belgium and France. Several events led to U.S. intervention:
the sinking of the Lusitania, a British passenger liner; unrestricted German
submarine warfare; and the Zimmerman note, which revealed a German plot to
provoke Mexico to war against the United States. Millions of American men were
drafted, and Congress created a War Industries Board to coordinate production
and a National War Labor Board to unify labor policy. The Treaty of Versailles
deprived Germany of territory and forced it to pay reparations. President
Wilson agreed to the treaty because it provided for the establishment of a
League of Nations, but he was unable to persuade the Senate to ratify the
treaty.
- Nearly 10 million soldiers died and about 21 million were wounded. U.S. deaths totaled 116,516.
- Four empires collapsed: the Russian Empire in 1917, the German and the Austro-Hungarian in 1918, and the Ottoman in 1922.
- Independent republics were formed in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, and Turkey.
- Most Arab lands that had been part of the Ottoman Empire came under the control of Britain and France.
- The Bolsheviks took power in Russia in 1917, and fascists triumphed in Italy in 1922.
- Other consequences of the war included the mass murder of Armenians in Turkey and an influenza epidemic that killed over 25 million people worldwide.
- Under the peace settlement, Germany was required to pay reparations eventually set at $33 billion; accept responsibility for the war; cede territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, and Poland; give up its overseas colonies; and accept an allied military force on the west bank of the Rhine River for 15 years.
2. C11 World War I Study Guide due 3/9
C11.2 American Power Tips the Balance
3. C11 World war I Assessment 3/9
4. Decades Project introduction 3/10
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Q1 Week 6
2/27-3/3
During the 1890s, the United States showed little interest in foreign affairs. Its army, with just 28,000 soldiers, was one-twentieth the size of France's or Germany's. Its 10,000-man navy was a sixth the size of Britain's and half the size of Spain's. Toward the end of the 19th century, interest in foreign affairs mounted. Some worried that the United States was being left behind in the scramble for territory, markets, raw materials, and outlets for investment. Others, such as the naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, believed that national prosperity depended on control of sea lanes. Still others believed that the United States had a special mission to uplift backwards peoples. Beginning in the late 1880s, a new assertiveness characterized American foreign policy, evident in disputes with Germany, Chile, and Britain. In 1893, Americans in Hawaii forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate; the United States annexed Hawaii five years later. War with Spain in 1898 led to the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, where the United States confronted a two-year insurrection. Fear that the United States was being shut out of trade with China led Secretary of State John Hay to issue the 1899 Open Door Note. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine declared that the United States would exercise international police power in the Western Hemisphere. The United States assisted Panama in securing its independence from Columbia in order to build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. The U.S. occupied Nicaragua for 20 years, Haiti for 19 years, and the Dominican Republic for 8 years.
1. C10 America Claims Empire 1890-1920 Study Guide Due 2/28
C10.2 The Spanish-American War
2. C10 Assessment 3/1
3. Intro to C11 The First World War 1914-1919
C11.2 American Power Tips the Balance
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Q1 Week 5
2/21-2/24
During the 1890s, the United States showed little interest in foreign affairs. Its army, with just 28,000 soldiers, was one-twentieth the size of France's or Germany's. Its 10,000-man navy was a sixth the size of Britain's and half the size of Spain's. Toward the end of the 19th century, interest in foreign affairs mounted. Some worried that the United States was being left behind in the scramble for territory, markets, raw materials, and outlets for investment. Others, such as the naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, believed that national prosperity depended on control of sea lanes. Still others believed that the United States had a special mission to uplift backwards peoples. Beginning in the late 1880s, a new assertiveness characterized American foreign policy, evident in disputes with Germany, Chile, and Britain. In 1893, Americans in Hawaii forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate; the United States annexed Hawaii five years later. War with Spain in 1898 led to the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, where the United States confronted a two-year insurrection. Fear that the United States was being shut out of trade with China led Secretary of State John Hay to issue the 1899 Open Door Note. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine declared that the United States would exercise international police power in the Western Hemisphere. The United States assisted Panama in securing its independence from Columbia in order to build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. The U.S. occupied Nicaragua for 20 years, Haiti for 19 years, and the Dominican Republic for 8 years.
1. C10 America Claims Empire 1890-1920 Study Guide Due 2/28
C10.2 The Spanish-American War
2. C10 Assessment 3/1
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Q1 Week 4
2/13-2/16
Progressive reformers first targeted the existing party system on the local and state level, which they saw as corrupt and unable to meet the challenges of the new industrial order. Many progressives felt that the complex issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries should be in the hands of nonpartisan experts and managers, who could avoid the problems faced by members of the traditional parties. They particularly sought to reduce the power of urban political machines, which they saw as mechanisms for taking advantage of new immigrants and enriching a small handful of professional politicians. National politics during the first two decades of the twentieth century witnessed a fundamental debate over the proper role of the federal government in an industrial republic. The central question was how the government could best use its power to protect the general welfare. Some argued that the government should seek to break up large business and other combinations to restore competition and allow individuals greater scope for their activity, while others argued that the federal government should act as a mediator between big business and other groups, helping to elevate them to a level that could counterbalance the power of industry. By the end of the period, it was increasingly clear that large-scale consolidation was to become a permanent feature of American life and that the United States was becoming increasingly dominated by large interest groups.
2. Read Articles
3. C9.1-3 Outlines due Tuesday 2/14
C9 Assessment Wednesday 2/15
4. Introduction C10 America Claims Empire 1890-1920 study Guide Due 3/1
Q1 Week 3
2/6-2/12
Progressive reformers first targeted the existing party system on the local and state level, which they saw as corrupt and unable to meet the challenges of the new industrial order. Many progressives felt that the complex issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries should be in the hands of nonpartisan experts and managers, who could avoid the problems faced by members of the traditional parties. They particularly sought to reduce the power of urban political machines, which they saw as mechanisms for taking advantage of new immigrants and enriching a small handful of professional politicians. National politics during the first two decades of the twentieth century witnessed a fundamental debate over the proper role of the federal government in an industrial republic. The central question was how the government could best use its power to protect the general welfare. Some argued that the government should seek to break up large business and other combinations to restore competition and allow individuals greater scope for their activity, while others argued that the federal government should act as a mediator between big business and other groups, helping to elevate them to a level that could counterbalance the power of industry. By the end of the period, it was increasingly clear that large-scale consolidation was to become a permanent feature of American life and that the United States was becoming increasingly dominated by large interest groups.
2. Read Articles
3. C9.1-3 Outlines due Tuesday 2/14
C9 Assessment Wednesday 2/15
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Q1 Week 2
1/30-2/3
1. C7 Immigrants and Urbanization 1880-1914
C7.2 The Challenges of Urbanization
2. Read Articles
3. C7.1-2 Outlines due Tuesday 1/31
C7.1-2 Assessment Wednesday 2/1
4. Introduction to Chapter 9 The Progressive Era of Reform 1900-1920
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Q1 Week 1
1/23-1/27
1. C7 Immigrants and Urbanization 1880-1914
C7.2 The Challenges of Urbanization
2. Read Articles
3. C7.1-2 Outlines due Tuesday 1/31
C7.1-2 Assessment Wednesday 2/1