This course is designed to enhance the students knowledge of the 20th Century, as well as focus their attention on the global events taking place around them. It will focus on the major events of this century such as the Great Depression, World War II, The Holocaust, The Cold War, The Korean War, The Vietnam War, the 60's, and Watergate. Several supplementary materials will be used including movies, and a novel.

A. Chapter 25 - Politics and a Thin Prosperity (pages 633-651)
    1. Discuss the stock market and its role in todays society.
    2. Analyze the various possible causes for the stock market crash of 1929.
    3. Understand the role of the "Red Scare" and its affect on isolationism.
    4. Be aware of the role that racism played in the 1920's
    5. Define the terms located on the chapter study guide.
    6. Supplementary materials
        a. Us and Them-A Town Called Rosewood
        b. Homework Handouts

B. Chapter 26- The Great Depression Begins (pages 657-673)
    1. Analyze the causes of the Great Depression.
    2. Understand why Americans rejected the policies of the Hoover administration in the election of 1932.
    3. Discuss the tone that was established during the early days of the Roosevelt administration.
    4. Become knowledgeable about the causes of the "Dust Bowl"
    5. Define the terms on the study guide
    6. Supplementary materials
        a. Homework Handouts
        b. A&E video and quiz

C. Chapter 27 - The New Deal and Reform (pages 677-699)
    1. Recognize the signs of recovery that characterized the First Hundred Days
    2. Understand why some important New Deal measures have endured
    3. Be able to understand why the New Deal was criticized by people from both ends of the political spectrum
    4. Know what major social changes occurred in the U.S. during the 1930's as a result of the New Deal.
    5. Understand the purpose of the TVA, and the social and economic consequences that resulted from its implementation.
    6. Define study guide items.
 

A. Chapter 28-The Road To War-(Pages711-729)
    1. Understand the events that eventually led to World War II.
    2. Understand how world events challenged the U.S. policy of neutrality.
    3. Describe how Germany's political actions of 1939 became the immediate causes of World War II.
    4. Analyze the early events of World War II both in Europe and the U. S.
    5. Understand what causes racial and ethnic hating and its development into genocide.
    6. Define study guide terms

B. The Holocaust
    1. Understand the chronology of the holocaust.
    2. Discuss racial stereotypes, conformity, obedience and choices.
    3. Discuss how a racial state can be built
    4. Discuss recent events concerning genocide, and their impact on todays culture.
    5. Supplementary materials
        a. Holocaust notebooks
        b. Schindler's List - Movie
        c. The Lost Children of Berlin - Video
        d. Survivors of the Holocaust-Video
        e. Testimonies-CD Rom

C. Chapter 29-The Second World War - (Pages 735-761)
    1. Discuss how the U.S. was drawn into World War II.
    2. Trace the ways in which the nation's economy was organized for the war effort.
    3. Discuss the roles of women and minorities in the war effort.
    4. Understand the major battles, campaigns, of the European and North African theaters.
    5. Understand the major events of the Pacific theater.
    6. Examine the major results of the Allied victory in World War II.
    7. Describe the role of the United Nations and the U.N. Security Council.
    8. Define study guide terms
    9. Supplementary materials
        a. Us and Them-My Home was a Horse Stall
        b. Handouts
        c. Saving Private Ryan - movie
        d. United Nations material
        e. Chapter study guide

-apprx. 4 weeks

A. Chapter 30 - Postwar Period, Cold War, Korean War (Pages 767-787)
    1. Understand the major domestic problems that faced the Truman administration.
    2. Understand the electoral college process.
    3. Be able to describe the origins of the "Cold War", and how it affected the American people.
    4. Explain how events in Asia threatened U.S. interests and led the U.S. to fight in the Korean War.
    5. Define study guide terms
    6. Supplementary materials
        a. Handouts
        b. George Orwell's-Animal Farm
        c. Animal Farm movie
        d. Comparison/Contrast paper
        e. Rise of the Soviet Union - Video

B. The Civil Rights Movement
    1. Understand the fundamental democratic principles behind the civil rights movement.
    2. Reflect on the meaning of individual sacrifice.
    3. Explain why individuals are responsible for continuing to defend equal rights.
    4. Accurately describe the unequal living conditions of blacks in the South prior to and during the civil rights movement
    5. Explain what nonviolence resistance is.
    6. Analyze civil rights goals, strategies, and successes
    7. Critique the strategies of civil rights opponents and determine why these strategies failed.
    8. Supplementary materials
        a. Free at Last
        b. Individual biographies
        c. Handouts
        d. Mississippi Burning-movie

C. Chapter 32-Leadership of the 1960's (pages 835-847)
    1. Understand the important events that surrounded the Presidential election of 1960.
    2. Know the major domestic policies of the Kennedy administration
    3. Analyze how President Kennedy dealt with the important problems of foreign policy during his administration.
    4. Describe the nature and scope of President Johnson's domestic and foreign policies.
    5. Understand the impact of the women's' rights movement, and the hippie culture on 1960's society
    6. Define study guide terms
    7. Supplementary materials
        a. Darker Side of Camelot
        b. Handouts

A. Chapter 33-The Vietnam War (pages 853-873)
    1. Analyze the historical roots of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
    2. Describe how President Johnson dealt with the Vietnam War and with the antiwar movement after the Tet Offensive.
    3. Understand how the Nixon administration withdrew troops from Vietnam.
    4. Understand how the problems of Vietnam veterans were different than those of veterans of earlier wars.
    5. Describe the how the Kymer Rouge came to power in Cambodia, and the subsequent genocide that took place as a result.
    6. Define study guide terms
    7. Supplementary materials
        a. Handouts
        b. The Killing Fields-Movie

B. Chapter 34-The Nixon Years (pages 879-897)
    1. Know how Vietnam and the civil rights movement affected American society.
    2. Understand how Nixon's conservative law-and-order administration worked.
    3. Describe the major changes and achievements of Nixon's foreign policies.
    4. Examine the reasons for the collapse of the Nixon administration.
    5. Define study guide terms
    6. Supplementary materials
        a. Handouts
        b. All the President Men-Movie