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Modernizing America
- Analyze how territorial acquisitions and settlement strengthened America
- Describe how Progressives reformed and modernized the nation
Boom to Bust – WWI, Roaring 20s and the Great Depression
- Describe lead up, events and results of WWI
- Exhibit knowledge of the new American culture
- Diagram causes and effects of the Great Depression
WWII
- Describe lead up, events and results of WWI
- Synthesize how WWI, WWII and the Cold War are interrelated
- Analyze how the war secured the US’ place as a world power
Age of Anxiety – The Cold War
- Summarize the Korean War as a microcosm of the Cold War
- Argue the various perspectives of the Vietnam War
- Identify other Cold War flare ups
Civil Rights Movement
- Describe various conditions minority populations faced prior to the civil rights movement
- Evaluate the historical importance of the civil rights movement
New World Order
- Compare modern liberal and conservatism
- Identify the key issues that will affect America today and in the future
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