Era 7; Standard 1
Growing Crisis of Industrial Capitalism and Responses: Evaluate the key events and decisions surrounding the causes and consequences of the global depression of the 1930s and World War 2.
-Benchmark 1: The Twenties- Identify and explain the significance of the cultural changes and tensions in the
Roaring Twenties including:
-Cultural movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance and the "lost generation"
-The struggle between "traditional" and "modern" America (e.g., The Scopes Trial, Immigration restrictions,
Prohitibion, roles of women, mass consumption)
-Benchmark 2: Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression- Explain and evaluate the multiple causes
and consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing:
-The political, economic environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression including fiscal (and monetary)
policy, overproduction, underconsumption, speculation, the 1929 Crash, and the Dust Bowl
-The economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental conditions that
affected farmers, industrial workers and families
-Hoover's policies and their impact (e.g., Reconstruction Finance Corporation)
-Benchmark 3: The New Deal- Explain and evaluate FDR's New Deal policies including:
-Expanding the federal government's responsibilities to protect the environment (e.g., Dust Bowl, Tennessee
Valley Authority), meet challenges of unemployment, address the needs of workers, farmers, poor, and elderly
-Opposition to the New Deal and the impact of the Supreme Court in striking down and then accepting New Deal
laws
-Consequences of New Deal policies (e.g., promoting workers' rights, development of Social Security program, and
banking and financial regulation conservation practices, crop subsidies)
-Benchmark 1: The Twenties- Identify and explain the significance of the cultural changes and tensions in the
Roaring Twenties including:
-Cultural movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance and the "lost generation"
-The struggle between "traditional" and "modern" America (e.g., The Scopes Trial, Immigration restrictions,
Prohitibion, roles of women, mass consumption)
-Benchmark 2: Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression- Explain and evaluate the multiple causes
and consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing:
-The political, economic environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression including fiscal (and monetary)
policy, overproduction, underconsumption, speculation, the 1929 Crash, and the Dust Bowl
-The economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental conditions that
affected farmers, industrial workers and families
-Hoover's policies and their impact (e.g., Reconstruction Finance Corporation)
-Benchmark 3: The New Deal- Explain and evaluate FDR's New Deal policies including:
-Expanding the federal government's responsibilities to protect the environment (e.g., Dust Bowl, Tennessee
Valley Authority), meet challenges of unemployment, address the needs of workers, farmers, poor, and elderly
-Opposition to the New Deal and the impact of the Supreme Court in striking down and then accepting New Deal
laws
-Consequences of New Deal policies (e.g., promoting workers' rights, development of Social Security program, and
banking and financial regulation conservation practices, crop subsidies)
Era 7; Standard 2
World War 2: Examine the causes and course of World War 2, and the effects of the war on US society and culture, including the consequences for US involvement in world affairs.
-Benchmark 1: Causes of World War 2- Analyze the factors contributing to World War 2 in Europe and in the
Pacific region, and America's entry into war including:
-the political and economic disputes over territory (e.g., the failure of the Versailles Treaty, League of Nations,
Munich Agreement)
-The differences in the civic and political values of the US and those of Nazi Germany and Imperial China
-US neutrality
-The bombing of Pearl Harbor
-Benchmark 2: US and the Course of World War 2- Evaluate the role of the US in fighting the war militarily,
diplomatically and technologically across the world (e.g., Germany first strategy, Big Three Alliance and the
development of atomic weapons)
-Benchmark 3: Impact of World War 2 on American Life- Analyze the changes in American life brought about
by US participation in World War 2 including:
-Mobilization of economic, military, and social resources
-Role of women and minorities in the war effort
-Role of the home front in supporting the war effort (e.g., rationing, work hours, taxes)
-Internment of Japanese-Americans
-Benchmark 4: Responses to Genocide- Investigate development and enactment of Hitler's "final solution" and
the responses to genocide by the Allies, the US government, international organizations, and individuals (e.g., liberation
of concentration camps, Nuremberg war crimes tribunals, establishment of State of Israel)
-Benchmark 1: Causes of World War 2- Analyze the factors contributing to World War 2 in Europe and in the
Pacific region, and America's entry into war including:
-the political and economic disputes over territory (e.g., the failure of the Versailles Treaty, League of Nations,
Munich Agreement)
-The differences in the civic and political values of the US and those of Nazi Germany and Imperial China
-US neutrality
-The bombing of Pearl Harbor
-Benchmark 2: US and the Course of World War 2- Evaluate the role of the US in fighting the war militarily,
diplomatically and technologically across the world (e.g., Germany first strategy, Big Three Alliance and the
development of atomic weapons)
-Benchmark 3: Impact of World War 2 on American Life- Analyze the changes in American life brought about
by US participation in World War 2 including:
-Mobilization of economic, military, and social resources
-Role of women and minorities in the war effort
-Role of the home front in supporting the war effort (e.g., rationing, work hours, taxes)
-Internment of Japanese-Americans
-Benchmark 4: Responses to Genocide- Investigate development and enactment of Hitler's "final solution" and
the responses to genocide by the Allies, the US government, international organizations, and individuals (e.g., liberation
of concentration camps, Nuremberg war crimes tribunals, establishment of State of Israel)