Era 8; Standard 1:
Cold War and the United States: Identify, analyze, and explain the causes, conditions, and impact of the Cold War Era on the United States.
-Benchmark 1: Origins and Beginnings of Cold War- Analyze the factors that contributed to the Cold War
including:
- Differences in the civic, ideological and political values, and the economic and governmental institutions of the US
and USSR
- Diplomatic decisions made at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences of 1945
- Actions by both countries in the last years of and years following World War 2 (e.g., the use of the atomic bomb,
the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, North American Treaty Organization, and Warsaw Pact)
-Benchmark 2: Foreign Policy during the Cold War- Evaluate the origins, setbacks, and successes of the
American policy of 'containing' the Soviet Union, including:
- The development of a US national security extablishment, composed of the Department of Defense, the
Department of State, and the intelligence community (e.g., Central Intelligence Agency, National Security
Administration)
- The armed conflict with Communism, including the Korean conflict
- Direct conflicts within specific world regions including Germany and Cuba
- US involvement in Vietnam, and the foreign and domestic consequences of the war (e.g., relationship/conflict
with USSR and China, US military policy and practices, responses of citizens and mass media)
- Indirect (or proxy) confrontations within specific world regions (e.g., Chile, Angola, Iran, Guatemala etc.)
- The arms race
-Benchmark 3: End of the Cold War- Examine, analyze, and explain demographic changes, domestic policies,
conflicts, and tensions in Post World War 2 America.
-Benchmark 1: Origins and Beginnings of Cold War- Analyze the factors that contributed to the Cold War
including:
- Differences in the civic, ideological and political values, and the economic and governmental institutions of the US
and USSR
- Diplomatic decisions made at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences of 1945
- Actions by both countries in the last years of and years following World War 2 (e.g., the use of the atomic bomb,
the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, North American Treaty Organization, and Warsaw Pact)
-Benchmark 2: Foreign Policy during the Cold War- Evaluate the origins, setbacks, and successes of the
American policy of 'containing' the Soviet Union, including:
- The development of a US national security extablishment, composed of the Department of Defense, the
Department of State, and the intelligence community (e.g., Central Intelligence Agency, National Security
Administration)
- The armed conflict with Communism, including the Korean conflict
- Direct conflicts within specific world regions including Germany and Cuba
- US involvement in Vietnam, and the foreign and domestic consequences of the war (e.g., relationship/conflict
with USSR and China, US military policy and practices, responses of citizens and mass media)
- Indirect (or proxy) confrontations within specific world regions (e.g., Chile, Angola, Iran, Guatemala etc.)
- The arms race
-Benchmark 3: End of the Cold War- Examine, analyze, and explain demographic changes, domestic policies,
conflicts, and tensions in Post World War 2 America.
Era 8; Standard 2:
Domestic Policies- Examine, analyze, and explain demographic changes, domestic policies, conflicts, and tensions in Post-World War 2 America.
-Benchmark 1: Demographic Changes- Use population data to produce and analyze maps that show the major
changes in population distribution, spatial patterns and density, including the Baby Boom, new immigration,
suburbanization, reverse migration of African Americans to the South, and the flow of population to the 'Sunbelt'.
-Benchmark 2: Policy Concerning Domestic Issues- Analyze major domestic issues in the Post World War 2 era
and the policies designed to meet the challenges by:
- Describing issues challenging Americans such as domestic anticommunism (McCarthyism), labor, poverty, health
care, infrastructure, immigration, and the environment
- Evaluating policy decisions and legislative actions to meet these challenges (e.g., GI Bill of Rights, Taft-Hartley
Act, National Defense Act, EPA)
-Benchmark 3: Comparing Domestic Policies- Focusing on causes, programs, and impacts, compare and
contrast FDR's New Deal initiatives, LBJ's Great Society programs, and Reagan's market-based domestic policies.
-Benchmark 4: Domestic Conflicts and Tensions- Using core democratic values, analyze and evaluate the
competing perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by US . Supreme Court decisions (e.g., Roe v
Wade, Gideon v Wainright, Miranda v Arizona, Tinker v Des Moines), the Vietnam War (anti-war and counter-cultural
movements), environmental movement, woen's rights movement, and the constitutional crisis generated by the
Watergate scandal.
-Benchmark 1: Demographic Changes- Use population data to produce and analyze maps that show the major
changes in population distribution, spatial patterns and density, including the Baby Boom, new immigration,
suburbanization, reverse migration of African Americans to the South, and the flow of population to the 'Sunbelt'.
-Benchmark 2: Policy Concerning Domestic Issues- Analyze major domestic issues in the Post World War 2 era
and the policies designed to meet the challenges by:
- Describing issues challenging Americans such as domestic anticommunism (McCarthyism), labor, poverty, health
care, infrastructure, immigration, and the environment
- Evaluating policy decisions and legislative actions to meet these challenges (e.g., GI Bill of Rights, Taft-Hartley
Act, National Defense Act, EPA)
-Benchmark 3: Comparing Domestic Policies- Focusing on causes, programs, and impacts, compare and
contrast FDR's New Deal initiatives, LBJ's Great Society programs, and Reagan's market-based domestic policies.
-Benchmark 4: Domestic Conflicts and Tensions- Using core democratic values, analyze and evaluate the
competing perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by US . Supreme Court decisions (e.g., Roe v
Wade, Gideon v Wainright, Miranda v Arizona, Tinker v Des Moines), the Vietnam War (anti-war and counter-cultural
movements), environmental movement, woen's rights movement, and the constitutional crisis generated by the
Watergate scandal.
Era 8; Standard 3:
Civil Rights in the Post-World War 2 Era: Examine and analyze the Civil Rights Movement using key events, people, and organizations.
-Benchmark 1: Civil Rights Movement- Analyze the key events, ideals, documents, and organizations in the
struggle for civil rights by African Americans including:
- The impact of World War 2 and the Cold War (e.g., racial and gender integration of the military)
- Supreme Court decisions and governmental actions (e.g., Brown v Board, Civil Rights Act, Little Rock schools
desegragation, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965)
- Protest movements, organizations, and civil actions (e.g., integration of baseball, Montgomery Bus Boycott,
March on Washington, freedom rides, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, Nation of Islam, Black Panthers)
- Resistance to Civil Rights
-Benchmark 2: Ideals of the Civil Rights Movement- Compare and contrast the ideas in Martin Luther King's
March on Washington speech to the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence, The Seneca Falls Resolution,
and the Gettysburg Address.
-Benchmark 3: Women's Rights- Analyze the causes and course of the women's rights movement in the 1960s and
1970s (including the role of population shifts, birth control, increasing number of women in the work force, NOW, and
the ERA)
-Benchmark 4: Civil Rights Expanded- Evaluate the major accomplishments and setbacks in civil rights and
liberties for American minorities over the 20th century including Native Americans, Latinos/Latinas, new immigrants,
people with disabilities, and gays and lesbians.
-Benchmark 5: Tensions and Reactions to Poverty and Civil Rights- Analyze the causes and consequences of
the civil unrest that occurred in American cities by comparing the civil unrest in Detroit with at least one other
American city (e.g., Los Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Newark).
-Benchmark 1: Civil Rights Movement- Analyze the key events, ideals, documents, and organizations in the
struggle for civil rights by African Americans including:
- The impact of World War 2 and the Cold War (e.g., racial and gender integration of the military)
- Supreme Court decisions and governmental actions (e.g., Brown v Board, Civil Rights Act, Little Rock schools
desegragation, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965)
- Protest movements, organizations, and civil actions (e.g., integration of baseball, Montgomery Bus Boycott,
March on Washington, freedom rides, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, Nation of Islam, Black Panthers)
- Resistance to Civil Rights
-Benchmark 2: Ideals of the Civil Rights Movement- Compare and contrast the ideas in Martin Luther King's
March on Washington speech to the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence, The Seneca Falls Resolution,
and the Gettysburg Address.
-Benchmark 3: Women's Rights- Analyze the causes and course of the women's rights movement in the 1960s and
1970s (including the role of population shifts, birth control, increasing number of women in the work force, NOW, and
the ERA)
-Benchmark 4: Civil Rights Expanded- Evaluate the major accomplishments and setbacks in civil rights and
liberties for American minorities over the 20th century including Native Americans, Latinos/Latinas, new immigrants,
people with disabilities, and gays and lesbians.
-Benchmark 5: Tensions and Reactions to Poverty and Civil Rights- Analyze the causes and consequences of
the civil unrest that occurred in American cities by comparing the civil unrest in Detroit with at least one other
American city (e.g., Los Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Newark).