Goal 10 - World War II and the Beginning of the Cold War
World War II and the Beginning of the Cold War (1930s-1963) - The learner will analyze United States involvement in World War II and the war's influence on international affairs in the following decades.
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Objective 10.01
Objective 10.02
Objective 10.03
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Objective 10.04
Objective 10.05
10.01 Elaborate on the causes of World War II and reasons for United States entry into the war. 10.02 Identify military, political, and diplomatic turning points of the war and determine their significance to the outcome and aftermath of the conflict. 10.03 Describe and analyze the effects of the war on American economic, social, political, and cultural life. 10.04 Elaborate on changes in the direction of foreign policy related to the beginnings of the Cold War. 10.05 Assess the role of organizations established to maintain peace and examine their continuing effectiveness.
- Appeasement - Isolationism - Reparations - Totalitarian Governments - Treaty of Versailles - Worldwide depression
* Adolf Hitler * Benito Mussolini * Emperor Hirohito * Winston Churchill * Fascism * Joseph Stalin * Munich Pact * Third Reich * Four Freedoms * Kellogg-Briand Pact * Lend-Lease Act * Neutrality Acts * Non-Aggression Pact * Pearl Harbor * Quarantine Speech
- The United States at war - The influence of propaganda at home and abroad - Designs for peace
* Atomic bomb * Battle of Britain * Battle of the Bulge * Blitzkrieg * Chester Nimitz * D-Day (Operation Overlord) * Douglas MacArthur * George Patton * Holocaust * Newsreels * Pamphlets * Airdrops * War posters * Iwo Jima * J. Robert Oppenheimer * Manhattan Project * Midway * Island hopping * Nuremberg Trials * Okinawa * Pearl Harbor * Stalingrad * Tehran * V-E Day, V-J Day * Casablanca, Potsdam
- The Homefront - Suspension of Civil Liberties - Suburbanization - Transition to Peacetime
* War bonds * Baby boomers * Fair Deal * G.I. Bill * Korematsu v United States, 1944 * Levittown * Northern Migration * Middle class * Rosie the Riveter * Selective Services Act * AFL-CIO * Taft-Hartley Act * WACS * War Production Board * Japanese Internment Sites * Japanese American Museum * Rationing
- U. S. Military Intervention - Containment - The Cold War - The Domino Theory
* Bay of Pigs * Berlin Airlift * Berlin Wall * Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) * Cuban Missile Crisis * Douglas MacArthur * Eisenhower Doctrine * Fidel Castro * Geneva Accords * Hydrogen Bomb * Iron Curtain * Police Action * Test Ban Treaty * Chinese Civil War * Israel * Korean War * Marshall Plan * Nikita Khrushchev * Truman Doctrine * U-2 Incident
- Balance of Power - Organizations for peace
* Alliance for Progress * N.A.T.O. * O.A.S. * S.E.A.T.O. * Security Council * United Nations * Warsaw Pact