United States History

PLAN OF STUDY 2006-2007

Mr. Cooper

Units and Core Topics

The West and Industrial Age           Cold War America (1945-1963)

The West, Won or Lost?                                  Division of Europe

Industrialists                                                             Nuclear Proliferation

Urbanization of America                                  

Emerging Technologies                                     Truman Plan

Unionism                                                          McCarthyism

Immigration                                                      Rise of Suburbia                                                                                              

Emergence of Modern America     

U.S. Imperialism

Progressivism                                                   Civil Rights

World War I                                                    History of Segregation

Impact of U.S. Involvement                              Plessy v. Ferguson

President Wilson’s 14 Points                             Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Failure of the Versailles Treaty                          1965 Civil Rights Act

                                                                        Civil Rights Leaders

The Roaring Twenties                          Non-Violent Protests

Social Change

Prohibition                                                        1960-1990’s: A Changing Nation

Entertainment Industry                                       Election of 1960

Boom Economy                                                Kennedy’s Administrative Policies

                                                                        Vietnam War

The Depression Era                               Nixon’s Foreign Policy

Effects of the Stock Market Crash                    Watergate

Causes of the Great Depression                        Political-Economic Problems in 70’s/80’s

FDR/New Deal                                                Modern America Culture

Growth of Big Government                               Reagan Revolution

Rise of Dictatorships                                         Fall of Communism

                                                                        New World Order

World War II                                   Persian Gulf War

U.S. Neutrality                                                 President Clinton/Dawn of 21^st Century

Theaters of WWII                                            President George W. Bush/Iraq

Major Campaigns

Genocide

Social Change