United States History Indianapolis Public Schools 2008-2009 Benchmark 1

Benchmark 4

21-24 April
Core Standard 7: The Cold War
Describe key events, people and groups related to the causes, conditions, and consequences of the Cold War. Give examples of how Cold War events continue to influence the United States
Core Standard 8: Conflicts with Other Nations
Describe key events, people, and groups related to the causes, conditions, and consequences of conflicts such as the Korean War and Vietnam
Core Standard 9: Civil Rights
Compare and contrast key events, people, and groups related to the causes, conditions, and consequences of the struggle for civil rights.

INDICATOR USH 6.1	CONTENT/CONCEPT	CRITICAL VOCABULARY	SKILLS	ASSESSMENTS – only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Describe the Domino Theory and its relationship to the principle of containment. Identify key events and individuals as well as their connections to post-World War II tensions (Cold War). Videos: The Economic Surge   Prelude to 1946   Overview of 1952 The Cold War Begins  (GL) The Origins of the Cold War: Totalitarianism and Reaction Recovering from World War Two & Entering the Cold War The Structure of the Cold War The Cold War & the Korean War The Cold War (GL) Francisco Franco: Fascist Nationalist, Dictator of Spain, and Cold War Ally of the U.S. (GL) Global Cold War Battles (GL) Cold War Ideology (GL) Cold War Victories and Setbacks (GL) Manipulating Media: The Example of the Rosenberg Case   Technological Advances Détente with the Soviet Union   The Aftermath of the Atomic Age  (GL) Communism in China - October 1, 1949 The Arms Race: 1958 to 1959   Missile Attack on a Korean Airliner  (GL) Democracy vs. Communism: The Korean War  (GL) Korean War: Early Victories for North Korea (GL)  Korean War - June 25, 1950    North Korea Successfully Invades South Korea and the U.N. and U.S. Respond   The Chinese Intervene (GL) The U.S. Breaks the Red Spy Ring Eisenhower Speaks of Nuclear Situation The Origins of the Truman Doctrine: Greece and Turkey (GL) The Marshall Plan (GL) Resistance Continues in France and Yugoslavia  (GL) Images: David Ben-Gurion proclaims Israel's independence. President Truman presiding over 1948 NSC meeting. Mao Zedung meets with Ho Chi Minh, Beijing, 1959. Alger Hiss (b. 1904). United Nations forces cross the 38th parallel. Map of southernmost advance, North Korean forces. Desegregated unit fighting in Korea in 1950. Frances Perkins (1882-1965). Articles: Cold War Korean War Truman, Harry S. National Labor Relations Board National Labor Relations Act Audio: Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman March 12, 1947	Concepts Hot War Cold War Domino Theory Control of Access to the Black Sea Social Unrest Economic Jump Start General Strike Industrial Strike Strategic Assets Anti-Communism People/Places/Ideas Events/Things Greece Turkey Truman Doctrine Yugoslavia Marshall Tito Balkans Marshall Plan Korean Peninsula North/South Korea “Loss of China” Chairman Mao Taft-Hartley Act (Control of Communist Influence in American Labor)	Describe Theory Relationship Principle Containment Soviet Expansionism Proxy Wars Geopolitical	Describe the analogy implicit in the Domino theory. Analyze evidence from Eastern Europe and the Balkans as proof or disproof of the Domino Theory. Analyze the condition of the Low Lands, France, and Germany immediately after the end of World War II. List reasons why Britain could not continue to insure the military safety of Western Europe and Greece after the end of World War II. Analyze how the Marshall Plan was designed to help jump-start the economies of the European countries (including the Soviet Union) after the end of World War II. Explain how the USSR and the People’s Republic of China sought to extend their control of East Asia via Korea.

INDICATOR USH 6.2	CONTENT/CONCEPT	CRITICAL VOCABULARY	SKILLS	ASSESSMENTS – only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Summarize the early struggle for civil rights and identify events and people associated with this struggle. Videos: Post Harlem Renaissance (GL) The Role of Television in the Cold War & Civil Rights  (GL) How We Lived  (GL) A Change is Gonna Come   (GL) Freedom: A History of US: Let Freedom Ring  (GL) Problems in Little Rock Conclusion  ((GL--Executive Order 9981) Images: Rosa Parks Riding the Bus Rosa Parks with Thomas Kilgore Jr Black Students Integrate Little Rock's Central High School Articles: Space Exploration Parks, Rosa L(ouise) Audio: Integration Crisis at Little Rock Schools President Eisenhower September 23, 1957 (Audio Only) Gov. Orval Faubus Maintain Civil Order Little Rock, Arkansas September 26, 1957 (Audio Only) Writing Prompt: 21st Century Study Groups Discovery Education Resources Videos: The PBS NewsHour: The Little Rock Nine: Fifty Years Later The Little Rock Nine Rosa Parks and the New Generation of Activists The Montgomery Bus Boycott The Greensboro Sit-ins Nashville Sit-ins Freedom Summer Writing Prompts: Elizabeth Eckford and The "Little Rock Nine" [Expository][ELA,SS][6-8; 9-12]	Concepts Segregation Desegregation People/Places/Ideas Events/Things Executive Order 9981 Thurgood Marshall Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott Civil Right Act 1957 Little Rock School Crisis Freedom Riders “We Shall Overcome” Martin Luther King	Summarize Associated with Civil Rights Civil Liberties Jim Crow Desegregation Jackie Robinson	Identify the causes and consequences of major events like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Little Rock school crisis, etc. Identify individuals associated with these major events. Compare and contrast the views and objectives of the “establishment” and the Civil Rights protesters.

INDICATOR USH 6.3	CONTENT/CONCEPT	CRITICAL VOCABULARY	SKILLS	ASSESSMENTS – only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Describe the constitutional significance and lasting effects of the United States Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. Videos: Prologue to Brown (GL) Integration in Farmville: Church Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement   Franklin's Hand in Ending Segregation Brown v. Board of Education: The Supreme Court Battle for School Integration Brown v. Board of Education: The Supreme Court Decision   Brown Versus Board of Education  (GL) The Warren Court and Brown v. Board of Education Southern Backlash Against the Brown Ruling  (GL) The Road From Brown (GL) Marshall Won Brown v. Board of Education (GL) Thurgood Marshall   The Young Lawyer's Top Priority (GL) School Segregation: Brown v. The Board of Education and the Little Rock Nine   Central High (GL) American History: Racial Inequality: Remnants of a Troubled Time (GL) The Role of the Supreme Court  (GL) Education for the Purpose of Change (GL) Segregated Schooling in Clarendon County Separate but Unequal   Introduction: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Fight Against Jim Crow   Briggs v. Elliott: The Battle for Educational Equality Begins    The Fight for Civil Rights (GL)   Houston's Legacy: The Continuing Struggle Against Racial Discrimination (GL) Plessy v. Ferguson: Background   Plessy and the Era of Jim Crow  (GL) "Separate but Equal"   (GL) Gaines v. Missouri   (GL) Murray v. Maryland  (GL) Start of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund  Final Groundwork: Fighting Segregation in Graduate Schools  The Man Who Would Kill Jim Crow   The Strange Case of the Chinese Laundry    Turning Points: Due Process Protection    Images: The Supreme Court Building in Washington. Thurgood Marshall argued the Brown case. University students burn desegregation literature. Demonstrations forced local districts to comply. Walter White (1893-1955). James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938). Thurgood Marshall argued the Brown case. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). Articles: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People White, Walter Francis Du Bois, W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) Audio: Reconstruction: A Changed Nation African American History: Laws & Lynchings  Harry S. Truman: Address before the NAACP (June 29, 1947) Writing Prompt: 21st Century Study Groups Discovery Education Resources Videos: Brown vs. Board of Education The NAACP and The Birth of a Nation Plessy vs. Ferguson and Declaring "Separate but Equal" Writing Prompts: Famous Quotes: W.E.B. Dubois [Analysis][ELA,SS][9-12]	Concepts Constitutional Law Supreme Court Decisions Segregated Schools Equal Protection under the Law People/Places/Ideas Events/Things NAACP Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause Plessy v Ferguson Earl Warren	Constitutional significance Describe Lasting Effects Supreme Court Case	Identify the issue being litigated in Brown v. Board of Education. Analyze the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. State the reasons given by the US Supreme Court for its decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Read various forms of information media (maps, charts, graphs) to gather information on the progress of integration of schools in the United States. Draw conclusions from information gained by reading maps, charts, and graphs about the progress of integration of schools in the United States.