United States History Indianapolis Public Schools 2008-2009 Benchmark 1



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INDICATOR
USH 5.6


CONTENT/CONCEPT

CRITICAL VOCABULARY

SKILLS

ASSESSMENTS

only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer



Identify and describe the impact of World War II on American culture and economic life.
Videos:

Prelude to 1942

Media Images of the War (GL)

Women in World War II

Women and World War II (GL)

The Significance of World War II  

Native Americans in World War II  (GL)

This Is London: Edward R. Murrow's World War II Broadcasts (GL)

African Americans in World War II   (GL)

Japanese Americans in World War II (GL)

World War II: Five Photographs  (GL)

The Pueblo and World War II (GL)

World War II: Navajo Code Talkers in the United States Military (GL)

Visiting the Troops (GL)

Crowds Flock to Gala Opening of 1940 World's Fair

Ernie Pyle Goes to War (GL)

American Stories: A Future Reborn (GL)

Tell My Dad I Love Him Very Much (GL)

A Man of Honor (GL)

These Things Can't Happen(GL)

Kill Jim Crow  (GL)

Atomic Bomb - August 6, 1945 (GL)

Racism in the United States  (GL)

An Agent of Change  (GL)

War Correspondents on D-Day (GL)

Homer Bigart, War Correspondent (GL)

A Japanese-American Rebuttal to the US Government's Position on Relocation (Primary Source Interview)

War Relocation Authority

Food Rationing

Gasoline Rationing

Part Four: Rockwell and the American Workplace (GL)

America Salutes Women Workers in War Effort

The Manhattan Project Begins   (GL)

The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb Attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki  

The Atomic Bomb and Naval Defeats Bring an End to the War with Japan

The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Result of the Atomic Bomb

The G.I. Bill     

1944 Almanac; More 1944 Headlines  

Life in Post-World War II America (GL)

V-E Day - May 13, 1945

V-E Day Forty Years Later  (GL)

Truman Drops A-Bomb/Japan Surrenders (GL)

Paris Liberated: Germans Surrender, Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Yalta Conference - February 12, 1945   

Images:

Disheveled Soldier in Europe During World War II

A World War II black trainee learning arc welding.

A World War II war bonds poster.

General George S. Patton in World War II.

President Manuel Camacho and President Roosevelt.

A World War II draft board, 1942.

Adolph Hitler at a radio in World War II.


African-American troops at SF awaiting shipment.

Color WWII photo, Marlene Dietrich, soldiers.

A Family Watching Television

The original atomic pile.

African American women workers in WWII.

The line at a rationing board.

On July 16, 1945, first atomic bomb was detonated.

Hiroshima, Japan, after atomic bomb blast.

Enola Gay after dropping first atomic bomb.

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967).

Albert Einstein (1879-1955).

Hiroshima after the atomic explosion.

Farm workers arrive under bracero program.

Articles:

United States of America: History--World War II and Aftermath

Eisenhower, Dwight David

World War II

WAVES

Woman brazing an automobile casting in Buffalo.

Fitch, Val Logsdon

Nuclear Weapons

Alamogordo

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Veterans Affairs, Department of

V-J Day celebration at the White House.

Audio:

Truman speech on Potsdam Conference and atom bomb on Hiroshima August 9, 1945 (Audio Only)   

Writing Prompt:

Distinguished Honor
Working Traditions
Unbelievable Accomplishment

Concepts

Home Front

Rationing

Women in the Workplace

Farm Workers

Mobilization of Resources

African-American in the Military

Wartime Radio/ Communications


People/Places/Ideas

Events/Things

Meatless Days

Ration Coupons

War-Related Rationed Items

Rosie the Riveter

Triple V


A. Philip Randolph

Braceros


G.I. Bill

War Dead


VA Hospital System

VE Day


VJ Day

Manhattan Project

Atomic Bomb


Home Front

War Economy

Rationing

Wartime Agriculture

War Casualties

Government Censorship










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.




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