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Standard 11.5 Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s. Standard 11.5.1. Discuss the policies of Presidents Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Standard 11.5.2. Analyze the international and domestic events, interests, and philosophies that prompted attacks on civil liberties, including the Palmer Raids, Marcus Garvey's "back-to-Africa" movement, the Ku Klux Klan, and immigration quotas and the responses of organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Anti-Defamation League to those attacks. Standard 11.5.3. Examine the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act (Prohibition). Standard 11.5.4. Analyze the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the changing role of women in society. Standard 11.5.5. Describe the Harlem Renaissance and new trends in literature, music, and art, with special attention to the work of writers (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes). Standard 11.5.6. Trace the growth and effects of radio and movies and their role in the worldwide diffusion of popular culture. Standard 11.5.7. Discuss the rise of mass production techniques, the growth of cities, the impact of new technologies (e.g., the automobile, electricity), and the resulting prosperity and effect on the American landscape. |
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Standard 11.6 Students analyze the different explanations for the Great Depression and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal government. Standard 11.6.1. Describe the monetary issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that gave rise to the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the weaknesses in key sectors of the economy in the late 1920s. Standard 11.6.2. Understand the explanations of the principal causes of the Great Depression and the steps taken by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat the economic crisis. Standard 11.6.3. Discuss the human toll of the Depression, natural disasters, and unwise agricultural practices and their effects on the depopulation of rural regions and on political movements of the left and right, with particular attention to the Dust Bowl refugees and their social and economic impacts in California. Standard 11.6.4. Analyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy since the 1930s (e.g., Works Progress Administration, Social Security, National Labor Relations Board, farm programs, regional development policies, and energy development projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, California Central Valley Project, and Bonneville Dam). Standard 11.6.5. Trace the advances and retreats of organized labor, from the creation of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations to current issues of a postindustrial, multinational economy, including the United Farm Workers in California. |
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Standard 11.7 Students analyze America's participation in World War II. Standard 11.7.1. Examine the origins of American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events that precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor. Standard 11.7.2. Explain U.S. and Allied wartime strategy, including the major battles of Midway, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Battle of the Bulge. Standard 11.7.3. Identify the roles and sacrifices of individual American soldiers, as well as the unique contributions of the special fighting forces (e.g., the Tuskegee Airmen, the 442nd Regimental Combat team, the Navajo Code Talkers). Standard 11.7.4. Analyze Roosevelt's foreign policy during World War II (e.g., Four Freedoms speech). Standard 11.7.5. Discuss the constitutional issues and impact of events on the U.S. home front, including the internment of Japanese Americans (e.g., Fred Korematsu v. United States of America) and the restrictions on German and Italian resident aliens; the response of the administration to Hitler's atrocities against Jews and other groups; the roles of women in military production; and the roles and growing political demands of African Americans. Standard 11.7.6. Describe major developments in aviation, weaponry, communication, and medicine and the war's impact on the location of American industry and use of resources. Standard 11.7.7. Discuss the decision to drop atomic bombs and the consequences of the decision (Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Standard 11.7.8. Analyze the effect of massive aid given to Western Europe under the Marshall Plan to rebuild itself after the war and the importance of a rebuilt Europe to the U.S. economy. |
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Standard 11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II. Standard 11.9.1 Discuss the establishment of the United Nations and International Declaration of Human Rights, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and their importance in shaping modern Europe and maintaining peace and international order. Standard 11.9.2 Understand the role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring communist aggression and maintaining security during the Cold War. Standard 11.9.3 Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold - War and containment policy, including: The era of McCarthyism, instances of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and blacklisting The Truman Doctrine The Berlin Blockade The Korean War The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis Atomic testing in the American West, "mutual assured destruction" doctrine, disarmament policies The Vietnam War Latin American policy Standard 11.9.1 List the effects of foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa (e.g., protests during the war in Vietnam, the "nuclear freeze" movement). Standard 11.9.2 Analyze the role of the Reagan administration and other factors in the victory of the West in the Cold War. Standard 11.9.3 Describe U.S. Middle East policy and its strategic, political, and economic interests, including those related to the Gulf War. Standard 11.9.4 Examine relations between the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century, including key economic, political, immigration, and environmental issues. Standard 11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post-World War II America. Standard 11.8.1 Trace the growth of service sector, white collar, and professional sector jobs in business and government. Standard 11.8.2. Describe the significance of Mexican immigration and its relationship to the agricultural economy, especially in California. Standard 11.8.3 Examine Truman's labor policy and congressional reaction to it. Standard 11.8.4 Analyze new federal government spending on education (including the California Master PLan), defense, welfare, and interest on the national debt. Standard 11.8.5 Describe the increased powers of the presidency in response to the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Standard 11.8.6 Discuss the diverse environmental regions of North America, their relationship to local economies, and the origins and prospects of environmental problems in those regions. Standard 11.8.7 Describe the effects on society and the economy of technological developments since 1945, including the computer revolution, changes in communication, advances in medicine, and improvements in agricultural technology. Standard 11.8.8 Discuss forms of popular culture, with emphasis on their origins and geographic diffusion (e.g., jazz and other forms of popular music, professional sports, architectural and artistic styles). |
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Standard 11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights. Standard 11.10.1 Explain how demands of African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rights, including President Roosevelt's ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in 1941, and how African Americans' service in World War II produced a stimulus for President Truman's decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948. Standard 11.10. 2 Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Dred Scoff v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, and California Proposition 209. Standard 11.10.3 Describe the collaboration on legal strategy between African American and white civil rights lawyers to end racial segregation in higher education. Standard 11.10.4 Examine the roles of civil rights advocates (e.g., A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, Thurgood Marshall, James Farmer, Rosa Parks), including the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and "I Have a Dream" speech. Standard 11.10.5 Discuss the diffusion of the civil rights movement from the churches of the rural South and the urban North, including the resistance to racial desegregation in Little Rock and Birrningham, and how the advances influenced the agendas, strategies, and effectiveness of the quests of American Indians, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities. Standard 11.10.6 Analyze the passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (e.g., 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, with an emphasis on equality of access to education and to the political process. Standard 11.10.7 Analyze the women's rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s, including differing perspectives on the roles of women. Standard 11.11 Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society. Standard 11.11.1 .Discuss the reasons for the nation's changing immigration policy, with emphasis on how the Immigration Act of 1965 and successor acts have transformed American society. Standard 11.11.2 Discuss the significant domestic policy speeches of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton (e.g., with regard to education, civil rights, economic policy, environmental policy). Standard 11.11.3 .Describe the changing roles of women in society as reflected in the entry of more women into the labor force and the changing family structure. |
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| Standard 11.11.4 .Explain the constitutional crisis originating from the Watergate scandal. |
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| Standard 11.11.5 Trace the impact of, need for, and controversies associated with environmental conservation, expansion of the national park system, and the development of environmental protection laws, with particular attention to the interaction between environmental protection advocates and property rights advocates. Standard 11.11. 6 Analyze the persistence of poverty and how different analyses of this issue influence welfare reform, health insurance reform, and other social policies. Standard 11.11.7 .Explain how the federal, state, and local governments have responded to demographic and social changes such as population shifts to the suburbs, racial concentrations in the cities, Frostbelt-to-Sunbelt migration, international migration, decline of family farms, increases in out-of-wedlock births, and drug abuse. |
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Standard 11.3 Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting moral, social, and political impacts, and issues regarding religious liberty. Standard 11.3.1. Describe the contributions of various religious groups to American civic principles and social reform movements (e.g., civil and human rights, individual responsibility and the work ethic, antimonarchy and self-rule, worker protection, family-centered communities). Standard 11.3.2. Analyze the great religious revivals and the leaders involved in them, including the First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening, the Civil War revivals, the Social Gospel Movement, the rise of Christian liberal theology in the nineteenth century, the impact of the Second Vatican Council, and the rise of Christian fundamentalism in current times. Standard 11.3.3. Cite incidences of religious intolerance in the United States (e.g., persecution of Mormons, anti-Catholic sentiment, anti-Semitism). Standard 11.3.4. Discuss the expanding religious pluralism in the United States and California that resulted from large-scale immigration in the twentieth century. Standard 11.3.5. Describe the principles of religious liberty found in the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment, including the debate on the issue of separation of church and state. |
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