Month
Essential Questions
Learning Objective
Vocabulary
Assessment
Standard
How did the United States become a global power
after the Civil War?
Panama Canal
Annexation
Imperialism
Philippines
Big Stick Diplomacy
Diplomacy
Spheres of Influence
Queen Liliuokalani
Puerto Rico
USS Maine
Cuba
Remember the
Maine
Monroe Doctrine
Theodore Roosevelt
Expansionist
Rough Riders
Yellow Journalism
Open Door Policy
San Juan Hill
-Learning Log
-Pre-Test
-Guided Highlighted
Reading
-Window Pane
-Sentence
Worksheet
-KWL Activity
USH6.2.1
What role did the United States play in WWI?
Allied Powers
Fourteen Points
Great War
Central Powers
Woodrow Wilson
-Guided Highlighted
Reading
-Post-Test
USH6.2.2
Why are the 1920’s called the “Roaring
Twenties”?
How did American culture change during the
1920’s?
Demobilization
Henry Ford
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Prohibition
Roaring Twenties
Scopes Trial
Speculation
Tariff
Jazz
-Learning Log
-Pre-Test
-4 Sqr Technique
-Guided Highlighted
Reading
-Window Pane
-Sentence
Worksheet
-KWL Activity
-TAS Writing Style
USH7.1.1
Era 1:
Imperialism Era
September
Era 2:
The Roaring
Twenties/Great
Depression/New
Deal Era
October-November
Era 3:
World War II Era
NovemberDecember-January
What caused the Great Depression?
What was life like during the Great Depression?
Black Tuesday
Bonus Army
Depression
Dust Bowl
Federal Reserve
Herbert Hoover
Hoovervilles
Okie
Franklin D
Roosevelt
Unemployment
Shantytowns
-Learning Log
-Pre-Test
-Guided Highlighted
Reading
-Window Pane
-Sentence
Worksheet
USH7.1.2
How did FDR use the federal government to
mitigate suffering during the Great Depression?
What New Deal programs and policies are still
active today?
CCC
SEC
Social Security
Socialism
TVA
FDIC
WPA
-Section Connection
-Window Pane
-Guided Highlighted
Reading
-Post-Test
-TAS Writing Style
USH7.1.3
What was the primary cause of World War II?
Allies
Axis
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Communism
Charles DeGaulle
Francisco Franco
Emperor Hirohito
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Nazi
Josef Stalin
Hidecki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Franklin Roosevelt
-Learning Log
-Pre-Test
-Sentence
Worksheet
-321 Actvity
-5 Thoughts Activity
-FAWS Activity
USH7.2.1
-321 Activity
-Window Pane Activity
USH7.2.2
D-Day
Dwight Eisenhower
Hiroshima
-5 Thoughts Activity
-Graphic Exercise
USH7.2.2
Why did the United States become involved in
World War II?
What was the impact of World War II on the
United States abroad?
What was the impact of World War II on th e
United States at home?
Era 4:
Cold War Era
January-FebruaryMarch
Nagasaki
Douglas MacArthur
Manhattan Project
Robert Oppenheimer
Harry Truman
Japanese Internment
Rosie the Riveter
What were some effects of the Holocaust on the
rest of the world?
Genocide
Holocaust
Nuremburg Trials
What were the political ideals of both the United
States and the Soviet Union in the Post-WWII
era?
Arms Race
Brinksmanship
Cold War
Containment
Domino Theory
Marshall Plan
Joseph McCarthy
MAD
Partition
Peacekeeping
Rosenbergs
Sputnik
Josef Stalin
Harry Truman
United Nations
USSR
Viet Cong
Viet Minh
Vietnam
West Germany
Yalta Conference
38 Parallel
Agent Orange
Berlin Wall
Fidel Castro
Cuban Missile Crisis
Ngo Dinh Diem
DMZ
East Germany
Great Society
Gulf of Tonkin
Israel
Lyndon Johnson
John Kennedy
Nikita Kruschev
Douglas MacArthur
MyLai
North Korea
North Vietnam
South Korea
What conflicts or crisis occurred during the time
period known as the Cold War?
-Highlighted
Reading
-Sentence
Worksheet
-Suitcase Activity
-Post-Test
-TAS Writing Style
USH7.2.3
-Learning Log
-Pre-Test
-Sentence
Worksheet
-321 Actvity
-5 Thoughts Activity
-Highlighted
Reading
USH8.1.1
USH8.1.2
-Learning Log
-Highlighted
Reading
-Sentence
Worksheet
-KWL Activity
-4 Square Activity
-RAFT Activity
-Visual Reading
-Highlighted
Reading
-5 Thoughts Activity
USH8.1.2
USH7.2.4
What factors led to the conclusion of the Cold
War?
Era 5:
Civil Rights Era
March-April-May
What significant events occurred during the
African-American civil rights movement?
Who were some significant leaders of the civil
rights movement?
Era 6:
Global World Era
May-June
What are the unique challenges presented by
America’s sole superpower status?
South Vietnam
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Ronald Reagan
Mikael Gorbachev
-Post Test
-Sentence
Worksheet
-Highlighted
Reading
-Visual Reading
-TAS Writing Style
USH8.1.3
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Brown v Board
Civil Rights Act ‘57
Civil Rights Act ‘64
Freedom Riders
Discrimination
Ku Klux Klan
NAACP
Plessy v Ferguson
SCLC
Dred Scott Decision
Segregation
Sit-in
SNCC
Voting Rights Act
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
MLK
Malcolm X
-Learning Log
-Pre-Test
-Sentence
Worksheet
-321 Actvity
-5 Thoughts Activity
-Highlighted
Reading
-MLK Excerpt
Speech
USH8.3.1
USH8.3.2
USH8.3.4
-Learning Log
-Highlighted
Reading
-Sentence
Worksheet
-KWL Activity
-4 Square Activity
-RAFT Activity
-Visual Reading
-Highlighted
Reading
-5 Thoughts Activity
-Post Test
USH8.3.1
USH8.3.2
USH8.3.4
George W. Bush
Israel
Pakistan
Palestine
Persian Gulf War
Vladimir Putin
-Learning Log
-Pre-Test
-Sentence
Worksheet
-321 Actvity
-5 Thoughts Activity
USH9.2.1
What are the responsibilities of the United States
as the world’s only superpower?
Why might America be the target of increasing
terrorist attacks during this period in history?
Super Power
-Guided Highlighted
Reading
Yassir Arafat
George H W Bush
Gulf War
Saddam Hussein
Iran
Iraq
Iraq War
9-11
Osama bin Laden
Bush Doctrine
Department of
Homeland Security
Hamas
Hezbollah
Patriot Act
Taliban
Terrorism
-KWL Activity
-4 Square Activity
-RAFT Activity
-Visual Reading
-Guided Highlighted
Reading
-5 Thoughts Activity
USH9.2.1
USH9.2.2