SS10.6.7.2
Identifying new roles of women and African Americans in the workforce
Identifying new roles of women and African Americans in the workforce
SS10.6.7.2
SS10.6.7.3
Describing increased demand on the Birmingham steel industry and Port of Mobile facilities (Alabama)
Describing increased demand on the Birmingham steel industry and Port of Mobile facilities (Alabama)
SS10.6.7.4
Describing the experience of African Americans and Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II, including the Tuskegee Airmen and occupants of internment camps (Alabama)
Describing the experience of African Americans and Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II, including the Tuskegee Airmen and occupants of internment camps (Alabama)
SS10.6.8
Describe how the United States’ role in the Cold War influenced domestic and international events.
Describe how the United States’ role in the Cold War influenced domestic and international events.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- How the role the U.S. played in the Cold War influenced domestic and foreign policy.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Appraise the value of technological advances during the Cold War.
- Cite specific textual evidence to analyze the influence of the super powers on cultural, technological, and political changes during the Cold War.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- The United States played an important role in the Cold War and this influenced U.S. domestic and foreign policy.
Vocabulary
- Cold War
- domestic
- international
- Iron Curtain
- communism
- democracy
- embargo
- blockade
- diplomacy
- strategic diplomatic initiative
- proxy war
- destruction
- invasion
- crisis
- weapons of mass destruction
- Strategic Defense Initiative
SS10.6.8.1
Describing the origin and meaning of the Iron Curtain and communism
Describing the origin and meaning of the Iron Curtain and communism
SS10.6.8.2
Recognizing how the Cold War conflict manifested itself through sports
COS Examples
Examples: Olympic Games, international chess tournaments, Ping-Pong diplomacy
Recognizing how the Cold War conflict manifested itself through sports
COS Examples
Examples: Olympic Games, international chess tournaments, Ping-Pong diplomacy
SS10.6.8.3
Identifying strategic diplomatic initiatives that intensified the Cold War, including the policies of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy
COS Examples
Examples: trade embargoes, Marshall Plan, arms race, Berlin blockade and airlift, Berlin Wall, mutually assured destruction, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Warsaw Pact, Cuban missile crisis, Bay of Pigs invasion
Identifying strategic diplomatic initiatives that intensified the Cold War, including the policies of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy
COS Examples
Examples: trade embargoes, Marshall Plan, arms race, Berlin blockade and airlift, Berlin Wall, mutually assured destruction, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Warsaw Pact, Cuban missile crisis, Bay of Pigs invasion
SS10.6.8.4
Identifying how Cold War tensions resulted in armed conflict
COS Examples
Examples: Korean Conflict, Vietnam War, proxy wars
Identifying how Cold War tensions resulted in armed conflict
COS Examples
Examples: Korean Conflict, Vietnam War, proxy wars
SS10.6.8.5
Describing the impact of the Cold War on technological innovations
COS Examples
Examples: Sputnik; space race; weapons of mass destruction; accessibility of microwave ovens, calculators, and computers
Describing the impact of the Cold War on technological innovations
COS Examples
Examples: Sputnik; space race; weapons of mass destruction; accessibility of microwave ovens, calculators, and computers
SS10.6.8.6
Recognizing Alabama’s role in the Cold War (Alabama)
COS Examples
Examples: rocket production at Redstone Arsenal, helicopter training at Fort Rucker (Alabama)
Recognizing Alabama’s role in the Cold War (Alabama)
COS Examples
Examples: rocket production at Redstone Arsenal, helicopter training at Fort Rucker (Alabama)
SS10.6.8.7
Assessing effects of the end of the Cold War Era
COS Examples
Examples: policies of Mikhail Gorbachev; collapse of the Soviet Union; Ronald W. Reagan’s foreign policies, including the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI or Star Wars)
Assessing effects of the end of the Cold War Era
COS Examples
Examples: policies of Mikhail Gorbachev; collapse of the Soviet Union; Ronald W. Reagan’s foreign policies, including the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI or Star Wars)
SS10.6.9
Critique major social and cultural changes in the United States since World War II.
Critique major social and cultural changes in the United States since World War II.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The key figures involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
- The major social and cultural changes that occurred in the United States post WWII.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Critique multiple points of view to explain the ideas and actions of individuals and ethnic groups to gain equality.
- Cite evidence to support changes in social and cultural traditions using primary and secondary sources.
- Evaluate the contribution of technology and mass methods of communication to influence people, places, ideas, and events.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There were important the social and cultural changes that occurred in the U.S. after WWII.
Vocabulary
- Brown vs. Board of Education
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Freedom Rides
- Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March
- Motown
- AM/FM radio
- protest songs
- demonstrations
- genre
- political assassinations
- latchkey children
- Civil Rights Movement
SS10.6.9.1
Identifying key persons and events of the modern Civil Rights Movement
COS Examples
Examples: persons–Martin Luther King Jr.; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis (Alabama)
events– Brown versus Board of Education, Montgomery Bus Boycott, student protests, Freedom Rides, Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, political assassinations (Alabama)
Identifying key persons and events of the modern Civil Rights Movement
COS Examples
Examples: persons–Martin Luther King Jr.; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis (Alabama)
events– Brown versus Board of Education, Montgomery Bus Boycott, student protests, Freedom Rides, Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, political assassinations (Alabama)
SS10.6.9.2
Describing the changing role of women in United States’ society and how it affected the family unit
COS Examples
Examples: women in the workplace, latchkey children
Describing the changing role of women in United States’ society and how it affected the family unit
COS Examples
Examples: women in the workplace, latchkey children
SS10.6.9.3
Recognizing the impact of music genres and artists on United States’ culture since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: genres–protest songs; Motown, rock and roll, rap, folk, and country music
artists–Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Hank Williams (Alabama)
Recognizing the impact of music genres and artists on United States’ culture since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: genres–protest songs; Motown, rock and roll, rap, folk, and country music
artists–Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Hank Williams (Alabama)
SS10.6.9.4
Identifying the impact of media, including newspapers, AM and FM radio, television, twenty-four hour sports and news programming, talk radio, and Internet social networking, on United States’ culture since World War II
Identifying the impact of media, including newspapers, AM and FM radio, television, twenty-four hour sports and news programming, talk radio, and Internet social networking, on United States’ culture since World War II
SS10.6.10
Analyze changing economic priorities and cycles of economic expansion and contraction for their impact on society since World War II.
COS Examples
Examples: shift from manufacturing to service economy, higher standard of living, globalization, outsourcing, insourcing, boom and bust economic bubbles
Analyze changing economic priorities and cycles of economic expansion and contraction for their impact on society since World War II.
COS Examples
Examples: shift from manufacturing to service economy, higher standard of living, globalization, outsourcing, insourcing, boom and bust economic bubbles
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The cycles of economic expansion and contraction and the impact these cycles had on American society after WWII.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Analyze and explain policies and programs that economically impacted society since World War II.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There are cycles of economic expansion and contraction and this has had an impact on American society after WWII.
Vocabulary
- economic expansion
- economic contraction
- service economy
- "boom and bust"
- economic bubbles
- GI Bill of Rights of 1944
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Head Start programs
- Children's Health Insurance Program
- manufacturing
- standard of living
- globalization
- outsourcing
- insourcing
- environmental protection
- immigration
SS10.6.10.1
Identifying policies and programs that had an economic impact on society since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (G. I. Bill of Rights), Medicare and Medicaid, Head Start programs, space exploration, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), environmental protection issues (Alabama)
Identifying policies and programs that had an economic impact on society since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (G. I. Bill of Rights), Medicare and Medicaid, Head Start programs, space exploration, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), environmental protection issues (Alabama)
SS10.6.10.2
Analyzing consequences of immigration for their impact on national and Alabama economies since World War II (Alabama)
Analyzing consequences of immigration for their impact on national and Alabama economies since World War II (Alabama)
SS10.6.11
Identify technological advancements on society in the United States since World War II.
COS Examples
Examples: 1950s–fashion doll, audio cassette
1960s–action figure, artificial heart, Internet, calculator
1970s–word processor, video game, cellular telephone
1980s–personal computer, Doppler radar, digital cellular telephone
1990s–World Wide Web, digital video diskette (DVD)
2000s–digital music player, social networking technology, personal Global Positioning System (GPS) device
Identify technological advancements on society in the United States since World War II.
COS Examples
Examples: 1950s–fashion doll, audio cassette
1960s–action figure, artificial heart, Internet, calculator
1970s–word processor, video game, cellular telephone
1980s–personal computer, Doppler radar, digital cellular telephone
1990s–World Wide Web, digital video diskette (DVD)
2000s–digital music player, social networking technology, personal Global Positioning System (GPS) device
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Progressive changes in technology have occurred in each decade since WWII in the United States.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Appraise the value of technological advances and their impact on society.
- Cite evidence to explain the progression of technological advancements from the 1950's to present.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There have been important technological advancements in society in the United States since WWII.
Vocabulary
- fashion dolls
- audio cassette
- artificial heart
- internet
- calculator
- World Wide Web
- DVD
- word processor
- Doppler radar
- fiber optics
- trade agreements
- digital
- Global Positioning System
SS10.6.12
Evaluate significant political issues and policies of presidential administrations since World War II.
Evaluate significant political issues and policies of presidential administrations since World War II.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The significant political issues and policies of American presidents since WWII.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Appraise the value of technological advances.
- Cite evidence to support historical events.
- Evaluate the foreign and domestic policies of the US after WWII.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- We can evaluate the politics and policies of American presidents since WWII.
Vocabulary
- Interstate Highway System
- Great Society
- affirmative action
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Welfare Reform
- Patriot Act
- No Child Left Behind
- McCarthyism
- Watergate Scandal
- impeachment
- Hurricane Katrina
- Vietnam Conflict
- Iranian Hostage Crisis
- Camp David Accords
- Persian Gulf Wars
- domestic and foreign policy
- desegregation
- human rights
- embargo
- terrorism
- equal opportunity
SS10.6.12.1
Identifying domestic policies that shaped the United States since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: desegregation of the military, Interstate Highway System, federal funding for education, Great Society, affirmative action, Americans with Disabilities Act, welfare reform, Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind Act
Identifying domestic policies that shaped the United States since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: desegregation of the military, Interstate Highway System, federal funding for education, Great Society, affirmative action, Americans with Disabilities Act, welfare reform, Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind Act
SS10.6.12.2
Recognizing domestic issues that shaped the United States since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: McCarthyism, Watergate scandal, political assassinations, health care, impeachment, Hurricane Katrina
Recognizing domestic issues that shaped the United States since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: McCarthyism, Watergate scandal, political assassinations, health care, impeachment, Hurricane Katrina
SS10.6.12.3
Identifying issues of foreign affairs that shaped the United States since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: Vietnam Conflict, Richard Nixon’s China initiative, Jimmy Carter’s human rights initiative, emergence of China and India as economic powers
Identifying issues of foreign affairs that shaped the United States since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: Vietnam Conflict, Richard Nixon’s China initiative, Jimmy Carter’s human rights initiative, emergence of China and India as economic powers
SS10.6.12.4
Explaining how conflict in the Middle East impacted life in the United States since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: oil embargoes; Iranian hostage situation; Camp David Accords; Persian Gulf Wars; 1993 World Trade Center bombing; terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001; War on Terrorism; homeland security
Explaining how conflict in the Middle East impacted life in the United States since World War II
COS Examples
Examples: oil embargoes; Iranian hostage situation; Camp David Accords; Persian Gulf Wars; 1993 World Trade Center bombing; terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001; War on Terrorism; homeland security
SS10.6.12.5
Recognizing the election of Barack Obama as the culmination of a movement in the United States to realize equal opportunity for all Americans
Recognizing the election of Barack Obama as the culmination of a movement in the United States to realize equal opportunity for all Americans
SS10.6.12.6
Identifying the 2008 presidential election as a watershed in the use of new technology and mass participation in the electoral process
Identifying the 2008 presidential election as a watershed in the use of new technology and mass participation in the electoral process
