Describing the importance of the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States, including the New Deal alphabet agencies
Locating on a map the river systems utilized by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) (Alabama)
Identify causes and consequences of World War II and reasons for the United States’ entry into the war.
Locating on a map Allied countries and Axis Powers
Locating on a map key engagements of World War II, including Pearl Harbor; the battles of Normandy, Stalingrad, and Midway; and the Battle of the Bulge
Identifying key figures of World War II, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Michinomiya Hirohito, and Hideki TÅjÅ
Describing the development of and the decision to use the atomic bomb
Describing human costs associated with World War II
Examples: the Holocaust, civilian and military casualties
Explaining the importance of the surrender of the Axis Powers ending World War II
Identify changes on the American home front during World War II.
Example: rationing
Recognizing the retooling of factories from consumer to military production
Identifying new roles of women and African Americans in the workforce
Describing increased demand on the Birmingham steel industry and Port of Mobile facilities (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)
Describe how the United States’ role in the Cold War influenced domestic and international events.
Describing the origin and meaning of the Iron Curtain and communism
Recognizing how the Cold War conflict manifested itself through sports
Examples: Olympic Games, international chess tournaments, Ping-Pong diplomacy
Identifying strategic diplomatic initiatives that intensified the Cold War, including the policies of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy
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 how Cold War tensions resulted in armed conflict
Examples: Korean Conflict, Vietnam War, proxy wars
Describing the impact of the Cold War on technological innovations
Examples: Sputnik; space race; weapons of mass destruction; accessibility of microwave ovens, calculators, and computers
Recognizing Alabama’s role in the Cold War (Alabama)
Examples: rocket production at Redstone Arsenal, helicopter training at Fort Rucker (Alabama)
Assessing effects of the end of the Cold War Era
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)
Critique major social and cultural changes in the United States since World War II.
Identifying key persons and events of the modern Civil Rights Movement
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)
Describing the changing role of women in United States’ society and how it affected the family unit
Examples: women in the workplace, latchkey children
Recognizing the impact of music genres and artists on United States’ culture since World War II
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)
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
Analyze changing economic priorities and cycles of economic expansion and contraction for their impact on society since World War II.
Examples: shift from manufacturing to service economy, higher standard of living, globalization, outsourcing, insourcing, boom and bust economic bubbles
Identifying policies and programs that had an economic impact on society since World War II
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)
Analyzing consequences of immigration for their impact on national and Alabama economies since World War II (Alabama)
Identify technological advancements on society in the United States since World War II.
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
Evaluate significant political issues and policies of presidential administrations since World War II.
Identifying domestic policies that shaped the United States since World War II
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
Recognizing domestic issues that shaped the United States since World War II
Examples: McCarthyism, Watergate scandal, political assassinations, health care, impeachment, Hurricane Katrina
Identifying issues of foreign affairs that shaped the United States since World War II
Examples: Vietnam Conflict, Richard Nixon’s China initiative, Jimmy Carter’s human rights initiative, emergence of China and India as economic powers
