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
