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
