World War II (Duration 3-4 Weeks)

Vocabulary

Performance Objective

Connecting Performance
Objective

-Joseph
Stalin
-Adolf Hitler
-Benito
Mussolini
-Frankin
Delano
Roosevelt
-Hideko Tojo
-Winston
Churchill
-Pearl
Harbor
-Stalingrad
-Hiroshima
-Nagasaki
-Battle of
the Bulge
-Battle of
Midway
-Nuremberg
Trials
-Invasion of
Poland
-Sunbelt
-Israel
-Holocaust
-Final
Solution
-D-Day
-Allied
Powers
-Axis Powers
Appeaseme
nt
-POW
-Isolationism
-Code
Talkers
-Internment
camps
-Poston,
Gila, Papago
Camps
-War

Standard: S1C8-PO2:
Describe the impact of American
involvement in World War II:
a. economic recovery from
the Great Depression
b. movement away from
isolationism
c. war mobilization
d. World War II
-who was involvedStalin,
Hitler, Churchill,
FDR, Tojo
-causes
e. home front
transformations in the roles
of women and minorities
f. Italian, German and
Japanese internments and
POW camps
g. turning points
h. Holocaust and Final
Solution

Standard: S4C1-PO2:
Interpret maps and images
Standard: S4C1-PO3:
Use appropriate maps and other
graphic representations to analyze
geographic problems and changes
over time
Standard: S4C1-PO1:
Construct maps using appropriate
elements (dates, grid, title, author,
etc.)
Standard: S4C2-PO5:
Examine how the geographic
characteristics of a place affect
the economics and culture
Standard S4C6-PO2:
Analyze how changing perceptions
of places and environments affect
the choices of people and
institutions

mobilization
-Home Front

Vocabular

Post War U.S. (Duration 2-3 Weeks)

Performance Objective
Connecting Performance

y
-Space
Race
Containme
nt
-Arms Race
-Domino
Theory
-Super
Power
-Berlin
Blockade
-Berlin Wall
-Iron
Curtain
-United
Nations
-Truman
Doctrine
-Marshall
Plan
-War
Powers Act
-Vietnam
War
-Korean
War
-Soviet
Union
Eisenhower
Doctrine
-Strategic
Arms
Limitations
Talks
-Tet
Offensive
-Gulf of
Tonkin
-Chinese
Revolution
-Cold War
-NATO

Objective
Standard: S1C9-PO1:
Analyze aspects of Americas
post World War II foreign Policy:
a. international activism
b. Cold War
c. arms race
d. U.S. as a super power

Standard: S1C9-PO2:
Describe aspects of American
post-World War II domestic policy:
a. executive power
b. space race
c. technological developments

-Cuban
Missile
Crisis
-

Essential Questions of this Unit

In what ways did political structure, alliances and treaties contribute to World

War II?
Does government power decrease or increase in a time of power? Why does

it/does it not?
How did the affairs of World War II carry over to the Cold War?
Describe America after World War II (economy, society and politics).
Explain the changes in the United States foreign policy over the last 40 years.
Is the change drastic?