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How to analyze political cartoons (relevant for all units in this course)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkJNNuxsuQ

 

Political Cartoons

Unit 1

 Unit 1 Political Cartoons.docx 

Unit 2

WWI

 WWI Political Cartoons.docx 

 New Deal Political Cartoons.docx 

 

U.S. History Unit 1

 Westward Expansion.docx  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16OZkgSXfM&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=25

 Urbanization and Labor Unions.docx 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRhjqqe750A&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=26

 Trust Busting.docx 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Q4zPR4G7M&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=28

 Imperialism.docx 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfsfoFqsFk4&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index

 

 

UNIT 2

   WWI

 https://kidskonnect.com/history/ww1-start/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y59wErqg4Xg&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=31

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd2ch4XV84s&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNjasccl-WajpONGX3zoY4M&index=10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pFCpKtwCkI&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNjasccl-WajpONGX3zoY4M&index=11

 

  Start of WWI.docx 

  Wilson's 14 points.docx  

 

Roaring 20s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfOR1XCMf7A&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=33

 1920s Consumerism.docx 

  Return to Normalcy.docx 

 20 innovation or conservativism.docx 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGEMscZE5dY&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=32

 

UNIT 3

The Great Depression

 Causes of the Great Depression.docx 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQfMWAikyU&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=34

 The Great Depression under Hoover.docx 

The New Deal

 

 

UNIT 4

WWII

Beginning of WWII

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/us-wwii/v/beginning-of-world-https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htmwar-ii

Japanese Internment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4NoVWq87M

The Homefront

 WWII homefront.docx 

Fighting the War

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day

The Code Talkers

https://americanindian.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/chapter4.html

Bringing the war to a conclusion

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-manhattan-project

 

UNIT 5 The Cold War

Capitalism vs Communism

https://www.ushistory.org/gov/13b.asp

America's Post-War Role

 Post War world.docx

 

Containment

https://www.ushistory.org/us/52c.asp

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3403

 

The Arms Race

http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/1949-atomic-bomb-for-the-soviet-union#.Xp8vxMhKgdU

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170816-the-monster-atomic-bomb-that-was-too-big-to-use

 

Social Movements of the Cold War Era

The Civil Rights Movement

https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement

American Indian Movement

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-american-indian-movement-1968-1978

Vietnam Protests

https://time.com/5106608/protest-1968/

Latino Movement

https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/tolerance-lessons/latino-civil-rights-timeline-1903-to-2006

 

UNIT 6 THE MODERN ERA

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall

 

 

 

 

 

 

Civics

How to analyze political cartoons (relevant for all units in this course)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkJNNuxsuQ

 

 

 

Unit 1

  Reasons for government.docx 

 Selection of the Magna Carta.docx 

https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta#

 Creating a Constitution 1.docx 

 Creating a Constitution 2.docx 

 Separation of Powers.docx 

Video link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO7FQsCcbD8&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=8

 

 

How a Bill Becomes a Law

https://www.ancor.org/sites/default/files/pdf/How%20a%20bill%20becomes%20a%20law.pdf

 

UNIT 2

Wealth Inequality

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/02/why-people-are-rich-and-poor-republicans-and-democrats-have-very-different-views/

 

UNIT 3

Goverenment and economics

 Government policy and the economy.docx 

Government Economic Systems

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/capitalism-socialism-and-_b_8523486

Foreign Policies

 Types of Foreign Policy.docx 

Foreign Aid: The Good and the Bad

www.thoughtco.com/us-and-middle-east-since-1945

 

Contraversy of Foregin Aid

https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-global-aid-true-false-20170501-htmlstory.html

 

UNIT 4

Rights vs Privelages 

voting rights

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/09/voting-right-or-privilege/262511/

Effects of Postitive and Negative Campaign Ads

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-negative-political-ads-work/

Fake News

https://www.npr.org/2016/12/14/505547295/fake-news-expert-on-how-false-stories-spread-and-why-people-believe-them

 

UNIT 5

Government Regulations and public opinion

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bowmanmarsico/2017/10/23/where-is-the-public-on-government-regulation/#ae7c46565b90

Modern Monopolies; pros and cons

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/america-has-a-monopoly-problem-and-its-huge/

 https://news.law.fordham.edu/jcfl/2019/03/10/are-there-monopolies-in-2019/

The Great Recession

https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/recession

Does Wealth Constitute Economic Happiness?

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_economics_of_happiness

How the Federal Reserve Works

https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/history-and-purpose-of-the-fed

 

UNIT 6