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U.S. History B — Depression, World War, Cold War and Civil Rights (California)
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4 Sections
20 Lessons
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Unit 1: The Great Depression and the New Deal
5
1.1
Crash — Explaining the Great Depression
50 mins
1.2
Dust, Drought and Deportation — The Human Toll in the Plains and California
50 mins
1.3
Seminar — Did the New Deal Go Too Far, or Not Far Enough?
50 mins
1.4
Workshop — Labor’s Advances and Retreats, from the AFL to the UFW
50 mins
1.5
Performance Task — Did the New Deal Change the Federal Government for Good?
150 mins
Unit 2: The Second World War
5
2.1
From Neutrality to Pearl Harbor
50 mins
2.2
Strategy and Sacrifice — Fighting a Two-Ocean War
50 mins
2.3
Seminar — The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
50 mins
2.4
Workshop — Whose Freedoms? The Home Front and Its Contradictions
50 mins
2.5
Performance Task — Moot Court: Korematsu v. United States Reheard
200 mins
Unit 3: The Cold War and the Affluent Society
5
3.1
Building a Postwar Order — The UN, Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan and Containment
50 mins
3.2
Containment Tested — The Red Scare, Korea, Cuba, the Bomb and Vietnam
50 mins
3.3
Seminar — Who Shared the Affluent Society?
50 mins
3.4
Workshop — How the Cold War Ended, and American Interests in the Middle East
50 mins
3.5
Performance Task — Structured Academic Controversy: An Imperial Presidency?
200 mins
Unit 4: Civil Rights and a Changing Nation
5
4.1
From Dred Scott to Brown — Courts, Lawyers and the Color Line
50 mins
4.2
The Freedom Movement — Leaders, Strategies and the Laws of 1964 and 1965
50 mins
4.3
Seminar — Many Movements: Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians and Women
50 mins
4.4
Workshop — A Changing Nation: Immigration, the Sunbelt, Proposition 13 and Silicon Valley
50 mins
4.5
Performance Task — Oral History: Living Memory of a Changing California
250 mins
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