Unit 6.2 The World Stage (The Roaring 20's, Great Depression, & WWII)
Introduction
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Unit Compelling Question: How changes in global interaction and consumption affect balance of power in a society?
Analyze how national and global foreign policy led towards a second world war.
Provide details of how life changed in our state and nation as a result of the prosperity of the 1920s.
Explain how the prosperity enjoyed by our nation during the 1920s contributed to the Great Depression.
Summarize how the New Deal supported efforts by the federal government to stimulate the economy both nationally and in my state.
Illustrate how the struggles of the economy led to a wide variety of questioning and challenging American democratic ideals.
Examine and provide evidence how the aggressive actions by totalitarian leaders and/or nations threaten world wide security in the late 1930s.
Identify key leaders and political thought that pushed the world into conflict in the late 1930s and how that impacted my nation and state.
Create a list and compare the pre- and post- World War II nations that were most severely impacted politically, socially, and culturally.
Describe the atrocities and horrors of what one group in power committed upon other groups
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Standards:
History
8.H.1.1 Construct charts, graphs, and historical narratives to explain particular events or issues
8.H.1.2 Summarize the literal meaning of historical documents in order to establish context
8.H.1.3 Use primary and secondary sources to interpret various historical perspectives
8.H.1.4 Use historical inquiry to evaluate the validity of sources used to construct historical narratives (e.g. formulate historical questions, gather data from a variety of sources, evaluate and interpret data and support interpretations with historical evidence).
8.H.1.5 Analyze the relationship between historical context and decision-making
8.H.2.1 - Explain the impact of economic, political, social, and military conflicts (e.g. war, slavery, states’ rights and citizenship and immigration policies) on the development of North Carolina and the United States.
8.H.2.2 - Summarize how leadership and citizen action’s (e.g. the founding fathers, the Regulators, the (Greensboro Four, and participants of the Wilmington Race Riots, 1898) influenced the outcome of key conflicts in North Carolina and the United States.
8.H.2.3 - Summarize the role of debate, compromise, and negotiation during significant periods in the history of North Carolina and the United States.
8.H.3.1 - Explain how migration and immigration contributed to the development of North Carolina and the United States from colonization to contemporary times (e.g. westward movement, African slavery, Trail of Tears, the Great Migration and Ellis and Angel Island).
Civics & Government
8.C&G.1.3 - Analyze differing viewpoints on the scope and power of state and national governments (e.g. Federalists and Anti-Federalists, education, immigration and healthcare).
8.C&G.1.4 - Analyze access to democratic rights and freedoms among various groups in North Carolina and the United States (e.g. enslaved people, women, wage earners, landless farmers, American Indians, African Americans and other ethnic groups).
8.C&G.2.1 - Evaluate the effectiveness of various approaches used to effect change in North Carolina and the United States (e.g. picketing, boycotts, sit-ins, voting, marches, holding elected office and lobbying).
8.C&G.2.2 - Analyze issues pursued through active citizen campaigns for change (e.g. voting rights and access to education, housing and employment).
Economics
8.E.1.1 - Explain how conflict, cooperation, and competition influenced periods of economic growth and decline (e.g. economic depressions and recessions).
8.E.1.2 - Use economic indicators (e.g. GDP, inflation and unemployment) to evaluate the growth and stability of the economy of North Carolina and the United States.
Geography
8.G.1.1- Explain how location and place have presented opportunities and challenges for the movement of people, goods, and ideas in North Carolina and the United States.
8.G.1.2 - Understand the human and physical characteristics of regions in North Carolina and the United States (e.g. physical features, culture, political organization and ethnic make-up).
8.G.1.3 - Explain how human and environmental interaction affected quality of life and settlement patterns in North Carolina and the United States (e.g.environmental, disasters, infrastructure development, coastal restoration and alternative sources of energy).
Culture
8.C.1.1 - Explain how influences from Africa, Europe, and the Americas impacted North Carolina and the United States (e.g. Columbian Exchange, slavery and the decline of the American Indian populations).
8.C.1.2 Summarize the origin of beliefs, practices, and traditions that represent various groups within North Carolina and the United States (e.g. Moravians, Scots-Irish, Highland Scots, Latinos, Hmong, Africans, and American Indians)
8.C.1.3 - Summarize the contributions of particular groups to the development of North Carolina and the United States (e.g. women, religious groups, and ethnic sectors such as American Indians, African Americans, and European immigrants)
Vocabulary
Global Community - the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
Business Cycle - The business cycle, also known as the economic cycle or trade cycle, are the fluctuations of gross domestic product around its long-term growth trend. The length of a business cycle is the period of time containing a single boom and contraction in sequence
Depression - a long and severe recession in an economy or market.
Domestic Policy - Domestic policy are administrative decisions that are directly related to all issues and activity within a state's borders. It differs from foreign policy, which refers to the ways a government advances its interests in external politics
Foreign Policy - refers to the ways a government advances its interests in external politics.
Market Economy - an economic system in which production and prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.
Flapper - a young woman in the 1920s who dressed and behaved in a way that was considered very modern.
Capitalism - Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, a price system, private property and the recognition of property rights, voluntary exchange and wage labor.
Recession - In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction when there is a general decline in economic activity. Recessions generally occur when there is a widespread drop in spending.
Harlem Renaissance - The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
Atomic Bomb - weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of a heavy element such as plutonium or uranium.
New Deal - The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939
Alphabet Soup - The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. ... The agencies were sometimes referred to as alphabet soup.