Content Area: Social Studies

 

Index: 6.4J Grade 12 CPI 5

 

Standard: 6.4 - US & NJ History

 

Strand: J -  Great Depression and World War II

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 5 - The student will compare and contrast key events and people involved with the causes, course, and consequences of World War II, including:

·        Axis Powers

·        Allied Forces

·        Pearl Harbor               

·        Battle of Midway

·        D-Day Invasion

·        Yalta Conference

·        Potsdam Conference

·        Douglas MacArthur

·        Dwight Eisenhower

·        George Marshall

·        Winston Churchill

·        J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project

·        Franklin D. Roosevelt

·        Harry Truman

·        Joseph Stalin and the role of the USSR

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Higher-Order Thinking Task. Students develop lists of standards for political conduct at any period in history. They use these standards to evaluate the conduct of elected officials in our time looking at modern-day accusations of political misconduct. They examine the question of whether or not the public and private actions of political leaders have an effect on the universal human rights of everyday citizens in today’s world. Suggested topics for these investigations include the Watergate Scandal, the Iran-Contra Affair, the campaign finance scandal of the mid-1990s, and the performance of some of the independent counsels who worked on these matters. Consider focusing students’ research and writing on one particular human rights issue, such as the right to privacy (which was central to the Watergate and Whitewater investigations).