Social Studies: Foreign Policy/Demographic Change
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8.7 Foreign Policy/8.8a Demographic Change: The United States in the Cold War
- When Josef Stalin threatened to expand communism, President Truman initiated politices to protect non-Communist nations. It was the beginning of the Cold War.
- After World War II, the economy boomed, the population grew, and many postwar families moved to the suburbs. However, not all Americans shared in the new prosperity.
- When North Korea invaded South Korea, the United States and UN forces moved to protect non-Communist South Korea.
- As colonies gained independence, both the United States and the Soviet Union carried their conflict to Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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8.7 Foreign Policy/8.8a Demographic Change: The United States in the Cold War
What key foreign and domestic issues affected the United States after World War II?
- How did the United States respond to the early stages of the Cold War?
- How did the American economy and society change after World War II?
- How did the United States respond to the invasion of Korea and its aftermath?
- How did the Cold War increase tensions around the world?
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SS.8.7 |
FOREIGN POLICY: The period after World War II has been characterized by an ideological and political struggle, first between the United States and communism during the Cold War, then between the United States and forces of instability in the Middle East. Increased economic interdependence and competition, as well as environmental concerns, are challenges faced by the United States. |
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SS.I.1 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York. |
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SS.I.2 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives. |
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SS.I.3 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface. |
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SS.I.4 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms. |
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SS.I.5 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation. |
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College, Career, and Civil Life (C3) Skills
Dimension 1: Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries
- D1.2.6-8. Explain points of agreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a compelling question.
Dimension 2: Applying Disciplinary Concepts and Tools
- Civics D2.Civ.13.6-8. Analyze the purposes, implementation, and consequences of public policies in multiple settings.
- Economics D2.Eco.13.6-8. Explain why standards of living increase as productivity improves.
- Geography D2.Geo.10.6-8. Analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.
- History D2.His.1.6-8. Analyze connections among events and developments in broader historical contexts.
Dimension 3: Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence
- D3.4.6-8. Develop claims and counterclaims while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both.
Dimension 4: Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action
- D4.6.6-8. Draw on multiple disciplinary lenses to analyze how a specific problem can manifest itself at local, regional, and global levels over time, identifying its characteristics and causes, and the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address the problem.
National Council for the Social Studies: Essential Skills for Social Studies
- Interpret what is read by drawing inferences
- Use literature to enrich meaning
- Read various forms of printed material: books, magazines, newspapers, directories, schedules, journals
- Recognize and understand an increasing number of social studies terms
- Adjust rate of reading to difficulty of material
- Make outline of topic
- Prepare summary
- Follow Directions
- Interpret graphs
- Conduct interviews of individuals in the community
- Identify relevant factual material
- Recognize instances in which more than one interpretation of factual material is valid
- Examine critically relationships between and among elements of a topic
- Extract significant ideas from supporting, illustrative details
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8.7 Foreign Policy/8.8a Demographic Change: The United States in the Cold War
- iron curtain
- satellite
- containment
- airlift
- veto
- hostile
- closed shop
- productivity
- standard of living
- baby boom
- rock-and-roll
- inner city
- stalemate
- demilitarized zone
- censure
- superpower
- arms race
- stockpile
- revolt
- encounter
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- Do Now Questions
- Socrative Entrance/Exit Tickets
- Polls
- Interactive Readings
- Graphic Organizers
- Thinking Maps
- Common Core Protocols
- Comprehension Assessments
- Writing Assessments
- Map Quiz
- Quizzes
- J. Dodge Differentiated Activities
- Marzano Strategies
- Primary Source Documents
- Document Based Questions
- Political Cartoons
- Constructed Response Questions
- Chapter Test
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- 25 Quick Formative Assessments - Judy Dodge
- America: History of our Nation - Prentice Hall
- OneNote
- Interactive Reading
- PearsonSuccessNet.com
- Toolkit Inquiry: The Suburbs
- Truman Doctrine
- "Iron Curtain" Speech- Winston Churchill
- Communist Manifest- Karl Marx
- Quizlet
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