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U.S. History 2020

                An introduction to United States History covering a period from Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, Progressive Era, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Civil Rights, Women’s Movement, Anti-war movement, Watergate, the fall of communism, Desert Storm, the Republican control of congress, presidents Andrew Johnson through the reelection of Bill Clinton.

HISTORY 2020 OBJECTIVES:

Students will be introduced to:

The Second Industrial Revolution in the US and will understand the developments, discoveries, technologies, concepts and ideas that fuelled this economic transformation as well as the roles played by capitalists like J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller.

The origins, struggles, and early advances and success of organized labor.

The domestication and settlement of the American West and will understand the roles played by the homesteaders, miners, cowboys, along with the railroads and their impact on the Plains Indians.

The politics of the Gilded Age in terms of reforms, personalities and political parties and they will understand the significance of the tariff, civil service reform, immigration and monetary policy on national politics.

The emergence of the United States as a world power and will understand the impulses driving overseas expansion and appreciate the importance of such personalities as Alfred T. Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt and John Hay among others in the age of American Imperialism

The reforms at the local, state and federal level that constituted the Progressive Movement and will appreciate the contributions of the Muckrakers and public servants like Samuel Jones, Robert LaFollette, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

The causes of World War I, the events that brought the United States into the conflict, the decisive factors that led to the Allied victory, Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles and the consequences

The politics of the 1920s and the conflict between the values of the Jazz Age and those of the conservative forces that railed against modernity.  Topics include prohibition, the Red Scare, nativism, and the Scopes Trial.

The causes, course and consequences of the Great Depression and the impact of the Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

The international crises of the 1920s and 1930s, the rise of fascism and militarism, the outbreak of the Second World War and the impact of American intervention.

The post World War II balance of power, the nuclear age and the Cold War from Presidents Truman from Hiroshima to the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Topics include Containment, China, McCarthyism, conflicts in Korea and Vietnam and Détente.

The struggle for racial equality with the emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s

Contemporary domestic and international issues.

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