HS US History Organizing Principle 5

Organizing Principle 5: The Great Depression and World 5 weeks / Second Nine Weeks
War II

Reporting Categories: Global Military, Political, and Economic
Challenges 1890-1940
The United States and the Defense of the International Peace 1940-
present

Measurement Topic: The Great Depression and New Deal

Benchmarks Curriculum Standards Students Will: Academic Language
SS.912.A.5.11
• Examine the causes, course, and - Recognize the cause-and- The Great Depression: buying on margin, bull/bear
SS.912.A.5.12
consequences of the Great Depression effect relationships of market, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Bonus Army,

and the New Deal. economic trends as they relate Black Tuesday, Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Herbert Hoover,
to society in the United States Hooverville, “Hoover Flag,” Agriculture Adjustment

• Examine key events and people in during the 1920s and 1930s. Act (AAA), First Hundred Days, Franklin D.
Florida history as they relate to - Identify and/or evaluate the Roosevelt, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Dust
United States history. Bowl, Okies, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC), Gross National Product (GNP), Public Works
impact of business practices, Administration (PWA), National Labor Relations Act
consumer patterns, and
(Wagner Act), National Recovery Act, National

government policies of the Recovery Administration, New Deal, “Recovery,

1920s and 1930s as they relate Reform, Relief,” Social Security Act, Tennessee Valley

to the Great Depression and Authority (TVA), Works Progress Administration

subsequent New Deal. (WPA), Court Packing Plan, Huey Long, Charles

- Examine the human Coughlin, fireside chats, Eleanor Roosevelt, Glass-
experience during both the Steagall Act, “Black Cabinet”, Mary McLeod Bethune,
Great Depression and the New
Deal. socialism, speculation boom, Bank Holiday, Dorthea
Lange/ “Migrant Mother”, impact of climate and

natural disasters

- Analyze the long-term
social, political, and economic
consequences of the 1920s
and 1930s on society in the
United States and/or Florida.

- Explain the effects of the
changing role of tourism in

Organizing Principle 5: The Great Depression and World Florida’s development and
War II growth (1890–1930), the land
boom and bust (1920–30),
Reporting Categories: Global Military, Political, and Economic
Challenges 1890-1940 and/or the impact of the Great
The United States and the Defense of the International Peace 1940- Depression (1926–40).
present
5 weeks / Second Nine Weeks

Measurement Topic: World War II

Benchmarks Curriculum Standards Students Will: Academic Language

SS.912.A.6.1 • Examine causes, course, and - Identify and/or evaluate the World War II: appeasement “Munich Conference,”
SS.912.A.6.2
consequences of World War II on the social, political, and economic nationalism, Totalitarianism, Communism, Fascism,
SS.912.A.6.3 Nazism, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini,
SS.912.A.6.4 United States and around the World. causes of World War II.
SS.912.A.6.5 Francisco Franco/Spanish Civil War, Hideki Tojo,
SS.912.A.6.6 • Describe the United States response - Identify and/or evaluate the
SS.912.A.6.7 in the early years of World War II causes and consequences of Isolationism, neutrality, Allies, Kamikaze, Lend-Lease
(Neutrality Acts, Cash and Carry, World War II both Act, “Cash and Carry,” Neutrality Acts, Non-
The standards in Lend Lease Act). domestically and
bold are identified Aggression Act, Axis Powers, blitzkrieg, Winston
• Analyze the impact of the Holocaust Churchill, “Quarantine Speech,” Franklin D. Roosevelt,

during World War II on Jews as well internationally. Pearl Harbor, Normandy (D-Day), Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Douglas McArthur, Battle of Midway,

as other groups. Battle of Iwo Jima, “Island Hopping,” V-E Day, V-J

• Examine efforts to expand or contract - Evaluate the significance of Day, Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer, Albert
rights for various populations during specific wartime events and Einstein, “Unconditional Surrender,” Hiroshima,

World War II. actions both on the home front Nagasaki, Enola Gay, Japanese Internment, rationing,
• Explain the impact of World War II and on the progress of the
war. Homefront, Office of Price Administration, War
on domestic government policy. Production Board, Women’s Auxiliary Army Corp,

• Analyze the use of atomic weapons Tehran Conference, Tuskegee Airman, Code Talkers,
during World War II and the
aftermath of the bombings. - Analyze the role played by Nuremberg Trials, Concentration Camps, Holocaust,
individuals in the war effort, Final Solution, Anti-Semitism, genocide, Super
• Describe the attempts to promote including the involvement of
international justice through the women and minority groups Power, Potsdam Conference, Yalta Conference, United
Nuremberg Trials. in home front and overseas Nations, Atlantic Charter, “Four Freedoms,” Battle of
activities.
Bulge, Battle of Coral Sea, Salerno, Stalingrad,
Korematsu v. US

by the state as - Identify and/or evaluate the Florida History: Mary McLeod Bethune, Legalized
being assessed on role of technology in World gambling, migrations, Florida park service, Florida
the EOC. War II and the political, Citrus Commission, Alfred DuPont, Ernest
economic, and social Hemingway, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Military
implications of the use of Training camps, The Breakers, Camp Blanding, DDT
technology.

- Evaluate the long-term
influences of the war on both
domestic and international
affairs.