• Unit I: Truman (1945-1953)
     
    Unit I-1 - The Accidental President
    Objectives: 
    -TSWBAT understand the rules/syllabus of the class.
    -TSWBAT define the major biographical events of the time before the Truman Presidency.
     
    Important People:
    -Harry Truman
     
    Important Places:
    -Missouri
     
    Assignments:
    -Facebook Assignment Due Friday (10 Points)
     
    Unit I-2 - The Decision to Drop the Bomb
    Objectives:
    -TSWBAT define 4 reasons for/against the use of atomic weapons against the Japanese.
    -TSWBAT understand the development of the Manhattan Project and its relevance to the end of the war.
     
    Important People:
    -J. Robert Oppenheimer
    -Winston Churchill
    -Chiang Kai-Shek
     
    Important Places:
    -Japan
    -Britain
    -China
     
    Assignments: 
    -Read Pages 377-379 in Textbook 
     
     Unit I-3: From Wartime to Peacetime Economy
    Objectives:
    -TSWBAT define 4 post WWII arguments put forward by the Truman Administration with regard to Domestic America.
    -TSWBAT understand the economic concerns of post WWII America.
     
    Important People:
    -John Maynard Keynes
     
    Important Places:
    -None
     
    Assignments:
    -Begin reading 398-405
     
    Unit I-4: Postwar Prosperity and the Election of 1948
    Objectives:

    TSWBAT understand the 4 reasons for postwar prosperity after 1945.

    TSWBAT identify the 4 main candidates in the Election of 1948 and understand why it was the biggest political upset in US history.

    Important People:
    -Harry Truman
    -Thomas Dewey
    -Henry Wallace
    -Strom Thurmond
     
    Important Places:
    -New York
    -South Carolina
     
    Assignments:
    Read 406-411
     
    Unit I-5: The Red Scare
    Objectives:

    TSWBAT define the term Red Scare and its relation to post WWII US

    TSWBAT identify common fallacies of those that were suspected of being a communist.

    TSWBAT identify 4 reactions of the US govt. to the spread of communism within the US

    Important People:
    -Joseph McCarthy
    -Alger Hiss
    -Richard Nixon
    -Julius/Ethel Rosenberg
    -Jackie Robinson
     
    Important Places:
    -West Virginia
    -New York
     
    Assignments:
    -Prep for Unit 1: Truman Reading Quiz (15 Points)
     
    Unit I-6: Truman Foreign Policy (Pre-Containment)
    Objectives :
    -TSW define containment policy and the fundamental differences that occur within US foreign policy because of it.
    -TSW understand the role of the Truman Doctrine within the new interventionist foreign policy of the US 
     
    Important People:
    -None
     
    Important Places:
    -Puerto Rico
    -Germany
    -Japan
    -New York
    -Maryland
     
    Assignments:
    -Read 21.1 Kennan-Kennan on Containment
    -Read 420-427 in Textbook 
     
    Unit I-7: Containment Policy
    Objectives:
    TSW 4 actions taken by the US Government that illustrate the shift in foreign policy from isolationism to interventionism through containment.
    TSW explain the reasoning taken for US support of Greece and Turkey.
    TSW identify and explain the rationale taken for the recognition of Israel in 1948.  
     
    Important People:
    -George Kennan
    -George Marshall
    -Dwight Eisenhower
     
    Important Places: 
    -France
    -England
    -Italy
    -Greece/Turkey
     
    Homework:
    Share a Google Doc w/ Mr. Tengowski (10 Points)
    Directions: 
    1. Click on the following link in order to access the shared folder entitled Honors Google Doc Sharing
    2. Create a Document.
    3. Rename the document as follows: Period - Last Name - Google Doc (e.g. 01-Tengowski-GoogleDoc)
    4. Type your name, class period, and Honors Modern American History.
    5. You are then done.
    Here is the link to a video that I just made for this assignment.  
     
    Unit I-8: Evaluation of Truman FoPo
    Objectives:
    1. TSW analyze and evaluate all events within Truman's FoPo.
    2. TSW evaluate the rationale for the defense of Vietnam instead of China.
     
    Important People:
    -Chiang Kai-Shek
    -Mao Zedong
    -Ho Chi Minh
     
    Important Places:
    -China
    -Vietnam
    -Israel 
     
    Homework:
    1. Read 434-439 
     
    Unit I-9: The Korean War
    Objectives:
    1. TSW understand the reasons/rationale for the Korean War.
    2. TSW understand the 4 stages of the Korean War.
    3. TSW define Truman's rationale for firing Douglas MacArthur
     
    Important People:
    -Syngmann Rhee
    -Kim Il-Sung
     
    Important Places:
    -North Korea
    -South Korea
     
    Homework: 
    1. 2014 ID Sheet - Truman Due (10 Points)
    2. Start studying for the test on 9/12. 
     
    Unit I-10: Review for Truman Test
    Objectives: 
    1. TSW prepare for the Unit I: Truman Test (60 Points) 
     
    Homework:
     
    Unit I-11: Truman Test 

Last Modified on September 12, 2014