Unit Plan: Lilian Tripp
9th Grade US History
February – April 2015
Unit 4 and 5: Prosperity and Crisis (1919-1939) and World Conflicts (1920-1960)
Desired Results
Established Goals: All students will analyze social and economic growth and collapse in
the United States. They will draw connections regarding The Great Migration and World
War Two. Students will also understand how the automobile industry, prohibition, and
The Harlem Renaissance impacted society. In addition, students will also learn the causes
and effects of the Great Depression and what were the results of the New Deal following
the Depression and the Cold War.
Applicable HSCEs:
6.1.3 Urbanization – Analyze the changing urban and rural landscape by examining
• The growth of cities linked by industry and trade
• The development of cities divided by race, ethnicity, and class
• Resulting tensions among and within groups
.
6.1.5 A Case Study of American Industrialism – Using the automobile industry as a
case study, analyze the causes and consequences of this major industrial
transformation by explaining
• The impact of resource availability
• Entrepreneurial decision making by Henry Ford and others
• The development of an industrial work force
• The impact on Michigan
• The impact on American society
7.1 Growing Crisis of Industrial Capitalism and Responses
Evaluate the key events and decisions surrounding the causes and consequences of
the global depression of the 1930s and World War II.
7.1.1 The Twenties – Identify and explain the significance of the cultural changes
and tensions in the “Roaring Twenties” including
• Cultural movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance and the “lost generation”
7.1.2 Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression – Explain and evaluate the
multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing
• the political, economic, environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression
including fiscal policy, overproduction, under consumption, and speculation, the 1929
crash, and the Dust Bowl
• The economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and
environmental conditions that affected farmers, industrial workers and families
• Hoover’s policies and their impact
7.1.3 The New Deal – Explain and evaluate Roosevelt’s New Deal Policies including
• expanding the federal government’s responsibilities to protect the environment
, meet challenges of unemployment, address the needs of workers, farmers, poor, and
elderly
• Opposition to the New Deal and the impact of the Supreme Court in striking down and
then accepting New Deal laws
• Consequences of New Deal policies
7.2 World War II
Examine the causes and course of World War II, and the effects of the war on
United States society and culture, including the consequences for United States
involvement in world affairs.
7.2.1 Causes of WWII – Analyze the factors contributing to World and America’s
entry into war including
• The political and economic disputes over
• The differences in the civic and political values of the United States and those of Nazi
Germany and Imperial Japan
• United States neutrality
• The bombing of Pearl Harbor
7.2.2 U.S. and the Course of WWII – Evaluate the role of the U.S. in fighting the
war militarily, diplomatically and technologically across the world
7.2.3 Impact of WWII on American Life – Analyze the changes in American life
brought about by U.S. participation in World War II including
• Mobilization of economic, military, and social resources
• Role of women and minorities in the war effort
• Role of the home front in supporting the war effort
• Internment of Japanese-Americans
Essential Questions:
1. How do governments change the way they handled situations over time?
2. How does geography influence the way people live?
3. How did the automobile industry impact American life?
4. What were the causes and effects of The Great Depression?
5. How did the Great Depression impact the United States and other nations as well?
6. What resulted as The New Deal?
7. How did the Dust Bowl impact American lives?
Understandings:
Students will understand…
1. The Harlem Renaissance was a way for African Americans to express themselves
2. The 1920s was a period in the United States where everyone wanted “The
American Dream”
3. The reasons the United States entered World War 2.
4. The New Deal is the result of The Great Depression and how to ensure that the
United States would take preliminary actions
5. The Cold War was the result of tension between the Soviet Union and the United
States after World War 2.
6. The Dust Bowl made life in the United States more difficult as it was parallel to
the Great Depression.
Knowledge:
Unit 4 Prosperity and Crisis
I. Chapter 14: The Jazz Age
a. Boom Times
i. Motor City
ii. Ford and $5 work day
iii. Changes in accessibility
b. Life in the Twenties
i. Prohibition
ii. Mass Entertainment
iii. Religion
c. A Creative Era
i. Music
ii. The American Dream
1. The Great Gatsby
2. THEIEVES and Story Mapping
iii. The Harlem Renaissance
II. Chapter 15: The Great Depression
a. Prosperity Shattered
i. Stock Market Crashes
1. Four Factors of the Stock Market Crash
2. Black Tuesday
ii. The Great Depression
1. What caused the depression
2. How different economic classes lived
iii. Global Depression
1. What caused the Global Depression
b. Hard Times
i. Unemployment During the depression
ii. Different economic classes during the depression
1. Life in the city
2. Life on the farm
iii. Popular culture in the 1930s
c. Hoover’s Policies
i. Hoover’s attempts to get America out of the Great Depression
1. Why it failed
ii. The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt
III. Chapter 16: The New Deal
a. Restoring Hope
i. New Deal
ii. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
iii. Civilian Conservation Corps
iv. National Industrial Recovery Act
b. New Challenges
i. The Crisis of the New Deal
ii. The Second New Deal
1. Social Security
2. Workers Progress Administration
iii. Roosevelt’s Recession
c. Life in The New Deal Era
i. The Dust Bowl and Migration
ii. Picturing Life during the depression
iii. Evaluating the New Deal
d. The New Deal and the Arts
i. WPA Programs
ii. Portraying he Depression
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Unit 5
IV. Chapter 18: Americans in World War 2
a. Early Difficulties
i. Reasons why America went to war
1. Neutrality
ii. Strengths and Weaknesses
iii. Mobilizing for War
iv. Halting the Japanese Advance
b. The Home Front
i. Promoting the War
ii. Life During Wartime
iii. Rosie the Riveter
iv. Discrimination during the War
1. Zoot-suit riots
v. Japanese American Relocation
c. Victory in Europe
i. Allied Attacks in the Mediterranean
ii. Air assaults
1. D-Day
iii. The Holocaust
1. Hitler
2. Genocide
d. Victory in Asia
i. Manhattan Project
V. Chapter 19: The Cold War
a. War Crime trails
b. The Cold War Begins
i. What caused the Cold War
ii. NATO
c. The Cold War turns hot
i. Spread of communism
d. The Cold War at Home
i. McCarthyism
ii. Hydrogen bomb
VI. Chapter 20: Society After World War 2
a. The Challenges of Peace
i. GI Bill of Rights
ii. Taft- Harley Election
iii. The Fair Deal
b. The Affluent Society
i. Modern Republicanism
ii. American Federation of Labor
iii. Baby Boomers
iv. Golden Age of Television
c. Voices of Dissent
i. Brown v. Board of Education
ii. Little Rock Nine
iii. Montgomery boycott
iv. Martin Luther King Jr.
v. Rosa Parks
Skills:
Students will be able to…
 Analyze political transfers of power in the United States and how those transfers
have changed government over time.
 Compare and contrast geographical regions of the United States politically,
socially, and economically.
 Identify what life was like during the Depression
 Predict how innovations of that time period have affected the present day.
 Analyze information pertaining to the cause and effect relationships.
 Display what they have learned through assignments and projects.
 Describe the term sectionalism and the qualities of each ‘section.’