Unit 4: Establishment as a World Power
Assessment in this domain focuses on key events, historical figures, and themes related to the history of the
United States from World War I to the Cold War.
Standards: SSUSH15 - SSUSH20
• Students will analyze U.S. involvement in World War I.
• Students will identify key developments after World War I.
• Students will analyze the Great Depression.
• Students will describe the New Deal.
• Students will identify key aspects of U.S. involvement in World War II.
• Students will analyze the impact of the Cold War on the United States.
EQs
- describe the movement from U.S. neutrality to engagement in World War I, with reference to unrestricted submarine
warfare.
- explain the domestic impact of World War I, as reflected by the origins of the Great Migration, the Espionage Act, and
socialist Eugene Debs.
- explain Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the proposed League of Nations.
- describe passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, establishing Prohibition, and the Nineteenth Amendment, establishing
woman suffrage.
- explain how rising communism and socialism in the United States led to the Red Scare and immigrant restriction.
- identify Henry Ford, mass production, and the automobile.
- describe the impact of radio and the movies.
- describe modern forms of cultural expression; include Louis Armstrong and the origins of jazz, Langston Hughes and
the Harlem Renaissance, Irving Berlin, and Tin Pan Alley.
- describe the causes, including overproduction, underconsumption, and stock market speculation that led to the stock
market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.
- explain the impact of the drought in the creation of the Dust Bowl.
- explain the social and political impact of widespread unemployment that resulted in developments such as
Hoovervilles.
- describe the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority as a works program and as an effort to control the environment.
- explain the Wagner Act and the rise of industrial unionism.
- explain the passage of the Social Security Act as a part of the second New Deal.
- identify Eleanor Roosevelt as a symbol of social progress and women’s activism.
- identify the political challenges to Roosevelt’s domestic and international leadership; include the role of Huey Long,
the “court packing bill,” and the Neutrality Act.
- explain A. Philip Randolph’s proposed march on Washington, D.C. and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response.
- explain the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the internment of Japanese-Americans, German-Americans, and
Italian-Americans.
- explain major events; include the lend-lease program, the Battle of Midway, D-Day, and the fall of Berlin.
- describe war mobilization, as indicated by rationing, war-time conversion, and the role of women in war industries.
- describe Los Alamos and the scientific, economic, and military implications of developing the atomic bomb.
- describe the creation of the Marshall Plan, U.S. commitment to Europe, the Truman Doctrine, and the origins and
implications of the containment policy.
- explain the impact of the new communist regime in China and the outbreak of the Korean War and how these events
contributed to the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
- describe the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs, and the Cuban missile crisis.
- describe the Vietnam War, the Tet offensive, and growing opposition to the war.
Key Terms
WWI through Harlem
Renaissance
1. Unrestricted Submarine
Warfare
2. Zimmerman Note
3. Selective Service Act
4. Great Migration
5. Espionage Act
6. Liberty Bonds
7. Fourteen Points
8. League of Nations
9. Communism
10. Red Scare
11. Palmer Raids
12. Mass Production
13. Harlem Renaissance
14. Tin Pan Alley
Great Depression + New Deal
15. Speculation
16. Buying on Margin
17. Black Tuesday
18. The Great Depression
19. Hoovervilles
20. Dust Bowl
21. Twenty-First Amendment
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WWII
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Key People
1) President Woodrow Wilson
2) President Herbert Hoover
3) President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4) President Harry S. Truman
5) President Dwight Eisenhower
6) Louis Armstrong
7) Langston Hughes
8) Irving Berlin
9) Adolf Hitler
10) Joseph Stalin
11) Douglas MacArthur
12) Eleanor Roosevelt
13) Eugene Debbs
14) Huey Long
15) Father Coughlin
16) A. Phillip Randolph
17) Joseph McCarthy
18) Fidel Castro
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Bonus Army
Hundred Days
New Deal
Tennessee Valley
Authority
Wagner Act
Social Security System
Deficit spending
“court packing” (783)
Neutrality Act
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Pearl Harbor
Bataan Death March
Battle of Midway
Island Hopping
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Internment Camps
V-E Day
V-J Day
The Manhattan Project
Los Alamos
45. Atomic Bomb
Cold War
46. United Nations
47. Yalta Conference
48. Potsdam Conference
49. Iron Curtain
50. Cold War
51. Containment
52. Truman Doctrine
53. Marshall Plan
54. Berlin Airlift
55. NATO
56. HUAC
57. McCarthyism
58. Korean War
59. Brinksmanship
60. ICBMs
61. Sputnik
62. Cuban Revolution
63. Bay of Pigs
64. Cuban Missile Crisis
65. Vietnam War
66. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
67. Tet Offensive