AP U.S. History
Unit 11: World War I
Organizing Principles:
 German violations of American neutrality, strong economic and political ties to Britain, and effective British propaganda helped shape
American public opinion about the combatants.
 Despite a strong desire on the part of the American public to remain neutral, the U.S. entered the conflict in 1917.
 World War I affected American civil liberties as the government suppressed dissent.
 The punitive nature of the Treaty of Versailles laid the foundation for resentment in Germany.
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Woodrow Wilson’s idealism, as articulated in the Fourteen Points, including the establishment of a League of Nations, was challenged at home.
Topics:
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Chapter 30: America goes to war, 1917; Wilsonian idealism and the Fourteen Points; propaganda and civil liberties; workers, blacks, and women on the home front; drafting soldiers; the U.S. fights in France; Wilsonian peacemaking at Paris; the League of Nations; the Senate rejects the Versailles Treaty
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Chapter 31: the “Red Scare,” 1919-1920; immigration restrictions, 1921-1924; prohibition and gangsterism; the Scopes trial; a massconsumption economy; the automobile age; radio and the movies; jazz age culture, music, and literature; the economic boom
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Chapter 32: the Republicans return to power, 1921; disarmament and isolation; the Harding scandals; Calvin Coolidge’s foreign policies; the international debt snarl; Herbert Hoover, cautious progressive; the great crash, 1929; Hoover and the Great Depression; hard times; aggression in Asia; “Good Neighbors” in Latin America
Unit 11 day in-class work homework
1/28 students preview material from unit 11 by completing teacher created learning centers as follows:
(1) trench warfare game online (2) life in the trenches (3) trench warfare diagrams (4) assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (5) Zimmerman note decoding activity (6) World War 1 weapons
1/29 students preview material from unit 11 by completing teacher created learning centers as follows:
(1) trench warfare game online (2) life in the trenches (3) trench warfare diagrams (4) assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (5) Zimmerman note decoding activity (6) World War 1 weapons
1/30 students preview material from unit 11 by completing teacher created learning centers as follows:
(1) trench warfare game online (2) life in the trenches (3) trench warfare diagrams (4) assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (5) Zimmerman note decoding activity (6) World War 1 weapons
1/31 begin chapter 30 PowerPoint notes/class discussion: America goes to war, 1917; Wilsonian idealism and the Fourteen Points
Kennedy 702-710 (stop before reading “The Fourteen Points
Disarm Germany”)
Kennedy 710-717 2/1 continue chapter 30 PowerPoint notes/class discussion: propaganda and civil liberties; workers, blacks, and women on the home front; drafting soldiers; the U.S. fights in France
2/4 finish chapter 30 PowerPoint notes/class discussion: Wilsonian peacemaking at Paris; the League of
Nations; the Senate rejects the Versailles Treaty
Kennedy 720-733 (stop before reading “Putting America on
Rubber Tires); Spirit 281-283
Kennedy 733-745; Spirit 286-288 2/5 begin chapter 31 PowerPoint notes/class discussion: the “Red Scare,” 1919-1920; immigration restrictions, 1921-1924; prohibition and gangsterism; the Scopes trial
2/6 finish chapter 31 PowerPoint notes/class discussion: a mass-consumption economy; the automobile age; radio and the movies; jazz age culture, music, and literature; the economic boom
2/7 begin chapter 32 PowerPoint notes/class discussion: the Republicans return to power, 1921; disarmament and isolation; the Harding scandals; Calvin Coolidge’s foreign policies; the international debt snarl
2/8 finish chapter 32 PowerPoint notes/class discussion: Herbert Hoover, cautious progressive; the great crash, 1929; Hoover and the Great Depression; hard times; aggression in Asia; “Good Neighbors” in
Latin America
2/11 in-class review over unit 11 study guide
Kennedy 746-757 (stop before reading “The Triumph of Herbert
Hoover, 1928”)
Kennedy 756-768 study for unit 11 multiple-choice test
2/12 Unit 11 multiple-choice exam (80 questions in 55 minutes to mirror national AP U.S. History exam)
2/13 Unit 11 essay exam (2 writing prompts in 55 minutes to mirror national AP U.S. History exam); distribute chapter 30 outline study for unit 11 multiple-choice test study for unit 11 essay test
Kennedy 770-778 (stop before reading “A Day for Every
Demagogue;” ; Spirit