U.S.+History+II+Frameworks

**Miss Person's History**

** Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework **  [|U.S. History II: Reconstruction to the Present: 1877-2001] Click [|here]for "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn via historyisaweapon.com.

 >>> Listen to Otto von Bismarck, Count Moltke, music recordings in Hungarian and classical music across Europe.
 * Industrial Revolution
 * Let History Come Alive! Here, find all of the [|voice recordings by Thomas Edison], as he traveled throughout Europe.
 * Immigration and Expansion
 * Growing U.S. Involvement in World Affairs
 * WWI and President Wilson

[|Fireside Chat 1: On the Banking Crisis (March 12, 1933)]
 * Progressivism
 * Civil Rights Movements
 * Traditionalism versus Modernity
 * Great Depression
 * The New Deal: People and Policies

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 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Isolationism after WWI
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">German and Japanese Aggression
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Atomic Bomb
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">On the Home-front

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 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Containment and Expansion: The Cold War
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Cold War Conflicts
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ending the Cold War
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">At Home in the Cold War
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Presidents Truman and Eisenhower
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Anticommunism at Home


 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Civil Rights Movement: People & Events
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Women's Rights Movement **//<span style="color: #d1751f; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 90%;">"The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night--she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question--'Is this all?'" //**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Legacies: Presidents Kennedy, Johnson & Nixon


 * <span style="color: #3771b9; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">President Reagan
 * <span style="color: #3771b9; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Late 20th Century Social/Economic Trends
 * <span style="color: #3771b9; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">President Clinton & Domestic Policy
 * <span style="color: #3771b9; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Who Won?: The 2000 Presidential Election [|Al Gore Concedes to George W. Bush]
 * <span style="color: #3771b9; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">United States Diplomacy

**<span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Current Events in the United States **

Misuse of Government Funds: [|Where is all the money going?]

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