Standard(s):
[SS2010] USS6 (6) 9 : 9 ) Critique major social and cultural changes in the United States since World War II.
Identifying key persons and events of the modern Civil Rights Movement
Examples: persons—Martin Luther King Jr.; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis (Alabama)
events—Brown versus Board of Education, Montgomery Bus Boycott, student protests, Freedom Rides, Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, political assassinations (Alabama)
Describing the changing role of women in United States' society and how it affected the family unit
Examples: women in the workplace, latchkey children
Recognizing the impact of music genres and artists on United States' culture since World War II
Examples: genres—protest songs; Motown, rock and roll, rap, folk, and country music
artists—Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Hank Williams (Alabama)
Identifying the impact of media, including newspapers, AM and FM radio, television, twenty-four hour sports and news programming, talk radio, and Internet social networking, on United States' culture since World War II
[SS2010] USS6 (6) 3 : 3 ) Identify causes and consequences of World War I and reasons for the United States' entry into the war.
Examples: sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman Note, alliances, militarism, imperialism, nationalism
Describing military and civilian roles in the United States during World War I
Explaining roles of important persons associated with World War I, including Woodrow Wilson and Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Analyzing technological advances of the World War I era for their impact on modern warfare
Examples: machine gun, tank, submarine, airplane, poisonous gas, gas mask
Locating on a map major countries involved in World War I and boundary changes after the war
Explaining the intensification of isolationism in the United States after World War I
Example: reaction of the Congress of the United States to the Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, and Red Scare
Recognizing the strategic placement of military bases in Alabama (Alabama)
[SS2010] USS6 (6) 7 : 7 ) Identify changes on the American home front during World War II.
Example: rationing
Recognizing the retooling of factories from consumer to military production
Identifying new roles of women and African Americans in the workforce
Describing increased demand on the Birmingham steel industry and Port of Mobile facilities (Alabama)
Describing the experience of African Americans and Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II, including the Tuskegee Airmen and occupants of internment camps (Alabama)