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The Gulf War/Bush Presidency

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Title:

The Gulf War/Bush Presidency

URL:

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/gulf-war-bush-president-video/statecraft-the-bush-41-team/

Content Source:

PBS
Type: Audio/Video

Overview:

Learn about the Gulf War, the U.S. military action to expel Iraq after it invaded its neighboring country, Kuwait. When the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, ordered Iraqi forces to invade Kuwait, President George H. W. Bush made it clear that the United States would not stand for Iraq’s aggression. The Bush foreign policy team developed an international coalition that used military action to force Iraq out of Kuwait. This resource is part of the Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team collection.

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Content Standard(s):
Social Studies
SS2010 (2010)
Grade: 9
World History: 1500 to the Present
16 ) Describe the role of nationalism, militarism, and civil war in today's world, including the use of terrorism and modern weapons at the close of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries.

•  Describing the collapse of the Soviet Empire and Russia's struggle for democracy, free markets, and economic recovery and the roles of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Boris Yeltsin
Examples: economic failures, demands for national and human rights, resistance from Eastern Europe, reunification of Germany

•  Describing effects of internal conflict, nationalism, and enmity in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Chile, the Middle East, Somalia and Rwanda, Cambodia, and the Balkans
•  Characterizing the War on Terrorism, including the significance of the Iran Hostage Crisis; the Gulf Wars; the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
•  Depicting geographic locations of major world events from 1945 to the present
Unpacked Content
Strand: Economics, Geography, History, Civics and Government
Course Title: World History: 1500 to the Present
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Explain the relationship of economics, political and social ideologies, and geography to key events in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.
  • Describe the collapse of the Soviet Empire and Russia's struggle for democracy, capitalism, and recovery.
  • Describe the effects of internal conflict in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Chile, the Middle East, Somalia, Rwanda, Cambodia, and the Balkans.
  • Characterize the War on Terrorism.
  • Map the geographic locations of major world events from 1945-the present.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • nationalism
  • militarism
  • terrorism
  • Iran Hostage Crisis
  • Gulf Wars
  • terrorist attacks
  • Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • The role of nationalism, militarism, civil war, and terrorism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Develop an understanding of key historical events, using a variety of primary and secondary resources.
  • Explain relationship among key historical events and economics, political and social ideologies, and geography.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • Nationalism, militarism, civil war, and terrorism all played a role in world events in the close of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries.

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
SS.AAS.9.16- List some changes in world conditions that led to globalization from 1945—present; recall the definition of globalization; define terrorism and recognize its impact on the world.


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Author: Ginger Boyd
Alabama State Department of Education