United States History and Geography, Continued...
- The growth of service sector, white collar and professional sector jobs in business and government
- The significance of Mexican immigration and its relationship to the agricultural economy, especially in California
- Truman's labor policy and congressional reaction to it
- New federal government spending on defense, welfare, interest in the national debt and federal and state spending on education, including the California Master Plan
- The increased powers of the presidency in response to the Great Depression, WWII and the Cold War
- The diverse environmental regions of North America, their relationship to local economies and the origins and prospects of environmental problems in those regions
- The effects on society and the ecomony of technological developments since 1945, including the computer revolution, changes in communication, advances in medicine and improvements in agricultural technology
- Various forms of popular culture, with emphasis on their origins and geographic diffusion (e.g., jazz and other forms of popular music, professional sports, architecture and artistic styles)
11.9 US FOREIGN POLICY SINCE WWII
- The establishment of the United Nations and International Declaration of Human Rights, International Monetary Fund, World Bank and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and their importance in shaping modern Europe and maintaining peace and international order
- The role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring communist aggression and maintaining security during the Cold War
- The origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment policy, including the following:
-- The era of McCarthyism, instances of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and blacklisting
-- The Truman Doctrine
-- The Berlin Blockade
-- The Korean War
-- The Bay of Pigs invastion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
-- Atomic testing in the American West, the "mutual assured destruction" doctrine and disarmament policies
-- The Vietnam War
-- Latin American policy
- The effects of foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa (e.g., protests during the war in Vietnam, the "nuclear freeze" movement)
- The role of the Reagan administration and other factors in the victory of the West in the Cold WAr
- U.S. Middle East policy and its strategic, political and economic interests, including those related to the Gulf War
- Relations between the U.S. and Mexico in the twentieth century, including key economic, political, immigration and environmental issues
11.10 THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS AND VOTING RIGHTS
- How demands of African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rights, including President Roosevelt's ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in 1941 and how African Americans' service in WWII produces a stimulus for President Truman's decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948
- The key events, policies and court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of CA v. Bakke and California Proposition 209
- Describe the collaboration on legal strategy between African American and white civil rights lawyers to end racial segregation in higher eduction
- The roles of civil rights advocates (e.g., A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, Thurgood Marshall, James Farmer, Rosa Parks) including the significance of MLK Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and his "I Have a Dream" speech
- The diffusion of the civil rights movement of African Americans from the churches of the rural Soutn and the urban North, including the resistance to racial desegration in Little Rock and Birmingham, and how the advances influenced the agendas, strategies and effectiveness of the quests of American Indians, Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities
- The passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (e.g., 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, with an emphasis on equality of access to eduction and to the political process
- The women's rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s, including differing perspectives on the roles of women
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