- Wall High School
- Course Overview
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US II CP & Honors
Specific Objectives: Students will develop/refine their understanding of the following
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The Progressive Era (1890 – 1917)
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The spread of American Imperialism (1895 - 1917)
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World War I (1914 - 1918)
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The Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929)
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The Great Depression (1929 – 1941)
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World War II (1941 – 1945)
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The Cold War Era (1949 – 1989)
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Post Cold War and toward a New Millennium (1989 - 2000)
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The Challenges Ahead (2000 – TODAY)
Rogues & Reformers
General Objectives:
This is a semester survey course
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It will focus on various people, famous and infamous, well known and should be known, and why their fame continues or increases into the 21st century.
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We will attempt to decipher the myth and folklore from reality and hope to discern why they are in our popular culture
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We will also attempt to introduce you to some new individuals that are famous and infamous and clarify the reality from the myth
Specific Objectives:
These are the Units and the individuals we will be discussing:
The “Old West”
William H. Bonney a.k.a. “Billy the Kid”
Wyatt Earp
Jesse James
"Bootleggers & Bank Robbers"
Al Capone
Eliot Ness
Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow
John Dillinger
Literary Figures
Vlad Tepis, a.k.a. “Dracula”
William Wallace
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Borden
Twentieth Century
Michael Collins
Oskar Schindler
Malcolm X
Jimmy Hoffa
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