US History syllabus, dot point by dot point

Analyze the wave of social change in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Great Society, the women's movement, other rights movements, the counterculture, and the expansion of rights through landmark legislation and Supreme Court decisions (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 5: Cold War Era).

Analyze the major conflicts and domestic effects of the Cold War, including the Korean War, the arms race and the space race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the second Red Scare and McCarthyism (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 5: Cold War Era).

Analyze the goals, strategies, and achievements of the civil rights movement, including Brown v. Board of Education, nonviolent protest, key leaders and events, and the landmark civil rights laws (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 5: Cold War Era).

Analyze the origins of the Cold War, including the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, the policy of containment, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the division of Europe (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 5: Cold War Era).

Analyze the Vietnam War and its effects on American society, including the policy of containment in Asia, escalation, the antiwar movement, and the war's legacy (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 5: Cold War Era).

Analyze the causes of the Great Depression and its effects on American society, including the stock market crash, bank failures, unemployment, the Dust Bowl, and the response of President Hoover (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 4: Becoming a World Power through World War II).

Analyze the Holocaust and the decision to use the atomic bomb, including the genocide carried out by Nazi Germany, the American response, the development of the bomb, and the debate over its use (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 4: Becoming a World Power through World War II).

Analyze the New Deal, including its relief, recovery, and reform programs, the expansion of the federal government, the debate over its constitutionality, and its lasting legacy (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 4: Becoming a World Power through World War II).

Analyze the causes of World War II and the American shift from isolationism to involvement, including the rise of totalitarian dictatorships, appeasement, the Neutrality Acts, Lend-Lease, and the attack on Pearl Harbor (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 4: Becoming a World Power through World War II).

Analyze the major events and turning points of World War II and the American role in the Allied victory, including the strategy of fighting in Europe and the Pacific and the key turning-point battles (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 4: Becoming a World Power through World War II).

Analyze the World War II home front, including economic mobilization, the role of women and minorities, rationing and war bonds, and the internment of Japanese Americans (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 4: Becoming a World Power through World War II).

Analyze the causes and effects of American imperialism, including the motives for overseas expansion, the Spanish-American War, and the debate over empire (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 3: Isolationism through the Great War).

Analyze the Progressive presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, including trust-busting, conservation, consumer protection, and economic reform (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 2: Western Expansion to Progressivism).

Analyze early twentieth century American foreign policy in Latin America and Asia, including the Panama Canal, the Roosevelt Corollary, dollar diplomacy, and the Open Door Policy (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 3: Isolationism through the Great War).

Analyze the goals and methods of the Progressive movement, including muckrakers, reforms of business and government, and the expansion of democracy through constitutional amendments (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 2: Western Expansion to Progressivism).

Analyze the women's suffrage movement and its place in Progressive reform, including its leaders, strategies, and the Nineteenth Amendment (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 2: Western Expansion to Progressivism).

Analyze the causes and effects of the new immigration and urbanization in the late nineteenth century, including push and pull factors, the growth of cities, nativism, and political machines (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 2: Western Expansion to Progressivism).

Analyze the causes and effects of late nineteenth century industrialization, the rise of big business and entrepreneurs such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, trusts and monopolies, and the debate between captains of industry and robber barons (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 2: Western Expansion to Progressivism).

Analyze the rise of the labor movement and the Populist movement in response to industrialization, including labor unions, major strikes, laissez-faire government, the Grange, and the Populist platform (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 2: Western Expansion to Progressivism).

Analyze the rise of Jim Crow and disenfranchisement in Louisiana and the South, including the Louisiana Separate Car Act, Plessy v. Ferguson, the grandfather clause, and the New South economy (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 2: Western Expansion to Progressivism).

Analyze the goals, achievements, and failures of Reconstruction, the Reconstruction Amendments, and the rise of the segregated New South (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 2: Western Expansion to Progressivism).

Analyze the causes and effects of westward expansion after the Civil War, including the transcontinental railroad, the Homestead Act, the closing of the frontier, and federal policy toward American Indians (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 2: Western Expansion to Progressivism).

Analyze the economic and technological changes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, including the shift to a service and information economy, the computer and internet revolution, globalization and free trade, and their effects on American workers (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 6: The Modern Age).

Analyze the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the war on terror, including the response of the United States, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, homeland security, and the debate over security and civil liberties (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 6: The Modern Age).

Analyze the conservative resurgence of the 1970s and 1980s, including the reaction against the Great Society, the rise of the New Right, and the policies of the Reagan administration (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 6: The Modern Age).

Analyze the end of the Cold War, including renewed superpower tension and detente, Soviet reforms, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of the United States as the sole superpower (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 6: The Modern Age).

Synthesize the major developments of the modern United States, including demographic change and immigration, contemporary political and social debates, the nation's role as a global power, and the enduring themes of American history (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 6: The Modern Age).

Analyze the causes of World War I and the reasons the United States moved from neutrality to entry, including submarine warfare, the Zimmermann Telegram, and economic ties to the Allies (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 3: Isolationism through the Great War).

Analyze the cultural conflicts of the 1920s, including Prohibition, nativism and immigration restriction, the revived Ku Klux Klan, and the clash between fundamentalism and modern science (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 4: Becoming a World Power through World War II).

Analyze the Harlem Renaissance and African American life in the 1920s, including the roots in the Great Migration, the artistic and literary flowering, jazz, and the rise of Black political and cultural movements (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 4: Becoming a World Power through World War II).

Analyze the peace settlement after World War I and the postwar return to isolationism, including Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations debate, and the Red Scare (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 3: Isolationism through the Great War).

Analyze the economic and social changes of the 1920s, including mass production and consumer culture, the automobile, new media, changing roles for women, and the uneven nature of the prosperity (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 4: Becoming a World Power through World War II).

Analyze the American role in World War I and its effects on the home front, including mobilization, the draft, propaganda, restrictions on civil liberties, and new opportunities for women and African Americans (Louisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 3: Isolationism through the Great War).