US History syllabus, dot point by dot point

Explain the causes of American imperialism, the Spanish-American War of 1898, the acquisition of overseas territories, and the debate between imperialists and anti-imperialists (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to Post-World War I).

Explain the US return to isolationism after World War I and the postwar unrest, including the first Red Scare, labor strife, racial violence, and the rise of nativism in the early 1920s (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to Post-World War I).

Explain the World War I home front, including mobilization, propaganda, limits on civil liberties, and the Great Migration, and the failed peace through Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles, and the rejection of the League of Nations (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to Post-World War I).

Explain the causes of World War I, the reasons the United States abandoned neutrality and entered the war, and the major contributions of American forces (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to Post-World War I).

Explain how the United States exercised its new power through the Panama Canal, the Roosevelt Corollary and big stick diplomacy, dollar diplomacy, and the Open Door Policy in China (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to Post-World War I).

Explain the new immigration from southern and eastern Europe and Asia, the rapid growth of industrial cities, the nativist response, and the reform efforts such as settlement houses (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Industrialization and Progressivism).

Explain how the rise of corporations, heavy industry, mechanized farming, and technological innovations transformed the American economy after 1877, the growth of big business and trusts, and the early government response such as the Sherman Antitrust Act (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Industrialization and Progressivism).

Explain why industrial workers formed labor unions, the major unions and strikes, and the corruption and reform of Gilded Age politics, including political machines and civil service reform (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Industrialization and Progressivism).

Explain the Progressive constitutional amendments (16th to 19th), the expansion of democracy, and the efforts to extend civil rights for women, African Americans, and other groups in the early 20th century (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Industrialization and Progressivism).

Explain the rise of Progressivism in response to industrialization, the muckrakers, the reforms of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and the expansion of government regulation of the economy (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Industrialization and Progressivism).

Explain how the settlement of the West through the Homestead Act, the transcontinental railroad, and new technology developed the frontier, and how federal policy ended American Indian independence through the destruction of the buffalo, the reservation system, and the Dawes Act (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Industrialization and Progressivism).

Explain globalization and the digital revolution, including free trade, the shift from manufacturing to services, deindustrialization, the internet, and their effects on American workers (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, The Post-Cold War World).

Explain Ohio's place in modern America, including deindustrialization and the Rust Belt, the shift to a service economy, growing diversity, and Ohio's role as a politically pivotal state (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, The Post-Cold War World).

Explain the continuing movements for equality after the 1960s, including the women's movement, Latino, Native American, and disability rights, and the immigration that reshaped American society (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Social Transformations in the United States).

Explain the conservative turn in American politics, including Reaganomics, the debate over the size of government, taxes, social welfare, and environmental regulation (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Social Transformations in the United States).

Explain the end of the Cold War, including detente, Reagan's policies, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of the Soviet Union (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, The Cold War and the Post-Cold War World).

Explain the September 11 attacks, the war on terror, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the balance between national security and civil liberties (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, The Post-Cold War World).

Explain how Cold War containment led to the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the domino theory, and the domestic effects of Vietnam (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, The Cold War).

Explain the postwar economic boom, suburbanization, the GI Bill, consumer culture, the baby boom, and population shifts to the suburbs and Sun Belt (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Social Transformations in the United States).

Explain the civil rights movement, including Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, nonviolent protest, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Social Transformations in the United States).

Explain the Great Society and the debate over the role of government, including the War on Poverty, Medicare and Medicaid, and the women's and other rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Social Transformations in the United States).

Explain the origins of the Cold War and the US policy of containment, including the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the Berlin crisis (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, The Cold War).

Explain the second Red Scare and McCarthyism, including HUAC, loyalty programs, the Rosenberg case, and the effects on civil liberties (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, The Cold War).

Explain the cultural conflicts of the 1920s, including Prohibition, the Scopes trial, nativism and the revived Ku Klux Klan, and changing roles for women (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal).

Explain the causes of the Great Depression, including the stock market crash, overproduction, uneven distribution of wealth, excessive credit, and bank failures (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal).

Explain the human impact of the Great Depression, including mass unemployment, Hoovervilles, the failure of Hoover's response, and the Dust Bowl on the Great Plains (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal).

Explain the causes and effects of the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities and the cultural achievements of the Harlem Renaissance (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal).

Explain the New Deal, including relief, recovery, and reform programs, the expanded role of the federal government, and the debate over the New Deal (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal).

Explain how the prosperity of the 1920s, mass production, consumer credit, the automobile, and new mass culture transformed American society (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal).

Explain the attack on Pearl Harbor, American entry into World War II, and the mobilization of the economy and military for total war (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, From Isolation to World War).

Explain the Holocaust as state-sponsored genocide, the decision to drop the atomic bomb, the end of World War II, and the war's consequences (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, From Isolation to World War).

Explain the effects of World War II on the American home front, including women and minorities in the workforce, rationing and war bonds, the Great Migration, and Japanese American internment (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, From Isolation to World War).

Explain the rise of dictators, the failure of appeasement, American isolationism and the Neutrality Acts, and the steps from neutrality toward war (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, From Isolation to World War).

Explain the major campaigns and turning points of World War II in Europe and the Pacific, including the strategy of Europe First, D-Day, island hopping, and the defeat of the Axis (Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies, American History, From Isolation to World War).