Overriding Theme: 20th Century America's changing role in response to various international and domestic conflicts, ideologies, and developments.
1st Module: Modern America in a Global World will begin with the Progressive Era. After exploring the various challenges that an early 20th century industrial America faced, we will explore the first fully mechanized and industrial war, The Great War. From World War I we will discuss the social, economic, and political landscape of the 20s, also known as the Jazz Age.
2nd Module: We will commence our second module with the economic downturn that followed the not so "Roaring" 20s, as we study the causes and symptoms of the Great Depression domestically. While reviewing the this economic malaise, we will also expand our study to encompass an international scope and sequence of the Depression. In this study, we will examine the roots of the Second World War. We will conclude this alternating trimester with a sneak peek of the division of the not-so-allied "Allies".
3rd Module: We will open our third and final module with a comprehensive study of the Post-World War II era, commonly referred to as the Cold War. While examining both the domestic and international political and economic landscape of the Cold War, we will simultaneously be studying a different kind of war-- one that was happening here, in the US-- a war on ideas that is often referred to as the Civil Rights Movement.