DRAFT CURRICULUM
Standard 3: Demonstrate an understanding of the economic, political, and social effects of World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath (i.e., 1930–1950) on the United States and South Carolina.
Instructional Guidance:
Comparison: Generate comparisons based on common or differing characteristics or contexts. Compare: Compare the ideologies and policies that led to World War II.
Causation: Analyze multiple causes and effects, to include distinguishing long-term and short-term examples. Cause and Effect: Analyze the cause and effect of government-sponsored policies within the United States and Europe and related to the status of different groups to include the Holocaust.
Periodization: Study the past in blocks of time in order to understand how they are linked. Periodization: Summarize the United States government’s transition away from neutrality policies from World War I that led to its eventual involvement in World War II.
Contextualize: Place events in the proper context, allowing students to understand the historical period. Context: Contextualize the technological and geographic influence on military strategies in the Pacific and European theaters of war during World War II.
Summarize: Structuring historical periods to group information and to establish key events as turning points and beginning/ending points.
Evidence: Identify, source, and utilize different forms of evidence, including primary and secondary sources, used in an inquiry-based study of history. Evidence: Analyze multiple perspectives on the economic, political, and social effects of World War II and its aftermath using primary and secondary sources.