Content Standard: 11.4 Students trace the rise of the United States to its role as a world power in the twentieth century.

CCST: 11.2.2 - Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.

CCST: 11.2.7 - Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g. visually, qualitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

WHST: 11.12.9 - Draw evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Assignments to meet the standard: 1 week

Learning Outcomes

Once you are done with this lesson, you should be able to:

After reviewing this lesson, students can:

• Define imperialism, manifest destiny, and Social Darwinism
• Trace the rise of imperialism in America
• Discuss Alfred Thayer Mahan's influence on global imperialism
• Causes of WWI

Great Depression - Lesson

Causes that leasd to World War I

American Imperialism (1890-1919

• American Imperialism: Definition, Reasons & Rising International Power- 4:1 - Video

Essential Question: What is imperialism, manifest destiny, and Social Darwinism?

• The Spanish-American War: Causes, Goals & Results - 6:12 - Video

Essential Question: What were the causes of the Spanish-American War?

• American Imperialism in Hawaii, China & the Philippines - 8:56 - Video
• Essential Question: What are key aspects of Dollar Diplomacy and Missionary Policy?
• American Imperialism in Latin America & the Caribbean - 9:45 - Video

Essential Question: What does the Platt Amendment and Cuba discuss?

• Causes of World War 1: Factors that Led to the War - 4:26 - Video

Essential Question: What were the causes of WWI?

• The United States in World War 1: Official Position, Isolation & Intervention - 5:59 - Video

Essential Question: What were reasons why the U.S. was initially neutral in World War I?

• American Involvement in World War 1: How the War Changed After America’s Entry - 5:38 Video

Essential Question: What were the effects of the U.S. entering the war?

• End of WWI: the Treaty of Versailles & the League of Nations - 5:52 - Video

Essential Question: Who was responsible to develop the Treaty of Versailles?