U7 - American Democracy & Global Interaction

Student Resources

• presentation on US Foreign Policy End of 19th and Early 20th Centuries
• Guide to US Diplomacy: Carrots & Sticks, and if you are interested in testing your understanding of types of diplomacy based on issues from the last year or so… look at “Diplomacy and Current Events 2017-18”
• WWI resources: PBS site The Great War has many resources, George M. Cohan "Over There" scene from Yankee Doodle, and a dramatization of the fight on the Western Front after US troops arrived from the film Sargent York
• eugenics: "The Supreme Court and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck" (also explained in this clip from Democracy Now)
• Depression & New Deal
  • “Remembering California’s ‘Repatriation Program’” – NPR
    • we also referenced this interactive map from the New York Times to explore immigration patterns
  • presentation on The Great Depression: Causes, Responses, Effects in the Hoover and FDR Administrations
  • NPR story on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (featuring quote from Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
• presentation on American Foreign Policy between WWI and WWII
• WWII
  • presentation used in class featuring maps to study the three fronts of WWII
  • National WWII Museum resources, Gilder-Lehrman "Every Citizen a Soldier" propaganda posters
  • propaganda films - Japanese film using "Mickey Mouse" images, & US film with a very patriotic Pluto
  • Japanese American Internment film (on Santa Anita) & brief look at Fred Korematsu (& longer one)
    • Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) "Power of Words" education campaign
  • German internment on Chicago's south side - 4800 Ellis Ave. (see inside today after renovation)
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Americans and the Holocaust online exhibit