APUSH_LearningObjectives

Learning Objectives - what you should know and be able to do at the end of each chapter!
The following are the learning objectives for each of the chapters that we'll be reading in the Bailey book. If at any point you feel as though are you not meeting these objectives, PLEASE seek help from me!

** Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion **
1. Explain why the United States suddenly abandoned its isolationism and turned outward at the end of the nineteenth century. 2. Describe the forces pushing for American overseas expansion, and the causes of the Spanish-American War. 3. Describe and explain the unintended results of the Spanish-American War, especially the conquest of Puerto Rico and the Philippines. 4. Explain McKinley’s decision to keep the Philippines, and list the opposing arguments in the debate about imperialism. 5. Analyze the consequences of the Spanish-American War, including the Filipino rebellion agains U.S. rule and the war to suppress it. 6. Explain the growing U.S. involvement in East Asia, and summarize America’s “Open Door” policy toward China. 7. Discuss the significance of the “pro-imperialist” Republican victory in 1900 and the rise of Theodore Roosevelt as a strong advocate of American power in international affairs. 8. Describe Roosevelt’s assertive polities in Panama and elsewhere in Latin America, and explain why his “corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine aroused such controversy. 9. Discuss Roosevelt’s foreign policies and diplomatic achievements, especially regarding Japan.

**Progressivism**

 * Chapter 29: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912 **

1. Discuss the origins and nature of the progressive movement. 2. Describe how the early progressive movement developed its roots at the city and state level. 3. Identify the critical role that women played in progressive social reform. 4. Tell how President Roosevelt began applying progressive principles to the national economy. 5. Explain why Taft’s policies offended progressives, including Roosevelt. 6. Describe how Roosevelt led a progressive revolt against Taft that openly divided the Republicans.

**Wilson and the War to End War**

 * Chapter 30: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad & Chapter 31: The War to End War, 1917-18 **

1. Discuss the key issues of the pivotal 1912 election and the basic principles of Wilsonian progressivism. 2. Describe how Wilson successfully reformed the “triple wall of privilege.” 3. State the basic features of Wilson’s moralistic foreign policy and explain how they first drew him into intervention in Latin America. 4. Describe America’s initial response to World War I, and explain the increasingly sharp conflict over America’s policies toward Germany. 5. Explain how domestic and foreign controversies affected Wilson’s narrow victory over Hughes in 1916. 6. Explain what caused America to enter WWI. 7. Describe how Wilsonian idealism turned the war into an ideological crusade that inspired fervor and overwhelmed dissent. 8. Discuss the mobilization of American for war. 9. Explain the consequences of World War I for labor, women and African Americans. 10. Describe America’s economic and military role in the war. 11. Analyze Wilson’s attempt to forge a peace based on his Fourteen Points and explain why developments and home and abroad forced him to compromise. 12. Discuss the opposition of Lodge and others to Wilson’s League and show how Wilson’s refusal to compromise doomed the Treaty of Versailles.

**The “Roaring” Twenties**

 * Chapter 32: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties,” 1919-29 **

1. Analyze the movement toward social conservatism following WWI. 2. Describe the cultural conflicts over such issues as immigration, cultural pluralism, prohibition and evolution. 3. Discuss the rise of the mass-consumption economy, led by the automobile industry. 4. Describe the cultural revolution brought about by radio, films and changing sexual standards. 5. Explain how new ideas and values were reflected and promoted in the American renaissance of the 1920s. 6. Explain how the era’s cultural changes affected women and African Americans.

**The Politics of Boom and Bust, the Great Depression and the New Deal**

 * Chapter 33: Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-32 & Chapter 34: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-39 **


 * 1) Analyze the domestic political conservatism and economic prosperity of the 1920s.
 * 2) Explain the Republican administrations’ policies of isolationism, disarmament, and high-tariff protectionism.
 * 3) Compare the easygoing corruption of the Harding administration with the straight-laced uprightness of his successor Coolidge.
 * 4) Describe the international economic tangle of loans, war debts, and reparations, and indicate how the United States dealt with it.
 * 5) Discuss how Hoover went from being a symbol of twenties business success to a symbol of depression failure.
 * 6) Explain how the stock-market crash set off the deep and prolonged Great Depression.
 * 7) Indicate how Hoover’s response to the depression was a combination of old-time individualism and the new view of federal responsibility for the economy.
 * 8) Describe the rise of Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency in 1932.
 * 9) Explain how the early Ne Deal pursued the “3 R’s,” relief, recovery and reform.
 * 10) Describe the New Deal’s effect on labor and labor organizations.
 * 11) Discuss the early New Deal’s efforts to organize business and agriculture in the NRA and the AAA and indicate what replaced those programs after they were declared unconstitutional.
 * 12) Describe the Supreme Court’s hostility to many New Deal programs and explain why FDR’s “court packing” plan failed.
 * 13) Explain how Roosevelt mobilized a New Deal political coalition that included the South, Catholics, Jews, African Americans, and women.
 * 14) Discuss the changes the New Deal underwent in the late thirties and explain the growing opposition to it.
 * 15) Analyze the arguments presented by both critics and defenders of the New Deal.

**America at War, and Its Aftermath**

 * Chapter 35: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-41 & Chapter 36: America in World War II, 1941-45 **
 * 1) Describe the isolationist motives and effects of FDR’s early foreign policies.
 * 2) Explain how American isolationism dominated U.S. policy in the mid-1930s.
 * 3) Explain how America gradually began to respond to the threat from totalitarian aggression while still trying to stay neutral.
 * 4) Describe Roosevelt’s increasingly bold moves toward aiding Britain in the fight against Hitler and the sharp disagreements these efforts caused at home.
 * 5) Discuss the events and diplomatic issues in the Japanese American conflict that led up to Pearl Harbor.


 * 1) Tell how America reacted to Pearl Harbor and prepared to wage war against both Germany and Japan.
 * 2) Describe the mobilization of the American economy for war, and the mobilization of manpower and womanpower for both the military and wartime production.
 * 3) Describe the war’s effects on American society, including regional migration, race relations and women’s roles.
 * 4) Explain the early Japanese successes in Asia and the Pacific and the American strategy for countering them.
 * 5) Describe the early Western Allies’ efforts in North Africa and Italy, the strategic tensions with the Soviet Union over the Second Front, and the invasion of Normandy in 1944.
 * 6) Discuss FDR’s successful 1944 campaign against Thomas Dewey for a fourth term and controversial choice of a new vice president.
 * 7) Explain the final military efforts that brought Allied victory in Europe and Asia and the significance of the atomic bomb.

**Chapter 39: The Stormy Sixties **
====1. Describe the high expectations Kennedy’s New Frontier aroused and the obstacles it encountered in promoting its domestic policies. ==== ====2. Analyze the theory and practice of Kennedy’s doctrine of “flexible response” in Asia and Latin America. ==== ====3. Describe Johnson’s succession to the presidency in 1963, his landslide over Goldwater in 1964, and his Great Society successes of 1965. ==== ====4. Discuss the course of the black movement of the 1960s, from civil rights to Black Power. ==== ====5. Outline the steps by which Johnson led the United States deeper into the Vietnam quagmire. ==== ====6. Explain how the Vietnam war brought turmoil to American society and eventually drove Johnson and the divided Democrats from power in 1968. ==== ====7. Describe the cultural rebellions of the 1960s, and indicate their short-term and long-term consequences. ====

** Chapter 40: The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980 **
====1. Describe Nixon’s foreign policy in relation to Vietnam, the Soviet Union and Communist China. ==== ====2. Analyze Nixon’s domestic policies, his opposition ot the “Warren Court,” his “southern strategy,” and his landslide victory against George McGovern in 1972. ==== ====3. Examine the conflicts created by the secret bombing of Cambodia, the American withdrawal from Vietnam, and the first Arab oil embargo. ==== ====4. Discuss the Watergate scandal and Nixon’s resignation. ==== ====5. Explain the related economic, energy, and Middle East Crisis of the 1970s and why both Republican and Democratic administrations were unable to successfully address them. ==== ====6. Describe the racial tensions of the 1970s and the rise of the new feminist movement. ==== ====7. Discuss the Iranian Crisis and its disastrous political consequences for President Carter. ====

1. Describe the rise of Reagan and the “new right” in the 1980s, including the controversies it generated over social issues. 2. Explain the “Reagan revolution” in economic policy and indicate its immediate and long-term consequences. 3. Describe the revival of the Col d War in Reagan’s first term, and Reagan’s increased willingness to negotiate with Soviet leader Gorbachev in his second term. 4. Discuss the American entanglement in Central American and Middle Eastern troubles, including the Iran-Contra affair. 5. Analyze the growing power of the religious right in politics, and the impact of issues like abortion and affirmative action on the Supreme Court. 6. Describe the end of the Cold War, and the results for American society abroad and at home. 7. Explain America’s growing involvement in the Middle East, including the First Persian Gulf War and its aftermath.
 * Chapter 41: The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1981-1992**