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Below is the time line of our curriculum, essential questions, and themes:

Big Question: What is the role of this conflict in relationship to the larger event. The outcome of that conflict and how the conflict has effected history after the event as well as society today.

Theme: History as a conflict. Constant battle of: 1. Races 2. Ideologies 3. Social Groups (Classes, Gender etc)

1. Primary documents (diaries, film, photos, etc) Questions to evaluate primary sources: **P** urpose and motives of the author **A** rgument and strategy she or he uses to achieve those goals **P** resuppositions and values (in the text, and our own) **E** pistemology (evaluating truth content) **R** elate to other texts (compare and contrast)

2. Secondary documents (Newspapers, textbooks etc)

1) Reconstruction - Industrialism v. Ruralism, North v. South, Racism

2. WW1 - Isolationism v. World Power 1920's - Rich v. Poor, Racism, Prohibition Depression - Racism, Economic Classes, Role of govnt Suffrage - Sexism

3. WW2 - Racism in army battalions Fascism v. Democracy v. Communism

4. Cold War (Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis) - Democracy v. Communism Civil Rights - Racism Hippie movement - Social Classes (Music and art too)

5. Korea and Vietnam - Democracy v. Communism Containment v. Isolationism Racism (In media)

6. Iraq 1&2, Kosovo, Serbia, 9/11 - Racism Democracy v. Terrorism Christianity v. Islam Ethnicity v. Nationalism v. Regionalism