Standards Index: AP U.S. History
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The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and working to maintain a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences.
United States policymakers engaged in a cold war with the authoritarian Soviet Union, seeking to limit the growth of Communist military power and ideological influence, create a free-market global economy, and build an international security system.
As postwar tensions dissolved the wartime alliance between Western democracies and the Soviet Union, the United States developed a foreign policy based on collective security, international aid, and economic institutions that bolstered non-Communist nations.
Cold War competition extended to Latin America, where the United States supported non-Communist regimes that had varying levels of commitment to democracy.
Cold War policies led to public debates over the power of the federal government and acceptable means for pursuing international and domestic goals while protecting civil liberties.
The end of the Cold War and new challenges to U.S. leadership forced the nation to redefine its foreign policy and role in the world.
The Reagan administration promoted an interventionist foreign policy that continued in later administrations, even after the end of the Cold War.
Reagan asserted U.S. opposition to communism through speeches, diplomatic efforts, limited military interventions, and a buildup of nuclear and conventional weapons.
The end of the Cold War led to new diplomatic relationships but also new U.S. military and peacekeeping interventions, as well as continued debates over the appropriate use of American power in the world.
Skill 4.A – Identify and describe a historical context for a specific historical process or development.
Theme: Geography and the Environment (GEO).
Skill 3A: Identify and describe a claim and/or argument in a non-text-based source.
Theme 5: Politics and Power (PCE)
Skill 5.B – Explain how a historical development relates to another historical development.
Theme 5: Politics and Power, (PCE)
Skill 1.B : Explain a historical concept, development or process.
Theme 6: America in the World (WOR).
Skill 1.E: Explain how political processes apply to different scenarios in context.
Explain how the Great Depression and the New Deal impacted American political, social, and economic life over time.
- KC-7.1.III.A: Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal attempted to end the Great Depression by using government power to provide relief to the poor, stimulate recovery, and reform the American economy.
- KC-7.1.III.C: Although the New Deal did not end the Depression, it left a legacy of reforms and regulatory agencies and fostered a long-term political realignment in which many ethnic groups, African Americans, and working class communities identified with the Democratic Party.
Explain the causes and effects of the victory of the United States and its allies over the Axis powers.
KC-7.3.III.C.ii: Military service provided opportunities for women and minorities to improve their socioeconomic positions for the war’s duration, while also leading to debates over racial segregation.
Skill 2.C: Explain the significance of a source’s point of view, purpose, and historical situation and how these might limit the uses of that source.
Theme 5: Politics and Power (PCE).
Cultural and Political Controversies Skill 4.B: Explain how a specific historical development or process is situated within a broader historical context. Theme 5: Politics and Power (PCE).
Skill 5.B: Explain how a historical process relates to another historical process.
Theme 8: Social Structures (SOC).
Skill 5.B: Explain how a historical development or process relates to another historical development or process.
Theme 5: Power and Politics (PCE).
· Skill 5.B: Explain how a historical development or process relates to another historical development or process.
·Theme 8: Social Structures (SOC)
Skill 5.A: Identify patterns or connections between historical developments.
Theme 3: Geography and the (GEO).
Skill 4.B: Explain how a specific historical development is situated within a broader historical context.
Theme 5: Politics and Power (PCE)
Skill 4.B: Explained how a specific historical process is situated within a broader historical context.
Theme 7: American and Regional Culture (ARC)
Skill 3.A: Identify and describe a claim and/or argument in a non-text-based source.
Theme 6: America in the World (WOR).
Skill 3.A: Identify and describe a claim and/or argument in a non-text-based source.
Theme 5: Politics and Power (PCE)
Skill 2.B: Explain the point of view, purpose, historical situation or audience of a source.
Theme 1: American and National Identity (NAT)
Skill 1.B: Explain a historical concept, development, or process.
Theme: America in the World (WOR)
Skill 1.B: Explain a historical process.
Theme 5: Politics and Power (PCE)
Skill 4.B: Explain how a specific historical development or process is situated within a broader historical context.
Theme 5: Politics and Power (PCE).
Skill 3.C: Compare the arguments or ideas of two main sources.
Theme 5: Politics and power (PCE).
Skill 1.B: Explain a historical concept, development or process.
Theme: America in The World (WOR)
Skill 5.B: Explain how a historical development relates to another historical development.
Theme 7: American and Regional Culture (ARC);
Skill 2.C: Explain the significance of a source’s point of view and how that might limit the use of a source.
Theme 5: Politics and Power (PCE).
Skill 2.C: Explain the significance of a source’s point of view, purpose, or historical situation.
Theme 4: Migration and Settlement.
Skill 4.B: Explain how a specific historical development is. Situated within a broader historical context.
Theme 6: America in The World (WOR)
Skill 1.B: Explain a historical concept, development or process.
Theme: America in the World (WOR)
Skill 5.B: Explain how a historical development relates to another historical development.
Theme 8: Social Structures (SOC)
Skill 2.C: Explains the significance of a source’s point of view, purpose, and historical situation.
Theme 5: Politics and power (PCE).
Skill 2.C: Explain the significance of a source’s point of view, purpose, and historical situation.
Theme 6: America in The World (WOR).
Skill 4.B: Explain how a specific historical development is situated within a broader historical context.
Theme 6: America In The World (WOR).
Skill 4.B: Explain how a specific historical development is situated within a broader historical context.
Theme: Politics and Power (PCE)
Skill 7.F: Justify a proposed solution by explaining potential advantages.
Skill 4.B: Explain how a specific historical development or process is situated within a broader historical context.
Theme 5: Politics and Power (PCE).
Skill: 6.D: Explain the relationship between experimental results and larger biological concepts, processes, or theories.
Skill 4.B: Explain how a specific historical development is situated within a broader historical context.
Theme 6: America In The World (WOR).