Standards Index: D2.His.2.9-12.

Students will learn about Operation Ajax, a C.I.A. orchestrated plot to overthrow Iran's prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who was viewed as a threat to Western oil interests. The coup eventually fueled a 1979 revolution, and the decline of American influence.

Students will learn why much of the school integration achieved through cross-town busing has unraveled over the last few decades.

Students will examine the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine, and compare and contrast the current crisis in Ukraine.

Students will learn the causes and effects of gerrymandering, and how court decisions authorizing race-based gerrymandering have reshaped American politics and created complex legacies.

Students will learn how Southern voters, once loyal to the Democratic Party, elected Republican candidates in 1966 as the two parties began to sort themselves into distinctly partisan camps.

Students will learn how the U.S. military response to the 9/11 attacks led to decades of war and a chaotic ending."

Students will learn how race-based federal lending rules from New Deal programs in the 1930s kept Black families locked out of suburban neighborhoods, a policy that continues to slow their economic mobility.

Students will examine the question of what obligation countries have to refugees. As Afghan and Ukrainian migrants settle in the U.S., this video asks whether refugee resettlement is better now than it was for the Vietnamese 50 years ago.

Students will learn about how Margaret Chase Smith broke ranks with her fellow Republicans in condemning McCarthyism, and also evaluate the potential consequences of politicians who choose not to align with their affiliated party.

Students will analyze and evaluate the actions taken by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis.

Students will learn about historical and contemporary demands for equality by transgender people.

Students will learn how current protests against police violence and racial inequality are connected to the past, and about the White House commission that released a report in the aftermath of the major urban disorders of 1967.

Students will explore the seeds of the extremist ideologies that continue to be influential today and the government’s failed attempts to stop the broader white supremacist movement.

Students will learn about housing insecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic and how eviction outcomes often came down to what county, or even city, a tenant lived in.

Students will learn about the anti-immigration movement in California in the 1990s, and why it is relevant today.