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Grade 11, United States History from 1877 to the Present Std 14.1 Describing political and economic policies that led to the collapse of Communism and the Cold War

Lesson Plans: Explosive Knowledge Tracking Six Decades of Nuclear Weapon Development, Use, and Regulations. Students use discussion of the featured article, which examines China’s suspected theft of American nuclear secrets, as a springboard for the creation of a research-based, multi-tiered timeline that traces the development, regulation, and use of nuclear weapons from the 1940’s to today. The Cold War and Beyond Balancing Budgets: From Reagan to Today You Were Almost There. Students explore the genre of biography in both its traditional and nontraditional forms. Students first examine the creation of and reactions toward Edmund Morris's unorthodox biography of Ronald Reagan. Students then conduct research on a historic American figure and his or her role in a significant event in American history, recounting these details by writing a narrative-style biography of this figure. America at the End of the Twentieth American Presidents. (PBS) Teacher's Guide to The Presidents' Web site offers a range of activities and resources to help teachers integrate core themes, events, and ideas from the American presidency into the classroom. Richard M. Nixon Ronald Reagan William Jefferson Clinton George Herbert Walker Bush U.S.-Cuba Relations Diplomatic Field of Dreams. In this lesson, students explore past U.S.-Cuban relations, by researching various key events and people in the past century and creating a class timeline, in order to evaluate recently-eased restrictions in policy on Cuba and the potential exhibition baseball games between the Baltimore Orioles and the Cuban national team.

Resources: Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library Gerald Ford Presidential Library and Museum Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum George Bush Presidential Library Clinton Presidential Center Nixon's China Game. American Experience/PBS Alabama Virtual Library Best of History Websites History Timelines (Alternatime) Digital History Using new technologies to enhance teaching and research History Matters Designed for high school teachers of U.S. history courses. A gateway for web resources and other useful materials for teaching U.S. history. National Archives Digital Classroom American Memory Primary source material from the collection of the Library of Congress. Graphic Organizers
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