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Official Course
Description: MCCCD Approval: 6-27-95 |
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HIS104
1995 Fall – 2010 Summer II |
LEC
3.0 Credit(s) 3.0 Period(s) 3.0 Load Acad |
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United
States History 1870 to Present |
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The
political, economic, and social development of United States from Reconstruction
period up to present time. Prerequisites: None. |
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MCCCD
Official Course Competencies: |
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HIS104 1995
Fall – 2010 Summer II |
United States History 1870 to Present |
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Describe the nation's shift of interest to westward
expansion in the aftermath of the Reconstruction. (I, II) |
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2.
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Describe the emergence of America as an economic and
technological power, including the nation's mineral potential and geographic
possibilities. (I, II) |
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Describe the nation's vast human resources resulting from
population patterns and new industrial work forces. (I, II) |
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Describe on the ideology of capitalism and creation of a
climate for political and financial development. (I, II) |
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Describe theories and practices which promoted growth of
enormous corporations and capital formations. (I, II) |
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Describe the mass immigration and the reaction of nativism during the last quarter of the 1800s. (II) |
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Describe social reform during the Industrial Age leading
to organized labor, populist agrarian reforms, and legislation to bridle big business
and political corruption. (II) |
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Describe the new spirit of greatness based on industrial
might and the ideology of manifest destiny. (III) |
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Review aggression in American foreign policy and war for
an empire. (III) |
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Review voices for reform on local and state levels,
progressivism on the national level, and Theodore Roosevelt's role as a trust
buster. (IV) |
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Distinguish between Taft's quiet progressivism and the
moral progressivism of Wilson's presidency. (IV) |
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Describe the initial stance of American neutrality, the
preparedness campaign, financing World War I, and selling the crusade. (V) |
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Describe the defeat of Germany and the fourteen points in
the Treaty of Versailles. (V) |
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Describe the consumers' society as reflected by the
automobile and appliances, the lost generation, urban growth, and the new
waves of immigration. (VI) |
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Describe the traditionalist revolt and clash of values,
prohibition and other reforms, and the great stock market crash of October
1929. (VI) |
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Review the aspects of the economic depression including
unemployment, loss of income, and bank closure. (VI) |
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Describe the elections of 1932, the first New Deal, and
the second New Deal. (VI) |
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Explain how isolationism in America ended with the coming
of WW II. (VII) |
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Describe social change during WW II. (VII) |
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Assess American participation in the war in Europe and in
the Pacific. (VII) |
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Describe how ideology divided the world during the cold
war. (VIII) |
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Describe American cold war policies and practices in
Europe and Korea. (VIII) |
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Review the effects in the US of the cold war, including
the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy. (VIII) |
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Describe the consumer culture during the Eisenhower era.
(IX) |
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Review the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement,
integration of schools, and the Montgomery, Alabama boycott. (IX) |
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Describe the spirit of the Kennedy administration and
Vietnam as the longest war. (X) |
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Evaluate LBJ's Great Society and the struggle for racial
justice. (X) |
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Describe the regulation of government power and foreign
policy in the 1970s. (XI) |
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Describe the George Bush presidency and the collapse of
communism in Eastern Europe. (XII) |
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Review the Persian Gulf war, and the dissolution of the
Soviet Union. (XII) |
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HIS104 1995
Fall – 2010 Summer II |
United States History 1870 to Present |
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I. An industrializing
nation A. Ordeal of reconstruction
B. Politics in the gilded
age C. Lords of industry and
laboring class II. Middle class reform A. The great west and
agricultural revolution B. The rise of cities,
urban families, and immigrants C. Social reform and the
populist protest III. Becoming a world power
A. Sources for expansion B. Spanish-American War C. The Pacific possessions
and Panama Canal IV. Progressivism confronts
unbridled industrial growth A. Theodore Roosevelt and
the Square Deal B. Woodrow Wilson and the
New Freedom C. The limits of
progressive movement V. The war to end war A. The United States enters
the war B. Military experience and
domestic impact of the war C. Conclusion: The divided
legacy of the war VI. A new era of prosperity
and problems A. American life in the
"Roaring Twenties" B. The economics of boom
and bust C. The Great Depression and
the birth of the New Deal VII. World War II A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
and the shadow of war B. America in World War II C. The new technology of
war: the atomic bomb VIII. The ideology of the
cold war A. The United Nations
divided: free and communist B. The strategy of
containment C. The cold war at home IX. Post World War II
growth and change A. The Eisenhower era: the
consumer culture B. The seeds of civil rights
revolution C. Integration and
extending the American dream X. The cultural upheaval of
the stormy sixties A. The Kennedy spirit and
Cuban missile crisis B. Lyndon B. Johnson and
the Great Society C. The Vietnam disaster XI. The stalemated seventies
and the Nixon presidency A. Vietnamese conflict:
peace without victory B. New policies toward
Russia and China C. The Watergate scandal
and Carter election XII. Reagan and the
resurgence of conservatism A. Gorbachev, Reagan, and
the thawing of cold war B. The George Bush years
and collapse of communism C. The election of Bill
Clinton |
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