The course outline with topics of coverage is below. Classes are 45 minutes in length and meet twice per week. While each class will be varied in the delivery of instruction, the instructor will utilize presentations that are guided by a daily focus, discussion questions/prompts that encourage higher-level thinking and discussion.  Additionally, there will be video clips, review games, and quizzes (using MS Forms to submit for grading, which doesn't require signing up, just a name will be entered.)  Learners are strongly encouraged to ask and answer questions, as well as to respond to each others' discussion points.

There is an additional meeting added to the end of the schedule that will be used as a make up session should there be any reason to cancel a scheduled session. If no meetings are cancelled, the last session will not take place. 

NOTE: Teacher will take special care in acknowledging and presenting multiple viewpoints that exist on the many social, political, and historical issues in the nation's history.  Many groups have been marginalized; coverage of those instances will be presented/discussed using factual and historical evidence. 

Course Outline:
UNIT 8 – World War II: Fascism, Stalin, Hitler, appeasement, Neutrality Acts, Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter,  Pearl Harbor, Holocaust, Home Front, War Production Board, “Rosie the  Riveter”, A. Philip Randolph, Japanese-American Internment, Pacific Theater, Coral Sea,  Midway, “island-hopping”, Douglas MacArthur, European Theater, Operation Torch,  Tehran Conference, Normandy, V-E Day, Iwo Jima, Manhattan Project, Hiroshima,  Nagasaki, Nuremberg Trials, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, United Nations,  Mary McLeod Bethune 

UNIT 9 – Early Cold War Conflicts and the 1950’s: Berlin blockade, Cold War, Dumbarton Oaks Conference, iron curtain, satellite nations,  containment, Marshall Plan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Nuremberg Trials,  Potsdam, Truman Doctrine, Korean War, General MacArthur, Red Scare, McCarthyism,  subversion, Hollywood Ten, McCarran Act, brinkmanship, arms race, massive retaliation, Suez  Crisis, Eisenhower Doctrine, military-industrial complex, Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI 
Bill), Interstate Highway System, generation gap, “rock-n-roll”, termination policy, Cuban  Missile Crisis 

UNIT 10 – Era of Social Change (Civil Rights and other Social Movements): Brown v. Board of Education (1954), New Frontier, Peace Corps, Great Society, Dr. Martin  Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Student  Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), March on Washington, sit-ins, civil  disobedience, Civil Rights Act (1964), Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Freedom Riders,  Voting Rights Act (1965), Stokely Carmichael, Nation of Islam, "Black Power", "Black Panthers",  Civil Rights Act (1968), affirmative action, Miranda v. Arizona (1966), Gideon v. Wainright (1963), Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), Title IX, Equal Employment  Opportunity Commission (EEOC), National Organization of Women (NOW), Gloria Steinem,  Roe v. Wade (1973), Cesar Chavez, Delores Huerta, United Farm Workers  

UNIT 11 – The Vietnam War and the Counterculture Revolution: Ho Chi Minh, domino theory, French Indochina, Dien Bien Phu, nationalism, guerilla warfare, Geneva Accords, Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietcong, U.S.S. Maddox, Gulf of Tonkin  Resolution, “search and destroy”, napalm, Agent Orange, Ho Chi Minh Trail, credibility gap,  hawks vs. doves, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), teach-in, Tet Offensive, My Lai,  1968 Election, Vietnamization, Paris Peace Accords, Henry Kissinger, Tinker v. Des Moines,  War Powers Act, Twenty-sixth Amendment 

UNIT 12 – Passage to a New Century / Nixon and Beyond (1975-present): Southern Strategy, détente, SALT I, Helsinki Accords, Watergate, executive privilege,  “stagflation”, Camp David Accords, Iran Hostage Crisis, affirmative action, Regents of the  University of California v. Bakke (1978), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Love  Canal, OPEC, American Indian Movement, New Conservatism, Moral Majority, supply-side  economics, deregulation, apartheid, Strategic Defense Initiative, Iran-Contra 
Scandal, AIDS  epidemic, perestroika, glasnost, Persian Gulf War, Contract with America, North America  Free Trade Agreement, globalization, Bush v. Gore (2000), 9/11, terrorism, Department of  Homeland Security, Patriot Act, Election of 2008, Affordable Care Act, Citizens United v.  Federal Elections Commission(2010), Tea Party, Election of 2016 

***Minimum enrollment of four must be met.***