BiblioPlan Comprehensive High School Supplement

America and the World 1850-2000

The World Wars Unit*

Date to begin unit ____________ Date to complete unit _____________

History Resource Choices and Pertinent Chapters

United States History Heritage of Freedom, A Beka

Chapter 24: World War I

Chapter 25: The Roaring Twenties

Chapter 26: The Depression and the New Deal

Chapter 27: World War II

Chapter 28: Years of Strength and Stability – Section: “The Truman Years”

Opposing Viewpoints in American History, Volume II, Dudley

Part II: The Progressive Era

Viewpoint Pairs 18-20

Part III: Prosperity, Depression and War

Viewpoint Pairs 21-30

Kaplan’s SAT II: U.S. History, Wilner

Chapter 22: The United States and World War I

Chapter 23: Tradition and Changes in the 1920s

Chapter 24: The Crash, The Depression, and the New Deal

Chapter 25: Politics and Society in the 1930s

Chapter 26: World War II: From Neutrality to Hiroshima

World History and Cultures, A Beka

Chapter 23: The Rise of Communism

(Chapter 22 and 25 are not as thorough as A Beka’s Heritage of Freedom Chapters 24 and 27)

Glencoe World History, Spielvogel

Chapter 23: War and Revolution

Chapter 24: The West Between the Wars

Chapter 25: Nationalism Around the World

Chapter 26: World War II

Western Civilization, Spielvogel

Chapter 25: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Chapter 26: The Futile Search for a New Stability: Europe Between the Wars

Chapter 27: The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II

* The World Wars Unit is weeks 18-26 of BiblioPlan for Families: America and the World 1850-2000.