TVS Initiative

U.S. History
(Units: 1.0)

This course meets TEKS requirements for one semester of high school U.S. History Studies Since Reconstruction.

Course cost: $325 / student per semester

Course Overview

Unit VII: World War II
       Efforts to maintain peace/growth of dictatorships
       World War II
       War strategies
       The home front
       The atomic bomb

Unit VIII: The Beginnings of the Cold War and the Domestic Fifties
       U.S. foreign policy
       Containment
       The Korean Conflict
       Red Scare and Sputnick
       Changes at home
       National highway system

Unit IX: Citizenship
       Influence of historic documents
       Guaranteed rights
       Federalism vs. State's Rights
       Principles of the Constitution
       Unalienable rights
       The growth of democracy

Unit X: The Domestic Sixties and Civil Rights
       The Civil Rights Movement
       Growth of the federal government
       Space program
       Domestic policies of the Presidents

Unit XI: The Vietnam War
       Reasons for American involvement
       Polarization of the American public
       Impacts of the war
       War Powers Act
       Watergate

Unit XII: The Seventies and Eighties
       Economic problems
       Realpolitik
       Human rights
       Camp David Accords
       Iran hostage crisis
       Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement

Unit XIII: The Nineties and Beyond
       Health care reform, AIDS, and the federal deficit
       Trends in international relations
       Threats to the environment
       Contributions of George Bush
       Impact of technological advances on society