Jenkintown High School
United States History II

Syllabus (Adobe PDF)

US Geography Map Quiz

Unit-Specific Resources

Click on the links below for more information about the topics we have covered and for exclusive class-oriented content

Unit 1: The Progressive Era

Unit 2: The U.S., Imperialism, & the World

• Unit Sheet
• PBS' Theodore Roosevelt
• El Canal de Panamá - The Panama Canal (official site)

Unit 3: World War I

• Unit Sheet (Adobe PDF)
• www.worldwar1.com is an absolutely phenomenal collection of World War I resources

Unit 4: The Roaring Twenties

• Unit Sheet (Adobe PDF)
• The 1920s: a website
• Flapper Culture & Style
• NAACP Home Page
• Ford Motor Company - History
• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (Library of Congress)--highly recommeded!

Unit 5: The Great Depression

• Unit Sheet (Adobe PDF)
• PBS' Surviving the Dust Bowl

Unit 6: The Second World War

• Unit Sheet (Adobe PDF)
• The Internment of Japanese Americans

  • Japanese American Internment
  • Japanese American National Museum
  • http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/9066.htm

Unit 7: Postwar America

Unit 8: Civil Rights & the 1960s

Unit 9: Vietnam

• Unit Sheet
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Fund - The Virtual Wall
• The American Experience-Vietnam-Introduction

Unit 10: The Nixon Years

• class Watergate page (with links under Process section)

Unit 11: From Nixon to Reagan

Unit 12: The 1990s