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UMBC Center for History Education
Teaching American History in Baltimore City and Anne Arundel Countyl
2006 Summer Institutes: June 19 - June 30, July 10 - July 21
History 725H: Colloquium in History Education for High School Teachers
The United States and the World, 1898 to the Present
Dr. Brad Simpson
UMBC Department of History
E-mail: simpson@umbc.edu
Tel. 410-455-2042
Ms. Karen Hodges, Academy for Career and College Exploration,BCPSS karen.hodges2@verizon.net;Tel. 410-361-9655
Mr. Ken Bechtel Old Mill High School , AACPS; bechken1@umbc.edu ; Tel. 410-969-9010
Description:
This course will explore U.S. foreign relations from 1898 to the present. We will focus on America's rise to global power, its participation in two world wars, the fight against communism, U.S. intervention in the affairs of other countries, the Vietnam War, developments in the Middle East and Latin America, the search for markets and minerals, struggles with the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War. We will also explore a number of topics that we normally think of as ‘domestic history,’ including the Progressive era and race relations, from an international perspective. Our principal reading will be
Thomas Paterson, ed. American Foreign Relations A History, 6/e, ©2005, Volume II since 1895
Thomas Paterson, ed. Major Problems in American Foreign Relations 6/e, ©2005, Volume II since 1914
The course will also make use of documents, oral histories, and contemporary accounts from readings and Internet sites, including Presidential Libraries, the non-profit National Security Archive, the National Archives and Records Administration and the State Department’s Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series.
Class participation in this seminar will constitute 20% of the course grade. Attendance and participation is required of all students.
Course assignment:
Required of ALL students – One expanded Lesson Plan, following the Center for History Education Lesson Plan Format.
Due dates:
SESSION 1: Initial draft/outline: June 30, 2006; Rough draft: July 21, 2006; Final draft: August 18, 2006
SESSION 2: Initial draft/outline: July 21, 2006; Rough draft: August 10, 2006; Final draft: September 10, 2006
Graduate Credit Option (with permission of instructor only):
Lesson Plan assignment (due dates above) plus one Research Paper, rough and final draft, to be submitted by the end of the Fall 2006 semester. The paper should adhere to the standard historical format and will be a minimum of 15 double-spaced pages in length. Students enrolled in this option will consult with their course historian during the Fall 2006 semester.
Maryland State Archives Teaching American History Web Site:www.TeachingAmericanHistoryMD.net
Basic Resources for Studying and Reading About U.S. Foreign Relations
Course Topics:
The U.S. and Imperialism, 1898-1914
- The debate over empire
- Causes of Spanish-American Cuban War
- U.S. Annexation of the Philippines
- Dollar Diplomacy and intervention in the Caribbean
- "Doing" foreign relations history: historiography and method
- The Collapse of the European System
- U.S. Entry into the War, 1917-1919
- The Versailles Peace Treaty and war’s aftermath in the US, Europe and Elsewhere
- US Entry into WWII
- The Global Impact of WWII
- The Dropping of the Atom Bomb
- Debates over origins of the Cold War
- What kind of world did US officials want in 1945?
- What kind of world did the Soviets want?
- The Chinese Revolution
The Cold War – Part 2
- The Korean War as a Cold War conflict
- Decolonization and U.S. intervention in the
Third World- Nuclear Weapons and American life
- The Kennedy years – The Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and Berlin
- Origins of the war
- Vietnam as an international conflict
- The Gulf of Tonkin incident and Tet Offensive
- The impact of War on Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
- “Lessons” of the war from 1975 to now
The United States and the Middle East – How did we get here?
- Oil and U.S. foreign policy
- The road to September 11 th – the U.S. overthrow of Mossadegh in 1953
- American ‘doctrines’ in the Middle East
- The History of anti-Americanism in the
Middle East- The Middle East in American Culture
Seeing Domestic History as International History
- Progressivism as an international movement for reform
- The Cold War and Civil Rights – Seeing civil rights and race as international history
- Michael Jordan and the globalization debate
Ronald Reagan, the Reagan Revolution in Foriegn Policy and the end of the Cold War
- the U.S. and South Africa
- the Iran-Contra Scandal
- Reagan and Gorbachev
- The "end of the Cold war" debate
Possible Lesson Plan Topics:
The War of 1898
U.S. intervention in Cuba
Dollar Diplomacy in Caribbean
Woodrow Wilson and Fourteen Points
Progressive Internationalism
Roosevelt ’s Good Neighbor Policy
The Atlantic Charter
Racism and the War in the Pacific
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb
The Marshall Plan
George Kennan and the doctrine of Containment
NSC-68
CIA intervention in Guatemala, 1954
The Suez Crisis of 1956
The Berlin Crisis, 1958
Sputnik and the Space Race
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The Tet Offensive
U.S. intervention in Chile, 1973
Embargo of 1973
Fall of the Shah and Hostage Crisis
Debate over South Africa sanctions
The Iran Contra Scandal
The end of the Cold War
Annexation of the Philippines
Creation of Panama and Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
U.S. Entry into World War I
Isolationism in the 1920s and 1930s
U.S. Entry into WWII
U.S. and the Holocaust
War in Pacific vs. War in Europe
Origins of the Cold War
The Berlin Wall
The Korean War
Overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, 1953
Cold War and Civil Rights
The Eisenhower Doctrine
The Bay of Pigs Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962
The My Lai Massacre
Cambodia , Laos and Kent State
Human Rights and U.S. Policy on Arab Oil
Nixon’s turn to China
U.S. support for Mujahedeen in Afghanistan
The Strategic Defense Initiative
U.S. and Tienanmen Square massacre
U.S. Invasion of Panama
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UMBC Department of History
1000 HILLTOP CIRCLE
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phone: 410 455-2312
FAX: 410 455-1045
http://www.umbc.edu/history/