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US History II ICS Pacing Guide
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Two-week summary of major instructional content and skills • 36 instructional weeks
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Week(s)Unit / TextMajor ContentMajor Skills and Assessments
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Weeks 1–2Imperialism and ProgressivismOpening Day and Related info (2 days); Week 1: Practicing rules and regulations (3 days); What is a monopoly? (2 days); Robber Barons and Capitans of Industry (2 days); Progressives and Reforms (1 of 3 days)Apply class policies/procedures and Productive Struggle; analyze monopolies and vertical/horizontal integration; compare Robber Barons and Capitans of Industry; evaluate Progressive workplace, market, and safety reforms.
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Weeks 3–4Imperialism and ProgressivismProgressives and Reforms (2 of 3 days, cont.); Progressive Movement and Unions (2 days); Sherman And Anti-Trust (1 day); Suffrage and the Efforts Therein (2 days); WWI and US Involvement (3 of 4 days)Evaluate Progressive reforms and labor-union efforts, including the Knights of Labor; analyze government antitrust legislation; evaluate suffrage efforts; evaluate causes of WWI and analyze reasons for U.S. involvement.
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Weeks 5–6Imperialism and ProgressivismWWI and US Involvement (1 of 4 days, cont.); WW1 Propaganda (2 days); The Homefront (3 days); The Treaty Of Versailles (2 days); Review and Test (2 days)Analyze reasons for U.S. involvement in WWI; evaluate Allied propaganda techniques and civilian homefront contributions; evaluate the Treaty of Versailles; demonstrate understanding of Unit 1 objectives through review/test.
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Weeks 7–8Imperialism and Progressivism
The Inter-War Period		The Treaty Of Versailles (continued) (1 day); Lingering effects on Europe (2 days); Technologies in USA Post War (2 days); Prohibition (4 days); Immigration, Red Scare, Sacco and Vanzetti (1 of 3 days)Evaluate Treaty of Versailles effects on international relations, the League of Nations, and German reparations; evaluate postwar technology’s cultural impact in 1920s America; analyze Prohibition and illicit activity; begin evaluating immigration, the Red Scare, and Sacco and Vanzetti.
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Weeks 9–10The Inter-War PeriodImmigration, Red Scare, Sacco and Vanzetti (2 of 3 days, cont.); Quiz (1 day); The Great Migration (2 days); The Harlem Renaissance (3 days); The Harlem Renaissance (Continued) (2 of 4 days)Evaluate immigration’s significance to the Red Scare and Sacco and Vanzetti; demonstrate understanding of Prohibition/Red Scare objectives; evaluate Great Migration push/pull factors; analyze the Harlem Renaissance’s cultural significance, popular-culture impact, and collective identity.
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Weeks 11–12The Inter-War PeriodThe Harlem Renaissance (Continued) (2 of 4 days, cont.); Quiz on the Harlem Renaissance (1 day); Artists of the Renaissance (3 days); Review and Test (3 days); The Great Depression (1 of 2 days)Evaluate the Harlem Renaissance’s cultural impact and performing arts; demonstrate understanding through quiz/review/test; evaluate the significance of the Great Depression on American society.
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Weeks 13–14The Inter-War PeriodThe Great Depression (1 of 2 days, cont.); The Great Depression Continued (4 days); FDR and New Deal Reforms (5 days)Evaluate the Great Depression’s significance; analyze its primary causes and responses; evaluate Roosevelt administration/New Deal efforts to address the effects of the Depression.
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Weeks 15–16The Inter-War PeriodNew Deal Gallery Walk (1 day); Rise of the Reich (5 days); Quiz (1 day); Nazi Ideology and the Rise of the Reich (3 of 4 days)Evaluate New Deal programs in addressing Depression-era issues; evaluate how the Treaty of Versailles and German depression contributed to the rise of the Third Reich; evaluate Nazi ideology’s role in that rise; demonstrate understanding via quiz.
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Weeks 17–18The Inter-War Period
World War II and the Post War Era		Nazi Ideology and the Rise of the Reich (1 of 4 days, cont.); Quiz On Nazis (1 day); Midterm Review week (4 days); Election of 1933 (2 days); Isolationism (1 day); Goebbels and the ministry of Propaganda (1 of 5 days)Evaluate Nazi ideology and demonstrate understanding via quiz/midterm review; evaluate the significance of the 1933 election and isolationism in relation to Hitler/Nazi rise; begin evaluating Goebbels and the Ministry of Propaganda.
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Weeks 19–20World War II and the Post War EraGoebbels and the ministry of Propaganda (4 of 5 days, cont.); Holocaust Intro (3 days); Holocaust Project (3 of 5 days)Evaluate Goebbels and the Ministry of Propaganda; evaluate the Holocaust’s significance for Jewish populations in Europe; analyze aspects of the Holocaust through a group project.
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Weeks 21–22World War II and the Post War EraHolocaust Project (2 of 5 days, cont.); Holocaust DBQ (6 days); Invasion of Poland and American Intervention (2 days)Analyze the Holocaust through a group project; determine its long-term significance through a primary-source DBQ and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; evaluate Allied responses to Axis aggression during WWII.
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Weeks 23–24World War II and the Post War EraWar on the Homefront (2 days); Operation Overlord (Dday) (4 days); Saving Private Ryan (4 days)Analyze civilian and industrial homefront efforts during WWII; evaluate D-Day’s significance to the eventual fall of Berlin; analyze tactics used by divisions at D-Day through Saving Private Ryan.
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Weeks 25–26World War II and the Post War Era
Modern America: 1975-Present		The Atom Bomb (2 days); Japan and the Use of Nuclear Weapons (4 days); Test Review and Test (3 days); Japan and Atom Bomb (1 of 3 days)Analyze nuclear weapons’ impact on 20th- and 21st-century military strategy and the choice to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; demonstrate understanding of Hitler/WWII objectives through review/test; begin examining the rationale for atomic weapons against Japan.
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Weeks 27–28Modern America: 1975-PresentJapan and Atom Bomb (2 of 3 days, cont.); End of the War and emergence of the Cold War (5 days); Quiz (1 day); Beginning of Cold War/Germany & Berlin (2 of 4 days)Understand the rationale for atomic weapons against Japan; evaluate the significance of WWII’s end to the late-20th-century landscape; demonstrate understanding via quiz; examine the beginning of the Cold War through Germany’s division into blocs.
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Weeks 29–30Modern America: 1975-PresentBeginning of Cold War/Germany & Berlin (2 of 4 days, cont.); Quiz (1 day); Cold War Events (5 days); PreCis Creation (1 day); Containment and 50's/60's (1 of 4 days)Demonstrate understanding of the early Cold War and significant Cold War events; create a précis response to an article; begin examining containment’s effects on the United States through the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
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Weeks 31–32Modern America: 1975-PresentContainment and 50's/60's (3 of 4 days, cont.); Quiz (1 day); Vietnam (5 days); Response at Home to Vietnam (1 of 3 days)Understand containment’s effects through the Korean and Vietnam Wars; demonstrate unit understanding via quiz; analyze reasons for U.S. intervention in Vietnam and begin analyzing the homefront response and emerging counterculture.
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Weeks 33–34Modern America: 1975-PresentResponse at Home to Vietnam (2 of 3 days, cont.); End of Vietnam (1 day); Beginning of Civil Rights (2 days); Civil Rights Organization (5 days)Analyze the homefront response to Vietnam and its influence on counterculture; analyze factors that ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam; analyze the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement beginning with Pless v. Ferguson; evaluate groups and movements that influenced the Civil Rights Movement.
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Weeks 35–36Review and FinalReview and final
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