The Project

We didn’t Start the Fire

Performance Standards

Theme IV:
Analyze and evaluate the significance of major U. S. foreign policies and major international events and conditions over time (International Relations)

Evaluate whether or when their obligations as citizens require that their personal desires, beliefs and interests be subordinated to the public good (Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens)


Theme V: Describe and analyze, using historical data and understandings, the options which are available to parties involved in contemporary conflicts or decision making (Applying History)




Themes Assessed

Theme IV: Defending the Ideal
Purpose: To recognize that the use of force is not the only determining factor for success when defending the ideal at home and abroad.
Essential Question: Who or what determines the outcome of war?

Cold War Focus Question: How did the Cold War affect foreign and domestic policy?


Theme V: Upholding the Ideal
Purpose: To recognize that oppressed people have used grass roots movements to challenge the United States to uphold the American ideal for all.
Essential Question: Who has upheld the ideal, the people or the government?