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Students will discuss the difference between executive orders and bills becoming laws
Students will view examples of executive orders from various Presidents.

Students will be comparing a) FDR and Truman’s use of executive orders and b) the Supreme Court’s decisions on those executive orders.

Instead of teaching the concepts of separation of powers and checks and balances, the students can see how the power of the President to use executive
orders have played out in three different moments in history.

Students will learn about the conditions in Greece and Turkey during the Cold War and learn about Truman's response through the Truman Doctrine

Students will examine "Independence and the Opening of the West" by Thomas Hart Benton. They will analyze its content, use visual thinking strategies and draw conclusions about the art work.

Students will examine motives for dropping the atomic bomb and then evaluate the decisions made.

President Truman recalls many of the successes and problems of the Potsdam Conference and the postwar world in his diary entries and letters to his wife, Bess Wallace Truman. Students are given the opportunity to examine these unique documents and argue about their validity as primary sources while learning about the Potsdam Conference.

This activity asks students to review online materials related to the Berlin Airlift and to investigate the site to complete their activities. 

Uses primary documents to engage students in large and small group structured analysis of World War I poems by three different poets.

Students, in groups, will research various new technologies in World War I.