8.2

Examine, analyze, and explain demographic changes, domestic policies, conﬂicts, and tensions in Post- WWII America.
 * Domestic Policies **

=8.2.1 Demographic Changes= Use population data to produce and analyze maps that show the major changes in population distribution, spatial patterns and density, including the Baby Boom, new immigration, suburbanization, reverse migration of African Americans to the South, and the ﬂow of population to the “Sunbelt.”

=8.2.2 Policy Concerning Domestic Issues= Analyze major domestic issues in the Post-World War II era and the policies designed to meet the challenges by
 * describing issues challenging Americans such as domestic anticommunism (McCarthyism), labor, poverty, health care, infrastructure, immigration, and the environment
 * evaluating policy decisions and legislative actions to meet these challenges (e.g., G.I. Bill of Rights (1944), Taft-Hartley Act (1947), Twenty-Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1951), Federal Highways Act (1956), National Defense Act (1957), E.P.A. (1970)

=8.2.3 Comparing Domestic Policies= Focusing on causes, programs, and impacts, compare and contrast Roosevelt’s New Deal initiatives, Johnson’s Great Society programs, and Reagan’s market-based domestic policies.

=8.2.4 Domestic Conﬂicts and Tensions= Using core democratic values, analyze and evaluate the competing perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by
 * U.S. Supreme Court decisions:
 * Roe v Wade
 * Gideon
 * Miranda
 * Tinker
 * Hazelwood
 * the Vietnam War (anti-war and counter-cultural movements)
 * environmental movement
 * women’s rights movement
 * and the constitutional crisis generated by the Watergate scandal.