Alabama Social Studies SS24.US2.18a
The Standard
- SS24.US2.18
- Analyze the shifts in United States foreign policy and challenges to it after the Cold War and into the twenty-first century.
Investigate the role and influence of the United States in peacekeeping efforts around the world from the 1990s into the early twenty-first century.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how the US used aid, diplomacy, and military force in Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo. They identify who led each effort and weigh what changed and what remained unresolved.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how US diplomats helped negotiate the Dayton agreement and how US troops served in the NATO force that followed. They can use evidence from another case to describe one result and one limit of US involvement.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call every US military intervention UN peacekeeping, even when NATO led the operation. They may give the US sole credit for a peace agreement or assume an agreement ended all violence at once.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: US diplomats helped negotiate Bosnia's 1995 Dayton agreement, and US troops joined NATO's follow-up force. Name one US contribution and explain why calling it a US-only effort would be wrong.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a map and three event cards for Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo; have them mark US actions and the UN or NATO role.
Ask: Did US involvement in Bosnia make peace more likely? Use the Dayton agreement and NATO troop deployment to defend your answer.
Have students match Somalia to US food relief, Bosnia to Dayton talks, and Kosovo to NATO airstrikes, then explain one match.
Show a current UN peacekeeping mission map and funding page; ask why helping pay for a mission differs from commanding its troops.
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Analyze how United States military involvement shaped major events of World War II.
- SS24.US2.18
Analyze the shifts in United States foreign policy and challenges to it after the Cold War and into the twenty-first century.
- SS24.5.15
Trace the United States’ military involvement in international conflicts since 1980, including those following the September 11 attacks.
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