NCES.AH2.H.6 - Understand how and why the role of the United States in the world has changed over time.
- NCES.AH2.H.6.1 - Explain how national economic and political interests helped set the direction of United States foreign policy since Reconstruction (e.g., new markets, isolationism, neutrality, containment, homeland security, etc.).
- NCES.AH2.H.6.2 - Explain the reasons for United States involvement in global wars and the influence each involvement had on international affairs (e.g., Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraqi War, etc.).