Oakdale High – World War 2

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

This course offers students an opportunity to study the international conflict that led to the atomic age, the emergence of the global economy, the creation of the United Nations, and the power struggles that shape the world. While exploring this conflict, students examine social, political, and economic events that led to increased hostilities and the expansion of the United States as a world power. Lessons address major campaigns, political battles, technological developments, civilian involvement, and the changes experienced by women, African-Americans, and other minorities as well as general mass discrimination during the period. Students approach this course from a world view, not just an American perspective, thus creating multiple vantage points from which to study the global conflict.