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Showdown: Iraq / Educator Guide
September 27, 2002
Web posted at: 1:41 PM EDT (1741 GMT)
Program Overview
(Teachers: This program contains a few scenes that some individuals may find disturbing. We advise you to preview.)
As the drumbeat for war in Iraq intensifies, CNN Presents examines the implications of trying to remove Saddam Hussein from power. What is the latest thinking on Hussein's ties to terror and weapons of mass destruction? How might the U.S. military try to remove him? If Hussein is toppled, what comes next for Iraq? And what might be the impact on the broader Arab world and prospects for Middle East peace? These are some of the hard questions the American people need to consider, as the Bush administration seriously considers making Iraq the next target in the War on Terror.
Grade Level: 7-12
Subject Areas: U.S. History, World History, Current Events, Government, Political Science, and Civics
Objectives
The CNN Presents CNN/NY Times Special Report Showdown: Iraq and corresponding lessons challenge students to:
Examine the history of Iraq's relationship with the United Nations and the United States
State the terms of the United States' case against Iraq
Analyze international opinion and predict the role the United Nations will play
Assess the short-term and long-term implications of going to war with Iraq
Evaluate a possible war on Iraq in the broader context of United States national security and the War on Terror
Curriculum Connections
National History Standards
United States History
Standard 1: Recent developments in foreign policy and domestic politics.
Standard 1C: The student understands major foreign policy initiatives. Therefore, the student is able to:
9-12: Examine the U.S. role in political struggles in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Analyze cause-and-effect relationships.
9-12: Evaluate the reformulation of foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. Analyze cause-and-effect relationships.
World History
Standard 1: How post-World War II reconstruction occurred, new international power relations took shape, and colonial empires broke up.
Standard 1D: The student understands major sources of tension and conflict in the contemporary world and efforts that have been made to address them.
9-12: Analyze why terrorist movements have proliferated and the extent of their impact on politics and society in various countries. Evaluate the implementation of a decision.
Standard 3: Major global trends since World War II
Standard 3A: The student understands major global trends since World War II
7-12: Analyze causes and consequences of the world's shift from bipolar to multipolar centers of economic, political, and military power. Analyze cause-and-effect relationships.
National Council for Social Studies Standards
II. Time, Continuity and Change
Human beings seek to understand their historical roots and to locate themselves in time. Such understanding involves knowing what things were like in the past and how things change and develop.
IV. Power, Authority and Governance
Understanding the historical development of structures of power, authority, and governance and their evolving functions in contemporary U.S. society, as well as in other parts of the world, is essential for developing civic competence.
IX. Global Connections
The realities of global interdependence require understanding the increasingly important and diverse global connections among world societies...Analyzing patterns and relationships within and among world cultures, such as economic competition and interdependence, age-old ethnic enmities, political and military alliances, and others, helps learners carefully examine policy alternatives that have both national and global implications.
X. Civic Ideals and Practices
An understanding of civic ideals and practices of citizenship is critical to full participation in society and is a central purpose of the social studies. All people have a stake in examining civic ideals and practices across time and in diverse societies as well as at home, and in determining how to close the gap between present practices and the ideals upon which our democratic republic is based.
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