Content Understandings*
The following content understandings can be taught or extended through the study of the life and legacy of Robert H. Jackson.
- The Great Depression
- The New Deal: Court Packing Scheme (See: Robert Jackson: New Deal Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Nuremberg Prosecutor by Gail Jarrow, pp. 44-46.)
- The United States Assumes Worldwide Responsibilities
- World War II: Failure of peace, United States role to 1941- guarded isolation, aid to allies (Lend Lease); New Aspects of war: The Nazi Holocaust; The home front: Internment to incarceration of Japanese-Americans; Impact of war: The Nazi Holocaust-Hitler’s Final Solution; worldwide horror; human rights violations; The Nuremberg Trials (See: Robert Jackson: New Deal Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Nuremberg Prosecutor by Gail Jarrow, pp. 54-5; 56-7; 65-68; 70-94.)
- The Changing Nature of the American People From World War II to the Present
- Civil rights movement placed focus on equality and democracy: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) overturned legal basis of segregation (See: Robert Jackson: New Deal Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Nuremberg Prosecutor by Gail Jarrow, pp. 101-105.)
(*Taken from: Social Studies Resource Guide with Core Curriculum, New York State Education Department, 1999, pp. 79-87.)