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The United States is a nation of constitutional democracy, civic education for the country to cultivate patriotic bears, informed, responsible, good citizens with the American spirit. In different historical periods, follow the national civic education in America's major policies, the goal of education is to train citizens with characteristics of the times. After World War II, the U.S. became the world's number one power, rapid economic development, which with its timely civic education is necessarily related. World War II - 60 to 70 years, affected by World War II, American youth employment crisis caught, life predicament, the U.S. government immediately launched a civic education of youth, mainly its life habilitation and guide them to become qualified U.S. citizens. It is this generation of youth, later became the backbone of development and advancement of American society. 20 In the 1960s, the civil rights movement is very active, the U.S. government has proposed the \citizenship and status groups, trying to give it more in education civil rights. 1970s, the period of civic education in the United States there are three main topic areas: civic education on disability, livelihood education, quality education. On the one hand, the U.S. government began to attach importance to the civic education of persons with disabilities, promulgated the \civil rights. On the other hand, the Director of Education in 1971, the United States proposed Malan livelihood education, vocational education and labor education is at the core of the educational community to adapt to the future. In the livelihood education to prepare for the future society without been after since the 1980s, educators should be aware of educational planning down to earth, then return to the core values of proposed quality education that will patriotism, loyalty, trustworthiness, courage, good quality as a culture The main objective of U.S. citizens, to some extent, improved the overall quality of civic virtue. Since the 90s of the 20th century, the federal government for the United States to strengthen the management of education and intervention, began a national civic education standards. 9.11 After the incident, the ED also patriotic American civic education significantly tilt. By the end of 2008, Obama was elected U.S. president, the current situation for the United States made a series of education reform plan. These educational reform program fully reflects his citizenship and national civic education interactive win-win concept. This paper argues that, on the one hand, the United States after World War II civic education content with the social development and change, has obvious characteristics of the times; the other hand, precisely because of American civic education bills and policies escort was able to gradually perfect, although its implementation still exist civic education teacher training and evaluation system and other issues, but the valuable experience of civic education is still worth learning and learning. Meanwhile, in the implementation of the process of education of our citizens to continue to reflect, to build with Chinese characteristics, civic education system.
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