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Driving Ideas for Semester Two:

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

-Overproduction of goods= business' made goods but people didn't buy them

-Government didn't have rules/laws on the stock market

-Stock market crashing

2. What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States?

 -people lost their jobs 

-banks closed

-kids dropped out of school to work

-People started to panic

-Business shut down 

3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?

-The New Deal Program=It helped people get jobs and back on their feet( created by Franklin Roosevelt)

-1st new deal=helped the people 

-2nd new deal=helped our economy

4. What were the causes of WWII? 

-Great Depression

-Other countries also were in the great depression( Japan invading china for natural resources)

-Pearl Harbor

5. What impact did the United States have on WWII?

-created jobs for people

-more rights for African Americans

-Allowed women to be more involved in the work force

6. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?

-to stop the spread of communism 

-went to Vietnam to stop the domino effect

-promote our kind of gov. not a dictatorship 

7. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?

-Berlin Blockade/airlift=Soviets wanted to have control of Berlin so when we tried to send supplies over to Berlin the Soviets wouldn't allow it. 

Cuban Missile Crisis=Cuba had missiles so we made an agreement with them, If they took their missiles out we would take ours out of turkey and we would never invade Cuba

 Red Scare/McCarthyism=People feared that communism was spreading b/c McCarthy was accusing people of being communist. 

 Space Race=

 Bay of Pigs=It was an invasion to keep Cuba from being communism, but it failed 

 Berlin Wall=It was a great big wall built to keep the people from being free of communism

 End of the Cold War=The Russia leader wanted to stop communism, change it, he took blame for the cold war 

8. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?

 -Korea=North Korea invaded south Korea= still split

-Vietnam=wanted to stop the domino effect for communism was our goal and b/c US ships were attacked=still split and we just got up and left (vietnaminzation) 

9. How did the Cold War come to an end?

-countries that were communism fell 

10. Know these major major post-Cold War Events:

JFK Assassination

-killed Nov 22 on a Friday

-Dallas, Texas

-he was there to smooth the friction in democrat party 

-shot in upper back and throat and head

-went to parkland hospital

-dead at 1:00 pm

-lee Harvey Oswald(he was a good snipper in the marines) killed the president

-lee Harvey Oswald was killed before the trial

-Civil Rights

-brown case=It made it so that discrimination in schools was unconstitutional

-allowed voting for African Americans

-No more discrimination

Watergate

-1972= there was a break in at the Watergate office and the phones were bugged

-Nixon tried to cover up the involvement

-he bugged the offices of other opponents

-harassed groups and other people

-he used the CIA and FBI and IRS help

-IRS has been accused of abuse of power before

-Persian Gulf War(1991)

-US helped Sudan Hussein gain power

-reports that Sudan gassed his own people

-Sudan and Iraq  then invaded Kuwait b/c he believed they stole oil

-we sent soldiers to Saudi aradia ( to let iraq know to stop)

-we then invaded Kuwait to get Iraq out of Kuwait

-easy victory

-Iraq had to go by some rules= had weapon inspection, no fly zone, 

-Sudan was getting nuclear weapons

-9-11

-Al-Qaeda

-they felt like we were invaders now (didn't like us)

-feel like were trying to take over

-War in Afghanistan

-went to war b/c of 911

-the Taliban gov allowed the Al Qaeda to train there

-Obama plans to have the troops out by the end of this year

-not unpopular war

-Bush doctrine= US has the right to invade another country to help secure our country 

-War in Iraq

-we invaded because they weren't letting the weapon inspectors into the country to do there job

-war become unpopular

-people didn't know why we were over there

-water boarding=wasn't american 

-bush's approval rating went down

-people wanted to end the war but bush sent more troops

-sending more troops worked, violence settled down

-then when president Obama became president, Saddam Hussein was captured (in an underground bunker)

-put to death by gov in Iraq (was hung)

-since we left, terrorist attacks went up

 

 

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