1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?
Stock Market Crash- people were buying on credit and couldn't pay for what they bought which caused bank failings crashed on the. Major overproduction
Great Depression- overproducing of crops, the stock market crash, companies were overproducing things that people couldn’t buy
2. What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States?
Suicide rate went up
Kids dropped out of school
People lost jobs
Food stamps
3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?
The CCC- help create jobs for younger men
Labor jobs
New deals
Made the hoover dam to create jobs and energy and whatnot
Several organizations were created to make jobs
Construction
Built government buildings
4. What were the causes of WWII in Europe, Asia, and the US?
Europe- hitler started breaking the treaty of versaille
Invaded Poland
Rearmed Rhineland
Asia- we stopped trading them Japan
Manchuria
Rape of Nanking?
US- pearl harbor
Our allies brought us in
There was a lot of push from the American people to join
5. What impact did the United States have on WWII?
We helped slow up the German plans
We steered them in the wrong direction by giving them false info
We got france back from under german control
6. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?
Stop the domino effect
Destalinization?
stop the spread of communism
promote trade
promote democracy
7. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
Berlin Blockade/airlift
Cuban Missile Crisis- soviets had misses in cuba we had missles in turkey we agreed we wouldn’t fire and we would take the missiles out of turkey
Red Scare/McCarthyism- when people were accusing others of being communist McCarthy said he knew 200 people in the govt that were communist
Bay of Pigs- Got the Cubans to revolt against castro and trained them.
Berlin Wall- it was a wall that kept the west out of the east and one side was communist the other was controlled by Allied powers from WWII and Ronald Reagan and Mikial Gorbachaev helped
End of the Cold War-
glastnost
destalinization
perestroika
8. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?
Vietnam was communist
We went into Korea to precent the the soviets from taking over the Korean penesula
9. Know these major major post-Cold War Events:
-JFK Assassination- Lee Harvey Oswald during a parade shot JFK, although there are many conspiracy theories on who did it and why. He was shot in a car from a college book production center
-Civil Rights- JFK pushed them, push for integrated schools, woman’s rights were being pushed about their pay
-Watergate two burglars broke into Watergate and wire tapped the phones so they could know the secrets they had to go back in an rewire them and got caught and it was found they were working for the Nixon campaign so Nixon could find out what his opponents for the reelection were planning
-Persian Gulf War(1991)
-9-11 two planes crashed into the world trade center, one into the pentagon, and one crash landed in a field in VA after the passengers took control of the plane from the terrorists, who had construted the plan of 9-11 alqaida was the terrorsit group that was led by OBL
-War in Afghanistan
-War in Iraq
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