Essentials for US History--Semester 2
1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
The New Deal had three major goals:
Relief-- The immediate action to try and help people out.
Reform-- Trying to help the banks
Recovery-- Was the ultimate goal to recover from the Great Depression.
The New Deal helped all types of people.
- The Unemployed (PWA)
- Farmers (RFC)
- Factory Workers/Labor (NLR Act)
- Young People (NYA)
- Banks/Business/Stock Market (RFC)
- Home Owners (USHA)
- Elderly (Social Security Act)
- Native Americans (IRA)
The Great Depression
- Unemployment
- Hunger
- Poverty
- Homelessness
- Farm and Industry Failures
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
-Pearl Harbor
Cause:
The Japanese weren't happy with us because we stopped trading with them. They had no natural resources so this hurt them majorly. They wanted to expand to Manchuria and Indochina.
Effect:
The United States joined World War II
-D-Day
Cause:
The allies needed to get to Germany before the Soviets could capture all of western Europe and turn it into a massive communist state.
Effect:
It forced Germans to fight a two front war.
-Atomic bombing
Cause:
The reason for the atomic bombs were to put an immediate end to the war. It forced Japan to stop fighting.
Effects:
The war had ended. Many, many people died from it.
-Africa/European Front
Cause:
Nazi's invasion of Poland.
Effects:
It helped led to the end of the war. Hitler realized that Mussolini had died and came to the conclusion that the end had come.
-Pacific Front
Cause:
Japan invaded the Philippines.
Effect:
The US had to step in and help
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
The Allies had many natural resources.
Better technology
Germany turned on the Soviet Union.
We (The U.S.) were on the Allies' side. This helped because we were a huge power at this time.
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
a. Define the Cold War and it's causes
A struggle between the US and The Soviet Union. It was to stop the spread of communism.
b. Policy of Containment- Used by the US to stop communism
-domino effect when one country would become communist other countries would too
-mutual deterrence, massive retaliation,
Truman Doctrine a US strategy for containment,
Marshall Plan,
NATO you would agree to a mutual defense.
c. Both Berlin Crises was the major crisis of the war
Stalin wanted to cut off Berlin so he blocked the roads
The Berlin was separated the two Berlins
d. The Red Scare--
McCarthyism is accusing people of being communists in American government.
HUAC was aimed at German Americans involved in Nazis and KKK.
e. Fidel Castro the leader of Cuba
Bay of Pigs American CIA trained Cuban exiles and had them invade Cuba and try to overthrow Fidel Castro
Missile Crisis were when Soviet Missiles were found in Cuba.
g. Nuclear Arms Race and Reductions
The nuclear arms race was a weapon buildup between the Sovites and the Usa. Soviets denoated their first atomic bomb on August 29, 1949.
h. How the Cold War ended.
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
In 1950 the north invaded the south... the North wanted to become communists and the south wanted tobe democratic. The north invaded the south and pushes us to the tip andUnited Nations come and we push them almost to China. China gets nervousand Invades us which pushed us back to the tip and eventually we startto push China back closer to china. Back and Forth. North Korea is inmassive famine. South Korea is flourishing and doing pretty well. Westopped the spread of communism in south Korea. There is still somenuclear weapons in North Korea which is kinda a thorn in our side. It tookplace between WWII and Vietnam.
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