Today, we finished notes on the Vietnam War, and started blog discussions. We also talked about the semester test again.
This test will be worth 16% of your semester grade(100 points). You have the option to take the test orally, written(essay) or create a video documentary. You are also required to do a semester test blog over all the below topics.
Questions 1-3: One of the three-10 points
Questions 4-6: One of the three-10 points
Questions 7, 9, 10: Two of the three-20 points
Question 8: Three of the topics-30 points
Question 11: Two of the topics-20 points
Semester Test Blog-10 points
Driving Ideas for Semester Two:
1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?
2. What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States?
3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?
4. What long lasting impact did the Great Depression have on the US and world?
5. What were the causes of WWII?
6. What impact did the United States have on WWII?
7. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?
8. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
-Berlin Blockade/airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Red Scare/McCarthyism, Space Race, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, End of the Cold War
9. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?
10. How did the Cold War come to an end?
11. Know these major major post-Cold War Events:
-JFK Assassination
-Watergate
-Iran Hostage Crisis
-Persian Gulf War(1991)
-9-11
-War in Afghanistan
-War in Iraq
-Civil Rights Issues(African Americans, Women)
-Nixon and Vietnam
- Nixon called for the “vietnamization” of the war
- Vietnamization= took our people out of the war, and let Vietnam fight their own battles
- “Peace with Honor”
- Gradually pull US troops out and train the ARVN to take our place in fighting the North
- Expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia leading to college protests (Kent St. University)
- Viet Cong= communist in South Vietnam that were working with North Vietnam
- On January 15, 1973, Nixon announced the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam
- The Paris Peace Accords were later signed on January 27, 1973 which officially ended US involvement in the Vietnam conflict
- Fighting stopped
- US would pull out of Vietnam
- North and South Vietnam would recognize each others independence
-Peace??
- The peace agreement did not last
- In March, 1975, the North invaded the South
- The South was not strong enough and fell quickly
- Saigon, the South’s capital fell on April 30, 1975
- US did not live up to it’s promise to come to their aid if the North attack
- North Vietnam united both North and South Vietnam on July 2, 1976 to form the socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Saigon was re- named Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the former president of North Vietnam
- Vietnam is still communist today
-Jimmy Carter
- 39th president
- 1977-1981
- Only U.S. President to have received the Nobel Peace Prize after leaving
- Had been a peanut farmer and governor of Georgia before being President
- Strongly emphasized human rights as President
- Has been a very active former President
-Accomplishments
- Pardoned anyone that ignored the draft for the Vietnam war
- Known as the green president
- Passed a lot of acts that were good for the environment
- Was for gay rights
- Good relations with other countries
- Egypt and Israel camp
- Brought peace between the 2 countries
-Elections
- Won against Gerald Ford and they were really close
- Lost against Ronald Reagan
1980 election lost because of high inflation
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