Semester 2 Test Blog!

SU/su=Soviet Union

US/us=United States

 

1. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.

-the great depression had many  causes. The main reason for the Great Depression was after World War one was overwith many people had money and so they started investing in the stock market, and if they dint have money they could get a loan to go out and buy new things or to even invest in the stock market. When people got loans for the stock market there was some inflation because you had to give the banker some of it what every you got back from him. Also there were people putting money in. and Then watching it go out and then selling their stock. When the stock market finaly crashed on Black Thursday there was no saving it like there had been on Black Tuesday. When it crashed this is known as the cause of the great depression.

-Some of the effects were that if you had money in the bank and people were going and getting their money out and you didnt get their in time the bank would not have your money on had becuase they only kept so much money in the bank at the same time. This made it so many people didnt trust the banks

-another effect is that many people lost homes and vehicles becuase they could not pay the bank if their bank closed so it was taken from them by the government.

 

 2. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.

-the great depression impacted people in many ways. Some people will not invest in the stock market because of when it fell and caused the great depression.

-there are two new deals they were very different but both were about what the country needed when they were passed.

The first new deal:

-relief, recovery, reform

-plan to bring recovery to US

-relief- unemployment and the poor

-recovery- the economy

-reform- fincial systems

 

3. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.

-When the us got involved in the war it changed alot of things.

-Germany tried to take over Soviet Union and failed because it was too big. The tatic they used when trying to do this was Blitzkrieg. It went over the winter and it was really cold so it killed off alot of the soilders.

- Blitzkrieg is when they send in mass troops and tanks and you take out as much as you can as quickly as you can.

-D Day operation also was a major turning point. This was when the us had the su's play book so we sent out a message saying we were landing at a particualar beach but we only sent a few men to this place and sent most of our men to different beachs so they could go around the grmans and then kill them off.  we watched this in the movie saving privete ryan.

-the manhattan project. which was code name for the atomic bomb. this was so secratice that not even the vice pres knew about this. the people building this would go live in camps and

4 Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.

Some of the reasons we won the war were

-The women working in factories making goods to send over seas

-the women flying goods and supplies over to the soldiers, but not into the war

-the african americans would also fly in with supplies

-Henry Keisner built lots and lots of ships

-another major thing was that we had their play book and we didnt because we used najavo code

- the national labor board made it so the owner and worker were getting along so there wouldnt be strikes

-the opa or office price adminstration made it so everyone got a sticker saying how much gas you could get a week.

-african american soilders bombed to help soilders on the ground.


5. students will understand the causes, and effects, and major events of the cold war.

-we wantedto try to get rid of communism

- Perestroika- is a russian world that mena s reconstruting or rebuilding it was commonly used in the 1980 in the su by the leader gorbchev

-Glasnost-it means by openess it ws used by gorbachev the most

-Perestrokia And Glasnost help to calm relatios between su and us

-INF TREATY stands for intermediate range nuclear foce teaty this trea was an agreenment signed in 1987 by the us and us the treaty eliminated nuclear and conveninal gournd launches

su invdaes afghanistan

-prime minister, haifullah amin invaded to end muslin traditions and take over land

-communist govt doesnt belieft in reliegion

-soldiers that deserted the su to go to the uslim group

-young russians wre no match for muslins; 3 yrs muslims crontrolled 75%

-us put ban on xport of gain o russia; knew russia ad got into their own vietnam

-mikhail gorbachev took russia out of afghanistan

regan and gobachev meetings

-before gorb (1985) rganins aid su was nd ''evil empire''

-regan and gorb at frist didnt trust each other

-disrmament plant: 50% reduction in nuclear arsenals

-gorb different goasl--glasnot and perestroika

-chenobyl disaters : relaized nuclear weapons were not the aswer

-regan propsed getting rid of all the nuclear weaponsand build an sdi system

-gob relized regan wnt going to ttack

-trusted each other in ending the build up of nuclear weapons

-" the nam who beat communist'' but gave alot of credit to gorb

The Berlin Wall--Going Up and Coming Down-
-it was built in 1961 but it was barb wire and i 1965 an accually wall was build

-it wsconstructed by the german democratic ebublican

-sovietwokes tore up the street in berlin

-first it wasa guarded barbed wire

-germnay was split into  reginons fench, british, us, and su

-fench southwest, british northwest, usite states south, su east.

-symbole of the end of the cold war

-government allowed east germsto travel anywhere

-demolition began on june 13, 1990

 

6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.

-1950-1953

-korea was spilt into two countries north and south

-north was communist

-south was democratic

-the demilitarized zone is whatthe border between the two contries

-in north korea no one has anything because they focus on their war

-south is florishing

-we have troops over there

-north korea has nuclear bombs and we dont like them

7. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.

-1950-1975

Key Players

-north vietnam

-viet cong

-ho chi minh (allie with us)

-South Vietnam (allies with us)

-united states

Time Line of us gettting involved

-at frist it was between french and vietnam

1950 - $ to french

50's miliary advisors

early 60's green berets adn more advisors

1963-sends combate troops

1964-gulf of tonkin resolution

1966-more combat troops

1967-more combate trooms

1968- 536, 000 troops, tet offensive, my lai massacre, war protests, '' Draft Dodgers, Kent St. Massacre 1970)
1969-nixon calls for end of war

1970-1972-nixon boms los and combodia, destroy ho chi minh trail

1972-vietnamization

1973- us pulls out of vietnam ''peace with honor

1975-all of vietnam mecomes communist

-our main goal was to try to keep it out of communism

-it was a negaitive war because of all the massacures


8. Students will understand the causes and effects of the the War on Terror.

-9/11 was the reason we went to war because the talabane

-we went to iraq because we thought osma wasthere

-he is now dead

-now all we have left there is advisors

-we took down talabane

 

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