Questions 1-3: One of the three-10 points
Questions 4-5: One of the two-10 points
Question 6: Required-10 points
Question 7: Two of the topics-10 points
Questions 8 and 9: Both required: 20 points
Question 10: Three of the topics-30 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? Stock pooling, people paid too much for stocks
2. What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States? Many people lost jobs, homes, people were poor banks shut down people panicked created FDIC to keep people from losing all of their money if something like this happened again
3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country? Created the New Deals. The first New Deal dealt with businesses and banks and helped them recover. The second New Deal helped with individual groups of people. Like young men, children, women. 3 r's- relief, recovery, reform Government programs to help people government became larger
4. What were the causes of WWII? Germany invaded Poland and Britain and France decided it was time to stop Germany and go to war. Germany broke the Treaty of Versailles
5. What impact did the United States have on WWII? We added more troops and because of us the Allies won the war We bombed Japan More women were able to help during the war at the homefront
6. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War? To stop the spread of communism, peace among countries, promote democracy didn't want countries to fall under the domino effect of communism.
7. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
-Berlin Blockade/airlift- USSR blocked their part of Berlin from the US’s part and we flew planes over and dropped supplies to them successful, lasted 11 months didn't want war, so we flew the planes over Russia didn't want a war either and didn't shoot our planes down
-Cuban Missile Crisis- Russia put missiles on Cuba Navy put a blockade around Cuba to stop new missiles from coming onto the land closest we came to war with Russia Deal with them that we would not attack Cuba, and they would take away their missiles. We would also take away our missiles in Turkey
-Red Scare/McCarthyism- When Senator Joe McCarthy said he had a list of 200 hundred names of people who were communist and he accused a bunch of people of being communist spread panic through the country he accused the Army of being communist and he was shut up by Congress then 50-54
-Bay of Pigs- Castro became dictator an epic fail of an attempt to try to attack Cuba were going to send in air support but we didn't want it to look like we were attacking a smaller weaker country we trained ex. Cubans who were against Castro and made them go into Cuba we thought Cubans would join them, but no one did Kennedy was president
-Berlin Wall- USSR put up the wall to keep Communists in and others out they didn't want their people to escape to freedom, knew it would make them look bad if they built the wall but if they didn't, all the people would leave for West Berlin people tried to escape for many years East was bad, West was good new leader came to power and was open to change so he let the wall come down. Everyone was happy
-End of Cold War- Detante, new leader, Gorbachev was willing to change, admitted USSR's mistakes invaded Afghanistan We were close to our Allies and Russia was not. Russia was having some problems economically, people didn't have basic necessities like a home, job Also, Russia invaded Afghanistan which was a mistake Gorbachev allowed **Let East Europe do what they wanted, even if they decided to be democratic or something other than communist.**
8. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars? To stop the spread of communism didn't want the Norths to take over the Souths. Korea remains separate, but after US left, the North invaded the south and they lost Vietnam is still communist Vietnamization- Richard Nixon train Vietnam soldiers to fight for themselves so we could bring our troops home
10. Know these major post-Cold War Events:
-JFK Assassination- Happened in Dallas Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy first bullet missed, the next two hit him many believe in conspiracies about it
-Civil Rights- Affirmative Action Laws- white rich males wouldn't hire blacks or women. Civil Rights 1964 Eisenhower desegregated the army and schools Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, KS acts to allow blacks to go to college
-Watergate- happened under Nixon spies went into Watergate hotel and put wires on the phones to gain information on democrats they weren't caught the first time, but the second when they went back to fix a wire Nixon was behind it
-Iran Hostage Crisis- Islamic Revolutionists took US people from an embassy and held them hostage the Islamic people were anti-West and didn't like the US being in their country
-Persian Gulf War (1991)- US was in there Iraq invaded Kuwait because they thought they were stealing oil from them we free Kuwait in a month Al Qaeda attacked Kuwait
-9-11- Two planes flew into the World Trade Centers on September 11, 2001 early in the morning another plane hit the Pentagon Al Qaeda was behind it Another plane was supposed to hit the White House
-War in Afghanistan- happened a month after 9/11 found out that Taliban was hiding Al Qaeda they allowed them to live in their country We invaded in October, other countries, but mostly US We have established a democracy there
-War in Iraq- Saddam Hussein had to allow weapons inspectors into his country we take him down, he was put to death but Iraqi government we went out of their country in December 2011 Unpopular War- Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse Water-boarding- Guantanamo Cuba cover mouth with cloth and pouring water over mouth sent more troops over to Iraq, and actually stopped the violence and now we were able to pull out
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