1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
-Pearl Harbor
-D-Day
-Atomic bombing
-Africa/European Front
-Pacific Front
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
a. Define the Cold War and it's causes
b. Policy of Containment -domino effect, mutual deterrence, massive retaliation, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO
c. Both Berlin Crises
d. The Red Scare--McCarthyism and HUAC
e. Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis
f. China
g. Nuclear Arms Race and Reductions
h. How the Cold War ended.
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict
1. The Great Depression was a huge loss for the US. It happened because so much was being produced but then people stopped buying and people started investing in the stock market. Investing in the stock market isnt bad but the people were buying stocks on credit. so people put most of their money in stocks hoping that they would just keep going up and they would make money to pay the loans off. But when the market crashed so many people lost their fortunes because they had bought all the stocks on credit and now the stocks were basically worthless. Many other people who were not in the stock market lost their fortunes because when banks closed they didnt pay back the money, people just lost it. the New Deal was basically President Roosevelt's plan for pulling the US out of the Great Depression. It involved many reform policies about the banks and other corporations in america. the new programs that roosevelt helped majorly in bringing the US out of the great depression but the main thing that brought us out was WW2
2. Pearl Harbor- Japan attacked an american base out at pearl harbor Hawaii. the japanese didnt come back for a second attack because they thought they had bombed us good enough. they killed some smaller ships but the biggest one they killed was the arizona, and like 1100 some people died on that. Japan had "woke a sleeping giant" quote Mr Bruns. D-Day was when the allied forces invaded Normandy France. Heavy losses for the allies because we had to run up a beach while the germans were in fortified defensive positions. Stalin was unhappy about this because he wanted us to invade earlier because millions of Russians were dying to the German offensive for the leibensraum. Major part of the war because the only part of allied forces left in Europe was Great Britain and with this invasion we started the push for the Reichstag. The Atomic bombing was what basically ended the war with Japan. we didnt want to bomb tokoyo because that was a special place to the japanese and wouldve really pissed them off. We bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki because they were 2 cities that Japan wasnt very involved in. A few days after the bombs were dropped the Japanese emperor surrendered to the United States because he saw the huge amounts of destruction and casualties. This shocked everybody because he announced it over the radio and most people never thought they would even hear the emperor speak. Africa was where we worked our way up into Italy where the "soft underbelly of Europe" was. The European front started after Germany and Russia invaded Poland and signed the non agression pact. When the US really got involved was when from D-Day the allies pushed the Germans back into Germany. It was a very slow push, especially for the russians. When we were by the German borders the Germans launched a huge counteroffensive that was supposed to cut through the american forces all the way to the english channel. Huge failure by Hitler because it ensured the end of the war and all it did was make pointless casualties and a bulge in the american defense line. Some of the other major battles of the European front were the battle of Stalingrad. Which over a million russians died. The Pacific front started when Japan attacked pearl harbor and we eventually started out push up to Japan by Island Hopping. Which was invading one island at a time and then taking it over and moving to the next one. Some of the major battles of the Pacific Front was Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Okinawa was the last battle of the Pacific front because after this battle we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war.
3. The allies won in WW2 for many reasons. Germany invaded Russia and started a 2 sided war again. the US could produce guns, tanks, or anything faster than the Germans can. another reason why we won was because we invaded Italy worked our way up from there. Italy was seen as much weaker than the Russians. Germany invaded Russia and hoped that the war would be over before winter, which it almost was. The germans ran through all the Soviets until the battle of stalingrad where the Russians eventually started pushing back just by hitting the Germans with sheer numbers of soldiers. We won in the Japanese front for many of the same reasons as the European front. the Japanese had bitten off more than they could chew by attacking pearl harbor and invading Manchuria.The US pushed up the islands and eventually bombed the Japanese at Nagasaki and Pearl Harbor.
4. the cold war was a war betweent the Soviet Union and The United States to become the top world power. it started with the arms race. Some of the other reasons for the start of the cold war that the soviets were mad at us because we didnt invade france as early as they liked. The soviet union did not like the US having nukes while they didnt have them because it put all of the power in the United States hands. The separation of berlin was when Berlin was broken up into sections that were controlled by the major powers. East germany was a communist side while West Germany was democratic. The Policy of Containment was the United States plan to stop communism from spreading. The domino effects was that as one country became communist the other countries around it would as well like with what had already happened with the soviet union. The Truman Doctrine was part of the United States plan to stop the spread of communism in asia. The Marshall plan was a recovery plan for Europe which helped the Europeans build a stronger economic base. The US lent money to the Germans to pay back war reparations to the countries which they would eventually have to pay thye loan bank to us. NATO was the north atlantic treaty organization. Nato was the allies peacekeeping organization NATO threatened the soviet union with bombs but tried to end communism mostly by democratic ways. Berlin Crisis was the blockade of berlin by the communists and was the first major international crisis of the cold war. The Red Scare was the questioning of peoples loyaties if they were communist or not. McCarthyism was a lot of the same thing. Senator Joe McCarthy was accusing people of being communist and his accusations were like a witch hunt. people were afraid of him because nobody wanted to be accused of being a communist. HUAC thought that communist propoganda was being put into movies that would influence people. Fidel Castro was the Anti America leader of Cuba from January 8, 1959 after he overthrew Batista who he beleived was a US puppet. the Bay of Pigs invasion was launched on april 16 and lasted for 3-4 days. it was a huge failure and all it did was strenghten the cuban people to be more communist. The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the US found out that the soviets had put nuclear missles on cuba which had the range to reach every place in the United States except washington. We had a military quarantine of cuba where ships would be inspected for weapons of and kind. Eventually the missiles were taken away because there was an agreement between the Soviet Union and The United States that the Soviets would take the missiles out of Cuba if the US would remove our missles from Turkey. in 1966 mao zedong started a revolution to try and industrialize china. farmers left their crops and headed for the steel mills. this lead to huge famine and huge amounts of death. The nuclear arms race was a race between the soviet union and united states which was to stockpile as many nuclear weapons as possible so if a war broke out they could blow up the entire world by like 40000 nukes all flying through the air. the soviet union eventually lost because the government pumped all of its money into the military and not promoting any domestic growth so the economy eventually collapsed and the soviet union fell apart and broke into 15 separate countries. The cold war ended because the eceonomy of the soviet union fell apart. between the arms race and the invasion of afghanistan they had all their money in military and nothing else so eventually they ran out of money doing this and it all collapsed when poland left because of policies like perestrokia and glasnost the soviet union and then it was a domino effect of other countries leaving the soviet union to for the coalition of independent states or the CIS.
5. the Korean conflict is just another example of the United States trying to prevent the spead of communism. for most of the war a border was held and eventually we left and the countries of north and south korea were split on the 38 parallel
6. Vietnam was yet again another example of us trying to stop the spread of communism. the United States seemed to try this a lot. the north communist invaded the south and we went over there to help out the south. we started putting troops over there when the commies shot one of our boats and we got mad. the war went on for awhile while Ho Chi Minh gave his little tiger elephant speech how the united states was an elephant and they were a tiger that jumped out of the jungle and hit us and we eventually got annoyed of it and left after we decided it wasnt worth dying for. Towardst the end when we thought the Vietnamese were about to lose they launched the Tet offensive in which they attacked every major south Vietnamese city. nobody understood that the vietcong could launch an attack like this if they were about defeated so people lost hope, even though it was a huge victory for us because we killed like 450000 of them, but it was a huge political victory for them. eventually their guerilla tactic worked because were werent gonna outlast the vietcong on their own homeland. so we left and after that the north invaded south and its all communist today.
and thats about it.
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