1. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
- Black Tuesday- Stock Market Crash. We were all spending way more than we had. Everyone was in debt. Literally everyone. Thanks to buying with credit.
- Effects: Downward spiral. we werent trading with other countries, so it hurt them too.
- Vicious Spiral. People were afraid to spend money (and they already had everything they needed in terms of stuff thanks to the roaring 20s) -> people didnt buy anything -> companies downsized -> people got fired, and therefore had little income and lots of jobless folks -> because people had no jobs, they didnt buy anything, so companies made less, needed less people, people got fired, and the spiral never ended.
- January. teens?
2. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
- The great depression hurt us pretty bad. Hurt everyone else too. Kinda world-wide.
- The new deal helped us out a lot, created lots of new jobs. Lots of Construction projects, like the Hoover Dam and Mount Rushmore.
- Lots of programs to benefit the elderly and the young, lots of education programs and improvements, etc. lots of programs to help the common joe, and farmers. (Agricultural Adjustment Act, AAA; Federal Securities Act, FSA; Works Progress Adminsitration, WPA; etc)
- Hoover got a bad rep....republicans were down for the count, democrats ruled the 30s. predominately Roosevelt. He had two deals. Alphabet Soup Organizations. Charity groups, too.
- 1st New Deal helped businesses, railroads, focused on the economy.
- 2nd was for the people.
- Early February.
3. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
- Causes: Germany invaded Poland. Then France, etc. Gotta stop Hitler. Hitler's motivation: restoring Germany to its former glory, pre-WW1 Treaty of Versailles.
- Effects: Brought the usa out of our depression. We came back and never went down again.
- Major Events: D-Day (Operation Overlord)
- ME: Battle of the Bulge.
- ME: Island Hopping in the pacific. part of the offensive agaisnt japan.
- ME: Pearl Harbor, got us involved, and our retaliation 3 years later- atomic bombing.
- ME: Victory in Europe. May 8, 1945.
- ME: Holocaust.
- March. Early.
- April. Early/teens.
4. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
- Well, we got involved, for one.
- Homefront support. Mass production, bigger, better weapons.
- Germany invaded Soviet union. Almost won, but lost. (Operation Barbarossa)
- Japan invaded more of china. Was okay, wanted more, got kicked out completely.
- We created the atomic bomb and got japan out of the war. USSR became an ally after hitler turned on them. And then we also used D-Day and won back France.
- We had "magic" code breaking stuff and radars and overall better technology.
- April. Teens.
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
- Communism vs Democracy. Soviet Union vs. United States.
- Causes: we didnt really want war, just came out of WW2.
- The movie 13 Days is based on the Cuban Missile Crisis, where the world came the closest is ever come to breaking out in nuclear warfare. Definitely a major event.
- Space race. Weapons race- ussr picked quantity, we picked quality.
- Effects: we came out on top and have been the world superpower ever since.
- Late April, Early May
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
- Causes: Communism vs. Democracy.
- Communism was spreading- North Korea wanted to unite with south Korea under a Communist government, and we intervened because we were afraid of the domino effect.
- So, we staretd out right between the two. China intervened on behalf of their buddy North Vietnam and pushed us way back. Then the united nations gets involved and we push the border way up. they pushed us back again to the approx halfway point and thats where it ended.
- Nowadays, because we pulled out, North Korea is still communist and miserable. South Korea is democracy and happy. We still have troops there, in case north korea tries to invade again.
7. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
- Causes: Vieman wanted independance from France. France said no. Communist dude "Uncle Ho" (Ho Chi Minh) led the revolution. We intervened for fear of the domino effect, of course.
- Major Events: Tet Offensive (when the vietnamese launched a big attack, and lost- when the american citizens figured out the government was lying to them)
- ME: My Lai Massacre (murderd 500 civilians).
- ME: Kent St. Massacre (baby-killers, rapists, maiming of the vietnamese citizens by american soldiers)in 1970.
- Nixon becomes pres and bombs Cambodia and Laos. Then we pull out. Then later when Ford is pres, communist vietnam attacks again and we do not help the non-communists.
- Therefore, Vietnam is now Communist.
8. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf Wars as well as the War on Terror.
- Causes: 9-11. (this war is on afghanistan)
- Effects: We're still in the war, but pulling out. Recently annihilated Osama Bin Laden.
- Iraq: We believed Sadam Hussein had biological weapons of mass destruction.
- They did now, but we stayed to get rid of hussein anyway.
- These are very unpopular wars.
- We currently have only military advisors in iraq to train them. we're hoping that when we pull out completely, the taliban/al-qaeda wont take over.
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