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7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Causes
-stock market crash: was when companies didnt make money but the stocks still went up then once they realized went to sell stock wouldnt sell and people went broke banks closed and wouldn't give back money. The vicious cycle was not buying, companies not making money, firing people, people lose jobs and repeat.
-why? companies produced items at mass scales in 20's them didnt have anything to sell because people didnt need any items.
-The droughts, and Dust bowl farmers at the time were told to sluahgetr they cattle or hogs. DUMB. and then dust bowl came it was a dry season and heavy winds brought the about dust storms one the storms went form the colorado and tore through the midwest devasting evrything.
Results ^
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-unemployment went ^
- farmers lost farms
-banks closed
1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
THe depression sent America into turmoil, not just america but the whole world. FDRs new deal was one of the best things he did. He did various things to get America back on track. He really worked on creating jobs to put the unemployed to work.
-Relief, Recovery, Reform. 1st (1933-35) focused on groups, banking and railroads, gave them money to restore economic prosperity. 2nd (1936-38) included Wagner Act; promoted labor unions, WPA(works progress administration); largest agency, employed 1000's of people to do public services. Social Security Act; provided federal assistance to the elderly, unemployed, widowed, disabled, etc.
Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court and what did he do to try to solve this issue?
-well basically the supreme court was full of old guys who wouldnt pass his stuff so he went and tried to get rid of them but leagally couldnt so he added seats and guys that agreed with him got them.
How did the New Deal help:
unemployed
-Civilian Conservation Corps. Federal Emergency Relief Administration;loans given to states to operate relief pumps. Created factories with this money, supplied jobs. Relieved unemployment.
-PWA, public works administration; raised employment rate, spent 6 billion. Constructed bridges, dams, hospitals, schools, houses etc.
-Civil Works Administration; created temporary jobs, manual labor, construction. To expensive to maintain, shut down. Lasted 6 months, employed 3% of population.
-WPA, Works Projects Administration; made in hopes that it would provide jobs for unemployed. supplied 3 million with jobs such as building libraries, schools, roads, construction projects. funded buildings. Helped people interested in the Arts; writers, actors, painters, musicians.
farmers
-soil conservation and domestic allotment act- paid farmers to produce less goods; prevents erosion (dust bowl), share payments, planted soil-building crops. AAA named unconstitutional, government taxed food processors and ended up taxing everyone equally. Farm Security Administration.
-TVA ; created jobs, reforest, improve navigability of rivers, improve farmland. Built dams; used hydroelectric power for electricity, rural people rarely got the luxury of this electricity. Construction projects. Still around today.
factory workers/labor
-FLSA, fair labor standard act- minimum wage, time and a half, stopped oppressive child labor. Still around today.
-NLRB; encouraged healthy relationship between private-sector workers and their employees. Stop stikes, and labor problems. Still around today. Arbitrator in businesses.
young people
-NYA, national youth administration; helped unemployed youths, exchanged grants with highschool students and college students, unemployed put in federally funded work projects designed to give them marketable skills for the future. Basically job training. Males and females. Local people.
banks/business
-Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; gave more power to federal government to inspect goods. FDA- inspects food. Banking Act; made Federal Reserve Board of governors stronger. Tightened restrictions on banks. Strenghtened banks, made FDIC permanent.
-EBRA/ emergency banking relief act; law stated that any bank that doesn't have enough funds to support their clients' needs were to be shut down but the banks who were stable enough to support clients could stay open. only federal inspectors can declare if a bank is able to stay open or close. temporary solution to banks' loss of money. Bank holiday, closed all banks temporarily, FDR reassured people that when they re-opened, it would be safe to put your money in once again.
home owners
-HOLC sold bonds and lengthened loans so people could keep their homes. Prevent foreclosure. Ended when bankroll stopped rolling.
-USHA united states housing authority; lend money to states and communities for construction, for poor and non-wealthy citizens, was thought to bring social order and peace.
-Federal Housing Administration. Still around, department of housing and urban development. Part of National Housing Act, improve standards of housing to make the mortgage market more stable.
elderly
-Social Security Administration; provide steady income for workers 65 and up. Depression caused a need for old-age pensions. Funded on payroll taxes. Amended many times, disability insurance, early retirement.
stock market
-SEC; Securities and Exchange Commission
-2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
Hitler coming to power.Treaty of Versailles dishonered Germany makingthem come together like no other country had before under hitler they used blitzkreig an invasion that no country could stop major battles in Europe and Africa we fought in africa and Italy the soft under belly. taking out Italy was a good achievment but Germany still occupied Italy making fighting difficult in the terrain.
-Germany invasion of POland really started the war he kept doing things to see what the league of nations would do until it was to late. Origianlly signed treaty to not fight Soviet Union, but broke that and tried to invade(terrible idea) went after MOscow Stalingrad and Leningrad didnt catch any of them came close but not close enough. Invaded France and took over in one month.
-D-Day largest amphibious invasion in history June 6th 1944 Allied countries stormed beaches of France and ultimetly at the lives of thousands took the beach heads of France.
throguh that we marched through many battles including Battle of Bulge hitlers last offense.
-Hitler evetually killed himself.
-VE day offical victory in Europe
-In the Pacifc Pearl Habor got us officially in the war and Japan at first was taking islands left and right phillipines indonesia area and many other. Battle of Midway turned the defensive battle to a offensive battle for the troops. Used island hopping skipping small islands and getting more important ones. major battles Guadcanal, Iwo JIma, Okinawa.
-Doolites raid the retaliation to Pearl Harbor had to figure out how to get Planes to take off of ships took many attempts
-VJ day offical victory of japan
-war crime trials took places to punish German and Japanese officers.
students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
We could produce better wepons and a higher mass scale, Hitlers faults bad moves, such as trying to take over Russia. THe royal Air force that held off Germany from taking over Great Britian. our homefront, women took over mens jobs. we rationed food for troops.
-Hitlers own war generals began to question him then he fired them and the spot was filled by inexpierienced people.
-In the pacific Atomic Bomb, island hopping, battle of midway.
-Also had ultra and magic, the breaking of codes and radar, Navajo code talkers a language that was never broken by Axis powers.
-Our military advisors were supreme to axis powers
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
well Mr. Bruns there is so much that in this blog i won't go to all lengths, causes Soviet Union being communist helping countries in need thus them becoming communism we(AMERICA) tried to stop the spread of communism. Things got real as the soviet union aquired nuclear weapons.
-CUban Missle crisis wa the closest we ever came to have all out nuclear warfare. Sovet union moved short and long range missles into Cuba we didnt want to attack in fear of retalition same for them. We set up a blockade and they responded and pulled out their missles whew what a close one eh?
-Berlin was divided in four parts mainly it was East vs West the Berlin wall was created to seperate the communist side from the anti-communist side.
-JFK was assassinated I'm not for sure if you want the presidential history included in the because i am sticking to a more world wide view.
-today only 5 countries are communist
-pay of pigs invasion- U.S. invasion of trained Cuban exiles attempt and fail of getting into Cuba. Fidel Castro was leader and was ally of Soviet Union.
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
was a conflict between communist North and anti-communist South Korea--north invaded the south
North Korea started out dominating but we pushed back and we recieved help from Japan. "forgotten war" Salt 1 limit to missles Salt 2 though never happened was a attempt to further dissemble arms in countries.
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
timeline- eisenhower sends military advisors, JFK send Green BERETs,LBJ sends more troops, as fighting breaks out more and more troops are sent making the war even more unpopular. 1968- more than half a million troops were killed- war protests started "draft dodgers" 1969 NIxon calls end to war, Nixon bombs Laos and Combodia to destroy Ho Chi Minh trail 1973 U.S. pulls out of vietnam "Peace with honor" 1975 all of vietnam beomes communist.
my Lai Massacre worst atrosity in the war.
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