7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Causes: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was a major one that made many people and banks lose money.
People got unemployed, banks closed, and many people bought on margin.
The Vicious Cycle: People stopped buying things- business made/sold less- people got fired- people buy even less.
Smooth Hawley Tariff- Raised taxes on imported goods, but caused less countries to trade with us, and they raised their prices.
Dust-bowl. Overproduction of crops- farmers planted more to try to make more money.
Effects: People lost trust in the banks, many farmers moved to the cities but ended up living in poor suburbans anyways, children jumped on trains to get jobs else where.
1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
The Great Depression made people lose trust in the Government and Banks.
The First New Deal helped primarily more with businesses and economy. (groups)
The Second New Deal then was determined to focus more on helping the individual people.
FDR gets credit for the new deals. They helped many people by giving them jobs, building schools, and helping people get homes. They also gave people better social security, and helped the over production problem by paying farmers to destroy crops and animals.
2. Students will understand the causes effects and major events of WWII.
After the fist world war, the Treaty of Versailles affected a lot of counties, but Germany was the most upset with it. It made Germany take blame for the war, pay countries for it, lower their military number, and give away land and islands.
Hitler came to power in Germany and got rid of the Weimer Republic. He kept pushing to take over other countries, and we took it because we didn't want to go into another war. Until Hitler invaded Poland. He was attempting to get his land back plus more by reuniting all the Germans.
D-Day- We invaded France to try to push back at the Germans and return France to itself.
Operation Barbarossa- Soviets push back at the Germans trying to take over their major cities. The cold winter helped them win.
VE day was in March 1945 and VJ day was in August.
Pearl Harbor caused us to be launched into the war.
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
The Homefront contributed a lot by making goods, supplies, women talking over jobs, and supplying a lot of propaganda.
Ultra/Magic- a code we used Navajo code talkers for so that they enemy didn't know what we were saying, and we knew what they were.
Island Hoping- Skipping the littler islands to take over the bigger ones and get closer to Japan.
Atomic Bomb- Used on Japan to get them to surrender. It destroyed two of their major cities, and they had to surrender before we did it to another city. Nobody else had weapons like these.
Yalta Conference- Split Germany into Four zones.
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
- The great depression was the Soviets (communism) vs. The United States (democrats).
- U.S. wanted free trade while Soviets wanted to keep to themselves.
- Power- we tried to gain allies and they tried to take control of areas.
- Set up missiles near each other tried to see who could dominate the world with their gov't system.
- Germany; Soviet had the East and we had the west along with france and great britian. We didn't agree how to control it and became a struggle. The splitting of Berlin.
- Policy of Containment- worked to stop the Domino affect and set in place the:
- Truman Doctrine- We said we'd help any country struggling with Communism. Soviets didn't like it, it was aimed at them.
- Marshall Plan- U.S. rebuilding European countries. Countries tended to go to communism when they were in need.
- Stalin only like to negotiate with 'an iron fist' using the military.
- Cuban Missile Crisis- They both had nuclear bombs. Scared each other because they could annihilate the other within minutes. Put us on edge until we came up with an agreement.
- China Becomes Communist.
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization- When countries joined it, if they got attacked we'd help them.
- Soviets invade Afghanistan- Muslims there didn't want to convert because the Soviets didn't have religion. Soldiers from the Soviets kept joining the Muslims so the Soviets had to keep sending more troops in. The Muslims were very defensive and wouldn't give up, the states stopped the send of Wheat to Russia. The Soviets pulled out although they didn't want to lose.
- Perestroika- Term used by the Soviet Union leader in the 80's to try to get away from all the Communist power.It was the end of the Cold War and the revolution.
- Glasnost- means openess. Wanting to open their country to new policies other than the communist. Thought it would help stop the corruption of the communist party.
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
After WW2 there was ment to be an election to decide what would happen, but neither side would vote because they thought they would lose, and the North invaded to unite the Country over Communism.
After WW2 Korea was split into two parts. North was communists South was Democratic. China and Soviets were helping North and we helped the South Side.
China invades Korea, but we eventually push them all the way back up into their country, and it makes them think we're goint to invade them. So they push us back again, and we then push them just past the border of North Korea to avoid a conflict. All within a year.
North Korea and South Korea are still kind of in a war against eachother still today. We agreed to stop fighting though. Yet we still have troops their to keep the North from invading the South because we believe they will at some point.
South Korea is flourishing and North Korea is in major drought and people lack everything the Gov't is to overcome with helping themselves. It's a back and forth war. The North has nuclear weapons which concerns us a lot.
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
After ww2 Vietnam was also split into two different parts North and South. South Vietnam is who we were allied with. ALthought the North lost a lot more men than the south, they still won.
It started with Ho Chi Minh going to France to try to get Vietnam their independince. He then goes to the Soviet Union and learns how to be communist and start a revolution. He then goes to China and helps the Communist take over there. He then comes back to Vietnam and allies with the U.S. to try to fight of Japanese taking them over.
Hi Chi Minh expected to have independence then, but didn't get it and an almost war breaks out between France and Vietnam. We then started to help France keep their control of Veitnam to stop the communism.
Escalation was we escelated our way up to helping people stop communism.
We sent people over to South Vietnam after the French lost to Vietnam because the United Nations split the country into two and didnt' give them independince. We at first advised the South how to save them selves then escalated by sending more people over to help 'better people'. We started by sending money, send military advisors, then special forces.
In 1964 a major change took place in a gulf near Vietnam. People thought a U.S. ship was attacked, and we waged war in Vietnam. Congress gave the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to allow the president to declare war but we didn't declare war officially.
After 1964 we started to send in Combat troops to actually fight. In 66,67, and 68 we continued to send in more troops thingking it would help and stop it.
In 68 we had over 536,000 trooops there and had a Tet offensive which was a lunar new year and all major cities in the South were attacked. People started questioning that the war was really going to end soon because they said it would... But it was a huge victory for the U.S. because they actually came out of the jungle and gave us a chance to attack. Still made people back home have a negative reaction.
My Lai Massacre U.S. soldiers killed 504 civilians women were raped and bodies mutilated ages 3 and younger and other ages.. It made people at home seeing at as being really negative, nobody wanted to join the war.
People wanted Johnson to end the war. People were having giant protests to try to end it, some killed in the protests. To get out of being drafted they would flee or do other things.
Richard Nixon then becomes the next president and we start de-escelation and pulls troops out. Yet he also extends the war to different areas and it becomes even more extremely unpopular.
In 1973 we pull out of Vietnam with the pledge that we will come back if the South needs help. In 1975 the North invades the South and all of Vietnam becomes Communist.
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf Wars as well as the War on Terror.
On 9/11 the taliban and alquieda attacked our twin towers and we started going to Afghanistan to attack back. We killed Osama but it's still going on. We found out al-quieda was stationed in Afghan. We take them down and form a democracy.
We went to Iraq because we believed they had nuclear weapons and went in to stop them, but never found the weapons. The war on Iraq is really winding down since we killed Saddam Hussein he was put to death.
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