1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
a. The great depression was caused by bank failures, unemployment, business bankruptsy, uneven distribution of wealth, ag surplus, low standard ofliving, less money, and stock market crash. Some effects of the greatdepression included unemployment, homelessness, shantytowns, banksclosed, soup kitchens opened, malnourished children and suicide.Children were forced to take on adult responsibilities, but coloredpeople suffered the most. The first new deal came out to try and fixthe depression. It was effective from 1933 to 34. It didn’t fix thedepression but it helped. It tried to restore the economy from the topdown, starting with the banks. In 1933 the National IndustrialRecovery Act set up the new deals plan of battling the depression. Itfocused on economy recovery. The second new deal was effective from1935 to 41. This plan was to fix the economy from the bottom up,focusing more on the common people. The three R’s were Relief, Reform,and Recovery.
b. Unemployed- About three million men received relief, rehabilitation, and training from the Civilian Conservation Corps. Aimed mostly at young men, theyprovided many jobs. They hired 4 million young men…To help the homelessthe second new deal brought the Federal Emergency Relief Act. It gavewelfare checks and gave 15 million people a place to work. It ended in1934 because it was too costly and controversial.
c. Farmers- The Farm Security Administration helped farmers affected by the dust bowl. It was set up in ’37. In ’44 it fell under control of theConservation Coalition, they made it into a program to help farmers buyland…The Rural Electrification Administration provided farms withinexpensive electricity…The Agriculture Adjustment Act helped farmersgain stability.
d. Factory workers- The National Recovery Act created a minimum wage and limited weekly working hours.
e. Business’- The FDIC is still a deposit corp. that guarantees one’s money in a bank.. It was also called the Glass-Steagal Act of ’33. It restoredconfidence in the banks and economy…The Emergency Bank Relief Act AKAthe bank holiday. It changed the way banks operated during emergenciessuch as a stock market crash…
f. Home Owners- The home owners loan act helped people avoid having their homes foreclosed on. It extended the loan and made smaller payments required.
g. Native Americans- Indian Reorganization Act allows Indian lands to belong to the entire tribe
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
a. Causes of WWII- Treaty of Versailles angered Germans, and dictators wanted to expand their empires.
Pearl Harbor- Two waves of Japanese air planes bombed our naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 1941. They attacked us because we stopped trading oil withthem when they invaded china for natural recourses, and with us out ofthe Pacific it would be rather easy for them to take over the pacific.This launched America into WWII
D-Day- June 6, 1944. Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France. It was the largest amphibious landing ever. There were many Americancasulties. The Nazi’s were dug into the beach making it a very hardbeach to take
Atomic Bombs-Two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. On on Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki. This delivered a major blow to the Japanese.
African/European Front- Tanks were heavily used in the aftrican from cause of their ability to easily work in the desert terrain. Operation Torch was a major victory for theallies…The battle of the Bulge was Hitlers last major offensive and amajor victory for the allies.
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
a. The atomic bomb was a major factor in the allies winning the war. We also had lots and lots of resources. Navajo code talkers had a codethat no other country could break and we had very good code breakingtechnology. Hitler also helped us out by turning on the Soviet Union.And Hitler would have had the first atomic bomb if he didn't hate Jews,because the scientists that made the bomb for us were jews that hadescaped from Europe.
a. Define the Cold War and it's Causes- The cold warwas more a strategic and political war between communist russia andnon-communist America.The main cause is that after WWII Germany wassplit into four parts. The US, UK, France, and USSR had control of onepart each. There was a lot of arguing over the splitting of Germanywhich led to the Cold War. Another cause is that Russia was mad that wedidn't tell them about our nuclear weapon program. so after the warthey made their own atomic bomb.
b.Policy ofContainment- This is basically what the US used to stop the spread ofcommunism. George Keenan created this policy. It built up foreignsecurity and prevented the domino effect. The domino effect was thecommunist theory that if they took over the most countries the wholeworld would become communist. The Truman Doctrine gave military aid togreece and turkey because we felt that communism was spreading there.NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. it wasbasically an organization devoted to stopping the spread of communism.
c. Berlin Crisis-The berlin blockade took place fromjune 28 1948 to may 12 1949. While Germany was split into four parts,Berlin was also split into four parts by the same four countries. ButBerlin was in the Russian part of Germany and Stalin decided toblockade berlin in order to take over the city. This left 2.5 peoplewithout any supplies. So in reaction to this America just simplyairlifted supplies over the wall and into Berlin. Russia couldn't doanything about it without starting a war with us, which is not whatthey wanted, so we made them look like fools. now berlin was split intotwo parts. east and west berlin. Life on the west side of the wallwhich was controlled by us was good for the people living there. but onthe east side controlled by russia, people didnt have much food andcouldnt own land. over two million people fled over to the west side.But the soviets shot anyone trying to escape. The last part of the wallwas finally taken down in 1990.
d. The Red Scareand McCarthyism- The Red Scadre took place between '47 and '57. It cameabout because people were afraid of communists turning america into acommunist country. so they imprisoned many inocent people who theythought could be communist. McCarthyism is know for the rediculoustrials. McCarthy would call any of his opponents or anyone who didn'tfollow him a communist and have them imprisoned.
e. Bay of pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis- The bay of pigs was anunsuccessful attempt for the CIA to train cuban exiles to invade cubaand over throw Fidel Castro. It lasted four days and 176 people werekilled. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever got toan all out nuclear war. The soviets placed missile sites on cubabecause cuba was so close to the US. This was a major threat the theUS. We considered attacking cuba with airstrikes followed by aninvasion but we werent positive that we could destroy all the missilesbefore they fired them. so we quarentined cuba. which is basically anice way of saying blockade. This stopped more weapons from reachingdcuba. The US and russia finally mad an agreement stating that the USwould publicly promise never to invade cuba and take out missiles outof turkey if the Soviets withdrew from cuba. This ended the CubanMissile crisis on Oct. 28. 1962
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict
a.The north wanted to join the south under onecommunist korea. but the south backed by the US didn't want to becommunist. None ever really won the war it was just kinda a back andforth war.
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
North Vietnam invaded the south because they wanted to unite vietnam into one communist country. Of course the US wanted in on any fight againstcommunism, so they helped the south fight the Vietcong. eventually theUS pulled out and the north over took the south becoming one country.
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