Essentials for US History--Semester 2
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Causes:
- over production in the factories and stuff when nobody could afford to buy it!
- Laissez afair policies- transactions can be done with out taxes or tarrifs...fraud..
- way!! too high stock market!
- decline in foreighn trade
- Dust bowl
- banks failed..the new deal..the country started working on agg. more because of the dust bowl..people had no homes and their farms were all messed up and their animals were dead.
- people didnt trust the government or the banks with their money. FDIC was made to ensure the peoples money and bring them back to buisness and get the peoples trust back.
1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
New Deal:
- the reduction of national debt..government had more control over the stock market..FDR turned to deficit spending..
- we still have new deal projects today..FDIC and regulation of the stock market.
Great Depression:
- the epople lost too much trust on the government..they turned to stealing and fraud because it was the only way to get by. women turned to prostitution..health care wasnt very important
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
- one reason it happened was because germany attacks polland and they fall to nazi power and economically are ruined!
- hitlers act of aggression..failure of the league of nations..treaty of versalles..
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
- Hitler took his army for something stronger than what it really was. he tried to invade Russia and Europe..but didn't succeed because the tables turned and we ended up being stronger than him..the atomic bomb ended the ww2
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
- us and the soviets already had issues before ww2 but things got intense when Truman announced the Truman Doctrine and the Marchall Plan (us saying that we would give military and economical support to any country threatened by communism..) sooo we weren't very good allies with the soviets but ..you know, we dealt with each other..when the war was over and Europe started getting reconstructed the soviets wanted to take it to be communist..us and Britain wanted a democratic rule!..basically they fought but didn't physically fight..that's why it was called the "cold war" because all it was, was a huge tension.but it was EXTREMELY close to becoming a war..
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
- it was a conflict between north Korea and South Korea..the south was supporting the united nations and the north was supporting the soviet union, with support from the Peoples republic of China.
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
- north vietnam supported the communist and south vietnam supported the non communist groups..the south veitnam saw it as containment..the north saw it as colonial war that we (the United States) backed up and was originally fought with France..
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf Wars as well as the War on Terror.
- sadahm Hussein invaided Kuwait eventually iraq had completely eliminated presence..iraq thought that Kuwait was making more oil than was supposed to so they wanted all the controll ..also Iraq was 80 billion dollars in debt to Kewait and they thought that the debt should be forgiven..iraq made a SCUD missile..we built the defence launch system..
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