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Posted by 3Kyle on May 8, 2015 at 9:54am

Kyle Hedglin

Semester Test Blog - Second Semester

1. Understand the causes of the stock market crash and Great Depression.

Great Depression

  1. Overproduction of goods
  2. under consumption of goods by consumers
  3. agricultural slump due to overproduction
  4. High protective tariff policies of the 1920's
  5. taxes benefiting the rich-rich got richer, poor got poorer
  6. Stock market crash

Great Depression Cycle

  1. Companies lose $$ so they lay people off
  2. Unemployment rate goes up and less people buy goods as income has dropped
  3. Companies profits fall so they have to lay more people off or close
  4. Cycle repeats itself

Stock Market Crash

  1. Overproduction of goods
  2. Uneven distribution of wealth
  3. Too much borrowing from banks
  4. Federal Reserve increased interest rates
  5. Lack of government regulation

2. Understand the impact the stock market crash and Great Depression had on the country and world as well as on the lives of people in the United States.

Stock Market Crash

  1. banks failed
  2. people lost millions
  3. hoovervilles were shanty towns that were built out of torn blankets and stuff for the homeless
  4. people losing their farms
  5. Many acts tried to save the unemployed by giving them jobs and money

Great Depression

  1. people were homeless
  2. people were poor
  3. high tariffs
  4. WW2
  5. burning crops
  6. suicide

3. Understand what the United States government did to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country.

Unemployed

  1.  

Banks

  1. FDIC - paid banks so they wouldn’t go under

Farmers

  1. AAA - paid farmers to not plant and kill livestock

 

4. Understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.

Pearl Harbor

Japan Invades China

Hitler coming to power

5. Understand how/why the Allies won WWII.

  1. Ulta and Magic
  2. More Resources
  3. Atomic Bombs
  4. Hitler’s mistakes
  5. Germany 2 front war

6. Understand the causes, effects, goals, and major events of the Cold War.

Berlin Wall

  1. Split Berlin from East to West
  2. West was Free
  3. East was Communist
  4. Wall was brought down when the Soviet Union gave up Berlin

Cuban Missile Crisis

  1. October, 1962
  2. Soviet Union had nukes in Cuba
  3. U.S. built blockade in ocean to stop other missiles
  4. Almost starts WW3
  5. Soviet Union takes missiles out of Cuba while U.S. took out missiles from Turkey

Second Red Scare

  1. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Trial - found guilty of spying and were executed
  2. Iron Curtain surrounding Eastern Europe 1945
  3. USSR detonating their atomic bomb 1949
  4. China becoming communist in 1949
  5. Korean War starting in 1950
  6. Stalin's action s in Germany-Berlin Blockade
  7. Chinese Civil War
  8. Government wanted names above all

End of the Cold War

  1. We had close ties with our Allies and USSR didn't
  2. China started siding with us after 1972
  3. The Soviet economy was in shambles whereas the US's was flourishing
  4. The strong anti-communist presidency of Reagan
  5. Gorbachev's willingness for change and reform

glasnost and perestroika

admitted soviet mistakes to k blames for the cold war

communist systems failed

  1. Arms Reduction Talks
  2. Soviet Mistakes

Invasion of Afghanistan

ignoring social concerns

spent everything on military

 

Impact did the Fall of the Soviet Union and Communism have on Europe and the World

  1. New countries broke out of the USSR

Estonia

Latvia

Ukraine

Georgia

Belarus

  1. East and West Germany reunified in 1990
  2. Rise of democracy and capitalism throughout Europe
  3. Wars and Ethnic Cleansing
  4. The world became more unified and more interdependent
  5. The rise of radical Islamic groups
  6. The US emerged as the singular major power in the world

7. Understand the causes, effects, and major events of the Korean Conflict.

  1. Korea was invaded and ruled by Japan from 1910 until 1945
  2. After WWII Korea was split up
  3. The UN held an election in 1948
  4. The Soviet Union refuse to allow participation in the election in their occupied zone
  5. Instead, they handed over power to the North Korean Communist Party under Kim IL-Sung
  6. Korea is a back and forth war
  7. Contain Communism

8. Understand the causes, effects, and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.

  1. Goal - Stop Communism
  2. North was communism
  3. Vietcong were the northern communism enemies in the south

Vocab

  1. Geneva Conference 1954 - set up elections to unify the country by July, 1956, such elections were never held because neither side wanted to lose
  2. Ho Chi Minh - helped with communism, fought and won against France, wants independance
  3. Escalation - starting very small and then work our way up,President Truman began U.S. involvement by sending money to help the French, President Eisenhower continued US support by sending military advisers to give temporary support to Diem's government to the South, President Kennedy continued sending advisors as well as special operation forces, President Johnson sent more and more combat forces
  4. Vietcong - northern Vietnamese enemies fighting in the south (communists)
  5. Gorilla Warfare - to fight and then retreat
  6. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - US ship was supposed to be attacked by north Vietnamese torpedoes
  7. President Lyndon Johnson - Told the people that we should not go to war, but behind closed doors he was preparing for war
  8. Tet Offensive - massive offensive against every city in the south, people back home felt betrayed by their government
  9. Pentagon Papers - top secret study on the war that showed the government was misleading the people from what was really happening during the war
  10. Operation Rolling Thunder - code name for the non-stop bombing raids in north Vietnam by US, was not successful
  11. Agent Orange - herbicide to kill the jungle
  12. Napalm - fiery, oily substance that burns
  13. My Lai Massacre - US soldiers killed 504 Vietnamese civilians
  14. Kent St. University Protest/Massacre - Students protesting and national guardsmen accidental firing
  15. President Richard Nixon - First to be impeached
  16. Vietnamization -
  17. Paris Peace Accords of 1973 - officially ended US involvement in the Vietnam conflict
  18. War Powers Act - Limits the power of the President of the US to wage war without the approval of the Congress

9. Understand the causes and effects of the, 9-11 and the War on Terror. Iraq and Afghanistan.

9 - 11

What happened

  1. - Planes were hijacked and were flown into the world trade centers, and both towers crashed due to structural damage, 2,606 were killed
  2. American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, part of the building collapsed, 189 people were killed
  3. United Airlines Flight 93 was expected to head toward the Capitol Building in Washington D.C., Passengers in that plane prevented that from happening, 44 people killed

Where

  1. New York City
  2. Arlington, Virginia - D.C.
  3. Shanksville, Pennsylvania

When

  1. September 11, 2001

Who

  1. Al-Qaeda

Background

  1. History of al-Qaeda

War in Iraq

  1. Saddam comes to power
  2. Saddam gasses his own people
  3. Saddam found and hung for his crimes by new government
  4. U.S. troops stayed to help train and fight

 

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