Semester Test Blog

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The Impact the New Deal and Great Depression had on us.

The Great Depression had a big effect on us. We had to shut down smaller businesses to keep the bigger ones going. It did not just effect banks and businesses but people too. FDR created the New Deal to try to relieve us from the Great Depression.

The New Deal started in 1933 to 1934. It was strated so we could rebuild the economy. It didnt work out so well so there was a second New Deal started. The Second New Deal was opposite from the first because in the second we started with the common people rather than the banks and businesses.There were many acts that were made to help the common people. The Agriculture Adjustment Act was passed to help farmers. It was made so that the government would pay the farmers to reduce the amount of crops they planted so their price would go up. Another act that was made would be the unemployed One law that they made for the unemployed would be the CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps. This group would provide jobs for younger men. the men would do jobs that would improve the community such as build parks and reconstruct roads. Factory workers also were helped. The National Recovery Act helped them. This act created minimum wage and maximum work hours. Banks war helped by FDIC. This insured people's money so that if the bank ever closed down the people would not lose their money. This was so people would start to trust the banks again. Homeless people were helped bygroup housing homes. these were homes that were set up for homelessand unemployed to stay at instead of the streets. the last group was the elderly. the were helped by the Social Secruity Administration.this insured that they were U.S. citizens by providing them with a social security card.

Causes, effects and major events of WWII.

Pear Harbor- Japan thought by bringing us into the war it would end. But that was wrong. Japan attacked us on December 7,1941. They attacked in three waves. We did not expect this and thought it was just the airforce practicing. We then bombed two of their cities.

D-day-

this was also Known as Operation Overload, it was the invasion of France. They started the invasion in the north in June, 1944. There were to phases of the invasion it started with air assault. the then attacked from the water and entered the land. Germany had created bunkers in the sand which made it had for the U.S. to attack them. they also had high caliber weapons. We lost a lot of men in this invasion.
-Atomic bombing

this was mainly an effect of Pearl Harbor. the United States dropped two atomic bombs named little boy and Fat Man. these bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. these bombs wiped out both cities completely Killing many civilians. People were dying from the radidation many days after the bomb.
-Africa/European Front

the African Front wars were mainly fought between the Vinchy French Government and Germany against the Free French Underground and Great Britain. When we got involved won attacked North Africa instead of invading France.
-Pacific Front
this was against Philipines and Japan. Since we were allies with the Philippines we got involved in this part of the war. After Japan invaded the Philipines we invaded them and took over Manila in less then 3 weeks.
3. why the Allies won WWII.
Germany had become weak after invading the Soviet Union and fighting through a long winter that they were not prepared. The allied Powerhead the nuclear bomb. After they saw what it could do with the Fat Man and little boy in Japan people feared it. Hitler would have had this power because the scientist that invented it were Jews that had moved from Germany to the U. S.
4. Causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.

Define the Cold War and it's causes

this war was mainly fought between the United States and the Soviet Union. Its main cause was the struggle between Communism and Democracy.
Policy of Containment -domino effect, mutual deterrence, massive retaliation, Truman Doctine, Marshall Plan, NATO

Policy of Containment was a policy saying we will stop the spread of communism.

Domino Effect: all the big countries become communist eventually leading to all the small countries becoming communist, leading to the whole world.

Both Berlin Crises

Berlin Blockade and Airlift.

Berlin Blockade happened on June 24, 1948 to May 24, 1989. This was the first international crisis in the Cold War. After the Yalta Conference. Berlin was split into four sections. Stalin however had all of Berlin in his section legually, So he shut down all the roads in and out of the city. Berlin was where most of Germany got its food and other supplies, so they started to starve. So the other countries made a plan to airlift some supplies into the area. they airlifted 1535 tons of food into Berlin in a day. This Airlift saved about 2.5 million lives.
The Red Scare--McCarthyism and HUAC

House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was a group who that deported German Americans that were involved in the Nazi party and also the KKK but mostly the Nazis.

McCarthy was a man who was completely against communism. He made a list called the Blacklist. Everyone was scarred that America would become communist. Anyone who was put on the list life was ruined. No one wanted to support a communist. It came to the point where McCarthy would put anyone on the list who thought they could over throw him. this became known as the Red Scare.

Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis

the bay of pigs was when America would train exiles of Cuba and send them back to overthrow Fidel Castro the leader of Cuba. He was Communist but the invasion failed.
China

China turned communist was Mao became leader. He tired to make everyone like eachother a create equalality, but it didnt turn out and everyone went against eachother. There were many revolts and protests. China is still communist today.

The Nuclear Arms Race was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. They had a race between Nuclear weapons and who could have more. Soviet Union first atomic bomb detonation was on August 29, 1949. After that the world became a "safer " place. Since the two main powers at the time had nuclear weapons. SDI was created by Ronald Reagan. It was a few plans that if a bomb was ever spotted heading towards the U.S. or any other country we could destroy it before it did any harm.

How the Cold War ended.
when Soviets invaded Afghanistan the was power went downhill. they could not handle the way Afghanistan fought somewhat like us today. After the war ended Communism fell. Mikhail Gorbachev took over.

5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
The causes of the Korean War is the split between communist north and pro united states south. Whenever the South would get almost to China, china would start to push them back. After a few months of fighting the settled at the 38th parallel. Neither side ever won and they are still separated at the 38th separated.
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.