The great depression took away many jobs from citizens, and wages were terrible. Many people were upset and the suicide rate went up, the US dollar basically meant nothing to people, because it wasnt backed up by any gold. Only the super rich prospered during this period of time.
The new deal was a try by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to get jobs back in the hands of US citizens.
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
-Pearl Harbor- Was the bombing of the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii carried on by the Japanese Army it was to cripple the US naval forces, 2 waves were carried about the Japanese.
-D-Day- Was the landing on Normandy France, it was against the Germans
-Atomic bombing The atomic bomb landed in Nagasaki Japan and Hiroshima Japan, many Japanese citizens were massacred in the attack.
-Africa/European Front- There was major conflict going on in Africa with German colonies still exsisting in Africa and allied forces trying to take them out, the Euro front was just the same, trying to get German's out of invaded lands.
-Pacific Front- Fought against the Japanese in the phillipines and abroad, lots of dog fighting and naval battles.
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.- The Axis powers were crippled from the strain of everyone coming down on them.
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
a. Define the Cold War and it's causes- was the none violent war between the Soviet Union and the United States, lots of consipracy theories arised from this, just a mess of things.
b. Policy of Containment -domino effect, mutual deterrence, massive retaliation, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO- we kept spyplane pictures of cuba.
c. Both Berlin Crises One side was commuinst and the other was democratic.
d. The Red Scare--McCarthyism and HUAC was an investigative commite of the United States house of representives
e. Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis Fidel Castro led a rebellion and eventually got control of Cuba, bay of pigs was the scare of nuclear arms from Russia coming to Cuba, bay of pigs was a military invasion carried out by CIA trained cubans.
f. China-
g. Nuclear Arms Race and Reductions US is superior in Nuclear arms
h. How the Cold War ended. With the Berlin Wall coming down Ran out of money
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
Koreans are communist in the norrth and we hate communism
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
Vietnam in the north were communist and we hate communism
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