1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?
- Stock Market
- Stock did not have real value
- Lack of government regulation
- Overproduction of goods
- "Buying on margin"
- Uneven distribution of wealth
- Too much borrowing from banks
- Great Depression
- Under consumption of goods
- Agricultural slump
- Rich got rich and poor got poorer
- Stock market crash
- High Tariffs
2. What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States?
- Stock Market
- Businesses lost millions
- Banks failed
- workers were layed off
- Unemployment rises
- Great Depression
- Same as Stock market
3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?
- They started the New deal Program
- Hoover Dam created jobs
4. What long lasting impact did the Great Depression have on the US and world?
- Children
- rote to the president for help with clothing and money
- Many became Boxcar children
- Women
- felt like their household jobs were enhance
- Men
- felt like failures
- looking for jobs
- left their family most the time
- Families
- Divorce
- birth rate dropped
- Made some families stronger
- Farmers at their own animals
5. What were the causes of WWII?
- Germany Invades Poland in 1939
- Pearl Harbor is what got the U.S involved
6. What impact did the United States have on WWII?
- They made more supplies for the war than any other country
7. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?
- To stop the domino theory (stop the spread of communism)
8. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
-Berlin Blockade/airlift- Planes would drop supplies and food on one part of Berlin to help that side but they would ignore the other side.
- Cuban Missile Crisis- When the soviet union was making missiles and the US was nervous they were gonna shoot them at us. So we wouldn’t let any ships come over until they took the missiles out of Cuba and we would take ours out of Turkey 6 months later.
- Red Scare/McCarthyism- McCarthy was leader of the communist. And many jobs were lost because of him.
- Space Race- The challenger went up in the air and blew up. The soviets thought they were winning because of sputnik. And then they sent the first lady Tereshkova into space and we sent sally ride. And then Neil Armstrong and Buzz went to the moon for the US.
- Bay of Pigs- Fidel Castro drove his guerrilla army into Havana and overthrew Fulgencio Batist. The U.S tried to push Castro from power. So the CIA launched 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over. But they were outnumbered by Castro's troops and were forced to surrender
- Berlin Wall- Built to prevent the eastern Berlin people coming into the western area of Berlin. There was a gap in the wall where people would try to escape but would get shot to death if caught
- End of the Cold War- The Berlin wall came down . The shredding of the Iron Curtain. And Gorbachev came to power and introduced glasnost and perestroika.
Why we won: soviet economy was in shambles whereas the U.S’s was flourishing
9. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?
- We went in mostly to help stop the spread of communism and stop the Domino Theory from happening. Known as policy of containment
10. How did the Cold War come to an end?
- The Berlin wall finally came down and Gorbachev didn’t really care that it went down. Also communism came to an end
- Reagan and Gorbachev came together and were friends and Gorbachev was willing for change and reform
11. Know these major post-Cold War Events:
-JFK Assassination
- Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was riding in a car in a parade and was shot in the chest from the back and then he was shot in the head. The bullet that went through his chest hit the governor. Jack Ruby killed Oswald so Mrs. Kennedy didn’t see him on trial. Some say it wasn’t Oswald.
-Watergate
- When burglars were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign but wre caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steel secret documents. Nixon didn’t want FBI investigating the crime and destroying evidence and firing uncooperative staff members.
-Iran Hostage Crisis
- 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy taking more than 60 American hostages. The immediate cause of this action was President Jimmy carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed shah to come to the U.S. for cancer treatment. The students set their hostages free days after the crisis and just hours after president Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address.
-Persian Gulf War (1991)
- Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August. Alarmed by these action, fellow Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the U.S. and other Western nations to intervene. Hussein defied United nations demands to withdraw from Kuwait and the Persian gulf war began with a massive U.s. air offens known as Operation Desert Storm. After 42 days of relentless attacks by the allied coalition in the air and on the ground, George H.W. bush declared a cease-fire in February. By this time Iraqi forces in Kuwait had either surrendered or fled. This war was known as an unqualified success for the international coalition it led to a second gulf war known as the Iraq war.
-9-11
- Iraqi terrorist took over planes and flew them into the twin towers as well as the pentagon. It was all planned by Osama Bin Ladin who was later killed by U.S. forces.
-War in Afghanistan
- We went over there because of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. He announced the war on terror. Our main points were to defeat the Taliban and drive AL-Qaeda out of Afghanistan and capture their leaders. Obama hopes to remove the troops next year.
-War in Iraq
- We went to there because we thought they possessed weapons of mass destruction. Bush as sent us there to help with terrorist as well. He tried to increase the stability in Iraq and passed. Obama later removed all the troops from here.
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