7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
WWII, B. Poor, no money, economy sucks, almost died, suicide rate increased, Soup kitchens and breadlines
1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
Great Depression:Low on resources, not enough food, unemployment rate very high, many people had no jobs, banks failed because no one trusted them, times were not good
New Deal 1: focused on helping business, Banks, Factories, Farmers
New Deal 2: Alphabet soup organizations, focused on helping people individually i.e. Young people, elderly, native americans
WWII ended the Great Depression, im sure you've read this in many a blog but, Relief,Recovery, Reform
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
Causes: Ridiculous harshness of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler hated... basically everyone especially Jews, Invasion of Poland, League of Nations was worthless and wouldn't do anything more than a slap on the wrist
Allies-US, Soviets, France, and Great Britain.
Axis-Germany, Japan, and Italy
Major Events-
- D-Day: Largest amphibious invasion in history, stormed French shores June 6th 1944.
Two Phases- 1.Airborne assualt 2. An amphibious landing of Allied Infantry started at 6:30
There were decoy operations to distract the German forces
Largest amphibious invasion in world history with over 160,000
Roughly 10,000 Allied casualties (6,600 US)
- Battle of the Bulge; Hitlers last stand
- Hitler commited suicide
- VE Day-Victory in Europe Day
- VJ day offical victory of japan
- Holocaust-L
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII. - Women took over men's jobs, Homefront produced more "stuff" as stated multiple times by our own Mr. Sir Brunswick, Island hopping, obviously the atomic bomb,
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
Part 1 Define the Cold War/Causes;
- Causes/How it started--Democracy vs Communism Global Supremecy
- What was Cold War: Political Struggle, No deaths, no gunfire, Soviets vs US
Part 2 Major Incidents;
- Cuban Missle Crisis
- Detente
- Berlin Wall
- Salt 1
- Salt 2
- Bay of Pigs
Part 3 How did cold war end?
- Detente,
- Reagan,
- ended in late 80's,
- Countries who became non communist
- Poland
- Hungary
- East Germany
- Bulgaria
- Czechoslovakia
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
Korea and stuff: Korean Conflict
- Ho Chi Minh
- 1950 gave money to France
- Military Advisors-Help South Vietnamese fight off communist
- 1961 JFK becomes president; Sends Green Berets and more advisors to France
- 1985 Gulf of Tonkin allowed whatever it takes to stop communism; our ships attacked by North Vietnamese ships
- Sent more troops every year
- 1968 Vietnam War
- Escalation= Got more and more involved as years went on
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
- To stop communism!!!
- There were a lots or war protests. Had signs that said “Make love not war" *chuckle*
- My Lai Massacre was when America slaughtered hundreds of elders and children.
- The draft, you were drafted by when your birthday was.
- There was a number of intelligent men who avoided the draft by: Claiming to be homosexual, goin to college, getting married, joining the National Guard, being medically unfit to fight, at times injuring themselves to all to avoid the draft.
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf Wars as well as the War on Terror - TheWhat?
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