1.The impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
-Uneven distribution of wealth
-Over production of goods
-Buying on margin; caused debt
-High tariffs
-Stock Market Crash
* Great Depression: Was a time when there were little jobs and the highest unemployment rate. Lots of banks failed. There was little money and an over production of food, no one was buying because of this. This caused factories to shut down and people then lost their jobs creating a cycle. People moved to the cities looking for work.
*New Deal: FDR’s project. Relief, Reform, and Recovery.
Was a plan to get the country out of the depression. There were 2 New deals.
The 1stNew Deal; aimed at fixing the economy
The 2nd New Deal; aimed towards helping the common people
2.The causes, effects and major events of WWII.
-Pearl Harbor; Attacked on December 7, 1941 by Japanese. Came in two waves. They attacked by planes. The first wave attacked ships. The second attack took out any anything else. Supposed to be a third wave but didn’t. They attacked us because we wouldn’t trade with them.
-D-Day; On June 6, 1944. We invaded the Germans at Normandy and Omaha beach. Largest invasion ever and practiced for it. Not many U.S. casualties.
-Atomic bombing; US made atomic bombs. We used them to make the Japanese surrendered. We attacked there bigger cities and later they did.
-Africa/European Front; Many battles went on in Africa. There was a battle in North Africa and it was really important for the allied powers because it was the only battle where we could take the axis. All battles were fought in North Africa . We just kept pushing the axis powers out to the sea.
-Pacific Front; Philippines campaign from 1941 to 42. Japan invaded the Philippines. The US were allies with them so we helped The Battle of Coral Sea was a big event. The two bombings were as well. Battle of Midway and Iwo Jima. The Japanese people would run their planes purposely into American boats in order to destroy everything.
3.How/why the Allies won WWII.
Atomic bombs, breaking the technique of code talking, and when Hitler turns against the Soviet Union.
4.The causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
a. The Cold War and its causes; A struggle between the US and the Soviet Union. The SU started communism and Germany is split into 4.
b. Policy of Containment; Contained Communism
domino effect; When one country would become communist and then other countries would follow like a “domino effect”
mutual deterrence; If the Soviet Union launched their missles at us we would shoot right back.
Truman Doctrine; Another strategy to contain Communism
Marshall Plan; A plan to rebuild the economic foundation of Western Europe and make it stronger.
NATO; Organization the was designed to protect Western Europe.
c. Both Berlin Crises; the Berlin Blockade was in June 24, 1948 to May 24, 1989.First international crisis of the cold war. Yalta Conference splits Germany into 4 parts.
d. The Red Scare--McCarthyism and HUAC;
the HUAC House Committee on Un- American Activities. Martin Dies son becomes the chairman. HUAC aimed at German Americans involved in Nazi and KKK, more focus was on the Nazis. McCarthyism is accusing people of being communist in the American government.
e. Fidel Castro; Started creating underground organizations. Was an orthodox. Anti American. He wanted to overthrow Batista. Used Guerilla warfare and attacked them because he saw them as copying Americans. Later on he became Cuba’s leader.
-Bay of Pigs;An attempt to kill Fidel Castro but it failed. They had brought in Cuban refugees to do the job.
-Missile Crisis; Russia denies they have missiles in Cuba. US took pictures of Cuba and found out that Russia was lying and we threatened them.
f. China; Mao Zedong was a communist and Nixon visited China to help better the US’s relations with them.
g. Nuclear Arms Race and Reductions; The race between the US and the Soviets to create weapons. Soviets made their atomic bomb 1st. Then the US had ours.
h. How the Cold War ended; When the Soviet’s invaded Afghanistan. Communism ended. They started fixing their economy and letting the people have a little bit more freedom.
5.The causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
The North invades the South in 1950. North wants communism and South democratic. United Nations gets involved pushing the North to China. China gets frightened and pushes us back. Some nuclear weapons were used.
6.The causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
Like the Korean war the north invaded the south. The conflict was once again over communism. The north wanted this. The US fought against communism again and helped out the south. The US dropped out and the north took control. So it became one country.
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