1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
Great Depression- the Great Depression all started with the stock market crash. This devastating time lasted from 1929 to the late 30’s early 40’s. It all began because of the 20’s. Everyone was buying multiple stuff and taking out loans but weren’t able to pay back and finally the bottom just dropped out. Farmers had already been having a rough time from the surplus from the First World War. This depression affected mostly everyone from the rich to the poor. FDR devised a new plan titled the New Deal which helped out the businesses along with the people. It was basically a big stimulus package.
New Deal- first new deal went from 1933 to 1934. This first deal didn’t erase the depression completely but helped ease the people’s wallets. The first deal was aimed more to unite corporations with the government. It was developed to re boost our economy that was in shambles. It went from top down starting with banks.
The second new deal was from 1935 to 1941. It went from bottom up. It wanted to help the less fortunate people get a job which then they would buy more stuff and get the circle started again. It went off the three R’s Relief, Reform, and Recovery. Relief was to the unemployed and badly hurt farmer, reform on the business and financial practices, and recovery of the economy during the great depression.
Civilian conservation corps (ccc) which provided. This provided jobs for about 3 million men. These jobs included building parks, fighting forest fires, and planting trees.
Civil Works administration provided jobs to 4 million people for construction.
Farm Security Administration was made to give less fortunate farmers a break that was caused from the dust bowl.
Emergency Bank Relief Act helped banks.
Social Security Administration was passed and helped our elders. Helped housewives keep an income but susceptible to a lot of controversy.
IRA helped Indians try and get back on their feet an out of slums but didn’t quite work because they were so far off.
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
-Pearl Harbor- attacked December 7 1941. Japanese filled the attack. This all started because we stopped trading certain items with japan such as steel, scrap iron, and aviation fuel or oil. We put the embargo on japan because of their takeover of northern French Indochina. Japan gave fair warnings that there would be an attack but we figured they would have attacked the philipeans. We had used radar to detect them coming in but we mistaked their planes for our b-17’s that were coming in. eighteen of our ships were sunk or very badly damaged. This was sometimes considered the back door to war. We wanted them to attack us so it gave us an excuss to get into the war in Europe.
-D-Day- June 6, 1944- initiated the western allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from the nazi control. It was known to be the largest invasion to the date. 175,000 troops landed on the island.
-Atomic bombing- to main bombings performed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. First bomb was named little boy that was dropped on Hiroshima. And fat manwas dropped on Nagasaki. Within 4 months 166,000 people were killed from the bomb or radiation. People’s shadows were actually plastered on the ground. That’s how hot the flame was that came off the bomb.
-Africa/European Front- many battles were fought between the axis and allied powers during WWII in Africa. It all started with the Italian Declaration of War. The wars were mainly desert warfare. Allied powers prevailed in the War. Main General for US was George S. Patton and the main leader for Germany was Erwin Rommel.
European front- the main deal was to capture the German and Italian forces in Italy. It relieved pressure from the Soviets. Started with the invasion of Sicily and then moved inland to Italy. The Apennine Mountains made it hard for the allies to proceed to Rome. German forces surrendered may 2 1945.
-Pacific Front- this began in 1941 and ended in 1942. Japanese were in the Philippines until 1945. Then we finally started taking over cities. We started with taking over Malia. The Battle of Coral Sea took place during the Pacific Front. We also bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese pilots would perform kamakazi attacks which were suicide crashes into boats and ships. Two major battles were battle of midway and iwo jima. Japan couldn’t crack our code but we could crack their codes. We used the Navajo code which no one could break.
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII- allies won solely because we had more resources and more man power. We also won because of our un breakable code. Like always we have been a dominant force that are very hard to stop. Also Germany made the mistake of starting a double sided battle between the soviets and allied powers.
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War-
a. Define the Cold War and it's causes- it was between east and west Germany. Communism vs. democracy. Communism was a government where the government had total control. Democracy was where people voted for leaders and everyone had a free lifestyle to make their own choices.
b. Policy of Containment -domino effect, mutual deterrence, massive retaliation, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO
c. Both Berlin Crises
d. The Red Scare--McCarthyism and HUAC
e. Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis
f. China
g. Nuclear Arms Race and Reductions
h. How the Cold War ended.
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict..
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
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