Essentials for US History--Semester 2
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
- Causes: stock market crash, deflation of goods, demands throughout the country, unemployment, failure of banks, not insuring loans, buying on account, Smoot-Hawley Tariff that raised tax on imported goods which limited trade with the rest of the world, economy was going downward.
- Effects: people lost self worth and committed suicide, the will to survive stayed with them the rest of their lives (saving money and not trusting banks), gave up dental and doctor visits or education, became closer with neighbors b/c they banded together
FDIC and SEC started. New Deal (Relief, Reform, and Recovery) Overproduction of products, Dust Bowl
1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
- Depression in cities: people were losing money, businesses/banks were failing. people losing trust in banks. stood in bread lines for food. hopped on trains to find jobs, "hoovervilles"- cardboard bowes with papers on top.
- Depression in rural ares: farmers could grow food for self unlike city. couldn't sell products easily, farms lost due to foreclosure.
- New Deal gave jobs to people and helped people financialy. Social Sec. Act(elderly), young people (nat'l youth admin)
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
-Causes: Treaty of Versailles, Germany blamed for WWI and Hitler did not like this. He only liked Aryan people, US got involved to get revenge on Japan from Pearl Harbor and get out of depression; & to stop Hitler and Germany. League of Nations couldn't help-no military support.
-Effects: Pearl Harbor, millions died outside of fighting b/c of Hitler and Nazis, Germany divided into four zones, US and Soviet Union main Super Powers b/c G.B and France destroyed. United Nations formed.
-Major Events: invasion of Poland began it, Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor bombed by Japan on Dec. 7, 1941. US declared war on Japan, Doolittles Raid on Tokyo. Battle of Midway; Turning Point, Germany invade USSR but defeated. D-Day- invasion of France (June 6, 1944). Battle of the Bulge (Germany/Belgain Border)Yalta Conference, spliting Germany into 4 zones, VE Day- March 8, 1945. Atomic bombs- Hiroshima and Nagasaki. VJ Day- August 14, 1945
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
help from the homefront (propaganda w/ Hollywood and women working), Hitler firing all his head people because they didn't agree with him, atomic bomb-D Day, intelligence gathering, Ultra and Magic. U-Boat detection, Island hopping
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
Causes: Red Scare (fear of being communist), nuclear arms race, didn't get along in WWII, democracy and communism don't mix, global supremacy (Soviets wanted to take over the world)(communism)
--America had a democracy and the Soviet Union was communist..Americans feared a communist attack..Both countries feared the other's government
-Democracy-freedom..people have the power
-Communism-government controls everything and there's no freedom
-We had NATO and they had Warsaw Pact w/ eastern countries
Truman vs. Stalin:
-were allies during the war
-argued about power
-broke ties at the end of the war
-D-day delay
-Refused to join the United Nations
3 Power disagreement
-Stalin wanted an agreement from Germany that they wouldn't attack
-US wanted to help build Germany back up after the war
-US and Germany wanted to stop Communist control...didn't want it to spread any further
Effects:
-Gorbachev worked with Reagan to take down nuclear missiles.
-Berlin Wall was being torn down
-Communist party was forced to resign after 73 years in the Soviet Union
-Soviet Union was officially dissolved
-US became superpower
Fall of Communism
-Workers were encouraged to speak out and also create their own business
-Congress of People's Deputies replaced the old parliament
-Reduced the amount of influence the Communist Party
-Gobachev tried to modernize the economy
-Iron Curtain grew extremely weak
-Perestroika and glasnost (openness and restructuring) led to communism collapsing in the USSR and Eastern Europe
- ended the Communist pwer in Russia by suspending and banning the Communist party and siezing their property
-Big symbol of the end of Communism
-Countries that broke free of Communism; Poland, Hungary, East Germany
-Cold War: politicial and idealogical struggle between the US and soviet union over idealogigy and political things
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
Korean Conclict- split Korea because they were suppose to have an election to unite the country and North wanted communism to spread to sout, north communist, south democratic. we got involved and fought North Korea for the border. they wanted to move into South Korea. we have troops along the border, North has nuclear weapons which concerns us.
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
After WWII it was split into 2 parts. 1950-1975. North was communist and South democratic. VietCong were the communists that we fought. Ho Chi Minh was our enemy. He tried to get france to give Vietnam its independence. It was the French into China. Escalation was how we got involve we started by giving money to france then we sent military advisers then we gave troops then we sent green berets and more advisors. Then the gulf of tonkin Congress gave president Johnson the power to do whatever he wanted in Vietnam. South Vietnam was our alli. Tet offensive Vietnam launches a offensive comes out of the jungle and attacks us. My Lai Massacre was US soldiers killed 504 Vietnamese cilivans. The dead cilivians included 50 age 3 or younger 69 between 4 and 7 and 26 in their 70s or 80s Women were raped and bodies were mutilated.Draft dodgers fleed to Canada. Others went to college got married joined the national guard or peace corps. Being rich claimed to be homosexual. Medically unit for service. Ho Chi Manh trail was the North Korea supply trail if we bomb it they wont have supplies. It didnt work. Vietnamization is where we pull out of the war and let the Vietnamese fight it.
1950 gave money to France- 1950s Eisenhower gave military advisors-1960 JFk green berets and more advisors- 1964 LBJ gulf of tonkin resolution sending combat troops-1966 more troops-1967 more troops-starts descalation- 1968 tet offensive, My Lai Massacre, War protest, drafts dodgers kent st. Massacre - 1969 Nixon president calls for end to war-1970-1972 Nixon bombs Laos and Cambodia destroyed Ho CHi Minh Trail- Viernamization-1973 US pulls out of Vietnam peace with honor-1975 all of vietnam becomes communist.
We wanted to end communism we escalation then deesclation why it was negative.
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf Wars as well as the War on Terror.
AlQida and Osama Bin Laden. We went to Afghanistan because of 9/11 and went to Iraq for the WMD. We pulled out all combat troops we only have advisors there. We put in a democratic government in Iraq.
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