1. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Causes
- Stock market crash on October 29th-many people tried to sell their stocks and may stocks weren't worth anything.
- The Smoot Hawtley tariff - it was made to help us gain more money but we lost it instead because nobody wanted to pay the high tax. It made us loose goods we traded and harmed us a lot more than helped us.
- Less purchases - many people couldn't afford goods so they all together just stopped buying them
- Bank failures - It was hard for people to bank at this time. People were trying to rush to take their money out of the banks and the banks didn't have it.
Effects
- Farmers - farmers didn't have enough money to farm so they moved to the cities. They became poor because they didn't have their crops to live off of.
- Wifes and mothers - They stepped up in the family if their husbands lost their jobs. Women learned how to preserve foods and sew clothes.
- City living - there were many bread lines and soup kitchens becuase people were too poor to have food. People would jump on freight trains to go from city to city to find jobs. This wasn't always a sucess though and sometimes people were never found.
- Children - many children would have jobs at a very young age and they didn't go to school because their parents couldn't afford to educate them. Some kids were hop trains to look for better places to live and they were injured a lot of the time. I think the depression was hardest on them.
2. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
Great Depression Impact - hurt us pretty bad. It ruined our economy and killed off quite a few people.
New Deal Impact - This really heped us and FDR got a lot of credit for this. It brought up our economy by creating so many different jobs for almost everybody. It made people happier and definitley gave them better living than they were having.
Hoover's Bad Reputation - everyone blamed him for the bad events. He tried to do things to help the economy but it wasn't enough. It was basically too little too late.
1st New Deal - helped out more with businesses, railroads, and the economy
2nd New Deal - focused more on the people than anything else
Alphabet Soup Orginizations - created to help out the economy and everyone
3. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan
Allie Powers: Great Britian, Soviet Union, France, U.S
Treaty of Versailles - this really effected everyone. Not everyone agreed with the conditions which made it a major cause of the war. Germany lost land and islands, Rhineland had to take full responsibility for the war. Hitler wanted to undue this.
Hitler Came to Power - he got rid of the Weimer government pronto and turned into a dictator. He wanted to get rid of Jews and everyone else he didn't like. He pretty much pushed us towards war. Hitler kept trying and trying to see how much we would give him because he knew we didn't want to go to war. He really took advantage of that.
Operation Barbarossa - we pused Germany back. Hitler was trying to get to Moscow when he Invaded the Soviet Union.
Nuremburg Laws - this took away citizenships from German Jews. Jews could only marry other Jewish people and were considered a Jew if they had decents.
Munich Conference - Hitler wanted Sudetenland. We let him have it because we were afraid war might start if we didn't give him what he wanted and he promised he wouldn't take anymore land.
D-Day - The allied forces attacked France because it was now controlled by Nazi's.
Doolittle's Raid - didn't acchieve any military goals, it just boosted our confidence.
Yalta Conference - decided that Germany would be split into 4 sections.
4. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
Homefront - people were rationing supplies to give to the war efforts. Women started to sew and became nurses. People back home were making goods and supplies.
Hollywood - distributing propaganda and entertaining soldiers
Navajo Codetalker/ULTRA/MAJIC - we had a big advantage as far as secret codes went. None of the enemies new our code that we made by the Navajo people. We also new both their codes and were able to use them to tell us where to go and where not to.
Ships - we had bigger and better ships and more were produced.
5. Causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
Cold War- was created to dominate international affairs for decades and many major crisis's occurred. Involved US and Russia. It didn't have any actual fighting because both sides were afriad to fight.
Perestroika and Glastnost (reconstructing and openess)- a political movement having to do with the Communist party of the Soviets; policy to have openess, transparency and publicity in government activities
INF Treaty - Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces. This was a treaty that was meant to reduce nuclear bombs. It was signed by Reagan and Gorbachev in Washington D.C.
Why U.S won - Soviet Invasion on Afghanistan harmed them because it took all their resources and they fell because of this. Detente brought peace between the U.S and Soviets. Perestroika and Glasnost gave everyone more freedom when Gorbachev changed his policies.
Bay of Pigs - Unsuccessful attack that we had on Cuba.
N.A.T.O - North Atlantic Trade Agreement. They had a goal to get rid of communism and have more democracy.
Berlin Blockade - The Soviets attempted to put a blockade on Berlin but it failed
Marshall Plan - planned to make European countries stronger and have us help with their government and not let it get taken over by communists. Decided in George Marshall's speech.
Policy of Containment - We tried to stop the spread of communism in other countries by using economic and military strategies.
Cuban Missile Crisis- Soviets had missiles on the island of Cuba. This was the closest world had been to a nuclear war. In the end we both withdrew our weapons.
6. The causes, effects, and major events of the Korean Conflict.
- there was supposed to be an election to unify the country but it didn't happen
- North was communist
- South was democratic
- At first, North Korea overwhelmed South and U.S. and drove them close to a small city called Pusan in South Korea
- North Invaded the south - wanted them to be communist
- We sent troops in along with China to help the South
- we pushed the borders of north and south Korea around a lot
- we're afraid of them right now because North Korea now has nuclear weapons
- Japanese helped us in this conflict and we repaid them by giving them resources
7. Causes, effects, and major events of the Vietnam Conflict
- French, U.S., North and South Vietnam were involved
- France wouldn't give Vietnam the independence they wanted
- Ho Chi Minh - our allie. He asked for the independence.
- Tet Offense- Vietnam launched a big attack and lost and U.S. found out our government was lying
- We made sure that Vietnam wouldn't turn to communism because we didn't want other countries follwing (Domino effect)
- We pulled out of this conflict after Nixon bombed Cambodia and Laos
- When Ford was president and the communist part of Vietnam attacked we staid out of it and didn't help the non-communist part of Vietnam
- Vietnam is now communist because of this
8. Persian Gulf Wars and Wars on Terror
- 9-11 caused this and we went there (Afghanistan) because of it
- We're still in this war but we're slowly pulling out of it
- We thought Sadam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and we went to Iraq because of this
- Osama Bin Laden was killed
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