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Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US. The great depression was a huge economic down ward slope. It happed because companies overproduced good that people did not needbecause they all ready had them. After people stopped buying the products theystarted buying stocks n companies and they were buying on credit. People started pouring money their money intothe stock market to get rid of their massive loans that they had but then thestock market crashed and people lost almost or all of their money. Most peoplelost their money because their banks closed because no one could pay back theirloans. The new deal was Roosevelt’s planto get the country out of the depression in many ways. The most important thing that got the US outof the depression was WW2.
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
-Pearl Harbor- Japan
attacked the US
naval base on December 7 1941
to keep the US
out of WW2 but it launched the US
into the war
-D-Day- the day the allied power launched a surprise attack on Germany and pushed the Germans back into Germany.
-Atomic bombing- caused the surrender of Japan.
The US
dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities.
-Africa/European Front- the war on Germany started after Russia and Germany invade Poland and singed the non aggression pact that promised Russia Germany would not invade them, but they did.
-Pacific Front- the US focused more on Japan because the attacked US, the
USA used the strategy of island hopping to concur Japan.
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII. Germany was fighting atwo sided war because the invade Russia for Lebensraum (living space in Russia andthe US could produce supplies faster than Germany.
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 a political “war” because the UShad different ideologies then the communist Russians. It caused the US to stop trading with Russiabecause they were communist.
b. Policy of Containment -domino effect, mutual deterrence, massive
retaliation, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and NATO: they were trying to stopthe spread of communism.
c. Both Berlin Crises
d. The Red Scare the red scare was the way the people were feeling because of communism
McCarthyism was what McCarthy was doing to try to get rid of communists in theUS and HUAC: thought that the USSR was using the US movie industry to usepropaganda.
Fidel Castro: the communist leader of Cuba
Bay of Pigs: was the US attempt to take Castro out of power by using CIA trained anti-Castro Cubans to kill him.
Missile Crisis: was when the USSR brought nuclear missiles into Cuba because the US had missiles in Turkey. The US was mainly concerned that it gave the Russians first strikecapability so they could attack the US first if needed.
f. China: in 1966 Mao Zee Dang became they leader of china and made itCommunist he was trying to help the farmers get more money because they werepoor.
g. Nuclear Arms Race and Reductions the nuclear arms race was the buildup ofnuclear weapons in the US and the USSR. It was
h. How the Cold War ended. The cold war ended because the USSR was going bankruptedbecause they had spent most of their money building up their military in theearlier part of the “war” and while fighting Afghanistan
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the
Korean Conflict. Started 1950 country split after ww2 south favored us
north was commi. North invaded 1950
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the
Vietnam Conflict. 1950-1975 French colony north Vietnamese leader ho chi
minh was at the Paris peace conference wanted Vietnamese independence
didn’t get it went to Russia he learned communist ways. Declares war on France
1954. Dinh Diem catholic southern
leader of South Vietnam
elect (hated the Buddhists). Who fought? USA
and the South Vietnam
against North Vietnam
and the Vietcong. 1964 the US
sent troops over to fight. Every year it escalated our forces. Johnson was
thought that he wanted war. His heart said we should not go over but his
mind remembered the domino effect. Gulf
of Tonkin conflict.
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