7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Causes of the great Depression:
The stock market crash, several banks closed because they couldn't afford to keep their employees and lost everyone's money due to investing into the Stock Market; citizens then stopped buying items so that, in turn, caused many businesses to shut down. The drought of 1930; a high tariff was put into play this caused many countries to stop trading with each other because it was just too expensive.
Effects of the Great Depression:
Several people lost their jobs as a result of the much discussed vicious cycle. Companies would lay people off which would cause people to stop buying their goods, which again caused the economy to keep getting worse. Many people lost money due to the banks closing and were forced to live in Hoover-Villes and eat at soup kithcens and bread lines. Farmers were overproducing and were not able to sell all of theirs crop so the government paid them to burn their crops.
1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
The Great Depression was one of the worst and darkest times in US history; it caused many people to lose jobs, money, and faith in our government.
The New Deal under Roosevelt created Alphabet Soup Organizations that provided money and jobs for people all across the country. Some of the programs Roosevelt set up were: The USHA lent money to states for low cost construction for poor people. The CWA created many jobs for the unemployed.
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the biggest causes of WWII; Germany was blamed for the cause of WWI and Hitler felt that the government stabbed him in the back, making his country pay for all these war damages . He only liked Aryan people; US got involved to get revenge on Japan from Pearl Harbor and get out of depression; our biggest goal was to shut down Germany, take them down as quickly as possibe. League of Nations didnt help at all they had no military support to make a difference.
The effects were Pearl Harbor and millions dying outside of fighting because of Hitler and Nazis, Germany divided into four zones, US and Soviet Union main Super Powers because Great Britain and France were destroyed during battle they were easily conquered by Germany. United Nations was eventually formed.
Major Events: invasion of Poland began it. Pearl Harbor was the Japense bombing on Pearl Harbor in the US. It is what caused the US to get in to WWII. We declared war on Japan and Italy, and Germany declared war on us. Japan bombed us because we stopped trading oil them. This took place on December 7, 1941.
Operation Barbarosa: The German invasion of the USSR. They attacked Leninsgrad, Stalingrad, and St Petersburg. It was believed to be Hitlers worst decision during the war. The USSR won because of the Russain winter and they had more supplies. This was the largest land battle in history.
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
We had MAGIC and ULTRA. Island hopping in Japan. The Homefront was a big reason: women worked in factories and propaganda; and the US produced more goods faster than any other country which helped a lot.
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
The reason why the cold war came to be was the fear of communism and it spreading. There also was the Nuclear Arms Race; everyone wanted them just for security and self defense. The effects were many people losing their lives. Perestroika means openess and glasnost means reconstructing, this led communism falling in soviet union eastern europe. The fall of communism: some major events were the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin wall was built and destroyed. The USSR fell and eventually became Russia; they stayed as a world power and we became one!
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
This all started after WWII because they were separated; North Korea invaded south Korea to make all of Korea communist. North Korea was communist and the South was democratic. North invaded the south and we eventually got involved to help the south. North Korea and China pushed us back over the border, we again were able to push them back as well. North Korea eventually was able to obtain nuclear weapons that really hurt our relationship. South Korea really won that war because of their flourishing
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
North Vietnam and Vietcong were enemies together they lost about a million casualties. South Vietnam lost 225,000 casualties we lost 58,000 casualties. Ho Chi Minh he tries to get independence for Vietnam. Our goal was to stop communism to stop from spreading. Escalation: we escalated our involvement by giving the french some money.
Eisenhower sent military advisers into Vietnam they'd help South Vietnam make decisions to try and attackNorth Vietnam. In the early 1960s JFK sent Green Berets over (special forces) and more military advisers. In 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave Johnson the power to do what he wanted to do in Vietnam. Over the next few years all we needed was more troops to defeat Vietnam. Every major city in the south attacks us during the Vietnam war. The offensive seemed like a loss because the people back home were thinking the government was lying to them because they always kept saying we'd be out of the war quickly it just never happened.
My Lai Massacre these soldiers came back as villains; US soldiers killed 504 Vietnamese civilians. People got out of serving by going to Canada or Sweden, went to college(student deferment meant you got away from being drafted, pushed back). In 1969 Nixon calls to end the war. Nixon bombs Laos and Cambodia, wanted to destroy the Ho Chi Minh Trail it was a supply line to get supplies to the Vietnamese people. Went awful..the country was in chaos in the early 70s. 73' we pulled out of the Vietnam "peace with honor". All of Vietnam became communist..when we left, we could not stop the spread of communism
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf Wars as well as the War on Terror.
We went into the War on Terror because of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, government was the Taliban. We invaded them; the Taliban was thrown out, we set up democracy but we never finished it. Hoping to pull out by this summer. Went to war in Iraq because of Saddam Hussein. We thought Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction, which there weren't. Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. Saddam was put to death by Iraqi people. Obama has pulled all combat troops out of Iraq after this happened, and he knew that there were no mass destructive weapons.
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