- 1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?- this one
- To much borrowing from banks
- Uneven distribution of wealth
- Overproduction of goods
- Lack of government regulation
- Buying on margin
- 2. What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States?
- Investors lost millions of dollars
- Banks failed
- People were laid off
- People couldn’t afford them homes cause they didn’t have the money
- 3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?
- New Deal programs started
- CCC-create jobs, guys would go to camps to work, women weren’t allowed
- NYA- helped young people 18-25, paid high school and college kids, to stay in school, women were allowed
- WPA- largest new deal, created jobs, construction jobs, roads, bridges, buildings, involved people into arts.
- Second new deal
- Social Security
- Helped disable people
- 4. What long lasting impact did the Great Depression have on the US and world?
- It caused our country to be stronger and made law so that another Depression would start.
- A lot of the New Deals are still being used today.
- Banks became stronger
- Social Security and Welfare
- They change things so this wouldn’t happen again.
- 5. What were the causes of WWII?
- Treaty of Versidy, Germany didn’t agree with it
- Germany invaded Poland which started the war,
- Japan attacked us at Pearl Harbor which got us in involved
- 6. What impact did the United States have on WWII?
- We made many supplies to fund the war
- Supplies win war
- We had a good military
- Homeland helped a lot, women started working in factories
- Nuclear weapons which caused Japan to end the war
7. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?
- US- To stop communism, promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression, promote democracy.
- Soviet Union- have defensible borders, spread communism, it was split, north invaded south. We pushed north to china, they pushed us to 30 parallel line, where the fighting took place, we still have troop there today
- Who can out think and do the other guy
8. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
-Berlin Blockade/airlift- where Germany blocked in Berlin so we couldn’t get to it so they couldn’t get out. So we made an airlift which was like getting supplies in by an airplane.
Cuban Missile Crisis-was 13 days long between the soviet and cuba vs the US, Soviet Union was putting these nuclear weapons to cause a stop in future invasion. We agreed to take our nuclear weapons out of turkey and not invade Cuba if they would take theres out of Cuba.
Red Scare/McCarthyism- Joseph McCarthy a Senator from Wisconsin, he gave a speech with a list of 205 comminist in the state department, which made him the most powerful person in the US. We feared the communism was going to spread in the US, and if so the person would be fired.
Space Race- we were in a race to see if us or Soviet Union could get to space first.
Bay of Pigs- is when we sent trained Cuban to help overthrow their government , but we failed to over throw their government
Berlin Wall- Soviet built the wall so Communism could not walk over to the free side
End of the Cold War- we won because we were close to our allies, China started siding with us,
Soviet economy was shambles, and Soviet lost because they invaded Afghanistan, ignored social concern, and spent all their money on military
9. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?
- Korean War- Because we didn’t want them to become communist, when we heard that the north invaded the south we went there to aid for help, It is still spilt into a pro-American and communist party
- Vietnam – United States Armed Forces and South vs North, we sent people to give military advice, then we started sending more and more then sent combact forces, troops were not seen as heroes or praised in this war, we constanly bombed North Vietnam , we supported a bad government in the south. Cause Kent St. Massacre , we “veitnamization” in the war where we gradually pulled out troops slowly and let them run their own countries, Peace did not last, it is all Communist now
10. How did the Cold War come to an end?
- Many meetings between Reagan and Gorbachev, INF treaty, treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground launched missiles.
- Gorbeachev admitted Communism wasn’t working
- Soviet invaded Afghanistan
11. Know these major post-Cold War Events:
-JFK Assassination- he was going to a lunch meeting in Dallas, when he was going through a parade and was shot twice in the back and in the neck, Lee Harvey Oswald killed him from the sixth floor of his work, when leaving a cop questioned him and he shot the police man also.
-Watergate- Nixon bugged the phone system so he could hear what the Democratic party was saying, they did it successfully, but one broke so they went into fix it and the spies we caught.
-Iran Hostage Crisis- 52 of American were held hostage in Iran for 444, and we agreed if we traded Shah for them they would give us our soldiers back
-Persian Gulf War(1991)- Iraq invaded Kuwait, because of land and oil problems, we sent troops to Saudi Arabia in January and if Sadam Hesuism wasn’t out by then we would attack, he attacked and bombed Iraq and really ruined the country. Afterwards we have a no fly zone where we would fly planes over places Saddum didn’t like.
-9-11- 4 planes we hijacked by Al Qaeda; 2 went into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and 1 into a field in penilsvya and we went to war with them then in Afghanistan.
-War in Afghanistan- we went to war, the Tally Bond was running the country and we took them down quickly, we thought bid laden was in this country, after we got tally bond we helped build up a need government and country
-War in Iraq- was in 2003, because we thought Saddam had nuclear weapons there, we found him in a hole and he was put on trial, we had hanged, Al Qadea moved to Afghanistan.
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