1. Understand the causes of the stock market crash and Great Depression
---Over production
---Prices of the stocks going up
---People buying stocks on margin, stock prices went up
---High tariff policies
---Banks closed
2. Understand the impact the stock market crash and Great Depression had on the country and world as well as on the lives of people in the United States
---Thousands of people lost their jobs
---Suicide attempts raised dramatically
---Teens left on trains in search of jobs because they felt they were a burden to their family
---Apples were sold on street corners
---Hoovervilles
3. Understand what the United States government did to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country
---There were New Deal programs made
---FDR: made jobs
---CCC: labor jobs for men
---FERA paid people to stay in school
---NYA - Helped unemployed people
---Hoovervilles
---Herbert Hoover was the president during this time
4. Understand the causes, effects and major events of WW2
--- Pearl Harbor - we quit trading with Japan so they bombed us to "keep us out of the war"
---Hitler
---Atomic Bombs
---Many lives were lost
---Cold War started after that
---Germany split into two parts (North and South)
---D-Day
---We didn't go back to isolationism
5. Understand how/why the Allies won WW2
---Broke the wind talker's code
---Strong allies
---More man power
---Atomic bombs
---Better technology
---Women helped at the home front
---Hitler's mistake of invading the Soviet Union
6. Understand the causes, effects, goals, and major events of the Cold War.
--Soviet Union detonated many atomic bombs
---The Berlin Blockade
---The Red Scare
---Stopping the spreading of communism
---To promote democracy
---US was the biggest world power after this
---The Berlin wall going up and also coming down
---The Cuban missile crisis
7.Understand the causes, effects, and major events of the Korean Conflict
---The North invaded the South
---It was a back and forth war
---North invaded, United Nations pushes back
---Cease fire is signed which ended the fighting
---Technically, we are still at war because there was no treaty signed
8.Understand the causes, effects, and major events of the Vietnam Conflict
---Gulf of Tonkin and the resolution also
---Escalation / De-escalation
---The Tet Offensive
---The military destroyed them
---People were outraged back in the US
---The Pentagon Papers
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---A lot of people avoided the draft
---Vietnamization
---Congress took war powers away from the president
---War powers act - it limited how long military was sent away (maximum was 60 days)
---Government was lying to us
---Troops came back as "baby killers" and not "heroes" like they wanted to be
9.Understand the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf Wars, 9-11 and the War on Terror
---War in Iraq went from 2003 - 2011
---9/11 and the War in Afghanistan
---The Letter to America
---Groups that are anti-muslim
---Sent troops to Saudi Arabia
---We were in their land
---9/11 led to the war in Afghanistan which is still going on today
---President hopes to be out by 2016
---WMD (Saddam Husain)
---Bush was the president during this time and focused on that specific war
---Surge (troops to end violence)
---President Obama pulled a lot of troops out
---He also sent military advisors to train Iraqi troops
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