1. Understand the causes of the stock market crash and Great Depression.
Overproduction
Inflation
Buying on margin
High Tariffs
Stock Market Crash
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.
Stealing
Great poverty
Big economic downfall
3. Understand what the United States government did to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country.
New Deal Programs (examples)
Young people- CCC (young people worked to support family), PWA (construction projects)
Farmers- AAA (paid farmers to plant less and destroyed crops), REA (started providing electricity for farms)
Homeowners- FHA (insured loans for building/buying homes), HOLC (refinanced homes to be cheaper payments that took longer to pay off)
4. Understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
Pearl Harbor attack
Germany invaded Europe
Japan invaded China
Atomic bombs
Homefront
D-day
Pearl Harbor
Atomic bomb dropping
5. Understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
Strong allies
Homefront
Germany was spread too thin
Hitler's mistakes
6. Understand the causes, effects, goals, and major events of the Cold War.
End of WWII
Nuclear weapons test by Soviet Union
Berlin blockade
Different political views
Nuclear Arms race
$$$ spent
Soviet Union fell apart
United States became the major world power
US containment, promote democracy
STOP SPREAD OF COMMUNISM
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Wall going up/coming down
Bay of Pigs
7. Understand the causes, effects, and major events of the Korean Conflict.
Communism threatening to take over
Back and fourth war
Chinese helping Koreans
Korean War still not officially over
Korea still not unified
North Korea still a problem
8. Understand the causes, effects, and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
Gulf of Tonkin
Escalation
Tet offensive
Pentagon Papers
People avoiding draft
Deescalation
Vietnamization
War powers act
Lost trust in government
Vietnam became communist after we left
9. Understand the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf Wars, 9-11 and the War on Terror.
War in Iraq(03-11)
9/11
War in Afghanistan
Letter to America- Osama Bin Laden
Sent troops to Saudi Arabia
Went to war in afghanistan because of 9/11
Obama- Afghanistan
Bush- War in Iraq
Bush's surge
Obama pulled troops out
Obama sent Military advisers back to fight ISIS
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