Semester Test
1. Understand the causes of the stock market crash and Great Depression.
Over production
Companies making way too much products
People stopped buying
Overvalued stock
Buying on Margin
Get now buy later
High tariff
Stock market crash
People lost money, jobs
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.
Many jobs were lost
Suicide
People lost everything and thought that they had nothing else to lose
Share times
Companies had to cut employees times in half for more workers
Wages cut
Companies didn't have enough money to pay for all the workers so they cut their salary
Unemployment rate went up
Many businesses closed down so many jobs were lost
Stealing
Families didn't have enough money or resources to provide for themselves
3. Understand what the United States government did to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country.
New Deal program
Herbert Hoover
how did the New deal help people (2 or 3 specifically)
Banking Holliday
FDIC
4. Understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
US became a world superpower
Eastern Europe became communist
Major Events:
Blitzkrieg
Pearl Harbour attack
US stopped trading oil with japan
Atomic bombs
Split up of Germany
East and West
US did not go back to isolationism
Homefront
Women started working
Propaganda for the war
Victory gardens
War bonds
People donate money for the war, they get it back after the war
D-Day
US allies attacked the beaches of Normandy
Atomic Bombs dropping
5. Understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
America produced so much war goods
Women started working and took over jobs from men
US had strong Allies, we had more allies than Germany
Atomic bombs
Good strategies: Island hopping, first take over the weaker parts of Germany
Ultra and Magic; German and Japanese code
Hitler's mistakes
He wanted to take over Russia, by taking over the 3 major cities
Wasn't prepared for the cold
6. Understand the causes, effects, goals, and major events of the Cold War.
Causes:
End of WW2
Berlin Blockade
Stalin blocks trade from US to west Germany
Communism and Democracy
Effect:
USSR fell apart
Small countries were created
Economy
US was major world power
Peace throughout US
War was over
Didn’t have to worry
Goals:
Stop the spread of communism
Events:
Berlin Blockade airlift
Red Scare
US was scared of becoming communism
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba had missiles
US wanted them gone, because of first range
Both agreed not to attack
We removed our missiles from Turkey within 6 month, then they removed theirs
7. Understand the causes, effects, and major events of the Korean Conflict.
Causes:
North invaded the south
Korea was split in two
Effects:
Back and forth war
North invades south
South invades back
China helps North
Ceasefire is signed
Country is still split
Many lives lost
US have still a lot of groups there
Major Events:
Election
it was meant to unify the country
Stalin didn’t allow the election and gave power to somebody
South elected an nationalist
North Korea invaded
first did a good job
we helped South korea with a D-Day like invasion
United Nations Police Action
United Nations Security Council voted to send troops to help south Korea
A treaty between North and South Korea was never signed
8. Understand the causes, effects, and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
Cause:
Containment
Major Events:
Gulf of Tonkin
An American ship was attacked by north Vietnamese torpedoes
Congress giving permission to president to wage war
Tet offensive
Huge offense on US
Vietcong attacked cities
Pentagon Papers
Showed US people that the government was lying about Vietnam War
Vietnamization
Escalation and Deescalation
Effects:
War powers act
Limited how long president could send troops overseas
Watergate
troops came back as baby killers not as heros
9. Understand the causes and effects of the War in Iraq (2003-2011), War in Afghanistan, 9/11, (Persian Gulf Wars)
9/11
Letter to America
Always supporting the anti muslim group
War in Afghanistan:
Started because 9/11
Obama wanted to focused on Afghanistan
hope to be out there by 2016
Went to Iraq because US though they had Nuclear weapons
Bush was more involved
Military advisors
Advised the Iraqi military how to fight ISIS
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