semester test blog take two

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1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US

The Great Depression had serve effects on the U.S. The United States were. not the only ones that were effected by this depression though. Four other countries were experiencing the same thing. The Great Depression also did not just effect the big busnisses and banks but also the common people. To help try and end the Great depression FDR created the new Deal Programs.

The first new Deal started in 1933 and went to 1934. This New Deal try to start to rebuild the economy from the top down. Starting with banks and working towards the common people. It did not work out so well which is why a second New Deal was created.

The second New Deal started in 1935 and ended in l941. It started reforming the economy from the common people up. FDR said in order to get our economy bacK we would have to first relieve the people, then reform the busnisses, and then the recoverywould start to take place. He called this his three R'5. During the Second New Deal many acts were created to help curtain groups of people. The Agriculture Adjustment Act was passed to help out farmers. It made it so that the government would pay the farmers to reduce the amount of crops they planted so that their price would go up. Another group that they made specific acts for would be the unemployed One law that they made for the unemployed would be the CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps. This group would provide jobs for younger men mostly. the men would do jobs that would improve the community such as build parks und re construe roads. Factory works also were helped. The National Recovery Act helped them. this act created minimum wage and maximum work hours. Banks war helped by FDIC. this insured people's money so that if the bank ever closed down the people would not lose their money. this was so people would start to trust the banks again. Homeless people were helped bygroup housing homes. these were homes that were set up for homelessand unemployed to stay at instead of the streets. the last group wasthe elderly. the were helped by the Social Secruity Administration.this insured that they were U.S. citizens by providing them witha social security card.

2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
-Pearl Harbor

The c axis. Fie of Pearl Harbor was Japan thought that if they brought U.S. into the war it would end. The exact opposite happened by bringing us into the war. made it worst. their plan was created by Yamamoto which was a Japanese General that was educated in the United States. He planned for Japan to attack in 3 waves. He also recommended that Japan not go through with the attack. Japan attacked on December 7, 1941. This was a Sunday morning which was a good time to attack because the troops were on "break". they completed the first two waves and decided they had done enough damage so did not complete the thrice wave. That was probably their biggest mistake. Luckly some of our aircraft carriers were out to sea so we manage to save them. This attack lead to nuclear bombing.
-D-Day

this was also Known as Operation Overload. this was the invasion of France. They started the invasion in the north on Tuesday June le, 1944. There were to phases of the invasion it started with air assault. the then attacked from the water and entered the land. Germany had created bunkers and harried theirs elves in the sand which made it had for the U.S. to attack them. they also had high caliber weapons. We lost a lot of men in this invasion.
-Atomic bombing

this was mainly an effect of Pearl Harbor. the United States dropped two atomic bombs named little boy and Fat Man. these bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. these bombs wiped out bothe cities completely Killing many civilians.
-Africa/European Front

the African Front wars were mainly fought between the Vinchy FrenchGovernment and Germany against the Free French Underground and Great Britain. When we got involved woe attacked North Africa instead of invading France.
-Pacific Front
this was against Philipines and Japan. Since we were allies with the Philippines we got involved in this part of the war. After Japan invaded the Philipines we invaded them and took over Manila in less then 3 weeks.
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
I believe we won the war for two reasons. One was that Germany had become weak after invading the Soviet Union and fighting through a long winter that they were not prepared for. the second reason is the allied Powerhead the nuclear bomb. After they saw what it could do with the Fat Man and little boy in Japan people feared it. Hitler would have had this power because the scientist that invented it were Jews that had moved from Germany to the U. S.
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.

a. Define the Cold War and it's causes

this war was mainly fought between the United States and the Soviet Union. Its main cause was the struggle between Communism and Democracy.
b. Policy of Containment -domino effect, mutual deterrence, massive retaliation, Truman Doctine, Marshall Plan, NATO

Policy of Containment! policy saying we will stop the spread of communism.

Domino Effect: all the big countries become communist eventually leading to all the small countries becoming communist, leading to the whole world.

c. Both Berlin Crises

Berlin Blockade and Airlift.

Berlin Blockade happened on June 24, 1948 to may 24; 1989. This was the first international crisis in the Cold War. After the Yalta Conference. Berlin was split into four sections. Stalin however had all of Berlin in his section legually , So he shut down all the r o a d s in and out of the city. Berlin was where most of Germany got its food and other supplies. this caused them to start to starve. So the other countries made a plan to airlift some supplies into the area. they airlifted 1535 tons of food into Berlin in a day. this Airlift saved about 2.5 million lives.
d. The Red Scare--McCarthyism and HUAC

House Committee o n Un-American Activities (HUAC) was a group who that deported German Americans that were involved in the Nazi party and also the KKK but mostly the Nazis.

McCarthy was a man who was completely against communism. He made a list called the Blacklist. Everyone was scarred that America would become communist. Anyone who was put on the list life was ruined. No one wanted to support a communist. It came to the point where McCarthy would put anyone on the list who thought they could over throw him. this became known as the Red Scare.
e. Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis

the bay of pigs was when America would train exiles of Cuba and send them back to overthrow Fidel Castro the leader of Cuba. He was Communist but the invasion failed.
f. China

the leader of china was Mao. Mao was communist. He wanted le turn china communist to help to common people but ended up hurting them more by not giving them a voice. Zhen Fan was a mass Killing of counter Revolutionaries. they were people who were against communist. It was a lot like McCarthyism in the U.S.
g. Nuclear Arms Race and Reductions

The Nuclear Arms Race was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. They had a race between Nuclear weapons advancementthe Soviet Union first atomic bomb detonation was on August 29, 1949. After that the world became a "safer " place. Since the two main powers at the time had nuclear weapons. SDI was created by Ronald Reagan. It was a few plans that if a bomb was ever spotted heading towards the U.S. or any other country we could destroy it before it did any harm.
h. How the Cold War ended.
when Soviets invaded Afghanistan the was power went downhill. they could not handle the way Afghanistan fought somewhat like us today. After the war ended Communism fell. Mikhail Gorbachev took over. By the end of his term he had an approval rating of 2%.

5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
The causes of the Korean War is the split between communist north and Democratic South. It was a very tug-a war battle. whenever the South would get almost to China, china would start to push them back. After a few months of fighting the settled at the 38th parallel. Neither side ever won and they are still separated at the 38th separated.
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.