Essentials for US History--Semester 2
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Stock Market Crash of 1929Many believe erroneously that the stock market crash that occurred on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929 is one and the same with the Great Depression. Iit was one of the major causes that led to the Great Depression. Two months after the original crash in October, stockholders had lost more than $40 billion dollars. Postwar Economic Policies:Vast economic costs of WW-1 weakened the economic situation and the postwar economic policies of government stimulated the businesses. Effects- Banks and financial institutions were in great trouble due to buy-now-pay-later policy. In 1929 when banks were not unable to recover their money, they increased the interest rate. Prices were also increased. Investors had withdrawn their money. There were no cash in banks. It reduced the money supply.
1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
-job loses, suicide, countries interdependent also went into depression, loss of life savings, stock market and banking regulations, expanded role of government, migration from dust bowl
-FDRs plan to get us out of the depression, alphabet soup organizations, many were work creation programs, helped a little but not enough, eventually failed, RRR
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
- nationalistic tension, unresolved issues, and resentments from WWI, great depression, Nazi rule
-Germany divided into 4, redrawing Europe borders,UKs welfare system, communist takeover of China and Eastern Europe, creation of Israel, division of Germany, Korea, and Vietnam
-Germany invade Poland, Midway, Stalingrad, D-Day, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Anti-Semetism, Holocaust
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
declaring war on US, womens work in factories, intelligence, homefront, draft, OPA, WPB, island hoppin, nuclear weapons
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
-goal was to stop the spread of communism, policy of containment
-fall of communism, soviet union fell apart, glasnost and parachuta, detente, reduction of nuclear weapons
-soviet invasion of Afghanistan, bay of pigs, Berlin wall, Cuban missile crisis
detente- easing of tension in the 70s, general term for the following; Salt I & II limited missiles START between US and Soviet limited warheads and missiles, START II between US and Russia
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
-Korea split into 2 after WWII, an election to be held so the country was going to unite, neither wanted to, communist north v anti communist south, north invaded south, UN wages war, pushes North back to the Chinese border, China invades to help N Korea because they thought we were going to invade them, US came to help south, drove south into a small area, UN troops pushed N Korea back, Japan and China helped, Eisenhower stopped the war, back and forth war, no one really won
- today we have troops along the DMZ, armistice treaty signed, not fighting but officially still at war, N Korea US enemy in disarray still communist embargo, S Korea doing good
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
My Lai massacre march 1968
US soldiers killed 504 Vietnames civillians
-never declared war on Vietnam, 1950-75, known as French indo-china, Nam wanted independence, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave Johnson power to do what he wanted militarily in Nam, started sending more and more troops over, 1968 when we had most troops there, Tet Offensive took place- Tet was a holiday, every city in the South was attacked by the North, we demolished them, My Lai Massacre, Nixon became president and pulled troops out, “Vietnamization”- trying to let Vietnam stand on their own, started out small, giving money to French to stop spread of communism there, they pull out we step in, military advisers, etc, escalation to troops, Vietnam becomes independent under communism
7. Students will understand why we are at war with iraq and why we are at war with afganistan.
-Afghanistan- 9/11, invade Afghanistan because that’s where Taliban trains them, still fighting, established democratic government there, Osama caught and killed
-Iraq- 2003 because we thought they had weapons of mass destruction, didn’t have any, Sadam caught and put to death by Iraqies, established democracy, pulling troops out slowly, like Vietnamization
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