Essentials for US History--Semester 2
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
Goal of the Cold War was to stop communism and contain it.
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
The forgotten war it was between WWII and the Vietnam war. 1950-1953. Korea was split into 2 parts north and south north communist and south democratic. Back and forth war. North invaded the south the US got involved. The United nations invades and we push them to the border of china. Truman didnt want us to invade china. they invaded we pushed them back we push them they push us back it was a back and forth war. Eisenhower stopped the war. North and South Korea are still at war. Korea has nuclear weapons. they are on the acts of evil list. They send weapons to countries that we dont like. North Korea is in bad shape and South Korea is in good shape. We have troops there today and the north has nuclear weapons that scares us. The north invaded to unite the country under communism.
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
After WWII it was split into 2 parts. 1950-1975. North was communist and South democratic. VietCong were the communists that we fought. Ho Chi Minh was our enemy. He tried to get france to give Vietnam its independence. It was the French into China. Escalation was how we got involve we started by giving money to france then we sent military advisers then we gave troops then we sent green berets and more advisors. Then the gulf of tonkin Congress gave president Johnson the power to do whatever he wanted in Vietnam. South Vietnam was our alli. Tet offensive Vietnam launches a offensive comes out of the jungle and attacks us. My Lai Massacre was US soldiers killed 504 Vietnamese cilivans. The dead cilivians included 50 age 3 or younger 69 between 4 and 7 and 26 in their 70s or 80s Women were raped and bodies were mutilated.Draft dodgers fleed to Canada. Others went to college got married joined the national guard or peace corps. Being rich claimed to be homosexual. Medically unit for service. Ho Chi Manh trail was the North Korea supply trail if we bomb it they wont have supplies. It didnt work. Vietnamization is where we pull out of the war and let the Vietnamese fight it.
1950 gave money to France- 1950s Eisenhower gave military advisors-1960 JFk green berets and more advisors- 1964 LBJ gulf of tonkin resolution sending combat troops-1966 more troops-1967 more troops-starts descalation- 1968 tet offensive, My Lai Massacre, War protest, drafts dodgers kent st. Massacre - 1969 Nixon president calls for end to war-1970-1972 Nixon bombs Laos and Cambodia destroyed Ho CHi Minh Trail- Viernamization-1973 US pulls out of Vietnam peace with honor-1975 all of vietnam becomes communist.
We wanted to end communism we escalation then deesclation why it was negative.
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf Wars as well as the War on Terror.
AlQida and Osama Bin Laden. We went to Afghanistan because of 911 and went to Iraq for the WMD. We pulled out all combat troops we only have advisors there. We put in a democratic government in Iraq.
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