Ms. Jansen



1920s, Great Depression & New DealBig Ideas: Causes, effects, lessons learned?1920s: Prohibition, womens’ roles, 19th Amendment, Chicago race riotsCauses and Warning Signs of the Stock Market Crash Effects of the Stock Market CrashEffects of the Great Depression: Hoovervilles, runs on the bank, unemploymentThe Dust Bowl – causes and effectsFDR and the Great Depression/New DealNew Deal: Jobs programs, banking programs, social security, etc. Examples and impact of Relief, Recovery & Reform during the New DealWas the New Deal a success or a failure?Public Works Administration/Civilian Conservation Corps/Tennessee Valley AuthorityWWIIBig Ideas: How did the U.S. increasingly support the war, how was it fought, what effects did WWII have on the U.S.?Isolationism, interventionism, appeasementPearl Harbor attack – when, why, significanceAmerica’s steps towards war Arsenal of DemocracyWar with Japan: island hopping, tactics, Iwo Jima, Battle of Midway, fire-bombing of Japan, HiroshimaJapanese internment90 division gamble & strategic bombing & tactics used in the European Theater of the warHolocaust (American knowledge of and reactions to)D-Day (and Calais) – What happened, strategy, significanceHome front (women, Philip Randolph, desegregation, etc.)Chronology of major events of the warAmerica after the war – why was our experience unique?Early Cold War & 1950sBig Ideas: What was the Cold War, when did it break out into ‘hot’ conflicts and when did it remain ‘cold?’The Cold War: definition, causes & significanceIron Curtain speech/ideaMain ideas: Containment Policy, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Domino Theory, UN & NATODivision of Germany & Berlin Airlift America in GuatemalaThe Red Scare & propaganda: McCarthyism, HUAC, McCarran Act, propagandaArms Race: Nuclear Weapons, Mutually Assured DestructionSpace Race: Sputnik, moon landing, effectsLife in America in the 1950s: Rock n’ roll, suburbs, role of womenKorean War: Who started it, phases, American involvement, proxy warCuban Missile CrisisCivil Rights Big Ideas: Civil Rights – What tactics and events brought about change, what were the effects, how did it change America?School desegregation: Brown vs. Board (what it did & basis of decision), separate but equal & Plessy v. Ferguson, School segregation pre-Brown, Kenneth Clark’s doll experiment, de jure vs. de facto segregation, Thurgood MarshallJim Crow laws & violence in SouthCivil Rights Organizations (SNCC, CORE, SCLC, NAACP)Important people – who, what happened to them & their impact (Emmett Till, Little Rock Nine, MLK, Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez)Important protests – what, when, where, why, impact (Sit-ins, Freedom Riders, Central High School integration, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Selma to Montgomery March)Letter from Birmingham Jail & MLK’s philosophyBacklashes (Shootings, violence against protesters, 16th St. Baptist Church bombing)March on Washington, John Lewis and MLK’s speeches Laws & their impact (1964 Civil Rights Bill & 1965 Voting Rights Act & 1968 Civil Rights Act)Split in the Civil Rights Movement – when, why, impactMalcolm X’s views Black Panthers In what ways was the Civil Rights Movement successful? In what ways was it not? Vietnam EraBig Ideas: Why did the U.S. get involved, how was the war different than previous wars, how did it affect America internally short-term and long-term?Vietnam War: Why did the U.S. get involved? (France, Division of Vietnam & Containment)Vietminh & Vietcong & Ho Chi Minh & Ngo Dinh Diem Gulf of Tonkin incident & Gulf of Tonkin resolution LBJ’s Great SocietyU.S. & Vietnamese tactics in the Vietnam WarActions of each President in Vietnam (Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon)The Draft, protests over Vietnam, Kent State, Silent MajorityMy Lai MassacreTet OffensiveVietnamization & Nixon’s actions in the Vietnam War & Pentagon PapersEnd of the Vietnam War & its effectsVietnam SyndromeWatergate: what happened, how it was discovered, its effects on the presidencyWomens’ Movement, Roe vs. Wade, social changesSee Reverse for key ideas & 1st semester5062220118745Dates:Know the general time period of each unit & the chronology of major events within the unitKnow the YEAR/S of these events:Stock Market Crash Great Depression Korean War Cuban Missile Crisis Brown v. BoardMarch on WashingtonMLK’s assassinationVietnam WarKnow the EXACT DATE of these events:Pearl Harbor D-Day 00Dates:Know the general time period of each unit & the chronology of major events within the unitKnow the YEAR/S of these events:Stock Market Crash Great Depression Korean War Cuban Missile Crisis Brown v. BoardMarch on WashingtonMLK’s assassinationVietnam WarKnow the EXACT DATE of these events:Pearl Harbor D-Day First Semester Big Ideas to ReviewFounding EraReasons for the American RevolutionConstitution Etc.Differences between the goals and effects of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of RightsBill of Rights (know them)Expansion & Civil WarManifest Destiny & its effectsCauses and effects of the Civil WarSlavery: dehumanization, deculturalization, Emancipation ProclamationReconstructionGoals & problems of ReconstructionThe Gilded AgeProblems and successes of industrialization & immigration during the Gilded AgeImperialism Justifications for and drawbacks of American imperialismOther Key IdeasGeography:States in the U.S. (be able to identify them on a map)Dates:See list at right-1435101569085Notes for the final:You may bring one 4x6 notecardNotes can be on both sides of the half sheetNotes must be entirely handwrittenYou may NOT use a full sheet of paper, even if only one side has writing (checking all of these detracts from the amount of time students have for the final).00Notes for the final:You may bring one 4x6 notecardNotes can be on both sides of the half sheetNotes must be entirely handwrittenYou may NOT use a full sheet of paper, even if only one side has writing (checking all of these detracts from the amount of time students have for the final). ................
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