Final Review

US Final Review

WWII

            Nye Committee

            Isolationism v. internationalism

            Lend-lease

            Neutrality Acts (reasons for each)

            Hemispheric defense zone

            Pearl Harbor

            Island hopping

            Cost plus

            War Production Board

            Selective Service

            Propaganda (gardens, bonds, coupons)

            Internment camps

            Bracero Programs

Battles (significance)

                        Coral Sea

                        Midway

                        Stalingrad

                        Bulge

                        D-day

            Decision to drop the bomb (Arguments for and Against)

Cold War

            Long Telegram

            Containment

            Truman Doctrine

            Marshall Plan

            Berlin airlift

            Korean War (limited war)

            Red Scare (causes- Alger Hiss, Igor)

            HUAC

            McCarthyism

            Sputnik

            Duck and Cover

            Cuban Missile Crisis

            La Brigada (Bay of Pigs)

            Berlin Wall

            Space Race

            New Look (Eisenhower)

            Flexible Response

            Domino Theory

           

50s/60s Society

            GI Bill

            Taft-Hartley Act

            Federal Highway Act

            Baby Boom

            Levittown

            Jonas Salk

            Generation Gap

            Beat Movement

            New Consumerism

            Urban decline / Urban renewal

            Multinational corporation

            Medicaid / Medicare

            HUD

            New Frontier

Great Society

Head Start

Peace Corps

Court Case

                        Gideon v Wainwright

                        Brown v. Board

                        Reynolds v. Sims (shifted power to urban areas)

            Warren Commission

Civil Rights

            Plessy v. Ferguson

            Brown case

            SCLC

            Rosa Parks

            MLK Jr.

            Malcolm Little (X)

            Jim Crow

            Sit-ins (Greensboro)

            Bus Boycott (Montgomery)

            Marches (Birmingham and Selma)

            Little Rock 9

            SNCC  

            CORE

            Civil Rights Act 1964 / Voting Rights Act 1965

            Kerner Commission

            

Vietnam Protest Album

Vietnam Protest Song Album

Create an album (5 + songs) of Vietnam era protest songs.  Include the following in your final product:

1.     The Artist and year

2.     A copy of the lyrics

3.     Analysis of at least 2 paragraphs from each song. 

a.  The analysis must include a definition of relevant vocab terms / events

discussed in class / text.  How does the music help convey the artists' message. 

4.     Come up with a name for your album

5.     Group member names and period #

LBJ Sandwich

Read pages 726-727
Decide which one of Johnson's programs was the "meat" of the Great Society.
Yes, this is your opinion but you must support your decision using facts.  Support your choice through comparison to other programs in scope and cost or lasting impact.

The Warren Commission "The Real Report"

Select a group of detectives that will assist in hunting down JFK's true assassin. Your assignment is to come up with a suspect list (5-10 individuals or groups) with motive to off Kennedy. If you name someone you must provide enough evidence to establish motive and means. The group with the best (most creative and logical) conspiracy theory wins!

Check out following websites to get started:

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/4/jfk.htm

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

LBJ Biography

Read page 724 ("Johnson's Leadership Style" and "A War on Poverty") Create a list of 10 adjectives to describe Johnson. (Remember boys and girls that an adjective is a word that describes something such as...sarcastic or condescending).

Next, write a brief 1 paragraph bio, using as many of the adjectives you came up with as you can, to explain why Johnson was so concerned about poverty. (what was his upbringing and previous job?)

Story Board - Warren Court

Examine the chart on page 709. Choose one case from the Civil Rights section and on from Due Process. Research the facts of the case and create a story board (comic strip) explaining the facts, rule of law, and impact the decision has had on society.

Kennedy and the Cold War

Read pages 717 and 718 of the text. Next choose to answer two (2) of the following:

1. Write an OpEd piece for a newspaper about the Bay of Pigs invasion, but do it from the perspective a member of La Brigada.

2. Create a political cartoon on the creation of the Berlin Wall

3. Write a story (satire, children's) on the Cuban Missile Crisis from the perspective of an A-Bomb

Due Friday at the beginning of class

Kennedy and Johnson

Indicate whether each of the following occurred during Kennedy's or Johnson's administration.

Then describe each event or programs significance.

1. Peace Corps

2. Reynolds v. Sims

3. Medicare / medicaid

4. Alliance for Progress (pg. 716)

5. War on Poverty

6. Miranda v. Arizona

7. Project Head Start

8. Cuban Missile Crisis

9. Department of Housing and Urban Development

10. Baker v. Carr

Due Tuesday 4/17

1950s Poster

Define the following:

GI Bill (Servicemans readjustment Act)

Federal Highway Act

Levittown

Franchise

Consumer Society

White Collar Jobs

Urban Decline

Once you've defined them...begin connecting them together (i.e. the GI Bill is connected to Levittown - low interest loans available for housing led to a massive housing boom)

On a 2'x2' poster board, paste a picture and 5-6 sentence explanation of the items above. Finally, using arrows and brief sentence explain how the items are related. (i.e. As people traveled more on the interstate system, they increasingly sought out familiar franchises such as motel 6 or McDonald's)

Discussion ?s days 2 & 3

Day 2 Discussion questions Chp.4 pgs 28-32

1. In what ways was Jakarta like what John imagined? In what ways was it different?

2. How did Charlie plan to save the Indonesians from Communism? What tactic was Charlie using to

convince John he was doing the right thing by forecasting high?

3. What is the “corporatocracy”? How does Robert McNamara illustrate this concept?

4. In what way is Perkins critical of capitalism?

Day 3 Questions Chp 5 pgs 33-39

1. Why do you think Charlie moved the team to the Wisma?

2. Perkins describes Howard as “grandfatherly” but bitter. He also describes him as one of his wisest teachers. Which characteristic of Charlie do you think made Perkins so furious?

3. Perkins describes an interesting canal scene while Howard is explaining their roles at MAIN. In what ways are the characters in the canal similar to Howard and Perkins?

4. How do Howards’ forecasts compare with those Perkins is expected to make?

5. How does Perkins convince himself he can please his bosses at MAIN while not “selling his soul” at the same time?

Chp 13 study Guide

TEST Friday 3/23

1. Cold War

2. Iron Curtain

3. Potsdam

4. Marshall Plan

5. NATO

6. Containment

7. Truman Doctrine

8. Airlift

9. Loyalty Review Program

10. Rosenbergs

11. McCarthyism

12. Long Telegram

13. Sputnik

14. CIA

15. Massive Retaliation

16 Eisenhower's "New Look"

Events in:

17. Korea

18. China

19. Iran

20. Turkey and Greece

21. U2 Spy plane incident

22. Red Scare

23. Project Venona

Day 1 Confessions ?s

Day 1 Discussion Questions (due 3/22)

1. What is an EHMs job? What comparisons does Perkins make to the Mafia?

a. What forms does the ‘lb. of flesh” come in?

2. How does 3^rd world debt compare w/ 3^rd world spending on health care/education?

a. foreign aid received each year?

3. How does the income of the poorest ½ of the world compare with the top 1% of 3^rd world

households?

4. Why was Ecuador chosen for EHMs in the 1^st place?

a. when and why did interest in Ecuador increase?

5. How is the oil money disbursed?

(list the percentages and where they go)

6. What happens when the EHMs fail?

7. Have the EHMs accomplished their goal in Ecuador? Explain (questions 1 and 5)

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

We will be reading the novel by John Perkins beginning Wednesday 3/21. I have assigned readings for each Wednesday until the end of the year. Some students may find it necessary to complete the readings outside of class but most of the work is designed to be completed in the time allotted. The purpose is to provide concrete examples of how US goals during the Cold War led to policies and actions to achieve those goals and there consequences.

Weekly Reading Schedule

Day 1 (3/21) Prologue (xix-xxv) 7 pages

Day 2 (4/4) Chapter 4 (28-32) 5 pages

“Saving a Country from communism”

Day 3 (4/10 Tues.) Chapter 5 (33-39) 7 pages

“Selling My Soul”

Day 4 (4/18) Chapter 10 (66-71) 6 pages

“Panama’s President and Hero”

Day 5 (4/25) Chapter 13 (81-86) 6 pages

“Conversations with the General”

Day 6 (5/2) Chapters 14/15 (87-96) 10 pages

Entering a New and Sinister Period in Economic History”

Day 7 (5/9) Chapter 15 (96-106) 11 pages

“The Saudi-Arabian Money Laundering Affair”

Day 8 (5/16) Chapters 19/20 (132-140) 9 pages

“Confessions and Tortured man” and “The Fall of a King”

Day 9 (5/23) Chapter 24 (165-170) 6 pages

“Ecuador’s President Battles Big oil”

Day 10 (5/30) Chapter 31 (214-221) 8 pages

“An EHM Failure in Iraq”

Day 11 (6/6) Chapter 33 (231-238) 8 pages

“Venezuela: Saved by Saddam”

Pg 639 1,2,3,5

Chapter 13-2 terms and concepts

Page 639 #s 1,2,3,5

Dropping the Bomb Debate

Go to the following site:
Bomb Debate -Evidence

Read through the list of “controversial questions” to familiarize yourself with the issue.

Choose one (1) primary source from each of the first 6 (VI) categories.

I (1-3),II (4-15), III (16-28), IV (29-34), V (35-52), VI (53-60)

Build a case for or against the use of the weapon. Must include specific arguments from at least (6) documents. Due Friday

WWII Study Guide

WWII TEST (chps 11 & 12) on Friday

Terms / names

1. Isolationism

2. Internationalism

3. America First Committee

4. Neutrality Acts (35-39)

5. Atlantic Charter

6. Hemispheric Defense Zone

7. Export Control Act (strategic materials

8. Cost-plus

9. Reconstruction Finance Corporation

10. rationing (red and blue coupon days)

11. A. Philip Randolph

12. Benjamin O. Davis

13. Bracero Program

14. Internment

15. Battles (when, where, significance)

Coral Sea

Midway

Pearl Harbor

Bulge

Stalingrad

Operation Overlord (Omaha Beach - deadliest)

Doolittle Raid

16. Roosevelt

17. Truman

18. Rosie the Riveter

19. Double V Campaign

20. V-E and V-J days

21. Island Hopping

22. Douglas MacArthur

23. Yamamoto

24. George S. Patton

25. Winston Churchill

26. Nye Committee

Short Answer:

Be prepared to write on the following:

Analyze Japanese Imperialist movements and the US reactions to Japanese agression. Support your own conclusion as to why the Japanese attacked US military bases including Pearl Harbor.

Identify the two dominate views regarding US involvement in the war before Pearl Harbor. Analyze the effectiveness of the attempts on both sides of the argument to keep us out of the war or draw us closer. (neutrality acts)

Discuss one major battle of WWII. What effect did the outcome have on the remaining war?

Propaganda poster

Read chp 12, sec 3 and answer questions 1,2,4 on page 593. There is a handout from class that explains the propaganda poster on one of the subjects from section 3.

Chp 9/10 Study Guide

US Chps 9 & 10 Study Guide

Stock Market

Margin call

Bank run

Bull market

Black Tuesday

Foreclosure

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Hoovervilles (blankets, flags)

Hobos

Dust Bowl

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Bonus Army

New Deal (explain using a specific program)

CCC – Using deficit dollars to do what?

Employing who to do what?

Impact? (number of workers, cost, duration)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

National Industrial Recovery Act

Glass-Steagall Act

Hundred Days (how many Acts/programs)

National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) – Gave unions more power

Keynesian economics (philosophy behind New Deal) deficit spending

Social Security Act

Sit-down Strike

Schechter v. United States (“sick chicken case) – NIRA – unconstitutional

Reason for Roosevelt’s court packing plan

Court packing plan

List 4 long-term causes of the depression

Explain the role of banks in the stock market and collapse / closures

Explain the New Deal – “A series of programs designed to…”

Outline one Program and use specific details to illustrate the New Deal

Was the New Deal a success? Your decision…in your answer you must include the following terms/phrases government spending, unemployment and/or job creation, deficit, dependency. Draw a conclusion as to whether the New Deal would have worked in the long run had WWII not occurred. (Or if WWII could be considered increased government spending)?

Chapter 9 Terms/images

Provide a picture (3-4 in), a brief description, and why it is relevant to the unit for each of the following:

Hooverville, Hooverblanket, or Hooverflag

soup kitchen

Dust Bowl

Hobo (riding the rails)

Farmers destroying crops

Bonus Army

Stock Simulator

For the next few weeks students will compete to make the most money "playing the market"

Go to investopedia and open an account.

click on the simulator tab and create a user account

*Write down your user name and password so you don't forget it!!!

from the simulator page click on trade and begin...

it is in your best interest to invest all of your money...

if it is sitting in your account it is not "working" for you