From the first 10 weeks;
Causes of WWII
Great Depression/Dust Bowl
rise of fascism + totalitarianism
weakness of League of Nations
Start of aggression
Hitler-Sudetenland/Poland
France & England declare war
Miracle of Dunkirk
Blitz of London
US involvement
US Isolationist policy
Neutrality Act/Lend-Lease Act
Allied Powers/Axis Powers
Pearl harbor-Declare war
Japanese internment
US advantage once entering war
End of War
Europe first policy
D-Day
Stalingrad
Hitler’s mistakes
Victory in Europe
island hopping strategy in Pacific
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Hiroshima & Nagasaki From the second 10 weeks or so;
How did the Holocaust develop and what were its results?
Nuremburg LawsHitler's Final solution
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
Philosophical differences between Communism and Democracy - workers first vs Government first
- free market vs command economy
- motivation to compete vs everyone having a job
All aspects of the Cold War
Definition of Cold War
Super Powers
United Nations: its creation and set up., security council
Atomic and Thermonuclear weapons
Korean War, Douglas MacArthur, Vietnam War
Domino Theory
Reasons for Vietnam protest at home
Red Scare-HUAC(House In-American Activities Committee) Joseph McCarthy-McCarthyism
Definition of treason.
Post-war American society - Golden Years - Greatest Generation
American Dream
unions
Civil Rights - Civil Rights Act of 1964
Emmet Till
Martin Luther King, Malcom X, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy
Brown -v- Board of Education
Mass culture
suburbs
All notes and graded materials may be used. No textbooks, no electronics.
Good Luck
Taylor
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