Review for Spring Final

I am just giving the answers for now. Leave a post if you need clarification on anything.

1. The US and Soviet Union - bad relationship
2. Fear that Communists had infiltrated the federal government
3. National defense; protection against Soviet Union; possible nuclear attack
4. when N. Korea invaded S. Korea
5. Truman wanted a limited war while MacArthur wanted to bomb China
6. Successful containment, but not a victory
7. providing new funds to help the nation's educational system
8. We airlifted in supplies to the West Berliners
9. Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO
10. auto sales increased, travel time decreased, suburban communities grew
11. polio
12. the car allowed people to travel longer distances to and from their jobs
13. crime, poverty, etc
14. to reward those that served in the military by helping pay their tuition, home loans
15. countries that were dominated by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
16. July 4, 1776, no taxation without representation
17. AofC gave states too much power; Constitution in 1787
18. The both list unalienable rights like: freedom of speech, no quartering of soldiers, no excessive bail, right to bare arms
19. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness
20. power that is divided between the federal government and state government
21. 1861-1865 states rights and slavery
22. the idea that the states ultimately control the federal government and the states are simply allowing the federal government to exist
23. Free, Citizens, Vote
24. poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause
25. separate but equal
26. Brown v. Board 1954
27. Montgomery Bus Boycott
28. MLK - peaceful protest; Malcolm X "any means necessary"
29. granted right to vote to African American males (former slaves), women's sufferage, abolished poll tax
30. Kennedy promised to remove missiles from Turkey, Khrushchev promised to remove missiles from Cuba
31. they built bomb shelters
32. first televised presidentioal debate, Kennedy young and vibrant; Nixon old and unkept
33. economic opportunities, better way of life and freedom. Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall to keep people from going to the West
34. The Warren Commission; he acted alone
35. Yes, he knew how to work with Congress, sympathy over JFK's death, speedy passage of legislation
36. greater government involvement in the daily life of Americans
37. Domino Theory - spread of communism
38. gave the war powers to the president
39. containment - stop the spread of communism
40. if you are old enough to be drafted, then you should be old enough to vote
41. supply line from North Vietname to South Vietnam - Viet cong
42. War Powers Act of 1973
43. The Viet Cong could mount a major/massive attack within South Vietnam/The US could actually lose a war
44. That China would enter the war to aid North Vietham and the Vietminh
45. A credibility gap in the case of the Vietnam War was that it was hard to believe what the Johnson administration said about the war. Public support dropped - suspicion of government truthfulness
46. jungle terrain, difficult to find the enemy, reason for the lack of American success
47. original document
48. my lai massacre
49. roberty kennedy and mlk
50. 1968

This is where my sheet ends. I will go over any questions that I did not list here before the final.

Review Sheet Missing

Sorry students, but I thought I left my review sheet here next to the computer and it is not here. I have searched around for it, but cannot find it. We went over the review really well as a class today. We will have a few minutes before the test that I will be able to answer your questions before the test.

HOWEVER, read through the past few blogs - civil rights, Kennedy and Johnson and each will direct you to very relavent material.

Next stop VIETNAM.

Civil Rights and 1960s Review

Sorry it took so long, but I just got finished grading all of the quizzes (US History and Economics). In my rush I put some of the answers out of order. Please make sure you put the answer with the number indicated on this page. ( mainly look at 7. then 5.)

1. taking pride in Black Heritage, think Malcolm X
2. what LBJ called his program (remember his University of Michigan commencement address in May 1964 - before the election)
3. what JFK's program was called.
4. after Rosa Parks did not give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, MLK and other African American civil rights activists led an 11 month long bus strike.
7. JFK's plan to send young men and women to perform humanitarian work in developing countries.
6.Supreme Court decision to allow segregation must be "seperate but equal."
5. Supreme Court decision that outlawed "seperate but equal" gave civil rights incentive
8. people wanting to change "the system"
9. allowed people to vote only if they had a relative vote prior to 1865 (kept African Americans from voting because they were slaves before then, but allowed poor whites to vote)
10. you could vote only if you could pass the reading test. (again, most African Americans could not read)
11. must pay a "fee" in order to vote.
12. allow races to coexist


More tomorrow...

Conspiracy and Coincidence

Conspiracy Theories Abound,

But here are a few....



Here is a link from the Houston Chronicle that summarizes the more popular conspiracy theories involving the assination of President Kennedy. http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/jfk/theory/index.html



This link will send you to various conspiracy theory links including the Houston Chronicle.

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



Conspiracies aren't alone,

Coincidences Mount As Well...



Here are several links that tie in Kennedy with Lincoln.

http://www.coverups.com/jfk/lincoln.htm

http://people.consolidated.net/vmun/presidential.html



This one analyzes their strange connection and refutes it.

http://www.kilty.com/l_and_k.htm




Have a fun weekend!

The Democrat Presidents of the 1960s

A great source for more information about our presidents is their presidential libraries. All correspondence and papers that were written and logged all go to their libraries once they leave office.

John F. Kennedy's library is in Boston http://www.jfklibrary.org/ you can take the tour, read the White House diary or view the timeline. This is a great website!

Lyndon Johnson's library is in Austin http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/main.htm all of the links are great. You can read his Great Society speech and check out the information on his domestic and foreign policies.

Keep checking back for more information including conspiracy theories!!!

Have a good weekend.

I am Back! Civil Rights

Here are a few good sites to visit to learn more of Civil Rights.

The Civil Rights Museum http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/gallery/gallery1.asp you can look at the exhibits and read about important events. If you read about a certain event (Montgomery Bus Boycott, Sit Ins, Ole Miss, etc) it will give you people's names and events that you search for more information.

Here is a different site "for kids" but it has good pictures and easy reading for you.
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/places/civil_rights_museum

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute http://www.bcri.org/resource_gallery/interview_segments/index.htm# has great resources for research, but this link goes to directly to their Oral History Project where you can see and read interviews of key people involved in the civil rights movement, not just the main people you hear and read about.

Civil Rights Memorial opens with Dr. Martin Luther King speaking
http://www.tolerance.org/memorial/ just go through this site at your leisure. It is very moving.

Selma to Montgomery also known as "Bloody Sunday" You can see what the bridge looks like today and pictures from that fateful day.
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm

Tomorrow will be other things of the 1960s.

Been grading papers.....

Sorry guys but I have been grading papers and what I have seen so far is not good. I have decided you need to work on the review yourselves first and we will do it in class instead of having fun outside. Sorry!!!!! Look back a few days in the blog and go to the interactive CNN site for some review.

The Cold War Heats Up!

Today we talked about the hydrogen bomb and the devastating effects it would have on the world and Houston in particular. And of course we had a special guest during 2nd period (EEK!!!). In looking at the quizzes so far, most of you did pretty well.

Here's the five minutes more activity....

I just love this site, but I don't have anything specific for you to do on it. Just go and explore about the Cold War! http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/games/

Let's Play Catch Up!!!

Thursday, January 24, 2008

We talked about the four areas of the US-USSR Relations: The Truman Doctrine (Iran, Greece and Turkey), The Marshall Plan (build - economically - Western Europe), The Berlin Airlift, and the establishment of NATO (if one goes to war, all go to war which is completely opposite how Congress felt with Wilson and the League of Nations). Don't forget that the Soviet's answer to NATO was the Warsaw Pact.

Five Minutes More.....

www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/doctrine.htm#speech and answer the questions from the speech.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Today we analyzed the political cartoon "Step on it Doc" and everyone was very good at analyzing the details in it. Way to Go!!!! We watched a short film on the civil war and revolution in China and it is now a communist country. The US recognized Chiang Kaishek (the overthrown leader) and that he and his followers are now on Taiwan. We then discussed the Korean War: North Korea was communist and had USSR and China helping them while South Korea was democratic and had the UN forces which included the US and General MacArthur. Don't forget that MacArthur was fired by Truman because he wanted to invade China and Truman didn't want to expand the war outside Korea.

Five Minutes More...
www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/kowar/kowar/htm Click on activities in the US. What was the national attitude toward the Korean War??

Monday, January 28, 2008

DUCK AND COVER!!!

We analyzed primary documents by looking at a fallout shelter picture, duck and cover drills and a graph on US and Soviet Nuclear Warheads. You also read about the 2nd Red Scare. Remember the first one was in the 1920s after WWI.

Five Minutes More...
www.civildefensemuseum.com click on fall out shelter supplies and list 5 items you will find in a fall out shelter then click back and click on warning sirens. Listen to one and then list 2 things the sirens do now.

US-Soviet Relations Heat Up

Yes this is the Cold War, but the tensions between the two Super Powers are really heating up! We discussed the Berlin Airlift and the significance of that to the Cold War and how that led to the organization of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

This brings us to the Five More!

Go to www.nato.int
Click on multi-media, click on egeneration, click on epublications, scroll down a little to click on "Welcome to NATO"

When was the Treaty signed?
How many countries are a part of NATO today?

Germany Gets Divided

Today we discussed the division of Germany into four areas controlled by France, Great Britain, the US and USSR. The area controlled by the US, France and Great Britain became West Germany and the USSR controlled area which includes Berlin became East Germany. Berlin was also split into East and West even though it is located in the middle of the communist controlled East Germany.

We also read about how the United Nations was created and the importance of the General Assembly and the Security Council.

For Five Minutes More go to http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/festivals/04-05/forties click on "learn more about the '40's and then click 1948 (the year the UN was founded) Under "A Cold War is declared" write down what nation is founded.

Five Minutes More...

This is the first blog that will review the day and ask you to go somewhere on the web as an enrichment for the lesson.

Friday's lecture was on the beginning of the Cold War. In February 1945 the Allied leaders (the Big Three) Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met in Yalta (in the Soviet Union) to discuss what needs to happen in the world. Remember that WWII has not ended yet, but the Allies were very close to getting Hitler/Germany to surrender. The Yalta Agreement states:

• Soviets would declare war against Japan and in return get territories in Asia


• they would divide Germany into four zones until free elections could take place (France, Great Britain, US and USSR would each control a zone)


• Stalin agreed to allow free elections would be held in the Eastern European countries that Germany took prior to and during the war, but the Soviets controlled now during the end of the war


• Stalin would cooperate in developing the new international peace keeping organization, The United Nations

Stalin did not do as he said he would...so the Cold War begins.....

For something extra, you may go to http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/yalta.htm and read the official agreement. What is the date it is signed? By whom?

WWII Test Review

The Vocabulary...
Island hopping was the US plan to defeat Japan by attacking islands in the Pacific that weren't as well defended and gradually move up. Containment keeps Communism under control. Manhatten Project was the building of the Atomic Bomb. Neutrality Acts were passed by Congress in 1935 that made it illegal for Americans to sell guns to any country at war. "Big Three" refers to FDR, Churchill and Stalin. Rationing is limiting goods during a time of war. Kristalnecht or night of broken glass was a night of anti-Jewish violence (broke the glass of all Jewish owned businesses). Appeasement is giving into demands - Britain and France gave into Hitler. Genocide is killing of one group (race) of people. Isolationism is when a country wants to worry about itself and not what other countries are doing. Totalitarism is when a country is run by a dictator like facism, nazism and communism and has total control of the government and economy. Mobilization referes to getting ready for war. Interment camps have people relocate from their own homes to a government controlled area so they can keep their eye on them.

Here are the answers to the next set of questions...
legislative/attack on Pearl Harbor/Germany, Japan and Italy/Hawaiian Islands - December 7, 1941/June 6, 1944 aka D-Day or Operation Overlord - General Omar Bradley/Eisenhower/Britain held off Germany (remember Churchill quote)/code breakers/two fronts/Treaty of Versailles - Economic depression - Appeasement - Militarism/Iwo Jima and Okinawa/Midway (Pacific) and El Alamein (European Front even though it is in North Africa)/Britain, France, US, China and Soviet Union.

Be able to locate on a map...
Italy - Mussolini; Soviet Union - Stalin; Germany - Hitler
Germany started WWII by invading Poland/Midway was the turning point of the war in the Pacific/the Allied invasion of Europe occurred in Normandy, France/the Bataan Death March took place on the Phillipines/the first sea battle fought entirely by aircraft was fought in the Coral Sea (by Australia)/Japan invaded Manchuria - China in 1937

Review Material...
bad land and unfamiliar way of life/settled the area/Progressive Era late 1800's/monopoly - total control of the market share/telephone and telegraph/expansionism/Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft and Woodrow Wilson/power to propose and pass legislation/Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism/literary and artistic acheivments of African Americans in the 1920s/intolerance/John T. Scopes - teaching evolution - intolerance - William Jennings Bryan battled against teaching evolution for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow defended Scopes/October 29, 1929/African Americans from the rural south/decreased/The New Deal.

If you have any questions just post a comment.

The Cold War is coming!!!

Happy New Year!!!

I know school has not returned yet, but I found a great video clip on teachertube.com that gives a great preview to the Cold War.

"http://www.teachertube.com/skin-p/mediaplayer.swf"

Continue enjoying your time off and I will see you on January 7.