US History Unit 6, Week 4. Homework for the Week Monday 1/27 ● Begin studying for the unit test on...

US History

Unit 6, Week 4

Homework for the Week

•Monday 1/27

● Begin studying for the unit test on block day

•Tuesday 1/28

•Put together unit 6 checklist

•Study for test

•Blockday 1/29-1/30 - Advisory

Choose an essay topic

•Friday 1/31

HW: Read pgs. 494-495 and notes. Instead of a summary, respond to the question: How did the concept of ʺcontainmentʺ help or hurt the founding ideals? Explain its impact on 2-3 of our ideals.

●Agenda, Monday, 1/27

● HOT ROC

● Examples of retributive and restorative justice after World War II

● Review content – problems and solutions

● HW: Begin studying for the unit test on block day

●HOT ROC

● How could the Allies avoid the same mistakes made by the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I? What suggestions would you make for the treaty this time?

●Retributive and restorative justice

● Restorative Justice: Settling a dispute and repairing harm by bringing together the offender, the victim, and the community to find a solution that works for everyone involved in the best way possible

– Examples: Mediation instead of divorce court, conflict resolution in schools, forgiving a friend.

● Retributive Justice: Settling a dispute and repairing harm by punishing the offender for violating laws in order to discourage the offender and others who may be tempted to break laws.

– Examples: Prisons, Treaty of Versailles, school suspension

●Agenda: Tuesday 1/28

● Problems and Solutions

● Review for the test

HW: Checklist due tomorrow

Test on Ch.34-37 tomorrow

What problems are created by demobilization?

GI Bill

● Benefit to veterans

– Low-interest mortgage

– Job training

– Hiring privileges

– Unemployment payments

– Full disability coverage

●Problems

● Postwar reconstruction

●World Bank

● Loans for rebuilding/developing countries

● Foreign investment & trade

●Problem

●Geneva Conventions

● Comprise of four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of prisoners/civilians during war.

●Problems

● Competing currency devaluation

● Exchange rates

●IMF (International Monetary Fund)

● Bretton Woods Agreements (1944), signed by 44 allied nations.

● Manage the international monetary system.

● Exchange rates now is decided by the fixed parity of currencies and cooperation between nations

●Problem & solution for trade● Return to an international trading

system based on free trade

● Open an international conference for the multilateral reduction of barriers to international trade.

● Led to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which resulted from negotiations between 23 nations.

●UN

● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQN-ZraOjts

● United Nations (SC)

● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUR0gzFg2ss

● UN secretary general

Million Dollar Drop!*

*Contraband stickers, not dollars, not for placement on lockers or

other school property, nontranserrable or resellable.

●Whose country had state-owned collective farms?

1. Stalin

2. Tojo

3. Mussolini

4. Hitler

●Which government promoted racism and scapegoating?

1. Nazi Germany

2. Militarism in Japan

3. Totalitarianism in the Soviet Union

4. Fascist Italy

●Which of these is an example of Americans’ anti-war feelings?

1. Lend Lease

2. Neutrality Acts

3. Munich Conference

4. 4 Freedoms Speech

●Which took place in 1942?

1. D-Day

2. Pearl Harbor

3. Fighting in North Africa

4. Battle of the Bulge

●Which of these was NOT one of FDR’s 4 Freedoms?

1. Freedom from want

2. Freedom of assembly

3. Freedom of speech

4. Freedom from fear

●Who was not allowed to serve in combat during WWII?

1. Japanese-Americans

2. Mexican-Americans

3. Women

4. African-Americans

● Which of the following did NOT increase opportunities in the US?

1. Bracero Program

2. Tuskegee Airmen

3. Double V for Victory Campaign

4. Korematsu v. US court case

● What document authorized the internment of Japanese-Americans?

1. Executive Order 8802

2. Double V campaign

3. Manhattan Project

4. Executive Order 9906

● What was an alternative to dropping the atomic bomb on Japan?

1. Land invasion of Japan

2. Island-hopping

3. Fighting the Japanese in Okinawa

4. Using Navajo code-talkers

●Which of these cities was NOT basically destroyed during WWII?

1. Nagasaki

2. Dresden

3. Hiroshima

4. Berlin

●What happened in the Philippines?1. Gen. MacArthur surrendered to the Japanese and

left Americans as prisoners of war

2. The US intercepted Japanese communications to help them win the battle

3. As one of the last battles in the war, these islands allowed us to move closer to Japan.

● Which of these things did the federal government NOT do during WWII?

1. Ration consumption by civilians

2. Set price controls on consumer goods

3. Require Americans to buy war bonds

4. Get workers to agree not to strike

Agenda, Wed-Thurs, 1/29-1/30

● Turn in checklists

● Unit 6 test

● Advisory Day PPT

● Cold War Research paper – intro

HW: Choose research paper topic

●Agenda, 1/31

● HOT ROC – trivia quiz

● Map activity

● Categorization activity

HW: Read pgs. 494-495 and notes. Instead of a summary, respond to the question: How did the concept of ʺcontainmentʺ help or hurt the founding ideals? Explain its impact on 2-3 of our ideals.

●The Origins of the Cold War

Key Question: How did the Cold War develop?

●Pre-test: Identify the following Cold War items

1. What are two meetings where the US, Great Britain and the Soviet Union made plans for post-war Europe?

●2. Which country is portrayed in this map?

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3. What is the main idea of this cartoon?4. What historical event does this cartoon depict?

● 5. What was the name of the US plan that gave money to European countries after World War II?

●Answers

1. Yalta and Potsdam

2. Germany. Will become West Germany and East Germany from 1945-1989.

3. Soviet Union argued that they needed to have a buffer zone to protect them from the aggressive Germany that had attacked them in the last 2 World Wars.

4. Iron Curtain

5. Marshall Plan

●Forming an Uneasy Peace:Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill

Yalta conference (Feb 1945)

Divide Germany into four occupation zones

Support self government and free elections in Eastern

Europe

Answer #1: Yalta and Potsdam

●Forming an Uneasy Peace:Truman, Stalin, Attlee

Potsdam Conference (July 1945)

Divide Berlin into

occupation zones

Should E. Europe be communist

or capitalist?

Truman suspicious of Soviets not

allowing free elections in E.

Europe

Stalin suspicious of US nuclear technology

●Answer #2: Germany after WWII

Berlin – divided into French, British, US and Russian controlled areas.

●Postwar Germany

U.S. wants economically strong Germany democratic gov’t & capitalist

economy U.S.S.R. wants weak,

powerless Germany Berlin—in east

Germany, but divided among powers

●Cold War Europe

How did the US put the Truman Doctrine into effect?

Answer #5 - 1947-The Marshall Plan- designed to rebuild the allied countries of Europe after WWII.

Part of U.S. plan to stop the spread of communism and create free markets.

How would the Soviets react to this?

Molotov Plan

●Wrap-up● Sort the following terms into these three

categories:

economic assistance, foreign policy or alliances

– NATO– Warsaw Pact

– Truman Doctrine– World Bank

– Marshall Plan– Molotov Plan– Containment