Unit_7

﻿Unit 7 (Chapter 27 - Chapter 30)

﻿Preview Chapter 27
-Cash and carry -Fall of France -Public Opinion Shift - Germany attack Soviet Union - Roosevelt's Third term - Lend -Lease - Atlantic Charter - Tripartite Pact - Treaty between Berlin, Germany ; Rome, Italy; Tokyo, Japan forming the Axis Powes Alliance

Arsenal of Democracy

 * Term by FDR
 * A slogan used by FDR to support the British during war
 * America being the arsenal to help preserve, protect, promote democracy (Weapon, financial or whatever)

**Top Ten List Chapter 27**
Kegllogg Briand Pact - Treaty signed by nations which outlaw war Circular Loan - Unaffective policy which America loans to Germany, Germany pays France and England, then England pay the debts they owned to America Cash Carry - America policy towards foreign nation in which goods can only be shipped away in buyer's expense after immediate payment Sino - Japanese War - Japanese invasion in Manchuria, China Isolationism Internationalism Lend-Lease - America would be the arsenal democracy, by lend and leasing war materials to the allies Non - Aggression Pact - Agreement between Stalin and Hitler on Germany not invading the Soviet Union Tripartite Pact - Alliance treaty between Italy, Germany and Japan Pearl Harbor - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii, the event dragged America to involve in WWII

AP Exam Essay Questions
2. Analyze the political, diplomatic, and military reasons for the United States victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the period 1775–1783. - Political: Leaders as George Washington, - Diplomatical: Assistance from France, Spain, Prussia - Millitary: Fighting on home land, more united than the British, strong desire for their rights, then turned into desire for victory
 * Thesis: WIth strong leaders, assistance from foreign allies and geographical advantages was the Americans able to win the Revolutionary War against Britian.

3. Analyze the ways in which controversy over the extension of slavery into western territories contributed to the coming of the Civil War. Confine your answer to the period 1845–1861. - Compromise of 1850: On the issue of California and fugitive slave acts - Kansas-Nebraska Act: Popular soverignty over the issue in which led the Bleeding Kansas series of violence in Kansas - The annexation of Texas and disputed land from mexico led even more tension within the south and the north of the nation.
 * Thesis: During the 1950s, the issues over free and slaves territories, unbalanced representation and debates over undecided territories contributed to the tension which led the civil war.

4. Analyze the roles that women played in Progressive Era reforms from the 1880s through 1920. Focus your essay on TWO of the following.
 * Politics
 * Social conditions
 * Labor and working conditions

WWII Essay Questions
XVII. World War II, 1931-1945 1. Prior to American involvement in both the First and Second World Wars, the U.S. adopted an official policy of neutrality. Compare the policy and its modifications during the period 1914-1917 to the policy and its modifications during the period 1939-1941. (1982, question 5)
 * Policy modification
 * Similar policies
 * WWI Neutrality: Not completely neutral/ stopped trading with Germany, but in theory it should also stop trading with Britain. Soon the U.S. transformed into the arsenal of the allies
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After Germany sank Lusitania, the U.S remained neutral, but outraged.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WWII Neutrality: Declared neutrality, however appearantly assisting the allies, from only trading with non belligerent nations to the lend lease towards only the allies.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">THESIS: Policies during WWI and WWII declared by the U.S. was simliar.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. "Vice Presidents who have succeeded to the presidency on the death of the President have been less effective in their conduct of domestic AND foreign policy than the men they replaced." Assess the validity of this statement for any TWO of the following pairs. William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (1989, question 6)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">THSIS:


 * McKinley was a conservative looking for stability, Theodore Roosevelt used more aggressive policies as a progressivist. -Invalid
 * FDR was more of a willing, good tempered person which was willing to wait for treaty, but Truman wanted to end war immediately with atomic bomb. Valid

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. The United States<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> was a diplomatic measure calculated to intimidate the Soviet Union in the post-Second-World-War era rather than a strictly military measure designed to force Japan<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'s unconditional surrender. Evaluate this statement using the documents and your knowledge of the military and diplomatic history of the years 1939 through 1947. (1988, DBQ)**

Siginificant images of WWII


=﻿Chapter 29:The Cold War (1945 - 1990 )=

Key: Berlin Wall -> Crumble of Soviet Union

U.S. vs. USSR Mixed system of Capitalism [Little government intervention] Regulation laws, taxes..etc || USSR Communisim -> Government controlled production mainly focused on millitary development, less agricultural Limited freedom of speech No social classes Socialist, one party system Countries joining the union Government benefits the wealfare
 * United States || Soviet Union ||
 * Capitalism Democracy || Communist Dictatorship ||
 * U.S Capitalism ->

Philosophy: Capitalism would only led to the higher class taking profit from the lower class and eventually led to battles between classes No regulation would led crisis, and eventually devastate the economy || Centralized power on to one leader ||
 * Representative Democracy || Dictatorship ->

As of the end of the Korean War in 1953, who was winning the cold war?

 * Soviet Union in lead
 * A fear of communist governers in the U.S.
 * Lost of the Korean War (USSR in advantage of the Korean War)
 * Communist taking over Chinese Government
 * "Spread of Communism " as what the U.S. had called
 * Russia sucessfully developed the atomic weapon

McCarthyism
Used by the Republicans as a political tool, 1950 when McCarthy speaked out, Winsconsin Republican senator Paranoia Lists of 205 Communist Working in the American government by McCarthy Baseless accusasion large hysteria Economical Believes Communist Democrats Republicans [Full Contorl] [Some Control] [Laissez Faire] 1945 - Death of FDR, Truman becomes president 1946 - Republicans gain contorl of both houses of congress 1947 - Truman[Democrat] ordered Loyal checks on all government employees.FBI Loyalty checks, show that he was as well hard on communism 1948 - Truman's election 1950 - McCarthy speaks out, McCarthism led hysteria / Korean War 1952 - Eisenhower [Republican] elected
 * Possibility that some governers believed in communism
 * Handful of communist governer
 * few government soviet spies
 * definitely russian spies
 * Sends US troops as U.N. police action [did not declare war]

Louisianna purchase: Doubled the size of the nation, first step towards expanding Indian Removal Act: Forced Removal by Andrew Jackson who wanted the mid-southern land Manifest Destiny: God gave the whites rights to dominate north America (First ambition) Western Trials: Expansion further west for oppurtunities and better life, gold rush finally reaching west coast Texas: American settlers in Texas offered an annexation of Texas; Mexican-American War: Mexico wanted to gain back Texas, went to war with US but lost more territory Kansas Nebraska Act: Debates over the new acquired land, which violence soon turned into a civil war Theodore Roosevelt: who was interested in the Latin American interest, try to keep America benefitting from the Latin America
 * Related background info to the DBQ**

Eisenhower / Truman presidency Video
Truman: Democrat - 2terms, Missouri Eisenhower: Republican - 2terms Kansas
 * Stunned the world
 * Farmer, businessman
 * Had common sense
 * loved by president Carter
 * Common sense: Dropping the bomb saving the casualties and cost
 * Containing the spread of communism/ Truman Doctrine - support any nation resisting communist
 * Marshall Plan - sucess
 * Domestic inequality, supported the civil rights. Ended segregation in millitary and civil services, first president to end segregation. Lost southern votes
 * lost China as a allied
 * attcked by McCarthy that too soft on communism
 * Vietnam and France asked US for resistance, for a democratic government, support France against communist Vietnam
 * God like figure to people, no interest in politics
 * Reluctant candidate
 * Liked the democrats but ran for republicans
 * Famous war leader, but tries to avoid war
 * Golf rather govern
 * Ended Korean War, by Armistis
 * Reduce millitary
 * Largest federal public projects, transportation development
 * Banned racial segregation in public schools.
 * Concerned more foreign issues
 * Interverened into the democratic vietnam
 * Communist revolution in Cuba

Chapter 30 Questions #1,2,3
Changes ||
 * ~ Changes in Society 1950-1960 ||~ Economical Changes ||~ Social Changes ||~ Technological/Scientific
 * < 1950 - 1960 ||< * Increase of government spending;
 * Funding schoolbuldings, public projects etc.
 * Millitary spending during war time
 * Rapid expansion of suburbs
 * Creation of state funded interstate highways
 * Merging labor unions
 * Consolidation still exists
 * Keynsian Economics: by a proper amount of government regulating taxation and the flow of currency, recession would be cured and could prevent inflation. ||< * Began of society integration
 * Rise of the civil rights movement
 * General increase of incomes, increased consumerism due to new products
 * Rise of fast food cdultures
 * Levittown: Same houses in a area rounded with a gate
 * More rebellious youth - Beats, rock and roll
 * Specialized education in fields
 * Declining family farms due to industrializartion and new technology
 * More and more people moving into the suburbans, and more began to own automobiles.
 * Echo parks bcame a populat leisure.
 * More rebellious youth, the popularity of rock n' roll music. ||< * Antibotics treating infections
 * Discovery of Penicillin; began with British and finised in America
 * Smallpox vaccines, tuberculosis,
 * Influenza vaccines which before had no treatment
 * Vaccine against polio
 * Pesticides DDT
 * Invention of colored television
 * Mini transistors, able to shrink the size of electronics
 * Universal Automatic Computer invented, sucessfully predicted result of election
 * Founding of IBM ( Internation Business Machine Company)
 * Development of the Hydrogen bomb
 * Space program which launched the satellite
 * Founding of NASA and Apollo Programs sending men into space
 * Pollution due to demand for oil ||