Saturday, March 31, 2018

Weekly Post for April 2nd

Recent US History/US History
Turn in late Study Guides for missing major grade by Tuesday. Begin studying for EOC Milestone. See Link

AP US History
Turn in "Is Protest Patriotic?" assignment for major grade by Tuesday. Begin studying for EOC Milestone. See Link

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Weekly Post for March 26th

Recent US History
We will finish the Vietnam War this week by completing the Protest Methods and Arguments Poster for a grade.  Cold War Exam Friday-Study Guide below...still due Friday

US History
We will finish the Korean War this week by completing the History of Korea poster for a grade. We will continue the Cold War by looking at the Vietnam War.  Cold War Exam Friday-Study Guide below...still due Friday

COLD WAR EXAM
Study Guide

George Kennan, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs (July 1947)
In these circumstances it is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies... It is clear that the United States cannot expect in the foreseeable future to enjoy political intimacy with the Soviet regime. It must continue to regard the Soviet Union as a rival, not a partner, in the political arena. It must continue to expect that Soviet policies will reflect no abstract love of peace and stability, no real faith in the possibility of a permanent happy coexistence of the Socialist and capitalist worlds, but rather a cautious, persistent pressure toward the disruption and weakening of all rival influence and rival power.

1. What country did the Americans have to defeat in the Pacific during World War II?
2. What country did the Americans have to defeat in the Cold War from 1945-1991?
3. Which policies are advocated in the goals of George Kennan?
4. In what way did the Marshall Plan implement the goals of George Kennan?
5. How did containment change United States foreign policy?
6. What was the main goal of George Kennan’s Long Telegram?
7. What is the policy of containment?
8. What committed the United States to a foreign policy based on containment of communism?
9. What was the greatest setback to the early U.S. policy of containment (1940s)?
10. What were the goals of the Marshall Plan?
11. How did the United States respond to the Berlin Blockade in 1948?
12. How was the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact similar?
13. Describe the controversy over leadership in the Korean War.
14. Describe the outcome of the Korean War.
15. In the 1950s and 1960s, what part of the world saw nationalist movements that were the greatest challenge to U.S. Cold War goals?
16. What crime was the subject of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial?
17. Describe John F. Kennedy
18. What was the intended goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion?
19. How did President Kennedy try to keep communism out of Vietnam?
20. Which Cold War events turned violent in an effort to contain communism?
21. Describe the dichotomy of President Lyndon Johnson’s attempts to eliminate poverty while attacking communism abroad.
22. Why did President Johnson escalate the Vietnam War?
23. What was the major North Vietnamese and Viet Cong offensive launched on the Vietnamese New Year in 1968?
24. During the Vietnam War, how did television influenced popular opinion of the conflict?
25. Describe Cold War confrontation vs. Cold War coexistence.
26. Why did antiwar protests occur at Kent State University, becoming one of the largest, most passionate, and violent antiwar protest?
27. Describe the 1973 War Powers Act.
28. Congressional passage of the 1973 War Powers Act to limit executive authority was in part a response to what?
29. Four deaths resulted after a clash between antiwar student groups and National Guardsmen at which U.S. College?
30. What were the major reasons for Vietnam Anti-War protests?


APUSH
We will discuss the Vietnam War this week. Read Chapters 37-41 in American Pageant. Vocabulary Quiz Thursday, Cold War Exam Friday

Cold War Vocabulary II
  1. Alliance of Progress 
  2. Bay of Pigs Invasion 
  3. Credibility Gap 
  4. Cuban Missile Crisis 
  5. Fidel Castro 
  6. Flexible Response 
  7. Geneva Conference 
  8. Henry Kissinger
  9. Ho Chi Minh 
  10. John F. Kennedy 
  11. Lee Harvey Oswald 
  12. Lyndon B. Johnson 
  13. Massive Retaliation 
  14. Missile Gap 
  15. National Security Act 
  16. New Frontier 
  17. Ngo Dinh Diem 
  18. Nikita Khrushchev 
  19. Nuclear-test Ban Treaty 
  20. Peace Corps 
  21. Richard M. Nixon 
  22. Robert F. Kennedy 
  23. Robert S. McNamara 
  24. South East Asia Treaty Organization 
  25. Suez Crisis 




Saturday, March 17, 2018

Weekly Post for March 19th


Recent US History
We will continue the Vietnam War this week by studying Protest Methods and Arguments.  Vocabulary quiz Friday. Exam March 30th
  1. Immigration and Nationality Act
  2. Kent State Killings
  3. My Lai massacre
  4. Nixon Doctrine
  5. Operation Rolling Thunder
  6. Pentagon Papers
  7. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  8. Viet Cong  
  9. Vietnamization
  10. War Powers Act


US History
We will continue the Cold War this week by studying efforts of the US government to contain communism abroad and avoid troubles at home.  Vocabulary quiz Friday. Exam March 30th
  1. China
  2. Cold War
  3. Communist
  4. Dwight Eisenhower
  5. Harry Truman
  6. Joseph Stalin
  7. Mao Zedong
  8. Marshall Plan
  9. NATO
  10. Soviet Union
  11. Truman Doctrine
  12. World War II


APUSH
We will continue the Cold War this week by studying efforts of the US government to contain communism abroad and avoid troubles at home. Vocabulary quiz Friday. Exam March 30th
  1. Adlai Stevenson
  2. Berlin Airlift
  3. Cold War
  4. Containment
  5. Douglas MacArthur
  6. Dwight Eisenhower
  7. Eisenhower Doctrine
  8. Fair Deal
  9. George F. Kennan
  10. Harry S. Truman
  11. Iron Curtain
  12. Joseph McCarthy 
  13. Marshall Plan
  14. McCarthyism
  15. Military-industrial complex
  16. National Defense and Education Act
  17. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  18. NSC-68
  19. Sputnik
  20. Taft-Hartley Act
  21. Thirty-eighth parallel
  22. Thomas Dewey
  23. Truman Doctrine
  24. U-2 Incident
  25. United Nations


Monday, March 12, 2018

Weekly Post for March 12th

Recent US History
We will return to our study on the Cold War this week by studying US involvement in Vietnam. 
US HISTORY transitions will occur Thursday.

US History
This week, we will finish studying World War II and start examining the Cold War.  Vocabulary Quiz Friday
  1. Atomic Bomb
  2. Communism
  3. Domino Theory
  4. Enola Gay
  5. George Kennan
  6. Iron Curtain
  7. Manhattan Project
  8. Moscow
  9. Politburo
  10. Potsdam Conference
  11. USSR
  12. Winston Churchill
APUSH
This week, we will finish studying World War II and start examining the Cold War.  Vocabulary Quiz Friday
  1. A Philip Randolph
  2. America First Committee 
  3. Atlantic Charter 
  4. Atomic bomb
  5. Battle for Berlin
  6. Battle of Midway
  7. Battle of the Bulge
  8. Casablanca Conference
  9. D-Day 
  10. Fair Employment Practice Commission 
  11. Internment 
  12. island-hopping
  13. Korematsu v. US
  14. Lend-Lease Act 
  15. Los Alamos 
  16. Manhattan Project 
  17. Mobilization 
  18. Nazi Party 
  19. Nuremburg Laws 
  20. Nye Committee 
  21. Office of Price Administration 
  22. Pearl Harbor 
  23. Phony war 
  24. Ploesti Raids
  25. Potsdam Conference 
  26. Rationing 
  27. Rome-Berlin Axis 
  28. Rosie the Riveter 
  29. Russo-German Nonaggression Pact 
  30. Second Front 
  31. Tehran Conference
  32. Totalitarianism 
  33. V-E Day 
  34. Victory Gardens
  35. V-J Day 
  36. War bonds 
  37. War Production Board
  38. War-time conversion 
  39. World War II 
  40. Yalta Conference

Friday, March 9, 2018

US History Saturday School

Complete additional tasks (Not part of your original RAFTS project) successfully, get bonus points on a Major Grade (Unless you still need the original RAFTS grade)

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Weekly Post for March 5th

US History
We will finish Black History Month this week by completing a Midterm Project Due March 9th.


US History
We will begin World War II this week by studying reasons for US involvement. 
Turn in Imperialism List/T-chart Monday.    Midterm Exam March 9th-Study Guide in Pages<<<

APUSH
We will begin World War II this week by studying reasons for US involvement. Turn in Comparing Foreign Policies Homework Monday. Quiz Thursday on WWII     Midterm Exam March 9th-Study Guide in Pages<<<