Homework:
Next week we will play a US History trivia challenge with the middle school history class. Read through your timelines, documents, and notes from this school year to prepare yourself for the challenge!
Thank you so much for your hard work and participation in class this year! We enjoyed teaching you and learning from you!
Have a wonderful summer!
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." --Edmund Burke
Washington Crossing
High School 4/16 The New Millennium (2000-Present)
Timeline
Ryan:
1. What happened on 9/11? Who was ultimately responsible for these attacks? Who is Osama Bin Laden, and what does he have to do with these events? What happened to Osama Bin Laden?
Cassadie G.:
2. Why did the Bush administration create the Department of Homeland Security? What is the US PATRIOT Act? Why was the PATRIOT Act criticized? What was Operation Enduring Freedom?
Sasha:
3. What was Operation Iraqi Freedom? Who was Saddam Hussein? How was he captured? Why was he executed?
Madi:
4. What is the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act? What was the Hurricane Katrina Disaster?
Ian:
5. What was the Global Financial Crisis of 2008? Do your own research, but this video may help you understand it a little better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9YLta5Tr2A
Cassidy L.:
6. What is the Affordable Healthcare Act (also known as Obamacare)? What are some of its pros and cons?
Rahbin:
7.What was the Sandy Hook School Shooting? Explain the gun control debate surrounding this event.
2001 - George W. Bush inaugurated as 42nd president
2001 - 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
USA Patriot Act
Operation Enduring Freedom
USA Patriot Act
Operation Enduring Freedom
2002 - Department of Homeland Security created
2003 - Operation Iraqi Freedom begins
Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act
Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act
2004 - Massachusetts becomes first state to legalize same-sex marriage
2005 - Hurricane Katrina Disaster
2006 - Saddam Hussein is executed
2007 - Nancy Pelosi becomes first female Speaker of the House
2008 - Global Financial Crisis of 2008
2009 - Barack Obama inaugurated as 43rd president
2010 - Affordable Healthcare Act is passed
2011 - Osama Bin Laden killed
2012 - Sandy Hook School ShootingHomework
Enter the above events on your timeline.
Ryan:
1. What happened on 9/11? Who was ultimately responsible for these attacks? Who is Osama Bin Laden, and what does he have to do with these events? What happened to Osama Bin Laden?
Cassadie G.:
2. Why did the Bush administration create the Department of Homeland Security? What is the US PATRIOT Act? Why was the PATRIOT Act criticized? What was Operation Enduring Freedom?
Sasha:
3. What was Operation Iraqi Freedom? Who was Saddam Hussein? How was he captured? Why was he executed?
Madi:
4. What is the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act? What was the Hurricane Katrina Disaster?
Ian:
5. What was the Global Financial Crisis of 2008? Do your own research, but this video may help you understand it a little better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9YLta5Tr2A
Cassidy L.:
6. What is the Affordable Healthcare Act (also known as Obamacare)? What are some of its pros and cons?
Rahbin:
7.What was the Sandy Hook School Shooting? Explain the gun control debate surrounding this event.
High School 4/9 End of the Century (1980-2000)
Timeline
1980 Ronald Reagan, 69, oldest man ever to be elected President of the US1981 John Hinckley, Jr. attempts to assassinate President Reagan
Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court
1986 The Iran-Contra Affair
1987 Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan sign Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF
Treaty)
1989 George H. W. Bush elected President of the US
Tiananmen Square and China’s Most Favored Nation (MFN) trading status with US
Fall of Berlin Wall
WWW invented
1991 Operation Desert Storm
1992 Bill Clinton elected President of the US
1993 World Trade Center bombing
1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
1996 Clinton elected for second term as President of US
1999 Y2K bug
2000 Presidential election with Bush and Gore: the hanging chad
Quotes
"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
--President Ronald Reagan, June 1987, in his famed speech near the Berlin Wall
Homework
1) Enter above events on your timeline.
2) Research your assigned president from this time period. What do you feel were the strengths and weaknesses of his presidency? What is his legacy? What do these things reveal about his character?
3) Ian- Briefly teach us about the Iran-Contra Affair. What seem to be the motivations of Reagan Administration officials during this event? What would the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 have to do with this event?
Ryan-Briefly teach us about the INF Treaty of 1987. Also, what was the Y2K bug?
Cassadie G.-Briefly teach us about what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Congress passed an amendment to withhold MFN trading status from China in response to this event. Why did President Bush decide to grant MFN status to China in spite of Congressional opposition?
Sasha-Briefly teach us about the fall of the Berlin Wall. How did the lifting of the Iron Curtain impact Germany and surrounding Eastern European nations?
Madi-Briefly teach us about Operation Desert Storm.
Rahbin-Briefly teach us about the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing.
Cassidy L.-Briefly teach us about the Bush and Gore election and the infamous hanging chad.
High School 4/2 The Vietnam Era (1968-1980)
Timeline
1968 Tet OffensiveWar divides American public into “hawks” and “doves”
Cultural revolution strong: “hippie” lifestyle and “Jesus freaks”
Richard Nixon elected president
Sesame Street premiers on public television
Violent and peaceful Anti-war protests continue
Henry Kissinger serves as National Security adviser and pioneers deténte
Strategic Arms Limitations TalksTreaty (SALT I)
Arab oil embargo (OPEC oil crisis)
Roe vs. Wade
Nixon is the first American President to resign from office
Gerald R. Ford replaces Nixon as president
Ford announces end of American involvement in Vietnam
Fall of Saigon
Quotes and Homework
I need Ian, Cassadie G. to answer #1.
Ryan, Cassidy L., and Madi answer #2.
Sasha and Rahbin answer #3.
EVERYONE answer #4 and #5.
Ryan, Cassidy L., and Madi answer #2.
Sasha and Rahbin answer #3.
EVERYONE answer #4 and #5.
1) "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." --Richard M. Nixon
Research and discuss the role the American media played in the Vietnam war. Vietnam was very much a “media war,” fought in newspapers and on television as much as in the jungles of Vietnam. What does this mean?
2) "Forgiveness made me free from hatred. I still have many scars on my body and severe pain most days but my heart is cleansed. Napalm is very powerful, but faith, forgiveness, and love are much more powerful. We would not have war at all if everyone could learn how to live with true love, hope, and forgiveness. If that little girl in the picture can do it, ask yourself: Can you?" --Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Who is Kim Phuc, and what did she experience that makes this quote so powerful? How does she use her story today?
If there are any points on the timeline that we were unable to cover in class today, I will assign each of you one point to research and present next week. Don't forget! Your input is important!
4) What was the Arab oil embargo of 1973 (OPEC oil crisis)? How is it related to the construction of the Alaskan Pipeline?
5) What was the Iran hostage crisis of 1979?
High School 3/26 Civil Rights and the Vietnam Era Begins (1955-1969),
1957 The Supreme Court ordered Montgomery, Alabama to desegregate its bus system.
1957 The Little Rock Nine
1958 Alaska was admitted into the union as the 49th state.
1959 Hawaii entered the union as the 50th state.
1960 John F. Kennedy elected President of the US
1961 The Freedom Riders
1961 Bay of Pigs
1962-1963 Engel vs. Vitale and Abington School District vs. Schempp
1962-1963 Engel vs. Vitale and Abington School District vs. Schempp
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 March on Washington and MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech (August 28th)1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated (November 22)
1963 Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, LBJ, is sworn in as President after the death of JFK.
1964 LBJ wins next presidential election (Great Society)
1964 The 1964 Civil Rights Act (Ku Klux Klan and Black Panthers)
1964 Muhammad Ali reigned as the Undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champion
1964 Muhammad Ali reigned as the Undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champion
1964 US Involvement in the Congo and Dr. Paul Carson killed
1965 US sends troops to Vietnam
1966 Miranda vs. Arizona
1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes first African-American Supreme Court Justice
1968 MLK assassination
1969 The Draft Lottery and Draft Dodgers1966 Miranda vs. Arizona
1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes first African-American Supreme Court Justice
1968 MLK assassination
Quotes
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, 'We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.'
… I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
--Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
--From the Inaugural address of John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961
Homework
Please write or type your answers to the following questions. You will be turning these in to me and you will share what you learned with the class. I can’t wait to see what you learn and what you think about these parts of our history!
Homework for everyone: Read MLK’s speech and answer the following questions: (I highly recommend getting permission from your parents to watch the video of his speech online!)
What are civil rights? What is discrimination?
According to the speech, to whom did the Emancipation Proclamation give hope?
How is the Emancipation Proclamation connected to the I Have a Dream Speech?
What other founding American documents did Martin Luther King reference
within his speech?
What is the significance of using these documents as examples/references within the I Have a Dream Speech?
Identify the goal of the Civil Rights movement as outlined by King.
Answer the group of questions below that you were assigned in class:
#1: Who was Ruby Bridges? Tell me about her. Tell me what she experienced and overcame during the Civil Rights movement. What can we learn from her, from her parents, and from her teacher, Mrs. Henry?
#2:Who was Madalyn Murray O’Hair? What effect did she have on our nation? What are the positive and negative effects of her actions on followers of Christ? What life changing thing happened to her first son William Murray?
#3: What was the Cold War? When did it start and when did it end? How are the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam related to the Cold War? How is the Space Race related to the Cold War? Why did the Cold War end?
#4: Before his death, Dr. Carlson said, “In this century, more people have died for their witness for Christ than died in the early centuries, which we think of as the days of the martyrs.”
Who was Dr. Paul Carlson? Do some research about his quote. How do you think our freedoms in America affect our awareness of the persecution of our fellow Christ followers around the world? How do our freedoms positively or negatively affect how we live out our faith in Christ?
High School 3/12 Postwar America (1945-1960)
Surprise! No homework for Spring break! But Feel Free to find more American history for yourselves! :)
High School 2/26 Postwar America (1945-1960)
Timeline
Timeline:
(1945) Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed
(1945) Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed
(1947) Cold War
(1948) Berlin Airlift
(1948-1951) Marshall Plan
(1950-53) Korean War
(1951) Color TV
(1952) Polio Vaccine created
(1952) Eisenhower became 34th president
(1954) Brown vs. Board of Education
(1955) Warsaw Pact
(1955) Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man
(1956) Elvis Presley’s first single released
Quote:
"Leadership is the art of getting someone to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothes. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Homework:
How did the italicized points above directly influence the American culture? Would you consider these positive or negative contributions? Why?
For next week:
Research and be ready to discuss:
President Nixon's two most memorable presidential "achievements"
(hint: Watergate is one)
Bay of Pigs
High School 2/19 New Deal/WWII (1933-1945)
Timeline Events
March 12, 1947 Marshall Plan "Truman Doctrine"
April 18, 1942 Jimmy Dolittle and the Raiders "Dolittle/Tokyo Raid"
1940-44 Rosie the Riveter
Aug. 6/9, 1945 Truman and the Bomb
June 1948-May 1949 Berlin Airlift
1947-1991 Cold War
May 14, 1948 Israel Becomes a Nation
Quotes:
Homework:
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? Why were they important and what was their impact on the Cold War? Come prepared to share.
Research the Korean War and write a one-page summary of its roots and outcome. Here's one option for study:
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/koreanwar/summary.html
March 12, 1947 Marshall Plan "Truman Doctrine"
April 18, 1942 Jimmy Dolittle and the Raiders "Dolittle/Tokyo Raid"
1940-44 Rosie the Riveter
Aug. 6/9, 1945 Truman and the Bomb
June 1948-May 1949 Berlin Airlift
1947-1991 Cold War
May 14, 1948 Israel Becomes a Nation
Quotes:
"The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't." ~Jimmy Dolittle
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. ~Richard M. Nixon
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? Why were they important and what was their impact on the Cold War? Come prepared to share.
Research the Korean War and write a one-page summary of its roots and outcome. Here's one option for study:
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/koreanwar/summary.html
High School 2/12 New Deal/WWII (1933-1945)
Lesson
Holocaust Presentation by Shelley Pulliam
Timeline Events: (Add dates to timeline from Mrs. Pulliam's presentation)
Quotes
"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions." ~Primo Levi
Please reflect on this quote and write your response. Do you believe it? What makes the nightly news, the "monsters" or the "functionaries" and why?
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. we must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." ~Elie Wiesel
In what circumstances today and even within our city do human beings endure suffering and humiliation? Should we take sides? How?
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." ~Edmund Burke
Assignment
Holocaust Presentation by Shelley Pulliam
Timeline Events: (Add dates to timeline from Mrs. Pulliam's presentation)
Quotes
"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions." ~Primo Levi
Please reflect on this quote and write your response. Do you believe it? What makes the nightly news, the "monsters" or the "functionaries" and why?
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. we must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." ~Elie Wiesel
In what circumstances today and even within our city do human beings endure suffering and humiliation? Should we take sides? How?
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." ~Edmund Burke
Assignment
➪ What was the Cold War?
➪ What is a Baby Boomer?
➪ Who was Rosa Parks?
➪ What is a Baby Boomer?
➪ Who was Rosa Parks?
High School 2/5 New Deal/WWII (1933-1945)
Timeline Events
1932 FDR Elected President
1933 Assassination Attempt on FDR
1933 Wiley Post flies around the world in 8 ½ days
1933 Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany & First Nazi concentration camp established
1935 Wiley Post and Will Rogers killed in a plane crash
1939 WWII begins
1940 Auschwitz opens (concentration and death camp)
1940 FDR elected to a 3rd Presidential term
1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Mount Rushmore completed
1942 Manhattan Project begins (project to create first atomic bomb)
1944 D-Day (Allies stormed the beaches of German-occupied France)
1945 Germans surrender and Hitler commits suicide
Recommended Books and Movies
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Assignment
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Assignment
➪ What was the Holocaust? What years did it occur? Why did it happen?
Quote:
"I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." ~Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, upon learning of the success of the attack on Pearl Harbor
"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." ~Winston Churchill (November 10, 1942)
Interesting Facts:
➪ How did the Nazis get people to the concentration and death camps?
➪ How many people were murdered during the Holocaust? How many were Jews?Quote:
"I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." ~Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, upon learning of the success of the attack on Pearl Harbor
"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." ~Winston Churchill (November 10, 1942)
-FDR was homeschooled until the age of 14.
-In 1940, minimum wage was $.30 an hour. (Federal minimum wage in 2015 is $7.25 an hour.)
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