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How does a
nation protect
its freedom?
The Modern Era
Unit 8 The Modern
Era
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A New Century
Lesson 2
Good Times, Hard Times
Lesson 3
World War II
Lesson 4
The Cold War
Lesson 5
A Time of Change
Lesson 6
Present-day Challenges
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progressive
reform
muckraker
League of
Nations
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A New Century
Vocabulary
Treaty of
Versailles
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How did the
United States
protect its
interests between
1900 and 1918?
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A New Century
Theodore Roosevelt
Square Deal
Progressive reforms in business
and government
National parks and laws to protect
natural resources
Panama Canal
Central American shortcut from
Atlantic to Pacific
U.S. Navy helped Panama gain
independence.
U.S purchased Canal Zone.
1914: first 48-mile voyage
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List the sequence of events leading to the completion of
the Panama Canal.
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A New Century
World War I
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of AustriaHungary assassinated in Serbia
Alliances caused countries to take
sides.
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Deadly new weapons
poison gas
machine guns
tanks
submarines
airplanes
Trench warfare
What event brought the U.S. into WWI?
In 1917, Germany sank eight American ships.
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A New Century
1917: President Wilson declared war on
Central Powers.
U.S. warships protected merchant ships.
Germany already near defeat.
The Home Front
industries expanded
job opportunities for women and
minorities
sacrificed by conserving
Treaty of Versailles
Why did the U.S. decide not to join the League
of Nations?
The U.S. Senate refused to approve the
League of Nations because they did not want
to be drawn into the political problems of other
countries.
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suffrage
mass
production
assembly line
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Good Times, Hard Times
Vocabulary
stock
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How did
economic and
political
changes affect
American
freedoms?
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Good Times, Hard Times
“The Roaring 20s”
Women’s Suffrage
19th Amendment
The Great Migration
Racial violence and Jim Crow laws in
South
African Americans left the South to
move to cities in the North.
Automobiles changed America.
need for highways, gas stations, motels
oil industry grew
mass production, assembly line
Age of Wonders
vacuum cleaners, electric stoves,
refrigerators
radio and movies
buying on credit
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Widespread prejudice toward immigrants
Laws limiting immigration
Ku Klux Klan revival
targeted African Americans, Jews,
Catholics, and immigrants
4 million members
Economy faced serious problems.
Companies owned by stockholders.
Many people owed money.
Profits were falling.
1929: stock market crashed.
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Good Times, Hard Times
The Great Depression
Banks closed.
Companies went out of business.
People lost jobs and homes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal
Government programs hired
workers.
Social Security and unemployment
insurance
Drought in the Midwest – Dust Bowl
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World War II
Vocabulary
dictator
neutral
ration
internment
concentration
camp
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How did the
United States
defend its
freedom in
World War II?
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Adolf Hitler was dictator of
Germany.
Axis Powers: Germany, Italy,
Japan
1939: Nazi army invaded Poland.
Allied Powers declared war on
Germany.
U.S. tried to remain neutral.
December 7, 1941: Japan
attacked Pearl Harbor.
U.S. entered the war.
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World War II
War on two fronts
Pacific Ocean and Asia
Europe and Africa
Battle of Midway – important
U.S. victory in Pacific
Germany driven out of Soviet
Union and Italy surrendered
D-Day – Allied forces landed
in Normandy, France
Germany surrendered.
Holocaust
U.S. dropped atomic bombs
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan surrendered.
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The Cold War
Vocabulary
communism
truce
arms race
satellite
era
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How did world
changes affect
the United
States from
1945 to 1960?
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The Cold War
Tensions grew between U.S and
Soviet Union.
Under dictator Josef Stalin, Soviet
Union took control of much of Eastern
Europe.
Communism – government owns all
property
Americans feared spread of
communism.
Cold War fought with ideas, money,
words
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Why did Americans fear the spread of communism?
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The Cold War
Identify the following terms and
events from the Cold War.
Communism
United Nations
NATO
Marshall Plan
Iron Curtain
Propaganda
Nuclear weapons tests
Korean War
Arms race
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1950s
People had more money
Houses, televisions, cars
McCarthyism
Senator McCarthy accused many
people of being communists
Unfair attacks
Berlin Wall divided communist East
Berlin from free West Berlin.
The Space Race
Soviet Sputnik
U.S. Neil Armstrong walked on moon
Cuban Missile Crisis
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Civil Rights Act
prejudice
Voting Rights
Act
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A Time of Change
Vocabulary
migrant farm
worker
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What were the
results of protest
in the second half
of the 20th
century?
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A Time of Change
Identify the following terms and
events from the 1960s.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
March on Washington
The Civil Rights Act and Voting
Rights Act
President Kennedy
assassinated
The War on Poverty and the
Great Society
Migrant workers and the UFW
The Women’s Movement and
NOW
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A Time of Change
What was the importance of Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board
of Education?
Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that separate but equal was constitutional
and allowed racial segregation of schools.
In Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme Court overturned Plessy
v. Ferguson and school segregation became illegal.
Why did the Vietnam War divide Americans?
The “Hawks” believed that the U.S. had to fight the North Vietnamese
to stop communism from spreading.
The “Doves” believed the U.S. should not fight in a war when its own
safety was not threatened.
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terrorism
interdependence
global warming
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Present-day Challenges
Vocabulary
North American
Free Trade
Agreement
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What challenges
does the United
States face in the
21st century?
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Terrorism in the United States
September 11, 2001
Al Qaeda
War in Iraq and Afghanistan
Economic interdependence
North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA)
Environmental issues
burning of fossil fuels
pollution and acid rain
global warming
The Future
developments in science
and technology
new energy sources
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Use clues from the text to make inferences about the War on Terrorism.
Text Clues
On 9/11/01, terrorists
attacked the U.S.
What You Know
President Bush
declared war on
terrorists, not
Muslims.
Inferences
The enemy is
terrorism, not Islam.
The United States
invaded Iraq.
Insurgents try to
topple the new
democratic
government.
Extremists want nonMuslim occupying
forces to leave Iraq.
President Bush vowed
to defeat all terrorists.
Insurgents attack U.S.
forces in Iraq.
Terrorists are difficult
to fight.
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Why did the U.S. enter World War I?
Germans sank the Lusitania with Americans on board, and then sank
eight American ships.
Why did the U.S. decide not to join the League of Nations?
The U.S. Senate refused to approve the League because they did not
want to be drawn into the political problems of countries far from the U.S.
border.
What was the Nineteenth Amendment?
The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What period followed the stock market crash of 1929?
The Great Depression followed the stock market crash.
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Why was the success of the Normandy invasion so important to the
Allies?
The victory at Normandy pushed the German forces away from the coast
and the Allies were able to surround Germany from three sides.
How did the U.S. end the war with Japan?
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is global warming?
Global warming is an overall rise in the Earth’s temperature. Burning
fossil fuels releases gases, especially carbon dioxide, into the
atmosphere. Scientists believe these gases help trap the sun’s heat
near Earth, causing a rise in temperature.
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