Civil Rights Homework Due Friday, May 6th

Directions: Complete 2 out of the 4 questions. For extra credit complete a 3rd question of your choice. Must be done well!!!

1.Create a diary entry for an African American living in the Old Civil Rights movement. Chose from one of these events to write about: Birmingham Protest, Selma March, March on Washington, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Emmett Till Murder, Sit Ins. The diary should be at least 15 sentences long and include specifics from one of these events.
2.Write your own newspaper article about the New Civil Rights Movement. It should be at least 20 sentences long and cover at least one of the topics of The Black Panther Party, Malcolm X, Black Power, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, Busing Riots. Be Creative!!!!!!!
3.Create your own cover for an issue of Ms Magazine. Include headlines that deal with both present day issues for women and past issues for women. Be Creative! It should be drawn on a piece of 8x10 paper.
4.Look in the newspaper, or online news sources for an issue dealing with minority civil rights today. Print or cut out the article and write a 10 sentence paragraph discussing the article and relating it to what we discussed about the minority civil rights movement in class.

Exam April 15, 2011

Review Sheet

Origins of the Cold War
Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference Division of Germany
Communism Capitalism NATO
Iron Curtain Truman Doctrine Containment
Marshall Plan Berlin Airlift Warsaw Pact
Satellite Country

The Cold War at Home
Loyalty Review Boards Red Scare Hollywood
Arms Race Atomic Threat Alger Hiss
Duck and Cover Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
Senator Joseph McCarthy McCarthyism

The Korean War
38th Parallel Truman McArthur
Containment Eisenhower Doctrine
Be sure to be able to answer: Why did America become involved in the Korean War, give examples.

1950’s
Television Conformity The Good Housewife Technology
Rock n Roll Books Art Business/ Roadways(Eisenhower)
Truman’s Fair Deal The Baby Boom GI bill Levittown

Prepare for both of these essays, they should be at least 3 paragraphs: intro, body and conclusion.
1. In your opinion, was the Cold War inevitable? If not, was the United States or the USSR more to blame? Provide examples.
2. Why has the Korean War often been called America’s “forgotten war”? What purpose did the war serve, and what impact did it have? Provide details to this answer.

Cold War Homework

Due: Thursday, April 14th

Directions: Answer 2 out of the 3 questions.
1.Draw your own political cartoon on McCarthyism.
2.Write the “good housewife” text for present day wives, include 7 points.
3.Analyze the Cold War. Write a 10 sentence paragraph discussing what happened after World War II that lead us into the Cold War. Analyze what the term “Cold War” means. Explain how the Cold War changed society in the 1950’s: music, conformity, television.

World War II Review - Exam, Wednesday, April 6th

World War II Review

Identify the following key terms:

Munich Conference
Benito Mussolini
Iwo Jima
Stalingrad
Manhattan Project
D-Day
Holocaust
Poland
50 Tin Cans
Island-Hopping
Czechoslovakia
Lend-Lease Act
Kellogg-Braind Pact
Dawes Plan
El Alamein
Adolf Hitler
Korematsu v. United States
Pearl Harbor
Appeasement
Rosie the Riveter
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Good Neighbor Policy
Washington Conference

1.Identify the factors that lead to World War II in Europe.
2.Identify what led the United States’ entrance into World War II.
3.Explain how the United States mobilized for war.
4.Describe the Home Front during World War II. How did it affect women?
5.Explain why the Japanese in America were placed in internment camps. Identify the impact this had on Japanese Americans.
6.Analyze the background of Korematsu v. United States, identify what the decision was.
7.Explain what the Holocaust was and what relationship it had on America (think about American soldiers discovering camps), why is the Holocaust discussed each year?
8.Identify what D-Day is and why it is such an important event in World War II.
9.Describe the steps the United States took to win the war against Japan. Why was the Atomic Bomb used?
10.Identify how war crimes were dealt with after the war, in both Germany and Japan.
11.Explain the United Nations and why it was created.
12.Analyze why the US and Soviets cooperated during World War II despite their differences.
13.What was the importance of Israel being created after World War II?