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| AP Government Summer Assignment
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| AP Chapters 1,2
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| AP Chapter 3
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| AP Chapter 4
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| AP Chapter 5
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| AP Chapter 6
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| AP Chapter 7
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| AP Chapter 8
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| AP Chapter 9
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| AP Chapter 10
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| AP Chapter 11
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| AP Chapter 12
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| AP Chapter 13
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| AP Chapter 14
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| AP Chapter 15
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| AP Chapter 16
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| U.S. History Chapters 1, 2, 3
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| U.S. History Chapter 4
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| U.S. History Chapter 5
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| U.S. History Chapter 6
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| U.S. History Chapter 7
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| U.S. History Chapter 8
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| U.S. History Chapter 9
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| U.S. History Chapter 10
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| U.S. History Chapter 11
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| U.S. History Chapter 12
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| U.S. History Chapter 13
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| U.S. History Chapter 14
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| U.S. History Chapters 16,17,18
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| U.S. History Chapters 19,20,21
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| U.S. History Chapters 22,23
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| U.S. History Chapters 24,25
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| U.S. History Chapters 26,27
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| U.S. History Chapters 28,29,30
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| U.S. History Chapter 31
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| U.S. History Chapter 32
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| U.S. History Chapter 33
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| US Government Chapters 1,2
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| US Government Chapter 3
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| US Government Chapters 10,11,12
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| US Government Chapters 13,14
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| US Government Chapter 18
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| US Govt Chapters 19,20,21
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| Remembering 9/11/01
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| The Civil Rights Movement
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| Economics Chapters 1,2,3
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| Eco Chapt 9
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| Eco Chapters 6,7,8
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| Eco Chapt 13
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| Eco Chapter 15
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| Eco Chapt 21
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America as a Super Power
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Chapters 28 - 29
The Cold War
The containment of the Soviet Union and her influence.
US v Soviet Union
Germany 1948
Germany is divided into four zones
US, UK, France, Soviet Union
Berlin - city is deep within the Soviet sector but occupied by the four powers.
Marshall Plan - of former Chief of Staff George Marshall, organized attempt to rebuild a war torn Europe.
Aid to occupied Germany would be accomplished by as a single unit.
Stalin became suspicious; tension
Russia blocks off the city and closes all ground activity to the city
Berlin Airlift - supplies were flown over blockade. Planes beat the blockade.
Stalin backs off and allows access to Berlin, but Soviet Sector becomes East Germany (Soviet Satellite)
Winston Churchill - famous "Iron Curtain" speech. It exists from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic.
Famous events associated with the Cold War
Truman Doctrine - stopping the spread of Communism
China - Mao Zedong v Chiang Kai Shek
Communism in China 1949. Taiwan is settled by Nationalists(Chiang Kai Shek)
Stalin pushes for UN acceptance and Communist China's admission to the Security Council. US veto. Soviets walk out of
meetings.
Korean War - 1950-53
1950 - Soviet armed and trained North Korean troops invade South Korea.
US gets involved - Security Council condemns the action orders No. Korea to withdraw north of the 38 parallel
Sygman Rhee (Democracy) supported by Truman and General MacArthur
UN forces lead by The American Caesar
(Pacific sector Supreme Commander responsible for the rebuilding of Japan)
Inchon Landing - devised by MacArthur
UN forces 80% American.
Tremendous success. No. Koreans
were driven to area 60 mi south of 38th parallel.
Chinese cross Yalu River and swarm down from the north.
MacArthur wanted an all out effort against the Chinese. Truman, Bradley said no.
MacArthur publicly criticizes Truman's strategy.
Truman fires the American Caesar.
Public realizes Truman is defusing a nuclear war.
1953 - President Eisenhower threatens to use nuclear weapons. An armistice is signed July 27, 1953.
Panmunjon- 38 parallel
35,000 American Dead
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the 1950's.
-Bring troops home, military reserve
- Nuclear Weapons cheaper than a standing army
Secretary of State - John Foster Dulles threatened massive retaliation against the Soviet Union and Communist China if
they attacked any country
"The US will go to the brink of war to preserve peace in the world" brinkmanship
Containment of Communism through the Alliance system.
NATO, SEATO - pactomania
Warsaw Pact Nations - Communist Nations of Europe
Dienbienphu- No. Vietnam (Communist)
So. Vietnam (Democratic)
Cuba - US backed Castro v Battista
Castro seized US holdings and turned to the Soviet Union for aid.
Soviet occupation - Hungary 1956 and Eastern Europe becoming satellites
The Space Race
The Symbol of the Cold War
- The Berlin Wall constructed in 1961.
The high point - Cuban Missile Crisis
Detente
The Middle East
Eisenhower Doctrine
aimed at checking Communism in the Middle East
Nasser - Arab Nationalism
SALT
Afganistan
Star Wars - Gorbachev - glastnost
The Cold War at home - Red Scare
Taft/Hartley Act (1947)
- curbed union power for fear of socialism
Smith Act (1940)
- outlawed the teaching of how to over throw the US
Mc Carran Act (1950)
- required Communists to register with the Attorney General
"card carrying Communist"
HUAC- (Richard Nixon) Alger Hiss named as a spy passing secrets to the Soviets during the 1930's
The Rosenberg Case - Ethel and Julius arrested and accused of selling A-Bomb secrets to Soviets.
****tried, convicted, electrocuted
Nuclear War was a real threat. Air raid practice.
Fall Out Shelters
Bunkers were built in back yards
Sen Joseph MaCarthy- led the hysteria campaign v Communism "Red Fear"
Ronald Reagan - Hollywood blacklists
- John Garfield, Helen Hayes
The Crucible - written about Salem
The US officially the victor in 1990
Berlin Wall comes down. Soviet Union is broken into smaller separate Republics. Communism crumbled.
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The Cold War
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