history.
President Truman's options to end WWII with Japan:
Full-Scale Invasion: High U.S. casualties predicted.
Naval Blockade: Force surrender via starvation/destruction; slow, civilian suffering.
Atomic Bomb Demonstration: Show bomb's power to pressure surrender.
Atomic Bomb Use: Quick end, save U.S. lives; Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings led to Japan's surrender.
Ideas/events leading to the American Revolutionary War:
Enlightenment Thinking: Liberty, self-government.
Taxation Without Representation.
Proclamation of 1763: Banned settlement west of Appalachians.
Stamp Act (1765): Sparked protest.
Boston Massacre (1770): Symbol of tyranny.
Boston Tea Party (1773): Led to British punishment.
Intolerable Acts (1774): United colonies against Britain.
First Continental Congress (1774): Colonies organized.
Manifest Destiny: Belief in U.S. expansion across North America.
Belief in American Superiority: Spread democracy, Christianity.
Territorial Expansion: Westward expansion into Native lands.
Indian Removal: Forced relocation (e.g., Trail of Tears).
Destruction of Native Cultures.
Violence and War: Indian Wars.
Nazi treatment of Jews vs. U.S. treatment of Japanese-Americans:
Nazi Germany: Holocaust, concentration camps, Nuremberg Laws, anti-Semitic propaganda.
U.S.: Internment camps, Executive Order 9066, loss of rights/property, racism and fear.
FDR and the “New Deal”:
FDR: 32nd President during Great Depression.
Great Depression: Economic collapse.
New Deal: Relief, Recovery, Reform.
Relief: CCC, WPA.
Recovery: PWA, TVA.
Reform: Social Security Act, SEC.
Fireside Chats: Radio broadcasts to build trust.
Impact: Expanded government role.
Gibson Girl vs. Flapper:
Gibson Girl: Tall, elegant, traditional.
Flapper: Modern, rebellious, short skirts.
Martin Luther King Jr.:
Goals: End segregation, equal rights.
Key Beliefs: Nonviolence, civil disobedience.
Famous Actions: Montgomery Bus Boycott, "I Have a Dream" speech. Helped pass Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Assassination: 196