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Also, your grade on the Presidents quiz (and subsequent quizzes) are based not on how many you get right, but how long it takes for you to get all of them.
Below are the notes and discussion questions for last week, this week, and next week.
Go get 'em.
AMERICAN WARS
1756-2010
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR
1756-1763
Cost of war led to colonies being taxed
George Washington becomes field commander
Native Americans cast their lot with the French against the English.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1776-1783
Established America as its own country
Showed the vulnerability of the British army
America and France become allies
WAR OF 1812
1812-1815
British force American sailors into their Navy
America fights England to a draw
England pulls out of US territory
MEXICAN WAR
1846-1848
Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Compromise Line
Combat experience for future Civil War generals
CIVIL WAR
1861-1865
“Becoming a Singular” – Ken Burns
Racial integration
600,000+ casualties
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
1898
Expansive foreign policy
First major victory against a European power
First war waged entirely on foreign soil
WORLD WAR I
1914(7)-1918
U. S. is the decisive factor in a stalemate war
U. S. becomes a dominant player in the world
Woodrow Wilson's idealism (International law, world government)
WORLD WAR II
1939(41)-1945
U. S. and U. S. S. R. the last two standing
European rivalries dead
Advent of the nuclear age
KOREAN WAR
1951-1954
First test of united western world vs. communism
Hindered China's desire to dominate global communism
Never resolved – just stopped
VIETNAM WAR
1950(6)-1975
Signaled the end of European colonialism
“The war that would not die”
Last war fought with drafted soldiers
GULF WAR
1990-1991
First major military conflict after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Central role of oil in American foreign policy
Advent of “New World Order”
AFGHANISTAN
2001-present
Response to 9/11 attacks
New kind of war: Nations vs. non-nations
Perpetual skirmishing vs. pitched battles
IRAQ
2003-present (kind of)
Pre-emptive war (Bush Doctrine)
Legitimacy of the UN
Nation building
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:
Agree or disagree with one of the following statements, telling why:
1. America became a powerful nation in the 20th Century primarily because the wars were fought everywhere but here.
2. The most significant wars and battles are those that involve the most people in combat.
3. Of the five “big stories” we talked about earlier, the one with the biggest impact on the outcomes of wars has been technology.
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question one. I agree with it because if you look at the history of other nations at the same period of time, their status in the world as a power was not as great because their economies were mainly focused on the funding of wars and repairing the damage done by the wars. America became a power because our industries provided machines and weapons to fight the wars, soldiers, but did not have to repair damages done by fighting.
ReplyDeleteI agree with tiffany on question one. Everybody else was trying to fight off others but they also had damages to repair and ammunition to buy so there was a lot of damage to other countries but not us because the wars were not fought on our land but in Europe and Asia.
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Question #1
ReplyDeleteI agree completely because we can focus completely on supporting our troops with weapons and machines and not be worried about all the repairs that need to be done in our country!!
Question #2
ReplyDeleteI disagree. I don’t think the amount of people involved matters too much. One of the most significant wars to the US, I think, would be the American Revolution, seeing as it made us a free Nation and set the foundation to what our country is today. The number of troops in the Revolution was quite significantly smaller then the amount troops involved in the more recent wars like World War I and World War 2, but it’s a war that made a huge impact on the US.
@ anyone
ReplyDeleteI agree with Katie, the outcome of the war partailly concerns the number of troops, but what really matters is what the technology, the leadership, and the moral of the troops are
@chewie and katie
ReplyDeletei agree with you all completly
i also agree with Katie!!:)
ReplyDelete@ everyone
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything that anybody has said so far. J.T. Mayes :D
Question 1
ReplyDeletei agree. when we are fighting in other places that gives our country time to get stonger and prepare incase something does happen here.
i totally agree with everyone. i think since we were fighting somewhere else it gave us time to provide more ammunition and other things to the troops and to prepare just in case something does happen over here.
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