United States HISTORY Grade 6: Use these questions tohelp you address each topic.
1. Who are the important people? What are they noted for? Why?
2. Can I define and explain the key points of each topic?
3. When & where did each key event take place?
Can I locate them on a map?
Great Depression:
Stock market crash
Hoover vs Roosevelt (liberal/ Conservative)
Dust Bowl (migration)
Unemployment (causes/reforms)
New Deal programs/Second New Deal
World War II
Causes of the war
Axis & Allie countries
Events & Leaders
Dictatorship& Fascism
Holocaust
Life on the American Homefront
Japanese Internment
military strategies
African-American Roles
Women's Roles
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Korean War
Communism/ Containment
Domino theory
Vietnam War/ Vietnamization
McCathyism
Space Race/Sputnik
Consumer credit/debt
Baby boom
Berlin Airlift
Civil Rights
Events & Leaders
Laws, Acts and Cases
Strategies to achieve equality
Jim Crow/Black codes
Role of Women (Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer,etc.)
Vietnam
Causes of the War
Events/Leaders
Citizen's Reactions to the War/ Protests
Weapons
How the war ends.
Study sessions after school Monday and Tuesday (6/4-6/5).
Be there!!
