The Cold War

Entry 1 - 1/28/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 26 Pg 779

  1. How did the concerns of the Soviets and Americans differ towards the end of WW2?

  2. How was Germany to be divided?

  3. Why was President Truman against imposing war reparations on Germany?

  4. Which nations would pro-Soviet communist governments be stablished?

Entry 2 - 1/29/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 26 Pg 784

  1. What was the main point that George Kennan made in his “long telegram”?

  2. Identify the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

  3. Why did the Soviets cut off traffic into West Berlin?

  4. What was the purpose of NATO?

1/30/2025 - Assignment

Korean War WebQuest

Entry 3 - 1/31/2025 - Ol Blue Pg 788

  1. How did Truman view the communist invasion?

  2. Why did Truman fire MacArthur?

  3. What is a limited war?

Entry 4 - 2/3/2025

  1. What is a Tariff?

2. What was the Tariff of Abomination?

3. What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?

4. Which nations are currently being targeted under the new Trump tariffs?

Entry 5 - 2/5/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 26 Pg 791

  1. Why did Truman establish the Loyalty Review Program?

  2. What was HUAC?

  3. Who were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?

Entry 6 - 2/6/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 26 Pg 798

  1. Define Massive Retaliation and Brinkmanship

  2. Why was Sputnik so alarming to many Americans?

Friday - 2/7/2025 - Assignment

Cold War WebQuest

Entry 7 - 2/18/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 28 Pg 848

  1. Why did the US plan to overthrow the Cuban leader in 1961?

  2. What was the result of the Bay of Pigs invasion?

  3. Why did Kennedy order a blockade against Cuba in 1962?

  4. What were the consequences of the Missile Crisis?

Entry 8 - 2/19/2025 - Ol Blue - CH 28 Pg 850

  1. Where was Kennedy when he was assassinated?

  2. Who is credited with killing JFK?

  3. What was the Warren Commission?

  4. Who became president later that day?

Assignment: On a Word doc or Google doc

Create a timeline of events on what Kennedy was doing in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Identify one of the Conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Thoroughly explain what the theory is and then find information on how that theory is not. Identify who is thought to have been behind the assassination - according to the conspiracy. Why is that theory believed? Describe what you might think now about what happened.

Also identify who was blamed and how he was ultimately arrested and what happened to him.



Entry 1 - 2/25/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 28 Pg 857

  1. What was President Johnson’s Great Society?

  2. What were the two most significant healthcare programs created during this time?

  3. How were schools helped by this plan?

Great Society WebQuest

Entry 2 - Ol Blue Ch 29 Pg 867

  1. What did the Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson establish?

  2. Identify the case, Brown v. Board of Education?

  3. What effects did the Southern Manifesto have on the Southerners?

  4. From whom did Martin Luther King Jr learn his philosophy and techniques from?

Entry 3 - 2/27/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 29 Pg 871

  1. What happened in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?

  2. Who was Orval Faubus?

  3. How did President Eisenhower intervene in Little Rock?

  4. What was the sit-in movement?

Entry 4 - 3/4/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 29 Pg 874

  1. What were the Freedom Riders protesting against?

  2. Who was Eugene “Bull” Connor?

  3. What is a filibuster?

  4. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

3/5/2025

Watching President Trump’s State of the Union Speech




Friday - 3/7/25 - Assignment

Click on the link to open up the pdf.

There are two pages - each page has two images. Write a short essay based on those two images and the Civil Rights Movement. Identifying what, when, where, and why.

Civil Rights images

Entry 5 - 3/10/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 29 Pg 882

  1. Why did rioting erupt in Los Angeles and Detroit in 1965 and 1967?

  2. Why did Martin Luther King Jr move to Chicago in the 1960s?

  3. What was the Black Panther Party?

Entry 6 - 3/11/2025 - TCI book, Pg 310

  1. What are the four basic goals of US Foreign Policy?

  2. Pg 320 - Which departments are more heavily involved within the bureaucracy of American Foreign Policy?

  3. Identify the Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary, Truman Doctrine and Domino Theory- Google

Entry 7 - 3/12/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 30 Pg 893

  1. Who was Ho Chi Minh?

  2. What two events convinced President Truman to help France in Vietnam?

  3. What was the Vietcong? Pg 896

  4. How many military advisors were in Vietnam by 1963?

Entry 8 - 3/17/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 30 Pg 898

  1. What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

  2. Why did some White House staff not support US policy in Vietnam?

  3. What was Operation Rolling Thunder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u77UU_QcjTM

Vietnam War in HD video Questions. Episode 1: The Beginning

1.       What were the guys who fought in World War II often called? The best ______

2.       In the Spring of 1964, what percentage of Americans had heard of Vietnam?

3.       What was the job of the 16,000 US “advisors” stationed in Vietnam?

4.       What did Congress pass in August of 1964, authorizing the president to take necessary measures in SE Asia?

5.       (12:09) How many weeks did the US think it would take to bomb North Vietnam and stop their attacks on the South in Operation Rolling Thunder?

6.       (22:00) After more Attacks from the North, President Johnson decided to increase the number of American troops from 75,000 to ___________________

7.       (24:30) What was the problem that worried the leaders of the American attack force at the Landing Zone X-Ray?

8.       About how many men did each helicopter carry?

9.       (33:55) – What was the code name that Colonel Moore called for during the attack?

10. What did that mean?

Entry 9 - 3/18/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 30 Pg 900

  1. What was Agent Orange used for?

  2. Why did President Johnson not allow US forces to attack the Ho Chi Minh Trail?

  3. How did the Vietnam War quickly become a war that would be difficult to win?

Entry 10 - 3/19/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 30 Pg 904

  1. Why was Vietnam the first “television war”?

  2. What was the credibility gap?

  3. How was the draft viewed as unfair?

  4. What was the result of the Tet Offensive?

Entry 11 - 3/25/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 30 Pg 910

  1. What was Vietnamization?

  2. Why did the American invasion of Cambodia spark protests?

  3. What did the Pentagon Papers confirm that many Americans had believed