2nd Semester Review

American History

Unit 7

Causes of the Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The New Deal

Lasting Effects of the Great Depression

Unit 8

Causes of WWII

US Neutrality & Involvement in WWII

Pearl Harbor

Noose Theory

D-Day

Island Hopping Campaign

Dropping of the Atomic Bombs

Turning Points of WWII

Aftermath of WWII (Partition of Germany/Korea)

Unit 9

Cold War

Containment

Weapons Race

Truman/Eisenhower Doctrines

Space Race

Brinkmanship

Korean War

McCarthyism

Rosenbergs

Economics/Business of the 50s

Baby Boom

Social Conformity

               

Unit 10

John F. Kennedy

    Bay of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis

Lyndon B. Johnson

    Great Society

Robert F. Kennedy

Martin Luther King Jr.

Brown vs. Board of Education

Malcolm X

Black Panthers

Civil Rights Act

Geneva Conference/Accords (1954)

Vietcong

Draft Resistance

Warfare of Vietnam

My Lai Massacre

Tet Offensive

Election of 1968

Kent State

Vietnamization

End of American Involvement

Psychological Effects of Vietnam

McNamara’s Lessons

60s Counterculture

Women’s Rights

Latino Rights

Native American Rights

Gay Rights Movement

Blended Units

TV, Film, & Music

Unit 11

Nixon’s Foreign Policy

Watergate Scandal

Gerald Ford

70s Social Changes

70s Economic Recession

Jimmy Carter

Iran Hostage Crisis

Camp David Accords

Ronald Reagan

     New Right/Conservatism

     Reaganomics

     Foreign Policy

     Iran Contra Scandal

War on Drugs

Emergence of AIDS

Invasion of Panama

Fall of Berlin Wall

End of Cold War

Persian Gulf War

Unit 12

LA Riots

Clinton Administration

    Economy

    Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

    Lewinsky Scandal

Dissolution of Yugoslavia and Aftermath

Gen X Identity

Election of 2000

George W. Bush

September 11^th, 2001

War in Afghanistan

2^nd Iraq War

Current Economic Recession

Election of 2008

Current Political Climate and Debate

English

The Great Gatsby

     Plot Analysis

     Character Analysis

     Use of Symbolism

     Modernism (Death of American Dream)

Essay & Research Writing

     Introductions

     Thesis Statements

     Body Development

     Transitions

     Quote integration

     Conclusions

     Citations

     Works Cited

To Kill a Mockingbird

     Plot Analysis

     Character Analysis

     Theme Development

     Historical Context

Nonconformity Poetry

     Poetic Devices

     Confessionals

     Beats

     Post-Modernism

Fallen Angels

     Plot Analysis

     Character Analysis

     Historical Context & Themes

Grammar

    Parts of Speech

    Types of Sentences

    Sentence Construction Errors

    Punctuation

    Active/Passive Voice

Vocab

     Root Lists 4-8

Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

     Use of Humor

     Voice and tone

     Multicultural perspective