Monday-
Picking up with the first group
200 board games
Life
Scrabble
Sorry
Pictionary
Technology
Gameboy
Ds
IPhones
Netflix
Fashion
Bandanas
Crimped hair
Heeled flip flows
Matching sweatsuits
Spiked hair
Fads
Mannequin challenge
Bottle flipping
Time pods
Highlight
Dabbing
Protein shakes
Fidget spinners
Shows
Glee
Stranger things
Deadpool
La la land
Sports
Steph curry
Tom brady
Board games
Operation
Apples to apples
Bounce off
Headbands
Cards against humanity
Technology
Beats
Wireless
Apple watch
Smart cars
Fashion
Pink
Uggs
Birkenstocks
Miss me jeans
Major Events of Cold War-
- Berlin Blockade/Airlift-
- The blockade forced western allied powers to abandon the post ww2
- The airlift kept life going in West Berlin for 11 months until the Soviet Union lifted the blockade- dropped in supplies
- Berlin Wall up
- Put up during the early years of the Cold War. Was used to divide Berlin
- Western part was the loophole through the thousands of eastern germans that fled west.
- The Communist East Germans built the wall to take a lot of West Berlin
- Was put up August 13, 1961 to keep people in Berlin
- Berlin Wall down
- In 1989, the Soviet Union decided they were not going to interfere with other countries
- The Mayor of Berlin said he wasn't going to force people to stay
- People started to climb the wall and take it apart
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista
- Many Cubans fled Cuba because they didn't want Castro in charge
- CIA recruited 1,400 cubans in exile for an invasion of Cuba
- Plan was to invade Cuba and get rid of Castro but it did not work
- Tried to bomb their air force but Castro found out about the plan
- We still went on with the invasion
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- 13- day military and political standoff
- A spy plane saw missile assembly in Cuba
- President JFK was informed of this
- He made a committee to handle the Crisis
- US was being threatened and Kennedy said it was unacceptable
- Planned to put up a blockade so the soviets couldn't send in additional equipment
- JFK had a television broadcast informing the information and his plan
- We were on the brink of war and believed it to be the only casualty in the Cold War
- On October 26th, a deal was made- on October 28th, the crisis ended
- The deal was Khrushchev would remove missiles from Cuba if we would not invade Cuba
- McCarthyism-
- When there was investigations opened on communism
- McCarthy was elected to the senate in 1938
- He searched for communists using the CIA
- Created the second Red Scare
Tuesday
HUAC
Investigates alleged communist
House Un-American Activities Committee
Went after communist in Hollywood
“Black lists” Were lists of communists
Thought Hollywood was putting out communistic films
How the cold war came to an end
Mikhail Gorbachev gave freedom to vote and of speech
Economy failing
Berlin wall came down
Their War in Afghanistan
During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.
Amendments, Presidents, Scandals, Assassinations
22nd Amendment
Limited number of times a president can be elected to 2 terms
If the president were removed more that 2 years then the new guy can elect up to 10 years
23rd amendment
Gave DC electors in the Electoral College
24th amendment
Expanded voting rights by removing poll tax
25th amendment
If the president is taken out the vice president fills in and if they need to the new president can appoint a new vice president
Cabinet and congress can take out a president if you're unfit
26th amendment
Lowered voting age
27th amendment
Delayed laws affecting the salaries of congressmen till after the next election
All but one of the amendments affected the election
Presidents
Truman-
- health insurance
- Minimum wage
- Social security
- Equal rights laws
- CIA established
- National security act
Eisenhower
- $30 billion for interstates
- 10,000 workers
Thursday-
JFK
- Inauguration speech
- Peace Corps
- Young Men and Women serve in developing countries
- The New Frontier
- Space
Lyndon B. Johnson
- Great Society
- End Poverty, Reduce Crime, Abolish Inequality, Improve environment
- National Origins Quota System
- Only a few numbers of people can come in
- Immigration and Naturalization Act
- Everyone can come
Richard Nixon
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Ensure Environmental Protection
- NAtional Air Quality
- Reducing Automobile Pollution
- End Dumping of wastes in the Great Lakes
- War on drugs
- Increased Federal Funding for Drug- Control Agencies
- Strict laws
- SAODAP
- DEA
- Equal Employment Opportunity Act
- Discrimination Based on Race, Religion, National origin
- Visited CHina
- ReEstablished
- Allowed trade and relationships
- Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act
- New National Maximum speed limit- 55 MPH
Gerald Ford
- Whip Inflation Now
- Variety of Voluntary Anti-INflationary Initiatives created by citizens
- Pardon of Nixon
- Watergate Scandal
- Contribution to Ford’s Failure to win the presidential election
- Education for All Handicapped CHildren
- Access to fair education
Jimmy Carter
- Department of Energy Organization Act
- Long term research and development of energy technology
- Camp David Accords
- Groundwork for a permanent peace agreement
- Nobel peace prize
- Iran HOstage Crisis
- Energy Crisis
- Oil Prices Jumped 350%
- Higher Costs
- Businesses laid off workers
- Inflation
Ronald Reagan
- Reaganomics
- Space Shuttle Explosion
- War on Drugs
George Bush
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Ramps
- Elevators
- Manuel Noriega takedown
- Huge drug dealer
- Hated america and we took him
Bill Clinton
- NAFTA
- No tariffs
- Brady Bill
- Background check
- Assault weapons banned until 2003
George Bush
- No child left behind
- Tax cuts
- Hurricane Katrina
- Depression 2008-11
- Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
- Mortgages paid off
Barack Obama
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/ Obama Care
Donald Trump
- Tex cuts
- Travel Ban- syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen
- JUdicial Appointments
- Individual Mandate Repeal
Watergate Scandal
- Breakin by 5 men at Democratic National Committee headquarters
- Watergate motel
- Bug the phones
- One of the phones wasn't working, put tape on the doors to get back in
- Didn't take money but had a bunch in their pockets
- The committee to reelect the president paid them
- Needed dirt to be re elected
Friday
Monica Lewinsky- Clinton
- 1995-97 came to light in 98
- Impeachment on accounts of perjury
Iran Contra
- NSC became involved in secret weapons transactions
Obamas Birthday
- Conspiracy started by Trump that he was from africa
Trump and Russia election
- Russia messed with the election
JFK
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- 3 shots, 1 missed, 1 shoulder, 1 head
- He didnt work alone
- Shot by Jake Ruby on the way to court
Malcolm X
- Nation of Islam shot him
Martin Luther King Jr.
- James Earl Ray
- Shot from across the street
Bobby Kennedy
- At pres. Conference for presidential election
Ronald Reagan Attempt
- Leaving hotel
- Shot in lung but recovered
- One missed and hit James Brady and started the Brady law
Monday&Tuesday
I present in class
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