Happy May day! today we finish up presentations and then started blog discussion.
Space Race: NASA- space organization
- soviets led early
- Sputnik:used to spy
- made us feel vulnerable
- made us feel weak in education(science and math)
- every 20 years there is a push for science and math people
- Yuri Gagatin-USSR-first explorer
- 1960-moonshot-JFK
- 1969 we went to the moon
- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
- space shuttle
- 1985-the challenger exploded
- Christina Calif was a teacher and the first person they took up and it exploded
- Mir- International Space Station
- Hubble is a huge telescope
Bay of Pigs:
- Castro was in charged and he was communist
- Castro becomes in power in 1958-59
- we didn't like him
- the anti-castro Cubans went against the Cubans
- 2,000 people invaded Cuba
- they hope the people in Cuba wouldn't fight against them
- invasion did not work
- the invaders were either killed or put in prison
- JFK was supposed to give the airlift support, but he didn't, after he promised
- Kennedy was caught in a lie
- lied because he didn't want it to look like we were involved
Berlin Blockade/Airlift:
- was our topic
Berlin Wall:
- people could just walk over and be free so they'll built a wall
- didn't want to build it because it would separate families
- lived in Texas
- took over for JFK when he was killed
- he was great in helping poor and African Americans
- the Vietnam war destroyed him
- he ran in the 1964 election
- he gained JFKs popularity
- he ran against Hubert Humphrey
- first time and only time democrats ever won in Alaska
- passed Civil Rights
- he didn't run again in 1968
- in 1964 he outlawed racial discrimination
- started affirmative action laws
- he forced companies and colleges to hire and except blacks to give them a chance
- passed the Great Society Acts: education, Medicare & Medicaid, urban renewal, control and prevention of crime
- somethings are still around today
- Gun Control Act:
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