Monday - We took the test today.
Tuesday - We went over the Decades Project. Our decade is the 90's. We also went over his Cold War Powerpoint. I am going to put it under Wednesday.
Research
- Music
- Movies
- TV Shows
- Video games
- Sports
- Fashion
- Fads
- Inventions
- Presidential Elections
Wednesday - I have notes below. We discussed communism, democracy, socialism, and capitalism.
- Cold War
- A political, strategic, and ideological struggle between the US and the Soviet Union from 1945-1990
- Political
- Democracy vs. Communism
- Strategic
- World wide chess match
- Who can get nuclear missiles closer
- Who can spy better
- Ideological
- different beliefs
- different ideas
- Spread throughout the world-Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America
- History of Soviet Union
- Bolshevik Revolution
- Lenin
- Stalin
- Purges
- Collectivization
- Nationalization
- Five Year Plan
- Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
- Causes of Cold War
- Different Political systems
- US is based on democracy, capitalism, and freedom
- USSR is based on dictatorship, communism, and control
- Red Scare -1919
- Both thought their system as better and distrusted the others intentions
- Stalin despised capitalism
- Distrust during WW2
- Stalin breaking his promise to allow free elections at the Yalta Conference
- American fear of a communist attack (Red Scare) and USSR's fear of a US attack
- USSR's fear of the atomic bomb
- USSR's actions in their German zone
- USSR's goal to spread communism around the world
- Different Political systems
Thursday - We worked on the decades project today.
Friday - We worked on the decades project today.
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