April 23,2013

[2Asia]

Today my internet did not work at all! So I have to take my notes in word.
We talked about our topic, the bay of pigs
We backed out and promised that we would help cuba, but backed out.
cuba eventually talked and said we left them.

Then we will watch another music video
(Britt, Haley, Autumn, Alex)
Cuba Missile crisis:
Spy plane went over Cuba
Saw there was nuclear missiles in Cuba
Soviets had to pull missiles from cuba and we had to take ours from turkey, we did it secretly.
Then we promised not to attack turkey

Then we will watch another music video

Red Scare and Mcarthyism:
(Andrea, Jen, Liv)
Everyone was scared that everyone else was communist.
People were accusing people with power for bein a accused to being communist.
if you said you weren’t communist, you were.
and if you admitted that you were, you were.
>Joseph McCarthy was from Wisconsin, senator.
He was the one that started the whole accussing process.
He was thought to be crazy.
He said he had a list that was known communist.
He was in the military and he lied and said he was in all these wars and invasions to get more honored.
He lied and ruined peoples career.
Then finally he was thrown out. Then died from alcoholism!
People would be black listed which means you were “communist” and that basically ruined your job.

Then we will watch another music video

Berlin Wall:
(mike,gar,johnny)
soviets didn’t wanna build this wall.
when they built the wall it built a lot more tention
if the soviets built the wall people would not choose to be communist.
if you made it into west berlin you were safe and they couldn’t come get you.
the wall was all about fleeing from east to west.
soviets didn’t wanna build they wall cause it would make them look like the bad guys.
People still tried to find ways to get past the wall to freedom
the wall was 100 miles long
The wall came down in 1989-because communism was basically over.
(We will watch this video tomorrow)