Reviewed information that Tevin covered in his power point yesterday, and then finished listening to the rest of it.
5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-
-The main goal of the Allies was to drop off supplies in West Berlin and drive the Soviets out.
Blog Discussion:
Harry Truman: He became vice president in January of 1945 under FDR. When FDR died from polio, he took over the role in the Oval Office. He left presidency as one of the most unpopular presidents with only a 22% approval rating from the public. When people realized the good things that he had done that greatly improved the country's status, this rating greatly improved over the next 60 years. He won against Thomas Dewey (and Strom Thurmand, but he was mostly just a third party) in the 1948 election.
Truman always took the good and bad criticism for himself. He never passed the blame onto anyone else...he just took it upon himself and just dealt with it.
His biggest accomplishment was deciding to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. He also integrated black and white troops so their would be a mixed army. The Truman Doctrine said that the US was to aid Turkey and Greece. He also helped organize and later join the United Nations, and he created the CIA and the National Security Council.
The Fair Deal: It was similar to FDR's New Deal in the 30s, it aimed to promote economic development and social welfare. It faced a lot of opposition fromthe Southern Democrats and Republicans. Most of the Fair Deal did not get passed.
Truman was the first president to get involved with Vietnam. France wanted to hold on to Vietnam to keep it, but Vietnam didn't like that very much. There was an all-out war between France and Vietnam, and the US, under Truman's command at the time, supplied the French to fight Vietnam. His unpopularity was dealt mostly from the fact that he fired General Douglas McArthur.
President Dwight Eisenhower: The republicans asked Eisenhower to run for president, so he agreed. Eisenhower was the lead general for the US on D day, so that really put him over the top when it came to popularity. For the second election, Eisenhower went up against the same guy (Stevenson) and won again to mark his second term as president.
Some of his accomplishments: He was the general for the US for D day, he helped in the ending of the Korean Conflict, he was the president that established the Interstate system that is still around today. The Interstate system really helped in making travel so much easier. He believed that the government needs to be totally responsible for the budget of the country. The government needs to be conscious of the amount of money that is spent, and to make sure that there is more of an income than a debt.
Eisenhower had some health issues, and he actually had a stroke during his presidency.
6. China becoming communist-Mao-
7. NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence-massive retaliation, mutual detterence
8. Nuclear Arms race(1945-1970)-
9. Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs-
10. The Cuban Missile Crisis-
11. The Berlin Wall--Going Up and Coming Down-
12. Nixon's visit to China-
13. 1970's Peace Attempts-Detente, Salt I, Salt II-
14. Effects of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan-
15. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative(Missile Defense System today)-
16. Gorbachev's/Reagan's changing ways-perestroika and glasnost, INF Treaty-
17. The fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War-explain how it all went down-
18. The new map of Europe(up to present)-
19. Why the US won the Cold War-
20. Korean Conflict--
21. Vietnam Conflict
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