today we stated off by going over the map of europe to prepare for the test, then we are going to continue the discussion of iran.we also had to do blog presentations and did a little map practice. we also talked about our current events such as the patriots and giants facing each other at the superbowl. we talked about the death of joe paterno. after that we then listned newt gingrinch( if thats how you spell his last name ) while he talked at a press confrence. we talked about mahmoud ahmadinejad, the president of iran. in the late 70's, iran had taken some americans hostage which more or less sparked a fued between iran and U.S. ahaytolla is the name of the leader of anyone who runs iran. a new law was passed in iran that making neuclear weapons was against the law. US, soviet union, united kingdom and france all had neuclear weapons but they already had them but they were forbiden to use them. north korea now has them from 5 or 6 years ago.india and pakistan are two countires that have not signed the treaty. we continued our presentation on communism. communism is a system of government where the government is in complete control. you are assigned a job, you do it, and the government provides what you need. examples of communism is that china is the most well known communist country. the soviet union was communist untill 1990. castro too over cuba in 1961 turning it completelly communist.
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