May 18, 2010

Today in Class we are doing our presentations!

Semester test time:

2:45-3:00--Brooke Weis(5th) and Brandon Fitzmaurice(5th)
Don't forget final blogs due May 23 at 11:59

Presentation-

China becomes Communist

Communist party was originally nationalist party

They were kicked out and went to north china Mao became leader

October 1, 1949 china officially became communist

Culture Revolution had a massive impact on China from 1965 to 1968

Name given to reassert Zedong’s beliefs in China

Movement began September 1965

Tianamin Square- protested on April 14, 1989

Led by students and intellectuals

Berlin Wall-

-Second Berlin Crisis

Wall divided East Berlin from West Berlin

  • 10 Ft. high
  • Barbed wire
  • Patrols
  • Guard dog

Wall got torn down because Gorbachev wanted to allow people into Eat Berlin to develop their own government.

In 1989 East and West Germans climbed the wall and celebrated

Some people chipped the wall and kept it

Falling off the wall allowed for German reunification

People were tearing the wall down

Wall stood for 28 years

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