5/20
Our group Presented
2000's
George W Bush- "Mission Accomplished" Banner- hung during George W. Bush's election. Made people think the war in Iraq was over when it would continue for years more.
Dot-Com Bubble/Crash
Dot com companies- internet companies. Many people were buying stock in internet companies because tech was doing so well. Companies advertized to make money but advertizers pulled out when they realized no one was looking at their advertizments. when they did this, people stopped investing and there was a crash.
Hurricane Katrina- Gulf Coast of the US. many people charged the US with being too slow to respond and help those affected. New Orleans is below sea level so they are always at risk of flooding.
Human Genome Project- Catalogues human DNA. It was a big technologial and scientific advancment.
Immigration- Illegal Immiration hit 11 million caused America to split into 2 camps: one asking them to be pardoned with the rest asking for them to be deported.
2010's
Hurricane Sandy- Catagory 3 hurricane. It struck more the North east part of America rather than down more south in Florida.
Zika outbreak- Large outbreak of the disease Zika mostly in South America but spreading into the US. It caused many birth defects.
Boston Marathon Bombing- two brothers held pressure bombs at a Boston Marathon set to go off. One brother tried to get away and ran over his own brother trying to get away (killed him). Later he had a shoot out with the police and was detained.
South Dakota Pipeline- A pipeline was meant to go through their sacred Indian reservation. They thought it would affect their water and destroy their sacred land
Cold War continued...
Nikita Krushchev - New Soviet Union Leader. He thought we could co exist peacefully and avoid war.
Detente- Easing of tentions. The president went to a lot of hostile countries and helped ease tensions.
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power and opens the door for change. He gave more openness of the Soviet government and for it's people. He gave more democracy and free elections. Because of these changes, the people pushed for more and the Soviet Union crumbled and broke into different independent countries.
After WWII- Germany is broken into 4 zones. Then the city of Berlin was broken into 4 zones even though it was in his zone. Stalin wanted Berlin to be apart of the Soviet Union and formed the Berlin Blockade, not allowing any one in or out. Allied planes brought in food and supplies inside the blockade. Instead of shooting down the planes, the Soviet Union allowed it to happen and withdrew the blockade.
Senator Joe McCarthy- WWII veteran and went after communists. He pointed fingers and said there were over 100 communists in the government. The people panicked. He started the Red Scare. McCarthyism- Falsly accuse people for your own bennifit.
Berlin Wall- Created to keep people in. People in Berlin fled to try and get away from communism and into democracy.
5/21
Fukushima daiichi nuclear meltdown / tohoku earthquake and tsunami- Earthquake caused a giant tsunami which destroyed a nuclear facility which spread nuclear waste everywhere. It costed millions in damage.
2015- Same sex marriage in the US is legalized under president Obama through the supreme court.
Manchester arena bombing- an islamist radical went into the theatre with a bomb that shot shrapnel everywhere, killing himself and a little girl at an Arianna Grande Concert.
Las Vegas Shooting- Stephan Paddock set up guns and weapons up in a hotel room and opened fire into a crowd of people at a football game, shooting and killing over 49 people.
Pulse Nightclub Shooting- Omar Mateen went into a gay night club and opened fire on a crowd.
Sutherland Springs Shooting- Devin Patrick Kelly opened fire in a church and as he left, I bystander who had witnessed it all fired at Devin and killed him.
New Zealand Mosque Shooting
Notre Dame fire- People were doing maintnace when the buildin caught fire. It was made of a lot of wood and burned for over a day, only leaving the stone.
Entertainmment- Dubsteb, Dabbing, Selfies, Bottle Flipping, Memes, Snapchat. Movies- Megamind, 127 Hours, Alice in Wonderland, Inception, etc. Songs- Nicki minaj, Eminem, Drake, Lil Wayne, Rihanna, Beyonce, and Kanye West.
Fashion- Joggers, Jerseys, Jeans, Jordans, Guccy, Crocs, Ferragamo, and Louis Vuitton.
Sports- Oklahoma State interception, Blake Griffin gets drafted.
Games- Ps3, Xbox one, Psp, Nintendo 3DS, Virtual Reality
Cold War Continued...
Berlin was a symbol of the Cold War and when it was torn down in 1989 it symboled the end (even though it would continue for a while longer).
After WWII Korea split into the North and South Korea. North was controlled by the soviet Union and South was controlled by the US. There was an election but the Soviet Union did not allow the North to take part in it (they thought it was rigged). It was a back and forth war because they US left the South in the 50's, the North took advantage of this and pushed the South into a corner and took more and more land. The United Nations helped the South and pushed the North back up into a small corner up north. As we push North Korea towards China, China gets nervous that they are next and then ally with North Korea to push us back to the middle. A cease fire is signed and it is still in action today. Technically they are still at war, but the cease fire is still in place.
North Korea fires their first nuclear bomb and has tested with them since. The US wants North Korea to dismantal their Nuclear weapons program in exchange for food and medical supplies / trade / for US to take out our troops (potentially). North Korea isnt doing too great and could use the supplies.
The Vietnam Conflict-
Why? - Containment. Stopping the dominant effect from taking place.
After WWII Vietnam thought they were getting independence but France would not allow them to. Vietnem was communist and that made us nervous with the Cold War going on. We gave money to the French(doen't go well). Vietnam is broken into North and SOuth. We send advisors to the South Vietnamese. 1964 was the key year when we got into the war (from money and defensive forces to fighting). Why this year? - Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - Several US ships are supposedly attacked by North Vietnames torpetos in the Gulf. Why were people against the war?- Terrible things were going on in Vietnam. Our soldiers were killing and raping women and attacking children.
Vietnamization- De-escalating and pulling our troops out of the war to allow the vietnamese to fight their own war.
End result- Paris Peace Accords- signed to stop fighting and pull out our troops. North and South would recognise eachothers independence.
5/22
Semester Test
5/23
Semester Test
5/24
No School (SUMMER!!!)
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