May 7th - May 15th

[6Hannah]

Monday
• Talking about forum posts
• Presentation about entertainment
o Board Games
o Fashion
o Technology
o Song guessing game
• Presentation about major events of the cold war
o Propaganda
o Berlin Blockade/Airlift (dropping food)
 Total cost of airlift $224 million
 Germany was divided into 4 zones: French, GB, US, USSR
o Berlin wall
 Put up in the early years of the cold war (August 13th, 1961)
 Western part of Berlin was the loophole
 Communist Germans built the wall
 Wall got down 1989
o Bay of Pigs Invasion
 Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista
 Many Cubans fled
 CIA reunited 1,400 Cubans
 114 killed, 1,100 killed
 Considered a complete failure
o Cuban missile crisis
 13-day military and political standoff
 Spy plane saw missile assembly in Cuba
 JFK was informed and planned to put up a blockade
 Brink of war
 October 26th, a new deal was made & the crisis ended
o McCarthyism
 Investigations opened on communism because they took over the US
Tuesday
• Continue presentation of yesterday
o House Un-American Activities Committee
 Established in 1938
 Called citizens to testify in front of congress
 Abolished in 1975
o Countries and their nuclear weapons chart, main reason why cold war started
o Map of the USSR
o Cartoon about communists and McCarthyism
o How did the cold war come to an end?
 Mikhail Gorbachev came to power
 More freedoms (freedom to vote, freedom of speech)
 Economy failing
 Berlin Wall
 Control of Eastern Europe
 War of Afghanistan
o Video
• Starting 3rd presentation
Wednesday
• No school
Thursday
• Continuing 3rd presentation
Friday
• Finishing 3rd presentation
• Listen to a version of “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
5/14-5/15
Monday
• Civil Rights Presentation
o African American Rights
o 1953 Brown vs. Board of Education
 Topeka, Kansas
 Supreme Court Case
 Separate Schools
 Unconstitutional
o Clinton Twelve
 1956
 After Brown vs. Board of Education
 Clinton High School, Tennessee
 12 Black Teenagers in Public High School
o Freedom Riders
 Started 1961
 Civil Rights activists
 Rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States
o Civil Rights Act of 1964
 Banned employment due to different genders, skin-colors...
o 24th Amendment
 Allowed Americans to vote due to erasing poll taxes
o Little Rock Nine
 9 black students chosen by the NAACP Daisy Gaston
 Test to show segregation
o Aftermath of Little Rock Nine
 Widely recognized
 Obama invited them
o Desegregation
 Military
• Truman
• Started desegregating armed forces in 1948
 Business
• Heart of Atlanta Motel
• Black Woman couldn’t stay at a motel because of her skin-color
• Restaurant Katzenbach in Alabama
• Stop segregating black drivers from white ones
 Marriage
• Virginia
• Black woman and white man were married in another state and when they returns, it wasn’t recognized and they were sentenced to prison for one year
 Malcom X
• Muslim Minister
• Human Rights
• More of a violent leader “defend yourself”
o Rosa Parks
 Montgomery Bus Boycott
 Arrested for not giving up her seat for a white person
 Led by Martin Luther King Jr.
o Martin Luther King Jr.
 “I have a Dream Speech”
 Non-violent
 Assassinated by a sniper
o Letter of Birmingham Jail
 Was put in Jail for about a week
 Wrote a letter because he didn’t think it was fair to go to jail due to fighting for his rights
o March on Washington
 August 1963
 Protest March where the “I have a Dream Speech” was held
o Selma
 Protest from Selma to the Montgomery March (rights to vote)
 54 Mile March
 Was called bloody Sunday
 Captured on TV
 50th anniversary, Obama marched
o Black Lives Matter
 Rodney King
 Trayvon Martin
 N.W.A.
 Activist Movement started by 3 girls
o Women’s rights
 Betty Friedan
• Advocated for an increase role for women in the political scene
 Started writing about gender stereotypes
 Co-founder of National Organization for Women (NOW)
 Established abortion laws
o Frida Kahlo
 Originally known for being an artist
 Started fighting for beauty rights
 Defying gender stereotypes
 Went to a school with 5 girls and 300 boys
o Mary Tyler Moore
 Had a TV show based on her life/divorce
 Was into partying
 Caused lots of scandals
 Pointed out the wage gap
o Jackie Kennedy
 Known for her unwillingness to become a housewife
 Called out the media
 Worked because she wanted to not because she had to
 Hated the idea of being a feminist
o Gloria Steinem
 Feminist, journalist, and social political activist
 Leader and spokeswoman for the American Feminist Movement
o #METOO
 Harvey Weinstein
• Accused by over 50 women for sexual assault
• Went to jail
• Blamed his culture for getting into this
 Bill Cosby
• Accused by over 50 women for sexual assault
• Sentenced to 30 years in prison
 Larry Nassar
• More than 265 women accused him
• 175 years in prison
 Charlie Rose
• So far 11 women have accused him
Tuesday
• Finishing presentation
o Women’s baseball teams
 During the war, men’s teams were stopped
 Began in the spring of 1943
o Women in the military
 1948-Women’s Services Integration Act
• Members of the military all the time
 1991-fly in combat missions and serve on combat ships
 2005-First Silver Star, first medal since WW2
 2016-lead a unified combat command
o Title 9
 Law passed in 1972
 Prohibits discrimination of gender in any education program or activity that is federally funded
o FMLA-Family Medical Leave Act
 1984-Women’s Legal Defense Fund
• Passed in 1993 by Clinton
 Allowed family members to take off time for
• Maternity
• Paternity
• Adoptions
• Sick family member
• Chronic conditions
o Equal Pay
 Women are paid less than men at every education levels
 Gets worse as women’s careers progress
 Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Law in 1963
 In 2012, women made up almost 58% of the labor force
o How women changed in TV shows
 29% of major characters in movies and TV shows are women
 12% of protagonists are females
o LGBTQ Rights
 Stonewall Riots
• June 28, 1969
• Raid on a gay bar
• Next 6 days were protest clashing with violent law enforcements
 Harvey Milk
• 1970’s
• Gay rights activist
• First openly gay Board of Supervisors
• Killed by the man he ran against
 Aids
• 1980’s
• No cure
• Virus that kills the body from the inside out
• “Gay Man disease”
• Raised over $125 million for Africa
 Freddie Mercury
• Lead singer in the Band Queen
• Lived with Aids as a secret for 5 years
 DADT
• 1990’s
• Don’t ask don’t tell
• Banned LGBTQ community from joining the military
• Could serve if they didn’t tell their sexuality
• Signed by Clinton in 1993
• Obama repealed the Act in 2011
 DOMA Act
• Defense of Marriage Act
• Clinton signed it
• Ruled constitutional in 2013
 Transgender bathroom
• Sex-what you are born with
• Gender-what you know you are
• Obama vs Trump’s opinion
 Obergefell v. Hodges
• Man sued the state for not putting his name on his husband’s death certificate
• Landmark civil rights case
• Went under the 14th Amendment
• June 2015, marriage
 Changing Hollywood
• Before: 22 out of 128 movies had at least one LGBTQ character
 Ellen DeGeneres
• Changed TV forever because of coming out on TV
 Love, Simon
• Movie that came out March 2018