Today Mr. Bruns went over our new blog assignment. MY topic is Iran Hostage Crisis. We are taking notes on presidents again. Blog discussions. Also, i am leaving at 10:45 (The middle of class.)
OSAMA BIN LADEN died! U.S. helicopters approached a high-walled compound in Pakistan on a mission to capture or kill one of the world's most notorious terrorist leaders. (Al Queda leader) He was killed in a mansion north of the Pakinstani capital. His body was buried at sea.
Harry Truman
Truman was vice-president for 3 months for FDR. Took over in 1945 when FDR died. He was one of the most unpopular presidents of all time. (22% ending.) Was president when WW2 ended with Germany and Japan.
Potsdam Conference/ Declaration. (German consequences/Japan's surrender or else face destruction)
Decided to use atomic bomb against Japan. Known for atomic bombs.
President that helped set up united nations.
Introduced the Fair Deal. (Similar to the New Deal.) This deal was for health care...aimed to help common person and to get the economy back on track. Truman had to deal with the transition from wartime to peacetime economy. He faced alot of opposition from Southern Democrats and Republicans and that's why alot of his proposals did not get passed. The Fair Deal aimed to help: Civil Rights,Housing, Social Security, Minimum Wage, Health, Labor, Education, Agriculture.
Took a hard line stance against communism and Soviet Union-Policy of Containment.
He recognized Israel as a country(a homeplace for Jewish people).. countries surrounding Israel do not like Israel. They feel like they came in and took their land. Land was known as Palestine before they came in. He got US involved in Vietnam by giving aid to France.
Passed Truman Doctrine.(Greece and Turkey about had people take over their land so we sent in stuff to help them.)
Marshall Plan was passed.
NATO estabolished.
Created CIA and national Security Council.
His inaugeration was the first to be viewed on tv.
He desegregated the military.
Election-Dewey lost because he was a little more friendlier to people. People who supported Truman mostly did not have phones to answer who they would vote for.
He got US involved in Vietnam by giving aid to France. (how we started in the war.)
Dwight Eisenhower(1953-1961)34th president
WW2 General. Joined Republican party after WW2. This gauranteed him to win in the 1953 election.
had nixon as his vice-president. His platform was to not let communism
Diagnosed with Crohn's Disease and had a minor stroke while president.
CIA became nicer in late 1970's.
Ended Korean Conflict.
Created Eisenhower Doctrine-we will help you if you combat the communists.
Federal Aid Highway Act-help evacuate cities in case of an attack.
U2 Spy plane was shot down in Russia.
Made Nuclear weapons.
He was anti-immigration.
- Famous WWII general
- Decided to join the Republican Party after WWII
- This all but guaranteed him a win in the 1953 election
- Richard Nixon was his Vice-President
- Diagnosed with Crohn's disease and had a minor stroke while president
- Established NASA after the Soviet's Sputnik launch
- Ended the Korean War/Conflict as promised in his 1952 election campaign
- Signed the Civil Rights Bill in 1957
- Ran a balanced budget-would not spend any more money than the U.S. took in
- Started the Interstate Highway system
- Used the CIA to do covert-ops to distrupt communist governments abroad (Iran/Guatamala)
- Opened relations with Spain
- Defensive alliances were signed with South Korea and Taiwan
- Formed the South East Asia Treaty Organization-if one member nation was attacked, the other nations would help them
- Increased US involvement in Southeast Asia (Vietnam)-US advisors sent
- Developed idea that nuclear weapons would be defensive weapons (deterrance)
- Eisenhower Doctrine told Middle Eastern countries that they could ask for money or military help from the US to help keep commmunists out of their countries
- Allowed McCarthy to do his thing but privately did not approve
- Believed in laissez-faire
- Believed in a balanced budget
- Deported about 1 million illegal immigrants (mostly Mexicans)
- First president to send troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to help in the desegregation of all public schools--1954 Brown case
- US spy plane (U-2) was shot down over USSR-this was a huge embarrassment for Eisenhower because we got caught and he tried to lie about it
- John F. Kennedy
- Ran against Vice-President Richard Nixon
- First presidential televised debates took place
- Many say this helped JFK win the election
- Eisenhower also would not support/promote Nixon in his campaign
- Kennedy's Presidential accomplishments:
- Said "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
- Cold War issues dominated his presidency and foreign policy
- Berlin Wall was built in 1961
- Bay of Pigs Invasion which dealt with Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1961
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Issued the Alliance for Progress with Latin America to make sure they didn't turn to communism
- Kennedy increased the number of helicopters, military advisors and undeclared U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam
- The CIA helped the new Ba'ath Party government overthrow Communists in Iraq. This new party systematically murdered large numbers of Iraq's educated elite--killings in which Saddam Hussein himself is said to have been a part of
- Signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963
- The New Frontier was basically Kennedy's New Deal
- Promised federal funding for:
- 1. Education
- 2. Medical care for the elderly
- 3. Economic aid to rural regions
- 4. Government intervention to halt the recession
- 5. End racial discrimination
- Peace Corps was established in 1961 where Americans volunteer to help underdeveloped nations in areas such as education, farming, health care, and construction
- Signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, a federal law aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex. Men still get paid more than women these days.
- Moonshot Speech in 1961-that we are going to be in space by the end of the decade..(1969.)
- Killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on a parade route. He used a Mannlicher-Carcano Rifle. he also killed officer JD Tippet. Jackie Kennedy killed Oswald.
- Jack Ruby-
- Warren Commission-about the assassination of JFK.
- Magic Bullet Theory-it would have been a magic bullet to pull off what it did. In order for it to happen, it had to be apart of either 1 of 4 organizations: US military, Cuba, Soviet Union, and mafia.
- The three tramps-guys looked alike, homeless
- JFK Act-(1992) mandating the gathering and opening of all records concerned with the death of the President Kennedy.
- President Lyndon Johnson-(36th)-1963-1969
- JFK's vice-president
- 1964 presidential election-Johnson got 60% of the vote. he is democratic. electoral vote was 486 to very low.
- Accomplishments-1.Put together Warren Commission to investigate assassination.-2.Civiil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed most forms of racial segregation.-3.Passed Voting Rights Act of 1965 which outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing millions of southern black to vote for the first time.-4.Started affirmative action laws.-5.Passed immigration Act of 1965 which allowed more non-European people to immigrate to US. Immigration more than doubled between 1965-1970
- The Great Society- Johnson's plan to:aid education, attack disease, Medicare and Medicaid, urban renewal, Beautification,conservation, development of depressed regions. war on poverty, control and prevention of crime, removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
- ACTS:
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965-alot of money went to schools,more to poor schools.
- Higher Education Act of 1965-funding lower income students(grants,governement loans)
- set up National Endowment for Humanities and Arts(researchers, writers)
- Economic Opportunity Act-started Head Start,food stamps,work study,medicare and medicaid.
- Gun Control Act of 1968-regualates firearms industrys and owners.(Because of Kennedy's assassination.)
- Vietnam WAR
- Vietnam conflict dominated much of Johnson's presidency.
- Believed in Domino Theory.
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964- Congress gave Johnson power to wage war in Vietnam.
1968 Election-Johnson does not want to run for president again.
President Richard Nixon(R)-37th 1969-1974
Vice-president of Eisenhower
lost 1960 election to JFK
only person to be elected twice to both presidency and vice-presidency
only president to resign from office.
Between Nixon, Humphrey, and Wallace.
electoral vote was 301 to 191,43
Accomplishments-
- Vietnam conflict dominated much of his presidency.
- Promised to end the war.
- expanded war to cambodia and Laos-bombing
- Pulled troops out of vietnam as promised
- Nixon Doctrine-"Vietnamization" of the war.
- Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973-stopped fighting and got US out of war.
Cold War Project
This project will be a completely individual project using Powerpoint or other presentation software and will serve as the final live presentation of the year. Due to this fact and the fact that we have worked very hard in trying to make you better researchers and presenters, this project will be worth 200 points. The attached rubric will used which is the same as the one used in the last several projects.
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Pictures
Game questions with candy(something unique.)
confidence
video??
effects and good color to represent the presentation
14. Effects of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan-
Russian paratroopers landed in Kabul(capital) around Chrsitmas of 1979. Afghanistan was already in a civil war with Amin(leader) and the Muslims in that country. Prime minister Hazifullah Amin tried to change the Muslim tradition ways and make it have western ways. The Muslim leaders fled and tried to escape from Amin's police. Amin was communist (rejects religion.) Thousands of Muslims joined the Mujahideen( a guerilla force on a holy mission for Allah.) They joined this to overthrow the Amin government.The Mujahideen declared a jihad (holy war) on the supporters of Amin. This was also extended to the Russians who were now in Afghanistan trying to maintain the power of the Amin government.(Russians claimed that they had been invited into Afghanistan and were not invading. They also said their task was to support a legitimate government and that the Mujahideen were nothing more than terrorists.)
On December 27, Amin was shot by Russians (Russians lied.) (Replaced by Babrak Kamal.) The soldiers joined the Mujahideen and so the Kamal government needed support from the Russians in order to stay in power.
The afghan war lasted from 1979-1989. Soviet Russia(USSR) took over Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan and for these ten years they wanted to take over the whole country. The whole invasion was a failure and ended with serious consequences. The U.S. were trying to corner communism as best as they could. The U.S. sent afghanistan money, aid, and weappons to fight back against the soviets.
The war had far-reaching effects on Afghanistan, the Soviets, and the US. Several million Afghans had either fled to Pakistan for refuge or had become internal refugees. In addition, millions more had died from starvation or from the Soviet bombings and raids. Among the survivors were a generation that had known only war, hatred, and fear. Homes, animals, and precious irrigation systems were destroyed, leaving the country barren and in ruin. Also, thousands of miniature land mines dropped by the Soviet planes continued to pose a hazard to the Afghan people long after the war with the USSR ended.
The United Nations had condemned the invasion as early as January 1980 but a Security Council motion calling for the withdrawal of Russian forces had been vetoed by Russia.
After the invasion, On March 1982 Reagan gave a speech, in which he proclaimed March 21st to be an Afghanistan Day throughought the United States.
(The mujahidin were a mix of Afghan resistance fighters, Afghan refugees who had crossed into Pakistan at the onset of the Soviet invasion and later been recruited to fight the Soviet infidels, and Islamists and Muslims from other Arab nations who answered the international call to jihad against the Soviets.)
http://www.guidetorussia.com/russia-afghanistan.asp
Cold War Test Topics:
1. Define the Cold War and it's causes
2. Policy of Containment -domino effect, mutual deterrence, massive retaliation, Truman Doctine, Marshall Plan, NATO, brunkmanship
3. Both Berlin Crises
4. The Red Scare--McCarthyism and HUAC
5. Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis
6. China
7. Nuclear Arms Race and Reductions
8. How the Cold War ended.
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