Monday- Miss America won last night and her world issue was domestic abuse. Microsoft word bought min craft. study the maps. finished watching the video.
1. What was President Bush doing when he heard of the attacks?
He was in a classroom full of kids and was reading to them.
2. According to President Bush, what is the first thing a leader needs to do for the country in times of crisis? show a sense of calmness so he doesn't upset the people.
3. Why did the Secret Service refuse to allow President Bush to go back to Washington D.C. right away? they didn't know if their was going to be another attack. so he had to wait it out. it was a war zone
4. What did the US government/military do to to ensure another attack did not occur? know more airplanes in the air, closest air port you have to land, if there was a air line in the air it would have to be shot down.
5. Why was President Bush sent to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha? it was in the middle of the country and it was secure.
6. Why did President Bush eventually insist on going back to Washington D.C. later that day against the will of the Secret Service? to show the terrorist that he was not afraid so they don't get satisfaction.
7. What was the point of President Bush's message to the nation on the evening of 9-11? terrorist will be brought to justice, and people stay calm.
8. Why did President Bush decide not to blame the CIA/FBI for not doing their job? he didn't want to point fingers at anyone just move on.
9. How did President Bush feel when he heard that Osama bin Laden had been killed? he was relived that justice has been served. He had some sense of closure.
Tuesday- went over the map have a class quiz tomorrow and is going to go over blogs. double CIA video
9/11 discussion- why did they attack us?-they wanted to declare holy war against us, we were helping other governments that they didn't like, we were putting troops in Sadia Rabia. Bin Laden wrote a letter to America and was dissing us. He gave us reasons on why he attacked us.
Economic sanctions-peaceful way to tell another country to back down on what they are doing.
what was the impacted on the U.S.?- air ports were closed for a few days, national parks and landmarks were closed for awhile due to potential attacks, professional and sports were delayed, many movies/tv shows/videogames were cancelled, went to war in Afghanistan as that is where al Qaeda was based.
Wednesday- gone
Thursday- went over map, quiz on Monday, test on Thursday, talked about assigned blogs, talking about 9/11 discussion.
Friday-look over maps. new forum post leaderu.s. support of Israel that's why palestineans are upset. they say that Israel doesn't have the right to be there and they should be whipped off the earth. that is why they don't like us because we support Israel. former president Mohmoud Ahmadinejad is the holocaust was a myth. he says more studies need to be done. he was the president of Iran. we never been in war with Iran. great Britain and Iran were great friends and used their oil.
Comments
Good! Economic sanctions specifically are when you will not trade with another country to get them to back down from whatever they are doing that is agressive.