HAppy Cinco de mayo!!
KEEP!!
our next blog assignment isnumber 11 and we have a laundry list of things and we have to do a sentance for each one. this is due last weekend
our final blog assignemtn is number 12 and i am doing moon landing and space program
-need to start semester blog
Cold war Projects!!!
1. Causes of the Cold War- by cheryl kleffman
-1945-1990
-united states v. soviet union
-democrats v. communists
-the difference in governments was a big reason for the war
-another major cause was power rivals
-germany was split into 4 parts. britan, france, us...west..soviet union=east
-eurpoe?
-us choice
-soviet union = disgree
-iron curtain
-soviet union dislike
-truman doctrine: us can help any country that is threatened by communism
-marshall plan:us rebuilding eurpoean contires' economies
-atomic bomb was a big one. because us and soviet union had this
-truman didnt like stalin
-he said that he was tired of babysitting soviet union who understand only an iron fist and strong language
-redscare also kind of started this
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-
this is my project
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
-Huac
-this committe was created in 1938 to look into private citizens engaging in criminal acts agaist the us
-the main focus was keeping people from having communist ties
-famous people who were accused of being communist were blacklisted
-members of huac were ery determined to find communists and communist sympathizers by pressuring witnesses to give up names of those who are communist
-witnesses that did not give info that was needed were held in comtempt of congresss
-senator joseph mcCarthy used the huac's ideas and began accussing pople of being communist
-what mcathy did was called <ccathysim and he would accuse people of treason with out any evident
-this era in time was known as the sencod redscar
-the second red scare was fear of communists spying on our goernment
-another fear of the us during this time was SU atomic bombing the us
-it made actual communists in our country lay low. this scare helped to minimize communist activity
-it became les importnat by the 1960's
-it was renamed the house of internal security commitee in 1969 and in 1975 it was ablished
4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
-McCarthyism was named afte senator joe mccathy
-it is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversions, or treason with out proper regard for evidence
-it happend in the second red dcare of the us
-the second red scare was happter world war 2
-fear of communists
-born on november 15, 1908
-afraid of communiss taking over the us
-didnt want communists in the statedepartment
-tried to ease sugar rationing
-the biggest thig was suspicion of communusts
-mccarthy's treatment o gernear ralph w zwicker during that investigation caused very many supporters to trun agaist McCathy
-thearmy released a repor charging that mccarty and his aide, roy cohn, had pressue the rmy to give favored treatment to g. david
-heavy drinker
-liver ailment
5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-
6. China becoming communist-Mao-
-Mao Sedong
-was a guerilla warfare, stragteist, poet, and leader of chinese revolution
-he was also andarchitech and the founder of the people's repulic of china
-zedong is mostly known for leading the communist party of china to victoy over chang-kaishek's kuomingtang
-chiang-kaiskek
-was the first and third charman of the nationlist governemtn fo china
-kaishek was a stong memeber of the na;tionlisht party of china
-was in charge of the chinese nationlist party in the civil war
-in 1949 chinese civil war started between the communists and nationalists
-the vommunists were pushing the nationalists back during the war which eventually separated china into two groups
thses two parties are known as the republic of china or taiwan and the people's rebulic of china or chinas mainland
-as mao's army was pushing chiang kaishek's army, ching's army was foced to move to the outer islands of china
-one of these outers island isnow known as taiwan
-after chiangkaishek's ary was pushed into taiwan, the communists controlled most or all of mainland china
-in the civil war in china, the kuomintang wanted to be like the us and they were also supported by the us
-the communists wantedto be like russia and they were supported by the soviet union as well
-n january 1958, mao zedong launched the second five yr plan
-this 5 yr plan is known as the great leap forward
-the great leap foward is aplan that is an alternative model for the ecomonic growth to the soviet model that was focusing on the heavy indsyt that was chagied y others in the comminist party
-in this plan, peasant swere odered to work on massive prects in the prodcutino of iron and steel
-mao feared that people in his comminist party wanted to replce him
-during this cultural revolution, there was a lot of rape, fruad, murder, etc.
-mao was very converned were becoming very estranged and he was worried thaty would forget who they were supose to serve,
-corruption was also a concern fo rmao
-corution, dishonest or fraudulent condection by those in pwer
-he was more worried botu the people in his communist prty than he was withthe prces out side his party
-he was afraid that they would repel form him adn not sureve him and do their won thing
-many people thought that mao should be taken away from pwer so baically the cultual revoltuin was a movement that took place in the peopl'es republic of china from 1966 through 1976
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7. NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence-
8. Nuclear Arms race(1945-1970)-
9. Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs-
10. The Cuban Missile Crisis-
11. The Berlin Wall--Going Up and Coming Down-
12. Nixon's visit to China-
13. 1970's Peace Attempts-Detente, Salt I, Salt II-
14. Effects of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan-
15. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative(Missile Defense System today)-
16.Gorbachev's/Reagan's changing ways-perestroika and glasnost, INF Treaty-
Presidential Blogs!!!
Notes:
Harry TRUMAN
-1945-1953
-was a democrate
-33rd pres
-came into office cause fdr died
-was reelected
- was against dewey. dewey defeats truman was a headline but truman won
-didnt know anything about the manhattan project
-passed the fair deal
-it was compared to the new deal
- strongly supported cival rights
-desegragated the us military
-created the truman doctorine
-truman fired macarthur this made him very unpopular
-was an assanation attempt.
-had the marshall plan
-passed the 22 ammendment...which says you can only serve 2 terms
-no more than 10 years
-was the pres wen WWII ended
-pres who
-believed in the domino affect
-helped organizeand join the united nations
-created teh Cia and the nationsal security council
-there was the dixiecrates were democrates that didnt like blacks and were very segragated
-believed that isreal should be there
Dwight Eisenhower
-34th pres
-republican party
-served from 1953-1961
-first pres to lead all 50 states
-ended the korean war
-created NASA
-famous WWII gerneral
-didnt know what paty he was until this election
-had to deal alot with the cold war
-richard nixon was his vp
-diagnossed with Crohn's diesase and had a minor stroke while pres
-won pretty easlie against stevenson...stevensen lost twice to him
-people trusted him
-had a minor stoke during presdency
-dominated y the col war- containment policy
-also used CIA to do covert-ops to disrupt communist governments abroad (iran. guatamala)
-open relations with spain
-ended the koreadn conflict as promisted in his 1952 eletion campaign
-defesice alliances were signed with south korea and taiwan
-SEATO was formed South Eastn Asia Treaty Organization
-increased us involvemnt in Southeast Asia (Vietnam)-US advistors sent
-developed idea that nuclear weapons would be defensive weapons (deterrence)
-NASA created due to Soviet Sputnik launch
-US spy plane (U-2) was shot down over USSR
-allowed McCarthy to do his thing but privately did not approve
-Eisenhower Doctrine which was a doctorine saying you could request help from us to give you aid...like money or weapons. it was aimed at communist
-believedin laissez-faire
-believed in a balanced budget
-deported around 1 million illegal immigrants (mostly Mexicans)
-sent federal troops to little rock arkansas to help in the desgration of all public schools -1954- brown case...this deals with little rock 9
-helped passs the federal aid highway act of 1956 which created the united states unterstate highways
John F.Kennedy
-i did this blog
-35th president
-1961-1963
-assintated by lee harvey oswald
-ran against vp richard nixon
-first presidential televised debates took place
-many say this helped JFK win the election
-old war issues dominated kennedy's presidnecy
-berlin wall was built in 1961
-said "ask not what you country can do for you; ask what you can do fo ryour country".
-bay of pids insation- 1961
-cuban missile crisis
-alliance fro progessive with latin america
-kenndy increaded the number of helicopters, military advisors and undeclared U.S. spcial froces in the Vietmnam
-the CIA helped the new Ba'ath party government overthrow ommunist in iraq. this new party systematically murdered alrge numbers of educated eleict--killings in which saddam hussein himself issaid to have participated
-nuclear test ban treaty was signed in 1963
-The New Frontier
-promised federal funding fo :
1)education
2)medical care for elderly
3)ecomnomic aid toural reginons
4)government intervention to halt the recession
5) end ractial discrimination
-peace corps was established in 1961 where americans volunteer to help underdevelped nations in areas such as education, farming, heath care, and construction
-signed the Equial Pay act of 1963, a federal law aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex
-JFK wanted us to get a man on the moon
Lyndon Johnson
- JFK's VP
-took over as president after JFk was assassinated
-Daisy Girl and Ice Cream are two of his campain commericals that basically won his presidency
-johnson used scare tatics
-put together the WArren commision to investigate the JFK asssasssination
-passed citivil rights aCT OF 1964 which outlawed most forms of racial segreation
-passed Voting Rights Act (1965) which outlawed discrimation in voting thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time
-started affirmative action laws
-passed immigation act of 1965 which allowed more non-european people to immigrate to US. Immigratin more than doubled between 1965-1970
-Johnsons plant to:
-aid education
-attack diseases
-medicare and medicaid
-urban renewal
-beautification, consercation, develpoed of depressed regions
-war on poverty
-control and prevetion of crime
-romoval of obstacles to the right to vote
-elemmatary and secondary education act of 1965--for the frist time large amounts of money went to public schools
-higher education act of 1965 which focused fundering lower income students like grants work astudy money and government loans
-set up the national endowment for the humanities and the nationsal enddownment for the arts
-econgomic oppertunity act helped starte head start, food stamps, work study, medicare, and medicaid
-gun control act of 1968 regualtes the firearms industry and firearms owners paked in response to the assassination of JFK, RFK, and MLK
-the veitnam conflisct dominate much of Johnso's presidency
-believed in the domino theory
-gulf of tonkin resolution (1964) -congress gave johnson power to wage war in Vietnam as he saw fit
Richard Nixon
-Republican
-37th president
-1969-1974
-vp of eisenhower
-lost 1960 election to JFK
-the only person to be eleced twice to both the presidency and VP
-only president to resign from office
-vienam conflict dominated much of his presidency- war became very unpopular
-poromised to end the war - "Peach with honor"
-expanded the war to the combodia and loas-bombing ho chi minh trail
-started pulling troops out of vietnam as promised
-the nixon doctorine- "vitnamization" of the war
-Paris Peach Accords signed in 1973 stopped the fighting and go the US out of the war
-national enviropmental policy act
-clean air act of 1970
-Federal Water Pollution Control ACt
-Established many government agencies
1 enviromental protection agency
2 occupational safety and health administration
3 council of enviromental quality
-war on drugs -1971
-supplemental security income --provides $$ to low-income people who are either aged, blind or disabled
-saw large scale integration of schools in the south
-supposrted affirmative action
-signed Title IX (1972) probibitng gender discrimiation in all federally funded schools
-equally emplyment opportunity act-enforces laws against work place discrimination based on an indeiviual's race, color, natioal origin, religinon, sex, age, perceived intelligence and disablity
-abortion was legalized duing nizon's presidency (roe v. Wade -1973)
-US astromauts landed on the moon -1969
-nixon apprioved the development of NASA's Space Shuttle program
-in 1972, President Nixon Traveled to China where the president wsas to have direct talks with MAo Zedong and Chou En-lai
-this eased relations with the US and China adn China (not Taiwan) was recognized as the official China
-went to Moscow in 1972
-SALT I was signed, limiting nuclear weapons
-Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed which banned the development of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles
-this led to the new era of '' peachfull co-existence'' and detente with the USSR
-supported israel in the youm kippur war (1973) where israel was attacked by egypt and syria
-this support of israel led to teh 1973 oil crissis where OPEC countrie did not trade oil with the US as a result
-Nixon lowered the maximum US speed limit to 55 mile per hour to conserve gasoline during the4 crises
-nixon took us completely off the gold standard
-resigned on August
Gerald Ford
-republican
-38th pres
-1974-1977
-nixon's vp
-only vp or pres not to be elected
-offered conditional amnesty program for vietman war draft dodgers who had fled to countries such as candad
-"whip inflaion now" called for americans to reduce their speding and consumtion to reduce their spending and consumption in an attempt to stop inflation
-education for all handicapped children act (1975) established special education in school thought out US
-continued detente with ussr
-ford wanted to help south vietnam when north vietnam invaded in 1974 but congress refused
-by april 1975, all of vietnam became communist
-indochina migration and refugee assistance act was passed to allow refugees to immigrate to the US
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