The first thing we did was a blog discussion on Ford. Then we talked about the powerpoint.
Gerald Ford
-the first thing he did was pardon for Richard Nixon
-Offered conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War draft dodgers who had fled to countries such as Canada
-Whip Inflation Now walled for Americans to reduce thier spending and consumption in an attempt to stop inflation
-Education for All Handicapped Children Act established special education in school thoughout the US
-continued detente with the USSR
-Ford wanted to help south Vietnam when North Vietnam invaded in 1974 but congress refused
-Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act was passed to allow refugees to immigrate to the US
After we finished the powerpoint we went into cold war project.
What caused the cold war
-The US thought free trade was good and the soviet union disagreed
-The US wanted to power over the USSR and visversa
-Germany caused tension
-the USSR didnt like the Truman Doctrine which siad it would help any country that was treatend by communism. Or the Marshall plan which would rebuild counties economies
-Atomic bomb
-Truman didnt like stalin
-he thought that stalin thought the only way to resolve conflict was to fight militarily
-The red scare in the US in 1917,18,19
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