We get to finish the movie tomorrow.
Today is cold war presentations.
gotta work on that semester blog.
Check the countdown at 10:44. because then it will say 12:21:20:12. look familiar? LOL
semester test times are out. 10:15-10:25: Lindsey Greer(4) - thats in the hour of Period 4 (10:15 - 11:15). actually, i go first for the actual time for 4th hour. nice.
so, my plan for next friday is to sleep in, get to school at 10:10 or so, take my history test, and kill time til lunch. might just go back home until 7th hour, which is art, which i dont want to come for but have to anyways. stay for 8th hour engish, and thats that.
Cold War presetation 8- Nuclear Arms Race.
we made the H-bomb (hydrogen) in 1952. it was smaller than the atomic bomb but 2500 more powerful. it is commonly believed that simply having these weapons on both sides prevented war. simply the power and the fear was enough to not have to use them.
B52. a plane. could caarry bombs over 6000 miles.
JFK - the president announced a program to build nuclear shelters. pamphlets were distributed on how to survive a nuclear war. rose panic when he told a journalist that under some circumstances the us might start a nuclear war.
Missile. russian put a lot of money into having more missiles but ignored quality, whereas we made better missiles, but less of them. eventaully the two countries had enough missiles to destroy the world.
short presentation. yay.
ooh! oo-ooh-oh! i saw the end of the world! XD the countdown for the end of the schoolyear hit 12 days, 21 hours, 20 minutes, and 12 seconds as i was watching. i am so happy.
Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs
an invasion of CIA trained cuban exiles to invade and attempt to overthrow the Cuban Governemtn. JFK was involved. total failure. they got beat in 3 days.
castro was popular when he first came to power. stuff was ok for a while, then they signed an oil deal with the soviet union,and then we decided it was not good for hi to be in charge, and we've been trying to overthrow him and his dictatorly ways ever since.
The invasion; a fake invasion first in the night. then the real one in the day. failed. but the casualties were not high. there was some bombing as well. but not much. jfk promised the exiles air support in the invasion, but jfk backed out because he didnt want it to look like a us job.
there is a conspiracy that because of the invasion, castro had something to do with JFK's assassination.
NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Berlin Wall.
germany was divided, yadayadayada. berlin, in the russian sector, also divided. soviets in one half, gb france and usa in the western. berlin blockade. and we responded with the airlift.
people ditch soviet berlin. communism spreads, and they dont like it, so they try to escape to the western halves. german border was built to stop them from leaving. soviets built a wall between the havles of berlin as well (construction started in the middle of the night).
escape attempts were really succesful, but 200 people were killed trying to cross.
The fall.....gotta go. just wont type it.
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