Talked about Semester Test topics-Assigned blog this week.We will finish the songs and the President Assigned blogs.We will talk about Vietnam. Then we will start up the other president blogs.
Last assigned Blog-I will be doing George H. W. Bush-Scandels-assination attemps i got the first election result
Semester Test-worth 16 %of your grade-I will probably take it oraly,
Questions 1-3: One of the three-10 points
Questions 4-6: One of the three-10 points
Questions 7, 9, 10: Two of the three-20 points
Question 8: Three of the topics-30 points
Question 11: Two of the topics-20 points
Semester Test Blog-10 points
Driving Ideas for Semester Two:
1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?
2. What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States?
3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?
4. What long lasting impact did the Great Depression have on the US and world?
5. What were the causes of WWII?
6. What impact did the United States have on WWII?
7. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?
8. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
-Berlin Blockade/airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Red Scare/McCarthyism, Space Race, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, End of the Cold War
9. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?
10. How did the Cold War come to an end?
11. Know these major major post-Cold War Events:
-JFK Assassination
-Watergate
-Iran Hostage Crisis
-Persian Gulf War(1991)
-9-11
-War in Afghanistan
-War in Iraq
-Civil Rights Issues(African Americans, Women)
Movie Dicussion
Berlin Wall-Berlin Capital of Germany-
West Democratic east communist,East were loosing thousands,Communists didn't want to build the wall because it would make them look bad. People wanted to leave so they would help people over the wall. The communists would shoot the people that tried to get over the wall.
The communist block was weakening. People started chipping at the wall after the President of Russia said that the USSR wouldn't get involved with eastern europe anymore. eventually the wall came down.
Mr. Bruns-Berlin Crisis Blockade and air lift-–took place shortly after WW2-Germany itself split into four zones . Berlin lied right in the middle of the soviet zone and was also split into 4 zones. Stalin thought Berlin should be all theirs. Stalin blockaded the road that led to berlin so the allied couldn’t bring supplies to berlin. We decided to take supplies in by air. Stalin eventually decided to lift the blockade and allow supplies to come back in. This all happened before they put up the wall.
Cuban Missile Crisis-
--Cuba was communist under Castro
--worried about a second invasion
--made friends with the soviets
--soviets tried to send nuclear missiles over to Cuba
--War was minutes from breaking out
--We made a compromise to secretly remove our missiles from turkey, they remove from cuba--we dont invade cuba and leave it alone or help to invade cuba.
Space Race-
--A race to space between the US and the USSR
--Started when the USSR launched their Satellite-Sputnik
-- We put more money into NASA->more stress on education->Science&Math
--Yuri Gagarin-Russian-First person ever in space
--JFK-1960-Moonshot speech
--Apollo 11-Man on Moon-Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong
--1970's-Space Shuttle
--1985-Challenger exploded
--International Space Station-MIR
--Hubble Telescope
Red Scare/McCarthisim
ours-Redscare-fear of communism-drove a lot of the things we did at the time
Bay of Pigs Invasion-a place in cuba that was invaded
--an invasion of cuba
-Fidel Castro communist leader of cuba
--made a plan to invade
-DRF planning to over throw the government
-CIA trained cubans to go in and overthrow Castro
1500 soldiers went to over throw cuba
they were hoping that the people there would help them overthrow castro
didnt end well
the cubans found out about it and faught back
America was supposed to provide airsupport
The anit-castro cubans were not happy with the americans
was Richard Nixons idea- Eisenhower was supposed to carry it out- Kennedy decided to carry it out
Korean Conflict
-Not an official war-congress never declared war-
--Nicknamed-Forgotten war--Between ww2 and vietnam
-Split in half after ww2
North was communist south was democratic
-we had troops in South Korea
-we left
-as soon as we left NK invaded, and pushes them all the way to the tip south korea
-NK-China, SK-UN--Us made up ninty percent of UN forces at the time
USSR didnt go to the meeting of the security council at the UN which is why they werent able to veto the decision.
We push them all the way up to china
china got involved because they were affraid that we would invade them.
China at the time was Tawain which is why they didn't veto the plan to help out
We actually had a plane skirmish with the USSR it was kept hush hush from both countries general public.
Presidents Discussion
Harry Truman-33rd pres.-1945-1953--Became vice president for FDR in January 1945-took over for FDR when he died April 1945-One of the most unpopular presidents of all time when he left office-rating has improved over the years-he was in one election against thomas Dewey- truman won 49 percent of the popular vote but eventually won the election. Civil Rights Accomplishments-He tried to deal with racism and tried to help the African american. He did alot for the African americans. He had a ten point plan that pushed to d......he did stuff in WW2-Dropped the a-bomb etc.-the economy was struggling going from a wartime economy to peace time economy-he helped with the United nations-Created the CIA and the National Security Council-Took a hard line stance against communism and the soviet union-policy of containment-The Buck stops here-The FAIR DEAL-similar to FDR's new deal, aimed to promote the economy and social welfare, faced alot of optimism form the southern democrats and republican, most proposal did not get passed, Civil rights, housing social security minimmum wage health labor education agriculture-got the US involved in vietnam by giving aid to France-Recognized a a homeland for the jewish people-Fired General Douglas McArther, because he talked about dropping an a-bomb on china, Truman didnt want to go to war with China and maybe the Soviet Union-There were a couple of assination attemps over Puerto Rican Independence.
Dwight Eisenhower(R)-34th pres-1953-1961-Famous WW2 general-Decided to join the republican party after ww2-guarenteed him to win the election--in 52 he ran against adly stevenston-first republican in office since hoover-he was big on civil rights he promised to end the korean war- I like ike-accomplishments-the interstate system-he feared that the people would need an excape system and the military would need to get around quickly-helped end the korean war-developed NASA-kept the new deal programs-really wanted to desegregate the country- used the CIA to do covert-operations to disrupt communist governments-Plessy vs Ferguson- Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka-really started the desegregation of schools. it took twenty years for the desegragaiton to take place.-deported a lot of illegal immigrants.
President John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 (D) (35th)
- Served in WWII
- Was a US representative and senator from Massachusetts before becoming President
- Married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
- First and only Catholic president
- Youngest elected president and seond youngest president
- Assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
- When president had an affair with Marylin Monroe.
- Wife didnt want to ruin his career.
- PT boat he was aboard was rammed by a Japanese submarine.
- JFK saved many lifes that day by swimming them to shore
- 1960 election
- real close
- Nixon against Kennedy
- 49.7%-49.6%
- Kennedy won because of his V.P running mate Johnson.
- Televised Debates
Accomplishments
- Created the peace corps
- Made a statement that we would be to the moon
- Increased the special forces in Vietnam
- CIA over threw the communist in Iraq.
- The New Frontier
- promised federal funding for
- education
- medical care for the elderly
- economic aid to riral regions and
- government intercention to halt recession
- end racial discrimination
- Signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963-federal law aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex
Civil Rights
- All for equal rights
- Tried to desegregate in the south
- Bill was passed
Assassinations
- Killed by Lee Harvey Oswald-Marina wife-He worked at Texas School Book Depository-
- Shot Kennedy with a Mannlischer commando Riffle
- He shot an officer with a pistol-JD Tippet
- Oswald arrested in Texas Theatre
- Oswald Killed by Strip Club owner Jack Ruby
- during a parade in Dallas, Texas
- Accused and before he could be tried Jack Ruby shot him
- Conspiracy that CIA was involved
- Was in Dallas because of Election in a year
- Taken To parkland hospital
vice-President Lyndin B. Jonston
Warren Commission-Warren Report-Said that Oswald did it all by himself-There was no conspiricy-etc
Conspiracy Theories
-Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives-1978
-Said that JFK "was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy."
-Unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy.
JFK Act
Congress released all records concerned with the death of the President Kennedy
Who might have killed JFK--Cubans(castro-and the anti-castro),The KGB-USSR,THe US Mafia,THe CIA(US Government), The zero game. Nixon?-The Three Tramps?
President Lyndon Johnson D 36th president
JFKs vice president
took over after JFK was assassinated
64 election
-blow out
-running against berry goldwater-not very moderate
-Johnson got over 60 percent of the vote
Johnson
-interesting election
-the shift in the electorates-the people that vote completely switch-most of the black people voted for johnson because of the civil rights acts he passed
68 election-didnt run for president. vietnam wore him down
Accomplishments
Great Society
-Johnson's plan to:aid education,attack disease,Medicare and Medicaid, urban renewal, beautification, development of depressed regions, war on poverty, control and prevention of crime, removal of obstacles to the right to vote, environment.
-Education: Elementry education and secondary education act of 1965-For the first time, large amounts of federal money went to public schools and the focus was poor schools.
--Higher education act of 65, focused on funding lower income students, including grants, work study mondy, an government loans
--Set up the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the arts
--Economic opportunity Act helped start Head Start, food stamps, Work Study, Medicare and Medicaid
-Gun Control Act of 68
--regulates the firarms industry and firearms owners. Passed in response to the assassinations of JFK,RFK, and MLKJ.
Civil Rights
-Civil rights act of 64 which outlawed most forms of racial segregation
-Voting Rights act 65-outlawed discrimination in voting thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time
-started affirmative action laws
-Passed immigration act of 65-allower more non-european people to immigrate to US. Immigration more than doubled between 65-70.
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