Week of May 7- May 11

Monday- continued presentations.

Major Events of Cold War-

Berlin Blockade/Airlift-
- The blockade forced western allied powers to abandon the post ww2
- The airlift kept life going in West Berlin for 11 months until the Soviet Union lifed the blockade- dropped in supplies
Berlin Wall up
- Put up durin gthe early years of the Cold War. Was used to divide Berlin
- Western part was the loophole through the thousands of eastern germans that fled west.
- The Communist East Germans built the wall to take a lot of West Berlin
- Was put up August 13, 1961 to keep people in Berlin
Berlin Wall down
- In 1989, the Soviet Union decided they were not going to interfere with other countries
- The Mayor of Berlin said he wasn't going to force people to stay
- People started to climb the wall and take it apart
Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista
- Many Cubans fled Cuba because they didn't wan t Castro in charge
- CIA recruited 1,400 cubans in exile for an invasion of Cuba
- Plan was tho invade Cuba and get rid of Castro but it did not work
- Tried to bomb their air force but Castro found out about the plan
- We still went on with the invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
- 13- day military and political standoff
- A spy plane saw missile assembly in Cuba
- President JFK was informed of this
- He made a committee ot gandle the Crisis
- US was being threatened and Kennedy said it was unacceptable
- Planned to put up a blockade so the soviets couldn't send in additional equipment
- JFK had a television broadcast informing the information and his plan
- We were on the brink of war and believed it to be the only casualty in the Cold War
- On October 26th, a deal was made- on October 28th, the crises ended
- The deal was Khrushechev would remove missiles from Cuba if we would not invade Cuba
McCarthyism-
- When there was investigations opened on communism
- McCarthy was elected to the enate in 1938
- He searched for communists using the CIA
- Created the second Red Scare

Tuesday and Thursday- presentations

House Un-American Activities Committee
- Established in 1938
- The house of represenatives that investigated allegations communists
- Called citizens to testify in front of congress
- They were formed because of suspected communism after the great depression
- Went after Hollywood such as Charlie Chaplin
- Abolished in 1975
How Cold War came to an end
- Mikhail Gorbachev came to power
- More Freedoms
  - Perestroika (freedom to vote)
  - Glasnost (freedom of speech)
- Economy failing
- Berlin wall
- Control Eastern Europe
- War in Afghanistan

Amendments, Presidents, Scandals and Assassinations

22nd Amendment
- Limited number of times a president can be elected to two terms
- A person who serves more than two years of a term was started by a different president cannot be elected more than once.
23rd Amendment
- Gave Washington D.D. electors in the Electoral College
24th Amendment
- Expansion of voting rights
- Poll tax removal
25th Amendment
- President removed=Vice President fills in
- New President appoints new Vice President
- President can temporarily give power
- Allows removal of President
26th Amendment
- Lowered voting age to 18
27th Amendment
- Delayed laws affecting the salaries of Congressmen until after the next election of representatives
Harry S. Truman
- Fair Deal
  - Health Insurance
  - Minimum Wage
  - Expanded Social Security
  - Equal Rights by Law
- CIA
  - Daily Neswpaper to inform the President
  - National Security Act
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Federal Highway Act 1956
  - $30 billion for 41,000 miles of Interstate Highways
  - Employed more than 10,000 workers
  - President Franklin D. Roosevelt Built after Germany's Highways
John F. Kennedy
- Inaugeration speech 1960
  - "Ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do fo rour country"
- Peace Corps 1960
  - Speech
  - Young men and women serve in developing countries
- The New Frontier
  - space
  - Soviet Union Launched First Satellite
  - Challenge to send someone to the moon
- Moonshot Speech by JFK
Lyndon B. Johnson
- The Great Society 1964
  - "Largest social reform plan in modern histroy
  - series of policy initiatives, legislation and programs
  - Main goals:
    - End Poverty, reduce crime, abolish inequality, improve the environment
  - National Origins Quata System
  - Immigration and Naturalization act/ Art-Cellar act
Richard Nixon
- Moon landing July 20th 1969
  - Niel Armstrong
  - Edwin Aldrin
- Environmental Protection Agency 1970
  - 4 billion dollars
  - Ensure environmental protection
  - National air quality standards
  - reduceing of automobile pollution
  - end dumping of waste into Great Lakes
- War on Drugs
  - Increased federal funding for drug-control agencies
  - strict measures
  - Speacil Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention
  - Drug enforcement administration
- Equal Employment Opportunity Act
  - Gave the EEOC authority to sue in federal courts
- Visit in Communist China
  - Meeting in Beijing with the leadership of the People's Republic of China
  - Re-establish diplomatic relations between the U.S. and PRC
    - Agreement to open trade and other relations
- Emergncy HIghway Energy Conservation Act
  - New national maximum speed limit
Gerald Ford
- Whip inflation now
  - Variety of voluntary anti-inflationary initiatines created by citizens
- Pardon of Nixon
  - Watergate scandal
  - Contribution to Ford's failure to win the Presidention Election
- Education for All Handicapped Children Act
  - Access to fair education
Jimmy Carter
- Department of Energy Organization Act
  - Provided a plan for long-term research and development of energy technology
  - Marketing, energy consercation,data collection and analysis
- Camp David Accords
  - Egyption President Anwar El-Sadat and Israeli Prime Menachem Begin
  - Groundwork fo ra Permanent Peace Agreement
  - Awarded El-Sadat and Begin a Nobel Peace Prize
- Iran hostage crisis
  - Iranian students stormed US embassy
  - Carter's decision to allow medical car for Iran's desposed Shah
- Energy Crisis
  - Oil prices jumped 350 percent
  - Higher costs
  - Businesses laid off workers
  - Inflation
Ronald Reagan
- Reaganomics- major tax cuts
- Space Shuttle Explosion
- War on Drugs 1982
George H.W. Bush
- Smericans with Disabilites Act
- Mauel Noriega (leader of Panama) takedown
Bill Clinton
- NAFTA- US, Canada, Mexico
- Brady Bill- inorder to buy a gun you had to go through a background check
- Assault weapons banned until 2003
George W. Bush
- Bush Tax Cuts
- No child left behind
- Hurricane Katrina 2005
- Depression 2008-2011
- Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
Barack Obama
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Donald J. Trump
- Tax cuts
- Travel ban- Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen
- Judicial Appointments
- Individual Mandate Repeal
Watergate Scandal:
- A major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 70's, following a break-in by 5 men at the DNC headquarters
- In August, Nixon resigned because he tried to cover it up
Monica Lewinsky (Clinton)
Obama's Birther (Trump):
- Its was a conspiracy started by Trump with a series of tuits.
- Followed by Hillary Clinton, affirmed that Obama was born in Africa and for this reason he could not be President of United States
2016 Trump and Russia Election
- The Russian government interfered in the 2016 election in order to increase instability in the United States and to damage Hillary's campaign.
JFK
- Kill on November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald
- Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby
Malcolm (Little) X
- February 21, 1965 by the nation of Islam in New York City
Martin Luther King Jr.
- April 4th, 1968 by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee
Bobby Kennedy
- June 5th, 1968 by Palestinian Sirhan in Las Angeles
Ronald Reagan Attempt
- March 30th, 1981 by Mark HinckleyJr.
- One of the shots hit James Brady and he died

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Week of May 7- May 11

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