Monday- Notes on Korean War
Tuesday- Work day
Wednesday- Start presentations
Thursday- Work day
Friday- Work on Presentations
Korean War
- The forgotten war
- Lasted three years
- Korea was invaded and ruled by Japan from 1910 to 1945
- After WWII, Korea was spit into two- North and South at the 38th parallel
- An election was going to be held eventually to unify Korea
- The Soviet Union refused to allow participation in the election in their occupied zone
- Instead, they handed over power to the North Korean Communist Party under Kim IL-Sung
- The South elected the nationalist exile Syngman Rhee
Summarization
- US pulls out
- This encourage North Korea to be aggressive
- North and South Korea leaders wanted to reunite Korea
- Kim manipulated Mao and Stalin into supporting their invasion of South Korea
- North invaded the South
- Pushed South down into Pusan
- United Nations voted to send troops to help South Korea
- United Nations invasion kept pushing North
- Douglas MacArthur started talking about invading China
- China invades and pushes us back, then we respond and push them back
- DMZ- demilitarized zone which is still defended today by North Korean troops on one side and South Korean and American troops on the other side
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1950's
- The rise of rock and roll
- The development of the Cold War
Election of 1952
Eisenhower - Republican**
Won because he was the “hero” from WWII
Stevenson- Democrat
Election of 1956
Eisenhower - Republican
Won because people liked him from his first time
Stevenson - Democrat
Brown vs. Board of Education
Case about segregation in school
Made it so they couldn’t segregate schools
Did not make schools who were already segregated be reversed to non-segregation
Took about 20 years
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Multiple protests against racial segregation on transportation systems in Montgomery, Alabama
This event led up to the Brown vs Board of Education case
Rosa Parks
- Called the “First Lady of Civil Rights”
Would not give her seat up to a white passenger on the bus
Fought to end segregation
Government Scandals
Senator Nixon’s Checker's Speech
Accusation of illegal gifts
Checker’s was a family pet
Said he was not giving it back because it was a gift
- Said that none of the money he got was not used wrongly
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