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Presantations. Notes are in last tuesday blog

we played a game hosted by marielle and my team got ONE gobstopper!!!!! :) yay!

• the next presentaion was a video by someone else in my class.
• it was about...

Continued with the presentations:

3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)- Mine...went well! 
4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism- Abby's video

-McCarthy was formidable during his "reign" in the HUAC, but he was soon discovered to be pre

1. Causes of the Cold War and goals

*Afraid Communists were going to take over the world

 *Truman was our president and Stalnin was Soviet Leader

 *Stalin refused to join the league of nations

 *Russia feared our atomic bomb

*Capitalism is an economic sys

3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-

4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism- his downfall- he was hurting presidential administration, mcarthy hired mathews to accuse the protestant church of having communists. this caused a publi r

Cold War Project!

0. Post WWII/Cold War Goals for US-

• Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
• Promote democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa..
• Stop the spread of communism.

1. Causes of the Cold War

Causes of the Cold War-

• American's fear of communist Attack- take over world
• Truman's dislike of Stalin
• • American President-Harry Truman
  • Soviet Union leader- Josef Stalin
  • Stalin refused to join the league of nations
• Russia's fear of our atomic bomb
• • The world

Absent.

1. Causes of the Cold War/ Goals for US-

Americans were afraid that communists were going to take over the world.

Truman didn't like Stalin, Stalin didn't join the League of Nations. Stalin Killed alot of people.

WW111 did not happen because it would ha

1. History of Afghanistan to 1970's

Afghana was the start of the Afghan people. Land of Afghan. WWI, fighting in their area for empires. Got independence from British empire August 19, 1919. Very Mountainous.

2. Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan

Comm

Today we finished our blog discussion (see part 1) and watched the "How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth" video.

1. According to the video, who or what might be the biggest threat to planet Earth?

 Ourselves.

2. What effects does overpopulation have

Today we went over the Africa map. Afganistan was to the Soviet Union as Vietnam was to the US. Afghanistan has extremely strict rules. We invaded Iraq after 9/11, because we knew that was where Al-Queda was based.

1. According to the video, who or wh

today we went over the map and then continued blog discussions.

1. According to the video, who or what might be the biggest threat to planet Earth? the population of all of us.

2. What effects does overpopulation have on Earth? resources are becoming

First we went over the Africa map, then finished the blog discussion.

Al-qaeda- means "the base" Taliban- ended 2 months after 9/11.

Invaded Afghanistan because the Afghan government was housing Al-qaeda. War in Afghanistan- President Bush initiated "t

1. According to the video, who or what might be the biggest threat to planet Earth?

 The human population will continue to increase.

2. What effects does overpopulation have on Earth?

3. How does world population growth effect water, food and energy?

We talked about our new forum post about a lady that retired due next Thursday
Then we got into our map.
Why did we envaid afghan? thats where al qauda was being housed.

now we are watching a video on overpopulation and we are getting asked questions a